Blythe Danner News

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announced New York premiere of Lisa Loomer's Distracted, directed by Mark Brokaw with Cynthia Nixon as 'Mama.' Distracted will begin performances in February 2009 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This will be a limited engagement.

SECRETS OF A SOCCER MOM, a new play by Kathleen Clark directed by two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey, will be hosting two talk backs & book signings with critically acclaimed authors Nancy Star, Adriana Trigiani, Meg Wolitzer and Jill A. Davis respectively, to kick-off the spring soccer season.

Campbell Scott, Isaiah Sheffer and B. D. Wong will read short stories at 'Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,' the live performance version of the renowned public radio show of the same name, on Monday, May 19, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will host its annual 2008 Spring Gala on Monday, April 7th, 2008. Roundabout will celebrate the dynamic time period of the 1960s with a unique evening called 'Feeling Groovy: Pop Songs of the 60s.'

INTERVIEW: Polly Bergen, currently starring in A Little Night Music at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE talks about her illustrious career.

One of the theatres most renowned actresses, Tony and Emmy Award winner, Blythe Danner, recently took on the role of Violet Venable in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the Tennessee Williams' one act Suddenly Last Summer. Here she talks about Williams and the role.

The Actors Company Theatre/TACT will celebrate its 15th Anniversary with a Crystal Gala honoring renowned star of stage and screen, Julie Harris. The star-studded event will be held on Monday, March 3 at the historic Hudson Theatre, beginning at 6:30PM with cocktails, dinner, a silent and live auction and a performance including a tribute to Ms. Harris.

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

To commemorate its acclaimed and beloved Broadway run, The Drowsy Chaperone hosted a VIP private closing night party at Havana Central on December 30. The entire current Broadway cast and creative team, plus former cast members and friends celebrated the musical and toasted to its success.

On Monday, December 10 at 7PM, The New School for Drama hosted a cocktail reception celebrating the residency of visiting artist and award-winning director Doug Hughes, hosted by New School President Bob Kerrey and Director Robert LuPone.

On December 3, the 2007 Williamstown Theatre Festival Gala, paid tribute to longtime associate, Kate Burton at The Puck Building

A first reading for the Broadway-bound stage premiere of the classic 1967 Academy Award-winning film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner will take place in Manhattan on Wednesday, November 14 under the auspices of Jeffrey Finn Productions.

An impressive collection of Broadway and screen stars arrived for the officially opening of the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Pygmalion on Thursday, October 18 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street). This new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is directed by David Grindley and stars Claire Danes in her Broadway debut as 'Eliza Doolittle' with Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as 'Henry Higgins', Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as 'Colonel Pickering' and Jay O. Sanders as 'Alfred Doolittle.' This is a limited engagement through Sunday, December 16.

Dozens of movie and Broadway stars came out Thursday, October 4 for the opening night of the Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre.

The Coast of Utopia and Spring Awakening won the top honors at The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!

Beth Leavel and James Naughton announced the nominees for the 2007 Drama Desk Awards this morning at The Friar's Club. The awards will take place on Sunday, May 20th at the F. H. LaGuardia Concert Hall.

Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement of Suddenly Last Summer will play its final performance on Saturday, January 20th

The American Theatre Wing's upcoming 'Working in the Theatre' will feature four accomplished Broadway actresses - Blair Brown, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz and Julie White- on CUNY TV on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.