Brad Davis News

BroadwayWorld has learned that just before the 2010-2011 season comes to a close, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart will open on Broadway at the Golden Theater starring Cheyenne Jackson, Joe Mantello and Ellen Barkin. Following an Actor's Fund benefit performance of the show starring Mantello and Glenn Close this past fall, rumors began swirling that Daryl Roth was hot to ressurect the property into a full-scale production - it's first on Broadway. Securing an available theater had apparently held up her efforts. it is believed that Mantello will reprise his role as Ned Weeks. Jackson will play his lover Felix Turner and Barkin will assume the role of Dr. Emma Brookner.

Producers Ruth and Stephen Hendel (Fela!, American Idiot, The Exonerated) present the rock performance piece ALEX DAVIS: MAN OF THE YEAR at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, February 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2:00pm. Both performances benefit the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Producers Ruth and Stephen Hendel (Fela!, American Idiot, The Exonerated) present the rock performance piece ALEX DAVIS: MAN OF THE YEAR at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, February 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2:00pm. Both performances benefit the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Producers Ruth and Stephen Hendel (Fela!, American Idiot, The Exonerated) present the rock performance piece ALEX DAVIS: MAN OF THE YEAR at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, February 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2:00pm.

Producers Ruth and Stephen Hendel (Fela!, American Idiot, The Exonerated) present the rock performance piece ALEX DAVIS: MAN OF THE YEAR at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, February 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2:00pm. Both performances benefit the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Producers Ruth and Stephen Hendel (Fela!, American Idiot, The Exonerated) present the rock performance piece ALEX DAVIS: MAN OF THE YEAR at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on Saturday, February 19 at 8:00pm and Sunday, February 20 at 2:00pm. Both performances benefit the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Lamb's Players Theatre has extended its 80s musical revue miXtape through December 19.

Lamb's Players Theatre has extended its 80s musical revue miXtape through December 19.

This year's spectacular fundraising gala, Hartt Celebrates 90 Years, will take place on Saturday evening, October 16, at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center in Hartford.

This year's spectacular fundraising gala, Hartt Celebrates 90 Years, will take place on Saturday evening, October 16, at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center in Hartford.

Creative partnerships, unique residencies, and thought-provoking conversations - as well as a fantastic gala celebration on October 16 - will highlight The Hartt School's 90th anniversary year.

The Hartt School is celebrates 90 years of world class performing arts education during the 2010-2011 academinc year with creative partnerships, unique residencies, and thought-provoking conversations.

Joel Grey will direct an all-star cast in an historic, 25th anniversary staged reading of Larry Kramer's seminal drama, The Normal Heart, on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street), producer Daryl Roth announced today.

Emmy Award winner Rue McClanahan, whose acting career has spanned more than four decades is developing a new one-woman show reports the Chicago tribune, based on her 2007 autobiography 'My First Give Husbands.' The show, for which McClahanan is said to have Broadway aspirations is expected to premiere in Chicago this fall.

Emmy Award winner Rue McClanahan, whose acting career has spanned more than four decades, will appear as a benefit for Playhouse on the Green with stories from her memoir, 'My First Five Husbands…and the Ones That Got Away,' on Saturday, October 20 at 8PM and Sunday, October 21 at 3PM at the Playhouse, 177 State St., Bridgeport.