Alec Guin News

The Drama League has announced that Tony Award Winners Cherry Jones and Denis O'Hare will announce the 2015 Drama League Awards Nominees for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award on Tuesday morning, April 21, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Sardi's (234 West 44th Street, 2nd Floor).

The Drama League will recognize three outstanding stage luminaries at this year's 81st Annual Drama League Awards, set for Friday afternoon, May 15, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square (1535 Broadway).

Tony Award winner and Actors Fund board chair Brian Stokes Mitchell will be presented with the 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award at the New Dramatists' 66th Annual Spring Luncheon.

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Michael Tucker about his career and the upcoming play at New Jersey Repertory Company that he wrote, 'The M. Spot.' Directed by Evan Bergman, Tucker also stars in this World Premiere play with his real-life wife, Jill Eikenberry.

Louis Jourdan, a French actor famous for American film and television appearances in the Oscar-winning musical GIGI, MADAME BOVARY, CAN-CAN, and THE FIRST OLYMPICS: ATHENS, 1896, as well as Broadway appearances in shows such as ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, has died. The Hollywood Walk of Fame winner was 93.

U.S. playwright Henry Ong, author of a stage adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 19th century novel, Rachel Ray, has been selected to participate in The Trollope Society (UK)'s Great Barset Balloonathon.

U.S. playwright Henry Ong, author of a stage adaptation of Anthony Trollope's 19th century novel, Rachel Ray, has been selected to participate in The Trollope Society (UK)'s Great Barset Balloonathon.

The theatre community lost one of our own on Christmas Day. Actor David Ryall, best recognized in America as Elphias Doge in Harry Potter, has died at age 79, according to reports.

Tacoma Little Theatre presents the holiday classic SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL. This musical, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is adapted from the 1970 film Scrooge which starred Albert Finney and Sir Alec Guinness. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

Tacoma Little Theatre presents the holiday classic SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL. This musical, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is adapted from the 1970 film Scrooge which starred Albert Finney and Sir Alec Guinness.

Tacoma Little Theatre presents the holiday classic SCROOGE! THE MUSICAL. This musical, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is adapted from the 1970 film Scrooge which starred Albert Finney and Sir Alec Guinness.

One Man Lord of the Rings and One Man Star Wars Trilogy will embark on a UK tour following a successful season at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The tour will begin in High Wycombe today, 26 September and finish in Radlett on 17 October.

One Man Lord of the Rings and One Man Star Wars Trilogy will embark on a UK tour following a successful season at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The tour will begin in High Wycombe on 26 September and finish in Radlett on 17 October.

One Man Lord of the Rings and One Man Star Wars Trilogy will embark on a UK tour following a successful season at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The tour will begin in High Wycombe on 26 September and finish in Radlett on 17 October.

The Stratford Festival of Canada, whose present artistic director is Atoni Cimolino, started on July 13, 1953, when Sir Alec Guiness walked onto a stage located in a large tent and spoke the first lines of what has become the internationally-recognized celebration of theatre. Now housed in five theatres, offering plays and other entertainment from late April to November, Stratford is the largest repertoire theatre in North America. The offerings are not only the writings of Shakespeare, but a variety of classical and contemporary works, including musicals.

Film and music collide, asSony Movie Channel (SMC) presents its second annual 'Music Movie Month,' starting Tuesday, July 1, at 10 p.m. ET, with NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS, and Paul McCartney in WINGS OVER THE WORLD.

One Man Lord of the Rings and One Man Star Wars Trilogy return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after hugely successful runs in 2006, 2009 and 2012. This year, the shows will play in repertory from 30 July to 25 August in Assembly George Square Studios One.

The Drama League has announced that the Emmy-nominated star of Modern Family and Broadway veteran Jesse Tyler Ferguson will host the upcoming 80th Annual Drama League Awards. Considered one of the high points of the theater season, the Annual Awards Luncheon includes a nominees cocktail reception, luncheon ceremony, and awards presentation and that will be held today, May 16, 2014 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in the Broadway Ballroom (1535 Broadway) beginning at 11:30 a.m. Financier Patisserie, GenSpring Family Offices, and National Life Group are the 2014 Event Sponsors of the 80th Annual Drama League Awards.

This week's guest on THEATER TALK is Steven Lutvak, composer and co-lyricist (with librettist Robert L. Freedman), of the new hit musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Lutvak performs songs from the show for co-hosts Michael Riedel of the New York Post and Susan Haskins and explains the musical settings and how they were conceived.

The Drama League has announced that Judith Light and Christopher Sieber will announce the 2014 Drama League Awards Nominees for Distinguished Production of a Play, Distinguished Production of a Musical, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Revival of a Musical, and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award on Wednesday morning, April 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Sardi's (234 West 44th Street, 2nd Floor). The nominations ceremony will be broadcast worldwide via live stream here at www.broadwayworld.com.