Walter Kerr News

Tonight, March 31st, Doubt will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway

Doubt celebrates first year anniversary on Friday, March 31

Ruben Santiago-Hudson--who received a Tony Award for his performance in the original Broadway production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars--will direct the same show at Signature Theatre Company from August 1st through September 24th

Tonight, March 15th, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt will celebrate its 400th Broadway performance

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) have announced that the American premiere of Conor McPherson's Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) will open Tuesday, May 9 at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Previews for Shining City will begin Thursday, April 20.

Cherry Jones will recreate her work as Sister Aloysius in the touring production of Doubt, which will launch in September of 2006

Ron Eldard, who stars as Father Flynn in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning DOUBT on Broadway, will be featured on 'WB11 Morning News' and 'The Tony Danza Show' on Thursday, February 16.

On February 14th, the new cast of Doubt--including Eileen Atkins, Ron Eldard and Jena Malone--celebrated their run in the show

Ron Eldard, Eileen Atkins and Jena Malone are currently starring alongside original cast member Adriane Lenox in Doubt

Martha Plimpton will join Brian F. O'Byrne and Oliver Platt in the cast of Conor McPherson's Shining City, which begins Broadway previews on April 13th

Eileen Atkins, who has mostly recovered from a bad case of the flu, will join Ron Eldard, Jena Malone and Adriane Lenox in tonight's January 17th performance of Doubt

Announced earlier to join Doubt tonight, Eileen Atkins will not be performing due to the flu

Originally scheduled to debut on Tuesday, January 10th Eileen Atkins will join the show tonight. Ron Eldard, and Jena Malone are expected to follow suit shortly.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order): Chris Bauer (Chaplin White), Stephen Lang (Colonel Littlefield), Trevor Long (Gunney), Margaret Colin (Margaret Littlefield), Jeremy Strong (Private Evan Davis), and Chris Chalk (Captain Lee King).

DOUBT has broken the house record at the Walter Kerr Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $603,566 for nine performances for the week of December 26-January 1. DOUBT had previously set a record of $550,109 for the week of July 11-17, 2005.

DOUBT celebrated its 300th performance on Broadway this past weekend, with the evening performance on Saturday, December 17. DOUBT began performances on March 9, 2005 and opened on March 31, 2005 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Stephen Lang has been cast in John Patrick Shanley's play Defiance, which will be presented by MTC, directed by Doug Hughes and will open on February 28th

Eileen Atkins, Ron Eldard and Jena Malone begin Doubt rehearsals today, December 12th

Jena Malone will make her Broadway debut as Sister James in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

Cherry Jones, the two-time Tony Award-winning star of Doubt, is featured in Out Magazine's annual Out 100 list of notable gay and lesbian newsmakers of 2005