Ben Hecht News

The award-winning actor currently costars in 'Hunting and Gathering', the second of three plays he's in this season.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, announced its 2008-09 season, including 'Grey Gardens, 'Doubt, 'Radio Golf' and new works by Stephen Schwartz and GrooveLily.

The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles will present the West Coast premiere of The Accomplices, the first play written by former New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernie Weinraub.

The West End premiere of Ron Hutchinson's Moonlight and Magnolias opens October 1 at the Tricycle Theatre, with performances through November 3.

The Tricycle Theatre announces their upcoming season, which includes the British premieres of Moonlight and Magnolias and the award-winning play, Doubt. Plus the world premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company's I'll Be The Devil and a special engagement from the Edinburgh Festival.

The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, opens the Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage on July 4. Set in a Chicago newsroom in the late 1920's, this classic Broadway comedy about the nature of media in society is directed by Ron Daniels.

Williamstown Theatre Festival announces additional casting and directors for the upcoming season.

The journalistic skills of first-time playwright Bernard Weinraub are put to good use in this drama of a Jewish activist who came to America in 1940 with a mission to convince the United States to help stop the systematic extermination of his people.

Party Come Here, Kate Burton, B.D. Wong and more will all feature as part of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's '07 summer season

The San Jose Repertory Theatre opens its 2006-07 season with a humorous production of Moonlight and Magnolias, running October 15 through November 12.

Windy City, the 1982 musical version of the classic newsroom comedy The Front Page, will be seen at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in a revised version that will run from September 5th through October 22nd

Showtunes! Theatre Company will present the classic Coleman, Comden, and Green Musical On the TwentiethCentury in conert for 2 performances only.

Jeff McCarthy will star in The Front Page, presented by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, in April

Moonlight and Magnolias

The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.

Moonlight and Magnolias - Behind the Scenes of Making Gone With The Wind

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Ron Hutchinson's MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, directed by Lynne Meadow, will plays its final performance on Sunday, May 8th at 7:00 PM at New York City Center.