Brian Murray News

In addition to Craig Bierko (The Music Man, The Long Kiss Goodnight) and Jan Maxwell (Coram Boy, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), the production will feature...

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce that three-time Tony Awardâ nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner Brian Murray will join the cast of its upcoming world premiere Broadway production of Nick Whitby's TO BE OR NOT TO BE, based on the 1942 motion picture To Be Or Not To Be.

PROJECT SHAW, now in its third of four years, continues tackling every play Shaw ever wrote with its 27th presentation. This month, The Devil's Disciple, on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. David Staller is producer and director

A cocktail reception to congratulate all of the nominees was held on April 21st at The Penthouse at American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

THE LEAGUE OF OFF-BROADWAY THEATRES AND PRODUCERS today announced the nominations for THE 23rd ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OFF-BROADWAY, which will be presented on Monday, May 5th at the Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street).

The 2008 Tony Randall Grant, presented annually by the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, will go to the Red Bull Theatre for their upcoming production of Thomas Middleton's' Women Beware Women opening late 2008.

On Monday, February 4 The Vineyard Theatre - where Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women debuted in 1994 - celebrated Albee's 50-year career as one of the world's leading dramatists, as he turns 80 during this theatrical season. Co-hosts for the evening were Tony Award-winners Tyne Daly and Bill Irwin plus international artist Eartha Kitt.

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

The Playwrights Theater, sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library's O'Neill at Yale project, will present The O'Neill Festival at 10, ten days of free readings, screenings and discussions as well as a musical revue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the O'Neill. From January 4 - 13 this O'Neill celebration will take place at New York University's Provincetown Playhouse

The Lincoln Center Theater production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Mark Lamos and featuring Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, John Pankow, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad, opened on Sunday, December 2 at 6:30PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presents Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw on Monday December 17 at 7PM at New York's most legendary club, The Players with Hannah Cabell, Marian Seldes and Matt Cavenaugh.

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

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.

An impressive collection of Broadway and screen celebrities arrived for the officially opening of The Ritz on Thursday, October 11 on Broadway at Studio 54 (254 West 54th St) where it will play a limited engagement through December 2, 2007.

Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw returns Monday, October 22 at 7PM at The Players (16 Gramercy Park South) for two utterly ridiculous one-acts by George Bernard Shaw: Press Cuttings and with Passion, Poison and Petrifaction.

59E59 Theaters welcomes the return of Origin Theatre Company with the US premiere of Thomas Kilroy's The Shape of Metal, directed by Brian Murray and starring Roberta Maxwell.

Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters has announced its fall season.

Tony Award-nominee Brian Murray has replaced John Glover in in Project Shaw's next presentation - a pairing of Village Wooing and How He Lied to Her Husband, two short comedies by George Bernard Shaw that will be presented on Monday, June 18th at 7 PM at the Players Club

Patrick Hamilton's Gaslight, the dark, Victorian melodrama, will be the next production at The Irish Repertory Theatre

Maria Aitken, director of London's Olivier-winning Best New Comedy, will bring an all star ensemble of Broadway actors to the stage of the Laura Pels Theatre on Monday, April 9th at 7pm as The Acting Company presents a benefit staged reading of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered.