Alan Rickman News

PBS' president and CEO Paula Kerger is optimistic about the pubcasters, according to Deadline. During PBS' portion of the TCA summer press tour, Kerger explained that the government funding crisis that was happening the last time she faced critics (in January) was less severe now.

Broadway-bound Alan Rickman, who was most recently seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, will narratethe upcoming 'The Boy in the Bubble' film. Check out a trailer by clicking below!

Road Less Traveled Productions' (RLTP's) Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW) today announced a set of special benefit readings of Love Letters , the highly popular play by RLTP's 2012 American Theatre Master, Buffalo native A.R. Gurney. The readings will be presented at 7:30PM on two consecutive nights, Friday, August 12 th and Saturday, August 13 th , at the Road Less Traveled Theater (RLTT) in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, in Downtown Buffalo. The readings benefit the NPW, an integral component of RLTP's mission to develop and produce plays by Western New York (WNY) writers.

PBS raises the curtain on a new fall season celebrating the arts, exploring America's 'Great Experiment' with PROHIBITION, and traveling to the edges of the universe with NOVA's 'The Fabric of the Cosmos.' Also on tap this season, PBS will premiere new shows from MASTERPIECE featuring award-winning actors including Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman and Bill Nighy; a look at prolific director Woody Allen on AMERICAN MASTERS; and a special tribute event commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001.

Yesterday, July 11, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows premiered at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Daniel Radcliffe, starring on Broadway in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, was joined at the premiere by co-stars Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Alan Rickman and more! Below BroadwayWorld brings you red carpet coverage of the premiere.

If you're looking for a quick roundup of all of this week's events in the theatre world, look no further: here are some of the best news articles that the week had to offer!

Producers Jeffrey Finn and Jill Furman announced today that two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman (Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise) will make his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new play by Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy, Omnium Gatherum, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, NBC's upcoming 'Smash'). Directed by acclaimed Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Tigers Be Still, Kin, The Coward) in his Broadway debut, the production will open at a Shubert Theatre to be announced this Fall 2011.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) presents Noel Coward's quintessential comedy of manners, "Private Lives" May 5 - 29 at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, located at 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) presents Noel Coward's quintessential comedy of manners, "Private Lives" May 5 - 29 at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, located at 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Acclaimed actor Derek Jacobi reunites with Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Michael Grandage for the Donmar production of King Lear. Presented at BAM in its US premiere, the production opened at the Donmar in December 2010, followed by an eight-week tour of the UK. It was also broadcast to more than 22 countries worldwide in collaboration with National Theatre Live.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) presents Noel Coward's quintessential comedy of manners, "Private Lives" May 5 - 29 at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, located at 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. Theatricum Botanicum's 2011 Summer Repertory Season treats us to the most notorious characters everyone loves to hate.

The Harry Potter film franchise will receive the "CinemaCon Hall of Fame Award," it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, managing director of CinemaCon, which will be held March 28-31, 2011, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

According to the UK's Daily Mail, Oscar-winner Colin Firth is in talks to appear in the West End for the first time in more than a decade.