Bill Irwin News

Singer/Songwriter Amanda Green is set to join previously announced host Elaine Stritch as Theater for the New City honors award-winning playwright and longtime TNC supporter Edward Albee in celebration of his highly distinguished 50-year career with 'Love 'n' Courage' at National Arts Club on February 10.

Stars from the worlds of Broadway, television, R & B, cabaret, comedy, jazz, and country convened at The Town Hall on Monday, January 28 at 7PM to celebrate The 2008 Nightlife Awards.

International singing sensation Eartha Kitt - one of only a handful of performers to be nominated for a Tony (three times), a Grammy (twice) and an Emmy Award - is set to join previously announced co-hosts Tony Award-winners Tyne Daly and Bill Irwin with a special performance at The Vineyard Theatre's 80th birthday tribute to Edward Albee on Monday, February 4 beginning at 6pm at The Rainbow Room

More than twenty great stars coming from worlds as diverse as Broadway, television, R & B, cabaret, comedy, jazz, and country will convene at The Town Hall this Monday, January 28 at 7PM to celebrate The 2008 Nightlife Awards.

Theater for the New City will hold its annual 'Love 'n' Courage' benefit hosted by Elaine Stritch, with guests including Edward Albee, Bill Irwin, Marian Seldes and Tammy Grimes on Sunday, February 10 at 6:30PM at the National Arts Club.

Roundabout Theatre Company officially opened the New York premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at the American Airlines Theatre

Tony winner Tyne Daly - presently making her debut in an Edward Albee play in his newest work Me, Myself and I - has joined Tony winner Bill Irwin as co-host of The Vineyard Theatre 80th birthday tribute to Mr. Albee on February 4th in NYC.

The 2008 Nightlife Awards, the only All-Performance Award show in the world, announced its winners as a first step in preparation for an all-star celebration of the best in cabaret, comedy and jazz at The Town Hall on Monday, January 28 at 7:PM.

Gerry Vichi will join the cast of Curtains on Tuesday, January 8 as Broadway producer Sidney Bernstein, replacing original cast member Ernie Sabella. Curtains, the Musical Comedy Whodunit from the authors of Cabaret and Chicago, is playing at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre

The 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast tonight, December 26 on CBS at 9PM (Eastern). Recipients to be honored at this year's national celebration of the arts are pianist Leon Fleisher, actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, and songwriter Brian Wilson.

The Vineyard Theatre - where Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women debuted in 1993 - will honor the playwright on the occasion of his 80th birthday at the theatre's annual gala on Monday, February 4 at 6 PM at The Rainbow Room

The Conversations at Riverspace series brings together two of the most respected members of the theater world - the actor with the playwright - when Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee is interviewed by Tony Award winner and McArther Fellow Bill Irwin on Saturday, November 17 at 8PM.

The Signature Theatre Company 2006-2007 season productions of August Wilson's Two Trains Running and King Hedley II have been nominated for 16 AUDELCO Awards, which recognize excellence in black theatre. The winners will be announced on November 19 at a ceremony held at Aaron Davis Hall.

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CENTERSTAGE, Everyman Theatre and Rep Stage open their new seasons in the next few weeks. Here is a sneak peek!

Theatre veterans Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin and Anna Deavere Smith will star with Debra Winger in Dancing with Shiva, a new film by Jonathan Demme

LONE STAR LOVE, a new musical comedy starring Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, has announced full casting as it begins rehearsals this week for its Seattle engagement at The 5th Avenue Theatre, September 8 - 30. LONE STAR LOVE will open on Broadway on Monday, December 3 at New York's Belasco Theatre; previews will begin Thursday, November 1.

At a press conference on June 13th, Signature Theatre Company - led by artistic director James Houghton - announced the next four years of programming as well as the unprecedented Signature Ticket Initiative, made possible by the lead sponsorship of Time Warner, Inc.

The New School for Drama has announced a star-studded line-up of visiting artists that will take part in its Summer Music Theater Immersion Experience program as the instructors of master classes

Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome Broadway veteran Gerry Vichi to the cast on Tuesday, June 5th at the Marquis Theatre