Transport Group,'s 2011 Gimme A Break! benefit honored playwright Douglas Carter Beane and composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn last night, December 5 at the Asia Society and Museum. Gimme A Break! began with a cocktail reception followed by a performance featuring Broadway stars sharing their 'big break' experiences through stories and songs. Beane and Flinn received the Transporting American Theatre Award for their outstanding contributions to American theatre.
BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage of the event below!
Following the success of Bill Irwin's season opener, Scapin, in 2010, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) welcomes another Pickle Family Circus alumnus to its stage with Humor Abuse, Lorenzo Pisoni's celebrated one-man show cocreated with director Erica Schmidt.
Celia Keenan-Bolger and John Ellison Conlee will appear at The Play Group Theatre's 6th Annual Holiday Benefit, honoring Broadway Producer and Chair Emeritus, Barbara Whitman, on Monday December 19that The Play Group Theatre, One North Broadway, White Plains, NY.
Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has announced that its 2011 Gimme A Break! benefit will honor playwright Douglas Carter Beane and composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn on Monday, December 5 at 6:30pm, at the Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street.
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) presents the world premiere of Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen's HAPPY HOUR, directed by Atlantic Artistic Director Neil Pepe (Speed-the-Plow). The ensemble cast features Cassie Beck, Aya Cash, Clark Gregg, Susan Hyon, Rock Kohli, Gordon MacDonald, Amanda Quaid, Ana Reeder, Joey Slotnick and Lenny Venito. Check out production images from the show below!
Zoetic Stage and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly present David Sedaris' THE SANTALAND DIARIES, a side-splitting one-man play adapted for the stage by Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran Joe Mantello, December 8-23, 2011, in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House). Starring Michael McKeever, one of South Florida's most produced and prolific artists, THE SANTALAND DIARIES is based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' unique experience during the holidays working as "Crumpet," a Christmas elf in Macy's Santaland display. This cult classic examines the desperation of unemployment, while celebrating the insanity of Christmas shopping and the ineffable 'cheer' of the holiday spirit.
Zoetic Stage and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County proudly present David Sedaris' THE SANTALAND DIARIES, a side-splitting one-man play adapted for the stage by Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran Joe Mantello, December 8-23, 2011, in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House). Starring Michael McKeever, one of South Florida's most produced and prolific artists, THE SANTALAND DIARIES is based on the outlandish, and true, chronicles of David Sedaris' unique experience during the holidays working as "Crumpet," a Christmas elf in Macy's Santaland display. This cult classic examines the desperation of unemployment, while celebrating the insanity of Christmas shopping and the ineffable 'cheer' of the holiday spirit.
This October, the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre once again introduces a new script for the American theatre with the world premiere of How to Write a New Book for the Bible.
The Theatre @ Boston Court announces PLAY/ground, the annual New Play Festival December 10-11, 2011 at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Literary Managers Aaron Henne and Emilie Beck, in concert with Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, have selected five plays to be presented as staged readings in the Marjorie Branson Performance Space.
Lisa D'Amour and Melissa James Gibson are this year's recipients of the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Awards, presented by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust at Lincoln Center last night, November 14. The Steinberg Playwright Awards are presented biennially, and are uniquely positioned to honor the accomplishments of some of the most gifted up-and-coming American playwrights, and to recognize the promise they hold for the future of American theatre.
Canal Park Playhouse will present the first NYC revival of ON THE LINE, written by Canal Park Playhouse resident playwright Joe Roland and directed by Michael Tisdale.
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce complete casting for the world premiere production of Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen's HAPPY HOUR, directed by Atlantic Artistic Director Neil Pepe (Speed-the-Plow).
Kimberley Locke, Adam Pascal, Terri White, Logo's A-List Cast Members et al. Will Sing For Pride at One-Night-Only NYC Benefit Recording Artist and American Idol finalist Kimberley Locke, Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo (The Scottsboro Boys) will join Drama Desk Award nominee Terri White (Follies Revival) with a special appearance by Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal (Rent), who will be among the lineup of performers set for Broadway Sings For Pride: The Winter Holiday Concert.
Jarrod Spector, who currently stars as Frankie Valli in the Tony, Olivier & Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, JERSEY BOYS, will take his own concert entitled MINOR FALL, MAJOR LIFT to opening night at Flute Cabaret on Sunday & Monday nights, November 6th & 7th at 8:30 p.m.
Jarrod Spector, who currently stars as Frankie Valli in the Tony, Olivier & Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, JERSEY BOYS, will take his own concert entitled MINOR FALL, MAJOR LIFT to opening night at Flute Cabaret on Sunday & Monday nights, November 6th & 7th at 8:30 p.m. This concert is directed by Eric Michael Gillett with music direction by Adam Ben-David.
Producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel announced that the American premiere of THE ANARCHIST, the new play about politics, money, religion and sex, written and directed by DAVID MAMET. The production will star two-time Tony Award winner PATTI LUPONE, who has previously appeared in Mamet's The Woods, All Men are Whores, The Blue Hour, The Water Engine, Edmond and The Old Neighborhood and three-time Emmy Award winner LAURIE METCALF, who was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for her performance in Mamet's November. THE ANARCHIST, which marks the sixth collaboration between Richards, Frankel and Mamet, will open on Broadway in Fall 2012.
