Amy Madigan News

Kick back under the stars at Theatricum and enjoy powerful tributes to people who have shaped the history of the world, our nation and our music. On Friday, July 16 at 8 pm, James Cromwell, Amy Madigan, Michael O'Neill, Jordan Belfi and Christina Pickles headline a benefit performance of CARRY IT ON! Great American moments in word and song. On Friday, July 23 at 8 pm the Geer family, including Ellen Geer, Peter Alsop, Thad Geer, Willow Geer, Melora Marshall, and Ian Flanders, presents Theatricum's annual The Woody Guthrie Story. On Saturday, September 4 at 3 pm, singer/songwriter Inara George and Friends present A Tribute to Dolly Parton. Finally, in August and September the Theatricum Summer Repertory Company presents eight additional performances of CARRY IT ON! as part of the summer repertory season. Proceeds raised from the benefit performances will help support Theatricum's repertory company and arts education programs.

EW's Ausiello Files reports that Amy Madigan has been cast as Olivia's mother in the TV series 'Fringe,' for a four-episode arc. Olivia's mother is described via casting breakdown as 'lovely and together.' Madigan's first episode will be the series premiere.

Kick back under the stars at Theatricum and enjoy powerful tributes to people who have shaped the history of the world, our nation and our music. On Friday, July 16 at 8 pm, James Cromwell, Amy Madigan, Michael O'Neill, Jordan Belfi and Christina Pickles headline a benefit performance of CARRY IT ON! Great American moments in word and song. On Friday, July 23 at 8 pm the Geer family, including Ellen Geer, Peter Alsop, Thad Geer, Willow Geer, Melora Marshall, and Ian Flanders, presents Theatricum's annual The Woody Guthrie Story. On Saturday, September 4 at 3 pm, singer/songwriter Inara George and Friends present A Tribute to Dolly Parton. Finally, in August and September the Theatricum Summer Repertory Company presents eight additional performances of CARRY IT ON! as part of the summer repertory season. Proceeds raised from the benefit performances will help support Theatricum's repertory company and arts education programs.

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 Season with a revival of BETH HENLEY's Pulitzer Prize-winning play CRIMES OF THE HEART. Set in Mississippi in 1974 (five years after Hurricane Camille), this sweet, sexy comedy follows the travails of the three Magrath sisters, who come together at the family home in Hazelhurst when the youngest Babe is charged with shooting her husband 'cause she didn't like his looks.'

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 Season with a revival of BETH HENLEY's Pulitzer Prize-winning play CRIMES OF THE HEART. Set in Mississippi in 1974 (five years after Hurricane Camille), this sweet, sexy comedy follows the travails of the three Magrath sisters, who come together at the family home in Hazelhurst when the youngest Babe is charged with shooting her husband 'cause she didn't like his looks.'

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 Season with a revival of BETH HENLEY's Pulitzer Prize-winning play CRIMES OF THE HEART. Set in Mississippi in 1974 (five years after Hurricane Camille), this sweet, sexy comedy follows the travails of the three Magrath sisters, who come together at the family home in Hazelhurst when the youngest Babe is charged with shooting her husband 'cause she didn't like his looks.'

Rubicon Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 Season with a revival of BETH HENLEY's Pulitzer Prize-winning play CRIMES OF THE HEART. Set in Mississippi in 1974 (five years after Hurricane Camille), this sweet, sexy comedy follows the travails of the three Magrath sisters, who come together at the family home in Hazelhurst when the youngest Babe is charged with shooting her husband 'cause she didn't like his looks.'

GLORIA STEINEM, World Renowned Feminist Activist, Writer, Lecturer and Founder of Ms. and New York Magazines, will be honored for her activism and will appear as the Guest Speaker at a fundraiser entitled, 'An Evening With Gloria Steinem,' benefiting The Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) to be held at a private home in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

According to the New York Times, following his stint as Oscar co-host this Sunday, Alec Baldwin will be heading back to the east coast to star as the psychiatrist Martin Dysart in Peter Shaffer's Equus this summer at Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. The production will run from June 8 - July 13 at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall.

GLORIA STEINEM, World Renowned Feminist Activist, Writer, Lecturer and Founder of Ms. and New York Magazines, will be honored for her activism and will appear as the Guest Speaker at a fundraiser entitled, 'An Evening With Gloria Steinem,' benefiting The Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP) to be held at a private home in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Alec Baldwin has won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical for his role as Jack Donaghy on NBC's '30 Rock'.

Now that Alec Baldwin has conquered the big and small screens, it seems he has his eye on the Great White Way and that coveted Tony Award. Baldwin recently told Elle Magazine: 'I'd love to win a Tony Award. A Tony Award I really crave. That would have great meaning.'

'Voices of America in Story and Song' - Amy Madigan, Peter Alsop, Ellen Geer, Melora Marshall and members of the Theatricum Botanicum Repertory Company present selections from Theatricum's 'Americana' series, integrating poetry, dialogue, music and songs from various periods during the on-going evolution of our nation.

Ed Harris is confirmed to star in the new movie directed and written by Milk's Dustin Lance Black, 'What's Wrong With Virginia,' also featuring his wife Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Roberts. Harris is replacing Liam Neeson, who was originally cast in the role of a sheriff whose state senate bid is threatened when his daughter starts dating the son of a disturbed woman (Connelly) with whom he has been having a two-decade affair.

'Voices of America in Story and Song' - Amy Madigan, Peter Alsop, Ellen Geer, Melora Marshall and members of the Theatricum Botanicum Repertory Company present selections from Theatricum's 'Americana' series, integrating poetry, dialogue, music and songs from various periods during the on-going evolution of our nation.

Broadway and film producer Dann Conrad Byck Jr., who stepped down from his family retail business to pursue his lifelong passion for theater, died Tuesday at the Louisville home of his daughter, Amy Byck. He was 72.

Abingdon Theatre Company will present a free reading of Camilla Carr's THE BLACK SWAN on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:30PM in the June Havoc Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor (btwn 8th/9th Avenues.) Admission is FREE, no reservations required.

Abingdon Theatre Company presents The Black Swan by Camilla Carr. Monday, November 17, 2008 Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th St.) Abingdon Theatre Company will present a free reading of Camilla Carr's THE BLACK SWAN on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:30PM in the June Havoc Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor (btwn 8th/9th Avenues.) Admission is FREE, no reservations required.

Abingdon Theatre Company will present a free reading of Camilla Carr's THE BLACK SWAN on Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:30PM in the June Havoc Theatre, Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor (btwn 8th/9th Avenues.) Admission is FREE, no reservations required.

Village Theatre Village Originals announces the return of the musical, 'The Last Starfighter' as a workshop presentation.