Al Pacino News

Due to popular demand, an additional performance of 'Adam Pascal LIVE in concert' has been added on Friday July 28th at the Brentwood Theatre in addition to the previously announced performance on Saturday July 29th.

An opera adaptation of Tony Kushner's Tony-winning two-part play Angels in America, is set to have its American premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts' Stanford Calderwood Pavilion on June 16th, 17th, 20th and 24th

Franc D'Ambrosio, 'The World's Longest Running Phantom,' will perform at Joe's Pub on April 30th

Los Angeles theatregoers can now obtain rush tickets to see Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's Salome

Marisa Tomei will headline a reading (closed to the public) of Alan Bowne's Beirut on April 17th; she will reprise her role from the original production

Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford will make his Broadway debut as director of the new musical, Leap of Faith, to premiere in the 2007-2008 season.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).

Franc D'Ambrosio, who's most known for playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera for most of the show's five-year run in San Francisco is going solo at Joe's Pubon Sunday night, April 30th at 7:00 pm.

Variety reports that Julianne Moore is headed to Broadway in 'The Vertical Hour', a new play by David Hare.

Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson and Jessica Chastain will appear in a presentation with music of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece SALOME at the Wadsworth Theatre for 26 performances only, April 14 to May 14.

Chris Sarandon, Trudie Styler and Emily Bergl will appear in the presentation of Addictions, three new one-act plays by Tricia Walsh-Smith, on Monday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Promenade Theatre (2162 Broadway at 76th Street).

On February 20th and 21st, Signature Theatre Company will present an invitation-only reading of Adrienne Kennedy's adaptation of Flaubert's Madama Bovary

The first annual Waterwell Cabaret Benefit, featuring ensemble members of Waterwell, will take place at Joe's Pub on March 6th

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced that Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning star Christine Lahti will make her eagerly-awaited return to the stage in the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season,

The 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival has picked the productions for its 15th annual season, according to festival Artistic Director Christina Augello.

Jefferson Mays, Michael Cumpsty and David Strathairn will discuss cross-dressing in Shakespeare in Boys Will Be Girls on February 13th

On December 11th, Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will go 'Inside the Actors Studio'

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce that the World Premiere of MEASURE FOR PLEASURE, a play by David Grimm, will feature Suzanne Bertish, Wayne Knight ('Seinfeld'), Euan Morton (Tony Award-nominee, Taboo), Michael Stuhlbarg (Tony Award-nominee, The Pillowman) and Emily Swallow.