Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei, Elizabeth Marvel and Anne Parisse will be the Three Sisters who long for Moscow in a star-studded staged reading of Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which will be presented at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium on May 22nd at 6 PM
The Vineyard Theatre offers its first online charity auction -- featuring rare, autographed theatre, film and television collectibles; opening night and film premiere tickets; backstage tours of Broadway's biggest shows; lunches with celebrities; and much more -- on eBay.com, now through May 3rd. Proceeds benefit the not-for-profit Vineyard Theatre
More casting has been announced for the Huntington Theatre's 3rd annual Breaking Ground of New Readings, with Denis O'Hare, Campbell Scott, Julie White and more set to join the previously-announced Douglas Sills, Nancy Anderson and Jill Paice
Along with Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for 'A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.'
- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, the lunch-time play reading series, under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Susan Charlotte, will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary when it opens its Spring 2005 season on Wednesday, February 23 with the New York premiere of a new Tennessee Williams' work Me, Vashya.
Lynn Redgrave will star in the October 7 reading of her new one-woman play, Nightingale, based on the life of her maternal grandmother, as part of the FOOD FOR THOUGHT season at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South at 20th Street).