Alfred Uhry News

Mark J. Chaney's play 'Thirty-Seven Stones, or the Man Who Was a Quarry', produced by Working Man's Clothes Productions, is a black comedy about kidney stones and dysfunctional families.

Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, April 8 for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) World Premiere production of the new musical SAVED.

CREATION NATION proudly returns with its first New York City show in almost a year! Hosts Billy Willing and Robin Lord (as played by creators Billy Eichner and Robin Taylor, respectively) will welcome Tony and Emmy Award winning stage, screen and television actress Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) to their unique and critically acclaimed variety show, which plays The Zipper Factory Theater on Tuesday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular online lottery LIVEforFIVE for $5 tickets to its next production, The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). A total of 40 tickets will be available for the show via the lottery.

Due to popular demand, a second concert performance of The Last Five Years, featuring composer and performer Jason Robert Brown and the incomparable talent of Lauren Kennedy, has been added to the Birdland Broadway series on Tuesday, March 18 at 7PM. The performance on Monday, March 17 at 7PM is quickly selling-out.

Tickets for George Stevens Jr.'s up-coming one-man Broadway play, Thurgood, to Lawrence Fishburne, go on-sale to the public on Saturday, February 23. Ticket prices are $70 and $95 and available at www.Telecharge.com. Thurgood opens on Wednesday, April 30, and begins previews Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th St).

Composer and performer Jason Robert Brown and Lauren Kennedy will present a special one-night-only concert version of The Last Five Years, Brown's 2002 musical that won the Drama Desk Award for Best Music and Best Lyrics, with the original Off-Broadway orchestra, Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7PM.

The nominations were just released for the 2008 Olivier Awards and Haispray is leading the pack with 11 nominations.

Encore Entertainment's loving revival of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize winner 'Driving Miss Daisy' proves a crowd-pleaser with Toronto audiences. * * * * (OUT OF 5)

The Neighborhood Playhouse Artistic Director Brady Schwind announced the first two selections of Theatre Company's premiere season of plays and musicals: 'Amadeus' and 'Parade'

Encore Entertainment presents the Pullizter prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from Jan.31-Feb.10, 2008

Ghostlight Records, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records, will release the world premiere recording of the Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway musical LoveMusik, which was nominated for four Tony Awards. The production starred Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy and featuring the songs of Kurt Weill. The recording, produced by Joel Moss with Kurt Deutsch serving as Executive Producer, will be available in stores and online on November 27.

Laurence Fishburne returns to Broadway, set to star in George Stevens Jr.'s new one-man play Thurgood, beginning a limited engagement at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th St) beginning previews April 12; officially opening on Sunday, April 30 with performances through July 20, 2008.

Nine years after its Broadway premiere at Lincoln Centre's Vivian Beaumont theatre, the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Parade finally made its way to the London stage on September 24 when it opened at the Donmar Warehouse. It has been eagerly anticipated by musical theatre afficionados in the UK and Rob Ashford's production, with a slightly revised and improved score, does not disappoint.

TheaterWorks' 20th Anniversary production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy opens Friday, September 7 at 8PM with performances through October 14 at the company's 233 Pearl Street venue in the heart of the capital city.

John Breglio will be receiving The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, to be given by Broadway legend and longtime Actors Fund supporter, Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall on October 15. The celebration will continue with the Carnegie Hall solo debut concert of Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony-Award winner and President of The Actors Fund. The entire evening will celebrate the Fund's 125th Anniversary.

TheaterWorks has announced the lineup for the company's 2007-2008 season

TheaterWorks has announced the 20th Anniversary production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, starring stage and screen favorite Rosemary Prinz in the title role.

A recent New York reading of Jason Robert Brown's upcoming musical comedy Honeymoon in Vegas featured a starry cast,