Bartlett Sher News

PBS will re-air its 'Live from Lincoln Center' broadcast of The Light in the Piazza on June 17th at 1 AM (check local listings)

'Live From Lincoln Center' will present the television premiere of The Light in the Piazza on Thursday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m. on PBS, presented live from the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center Theater

Marking 60 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards were being broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 11th, and we've got the winners here! The History Boys led the pack with 6 wins, followed by The Drowsy Chaperone with 5, Jersey Boys with 4 and The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd, and Awake and Sing with 2.

Matthew Morrison, last seen on Broadway singing the lush Light in the Piazza songs of Adam Guettel, will perform in a gala evening of the Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist's songs at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle on June 10th; Guettel will perform and host

The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's trilogy tracing a 30-year arc of history in nineteenth century Russia, is now set for its US premiere at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce its 2006-07 Season, exciting new productions that will usher in The Public's next 50 years as one of the nation's leading producers of Shakespeare and new work.

Cast members from The Light in the Piazza will perform in concert in 'Piazza Party' at Birdland on Monday, June 5

'The Light in the Piazza' visits The Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco August 1 through 27. Tickets go on sale for the general public in July.

San Francisco's PBS affiliate, KQED TV9 DT9, has several great up-coming Broadway and theatre-related broadcasts planned for the month of June.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com will present the cast of The Light in the Piazza in 'Piazza Party' at Birdland on Monday, June 5

Announced this morning and reported on live at BroadwayWorld.com, we've got all the nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 11th.

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

The hit revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! has been extended through June 25th

All Shook Up, Altar Boyz, Twelve Angry Men, STOMP, Doubt, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera--The Dancer's Life, and The Light in the Piazza--as well as the pre-Broadway tryout of the new musical High Fidelity--will comprise the 2006-2007 Broadway Across America-Boston seaso

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th

Clifford Odets' classic drama Awake and Sing!, directed by Bartlett Sher, opened on Monday, April 17th, on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, the very theatre where the play had its world premiere in 1935.

The Fox Theatre in St. Louis will present Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza, Edward Scissorhands, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as some of its shows for the 2006-2007 season

The revival of Awake and Sing!, starring Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Mark Ruffalo and more, opens on Broadway on April 17th

'Live From Lincoln Center' will present the television premiere of The Light in the Piazza on Thursday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m. on PBS, presented live from the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center Theater

Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan, as part of LCT's Platform Series, will discuss Awake and Sing! on April 20th