B. D. Wong News

Obie Award-winning playwright/performer David Drake makes his long-awaited return to New York with the premiere of MY TAWNY VALENTINE.

Studio 42 will present the new play BILLY WITCH by playwright Gregory S. Moss (Soho Rep's ORANGE, HAT & Grace, PUNKPLAY).

Today in 1976, Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 193 performances. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, the musical is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, through the lives of two friends caught in the change. The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was presented in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by people dressed in black. A Broadway revival ran at Studio 54 from December 2, 2004 to January 30, 2005, directed by Amon Miyamoto and starring B.D. Wong as the Narrator and several members of the original cast.

David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) makes his long-awaited return to New York with the premiere of MY TAWNY VALENTINE. Written by and starring Drake, this drag tragicomedy with music is directed by David Briggs (film: Karen Black Like Me) featuring musical direction by Lance Cruce (Joan River's longtime pianist, Karen Finley's Make Love).

Following up on her sightings at "Fag Bash," "Showgirls," and other festive events in P'town last summer, Tawny Heatherton will bring her own blonde-swept brand of sunny, funny cheer to the holiday show A Very Tawny Christmas! for one-night-only at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, MA.

Following up on her sightings at "Fag Bash," "Showgirls," and other festive events in P'town last summer, Tawny Heatherton will bring her own blonde-swept brand of sunny, funny cheer to the holiday show A Very Tawny Christmas! for one-night-only at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, MA.

AARP today announced that the Los Angeles Convention Center will host the Association's annual National Event & Expo this fall.

Selected Shorts, the acclaimed short story series recorded live in performance at Symphony Space and broadcast nationally on public radio, has released a 2-disc set of short fiction entitled NEW AMERICAN STORIES.

AARP today announced that the Los Angeles Convention Center will host the Association's annual National Event & Expo this fall.

The Madison Recreation Department and Playwrights Theatre present You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. The production (appropriate for all ages) will have three performances: July 21 and July 22 at 7:30pm and July 23 at 2:00pm.

Building on the success of her show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, funny-woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter, and love, Judy shows us how she balances family and ambition with a little help from our favorite TV shows of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties. The show officially opened last night, July 6, and BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage below!

You wouldn't know it from his youthful looks, but actor Ethan Le Phong has been a longtime global chameleon for quite some time. His past roles have taken him from Germany to New York, from London to Los Angeles. And for almost a year now, he has been spicing things up as Pepper in the 2nd National Tour of the global hit musical MAMMA MIA. Before the show makes its anticipated return to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County for a week-long engagement from June 21 - 26, the actor paused for a brief chat with BroadwayWorld's Michael Lawrence Quintos to talk about his role in the hit ABBA-rific musical, his influences as a kid, and his wish to see more Asian-Americans on the Broadway stage.

For the first time, an actor will arrive direct from a Broadway production to appear in the same role on the PSF main stage: William Michals, who played Emile de Becque in South Pacific at Lincoln Center will perform the role in PSF's production.