William Finn News

Outstanding high school theatre students will be rewarded at the Betty Lynn Buckley Awards on May 16th at Fort Worth's Casa Manana Theatre

Spamalot leads the pack with 12 nominations, followed by Light in the Piazza with 11, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with 10. Click in to see all the nominees.

Previews for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) production of MEMORY HOUSE, a new play by Kathleen Tolan (The Wax and Kate's Diary at Playwrights Horizons) are set to begin Friday, April 22 at 8 PM.

The 20th Anniversary Lucille Lortel Awards will be hosted by Julie Halston and Bruce Vilanch on May 2nd at Dodgers Stages

Previews begin on Friday, April 15 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre (50th St., between Broadway and 8th) for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the new musical with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman and directed by James Lapine.

The League Of Off-Broadway Theatres And Producers is proud to announce the nominations for THE 20TH ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OFF-BROADWAY, which will be presented on Monday, May 2nd at Dodger Stages (340 West 50th Street) at 7 PM. A late night supper will follow at Ruth's Chris Steak House (148 West 51st Street). A cocktail reception to congratulate all of the nominees will be held on April 18th at Ruby Foo's Uptown (2182 Broadway at 77th Street).

Tony award winners Karen Ziemba and Donna McKechnie, Urinetown's Jeff McCarthy, City of Angels's Leslie Denniston, and Tony-nominated Lara Teeter will star in Barrington Stage Company's production of James Goldman's and Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Follies. Broadway veteran Marni Nixon will also be featured. Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will direct and Lara Teeter will choreograph. Follies, presented in celebration of Sondheim's 75th birthday, will run from June 23 through July 16 at the Consolati Performing Arts Center, Sheffield, MA.

Donna McKechnie and Karen Ziemba will headline Folles at the Barrington Stage Company from June 23rd-July 16th

Rob Maitner, Bistro Award winner for his critically-acclaimed turn in Fairy Tales, makes his solo cabaret debut in BASKET CASE: A SINGSPIEL FOR THE UNHINGED. From Rodgers and Hammerstein to Alanis Morrisette, from Green Day to William Finn, BASKET CASE is a musical romp through the cluttered mind and frenzied emotional state of a man teetering on the edge. With musical director and former drum major Ray Fellman by his side, Mr. Maitner lends his powerful vocals and unique way with a lyric to a variety of songs from the worlds of musical theatre and pop.

One performance only at The Zipper Theatre on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 8pm.

Tickets for the Broadway transfer of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee are on sale through Telecharge and the box office

THE ARTISTS SHOWCASE SERIES presents a reading of THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SAMANTHA BROWN, a new musical with music and lyrics by BRIAN LOWDERMILK, concept by ZACH ALTMAN and book and lyrics by KAIT KERRIGAN at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, at Makor, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.

Fiddler on the Roof's Haviland Stillwell arrives on the cabaret scene in this impressive evening that runs the gamut of musical styles.

The production, by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin will move to Circle In The Square in time for Tony consideration.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to present Natasha Richardson (Blanche Du Bois) & John C. Reilly (Stanley Kowalski) in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' classic drama A Streetcar Named Desire, with Amy Ryan (Stella Kowalski) & Chris Bauer (Mitch), directed by Edward Hall at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).

The production of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has extended Off-Broadway.

A one-night concert of A New Brain took place on Jan. 31 in LA starring Malcom Gets.

William Finn, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will both be there, this Thursday at 6PM at Seth's Chatterbox.

Ars Nova presents an intimate discussion with composer/lyricist, William Finn, about his new musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which begins previews at Second Stage Theater on January 11th.

In a show originally produced by the Ars Nova Broadway Spotlight series, Jesse Tyler Ferguson moves downtown to Joe's Pub where he name drops, practices the art of storytelling and sings the music of Michael John LaChiusa and William Finn, including songs from their new works, R SHOMON and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. The evening is directed by Jason Eagan and musical directed by Mary Mitchell Campbell.