A.R. Gurney News

Oscar-nominee Sigourney Weaver, who will next appear Off-Broadway in A.R. Gurney's Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons, will star as Gypsy Rose Lee in the upcoming HBO film 'Gypsy and Me'

Feinstein's at the Regency will continue its Spring 2007 season with the return engagement of Tony Award-winning singer and actress Betty Buckley from March 27 to April 7.

FEINSTEIN'S AT THE REGENCY continues its Spring 2007 season with the return engagement of Tony Award winning singer and actress BETTY BUCKLEY from March 27 to April 7.

Comic playwright Christopher Durang talks with BWW about musicals, politics, maturity, and the hits & misses of his career.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), whose current three-play season explores images of Jews as outsiders in the predominantly Christian society of pre-20th-century Europe, has scheduled four free staged readings of modern plays exploring the same controversial theme beginning February 5.

Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.

The American Theatre Wing's upcoming 'Working in the Theatre' will feature four accomplished Broadway actresses - Blair Brown, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz and Julie White- on CUNY TV on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present John Mahoney (Old Man), Annie Parisse (Rita) and Alan Tudyk (Peter) in a new Broadway production of Craig Lucas' romantic drama Prelude to a Kiss with Robin Bartlett (Mrs. Boyle) and James Rebhorn (Dr. Boyle), directed by Daniel Sullivan at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St).

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.

Veteran stage, screen and television star John Rubinstein is announced to play The Wizard in the new Los Angeles production of WICKED, which begins performances on February 10, 2007, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Rubinstein joins stars Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty, who play Elphaba and Glinda, and Carol Kane, who plays Madame Morrible. Kane appeared in the role during the sold out engagement of WICKED at the Pantages Theatre last summer, and then went on to play the part on Broadway.

Due to popular demand, Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director and Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director, has extended the run of the American premiere of Yasmina Reza's A SPANISH PLAY by an additional two weeks through Sunday, March 4.

Cast to feature Peter Weller as Frank Lloyd Wright, Harris Yulin as Louis Sullivan, Chris Henry Coffey, Holley Fain, Mary Beth Fisher, Maggie Siff, Jeremy Strong and Jay Whittaker

Jean Smart and her husband Richard Gilliland will perform in AR. Gurney's Love Letters

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio will present interviews with acclaimed actresses Blair Brown and Rebecca Luker on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway

Theatre couple Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker will headline in Love Letters this February

The Flea Theater has announced an extension of the Off-Broadway Premiere of A.R. Gurney's comedy Post Mortem

A.R. Gurney's new comedy, set in the near future, is about the discovery of a lost play by an obscure writer named A.R. Gurney

Encore Entertainment offers an enjoyable production of A.R.Gurney's SYLVIA. * * * 1/2 (out of 5)