Annie Hall News

'Vicky Christina Barcelona' the new film by Woody Allen premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces the cast for Christopher Durang's award winning comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, featuring Terry Beaver (Father Donnally), Heather Burns (Emily Brennan), Victoria Clark (Margaret Brennan), John Glover (Karl Hudlocke), Julie Hagerty (Soot Hudlocke), Kate Jennings Grant (Bette Brennan), Adam Lefevre (Paul Brennan), Charles Socarides (Matt), Christopher Evan Welch (Boo Hudlocke).

Theatrical Producer Jeff Gardner is pleased to announce that he has assembled an all-star cast for the reading of his upcoming production of Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, which will be presented in New York City in early November. To include Christopher Lloyd and George Hearn.

Theatre veterans Patricia Clarkson, Pablo Schreiber and Carrie Preston will appear in legendary director Woody Allen's latest opus - an untitled film that Allen calls a 'love letter to Barcelona and from Barcelona to the world.'

A new musical created by Tony Award-nominated Jersey Boys bookwriters Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice may bow at Chicago's Goodman Theatre next year in a production starring Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune.

Oscar-winning film legend Woody Allen will make his first foray into the opera world in fall of 2008.

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.

On March 31st, at theatre district hangout Tony's di Napoli, Tony's DiNapoli Times Square unveiled a portrait of legendary performer Danny Aiello, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome Tony Award-winner John Glover on April 17th.

The new production of WICKED is being mounted specifically for Southern California and stars Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty as Elphaba and Glinda.

Broadway's Tony Award winning hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE will welcome Tony Award winner John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!, TV's 'Smallville') to the cast in April on a date to be announced.

Veteran stage, screen and television star John Rubinstein is announced to play The Wizard in the new Los Angeles production of WICKED, which begins performances on February 10, 2007, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Rubinstein joins stars Eden Espinosa and Megan Hilty, who play Elphaba and Glinda, and Carol Kane, who plays Madame Morrible. Kane appeared in the role during the sold out engagement of WICKED at the Pantages Theatre last summer, and then went on to play the part on Broadway.

Diane Keaton, Rita Wilson, Chris Matthews and Michael Kors will be the latest guests plucked from the audience for an on-stage improvised interview with 'celebrity interviewer' Jiminy Glick in Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me

Bob Martin, Julie White, John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff were among the celebrities who presented at the Artios Awards on November 1st; casting director Juliette Taylor was also honored

Juliet Taylor will be honored at the Artios Awards, which will feature Bob Martin, Julie White, Mary Stuart Masterson and more

The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.

Ira Gamerman, author of Split on writing, Neil Simon and giving back to Towson University

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, who recently earned a Tony nomination for penning the book to Jersey Boys, will follow up the smash Four Seasons show with a musical based on the popular film(s) Father of the Bride

Joining previously announced two-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep in the highly anticipated Delacorte Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage will be Christopher Walken