Billy Crystal News

Following a 10-week hiatus, Forbidden Broadway will resume performances at the 47th Street Theatre on June 12th

Accomplished live entertainment executives Brian Becker and Scott Zeiger announced today the formation of BASE Entertainment, a producer, presenter, venue programmer, and operator involved in live, theatrical entertainment and content on a worldwide basis

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) is proud to present CELEBRITY ATTIC-an online yard sale of signed odds and ends donated by celebrities from film, music, television and theatre.

Nominations for the 24th annual Elliot Norton Awards, recognizing excellence in Greater Boston theater, have been announced

The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.

According to 'Entertainment Tonight,' Billy Crystal will star opposite John Travolta as Wilbur Turnblad in the film version of Hairspray

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President) is proud to announce the recipients of its three annual specialty awards which will be presented at The 72nd Annual Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 5, 2006 (12 p.m.).

Broadway Bears IX, which was postponed due to the recent snowstorm in New York, will now be held on May 21st

Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS has just released word that tonight's Broadway Bears has been postponed due to weather conditions, with a new date to be announced shortly.

On February 12th, Broadway Bears IX will auction off signed bears representing characters and actors from many shows

This week's crop of eBay auctions for BC/EFA includes items signed by Shirley Jones, Denis O'Hare, Michael Crawford and Alfred Molina

Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS has put up a number of new theatre-related items for auction on eBay

Broadway Bears XI, hosted by Bryan Batt, will be held on February 12th to benefit BC/EFA

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard will be honored at the Museum of the Moving Image on December 4

Tony Adams, the veteran film and stage producer whose credits include Blake Edwards' Pink Panther hits, S.O.B. '10,' and the film and stage versions of Victor/Victoria died Saturday, October 22nd, of a stroke at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. He was surrounded by family and friends. He was 52 years old.

Disney has announced that Tarzan will being previews on March 24, to open on May 10, 2006.

Billy Crystal's Tony Award-winning 700 Sundays has added stops in Toronto, Boston and San Francisco to its touring itinerary

Doctor Dolittle will arrive in Chicago with a full menagerie of animal puppets on October 4th; it will run through October 16th

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards