Carol Burnett News

Award-winning Broadway Songwriter and Performer lyricist for HIGH FIDELITY and Upcoming BRING IT ON and HANDS ON A HARDBODY (music & lyrics) Larson Award Winner Amanda Green Returns to BIRDLAND, located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Aves)

Viagara Falls, a new comedy by Lou Cutell and Joao Machado, comes to New York this summer. Presented by Stanley Browne, John Finocchio and SJ Productions, Inc., Viagara Falls begins performances at the Little Shubert Theatre Monday, July 5th. Opening night is Wednesday, July 21.

Casa Mañana is excited to have Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian Vicki Lawrence for this year's Laugh with a Legend Gala on Saturday, August 28, 2010, at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth.

Unbuttoned, the solo show co-written and performed by Andreas Beckett, has been chosen to have its World Premiere at the first-ever Hollywood Fringe Festival with performances taking place Sunday, June 20th - Sunday, June 27th. The venue is the 50-seat Lounge Theatre located at 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood.

I spoke with Lucie while she was in her ‘tiny' Manhattan apartment, as she put it. She was waiting for the delivery of her new mattress. She had recently returned from a wonderfully, luxurious cruise and was getting back to business. Her New York apartment was where she needed to be as opposed to the home in Connecticut she shares with her husband of about 30 years, the fine actor Laurence Luckinbill. Lucie and I spoke briefly the day before the interview and set 10:30 am as the time for me to call her the following day. The morning of the interview arrived and the phone rang at 10am, and it was Lucie, ready to go.

Stephanie J. Block (Drama desk nomination for 9 to 5, Wicked, The Boy From Oz) will join Gretchen Bieber (Hairspray), Joel Blum (Two-time TONY nominee, Steel Pier, Showboat), Rebecca Eichenberger (Phantom of the Opera, Carousel), Jonathan Kaplan (Diary of Anne Frank, Theatre World Award, Tony nomination for Falsettos), Erik Liberman (Lovemusik), Lindsay Northen (Wicked), Noah Weisberg(Enron, South Pacific )and Lee Zarrett (Hair) for an industry reading of a new musical MY AMERICAN FAMILY .

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills will host evenings celebrating the 45th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's iconic1965 television production of Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren and a salute to the innovative 1960's television musical comedy series That's Life which starred Robert Morse (Mad Men) and E.J. Peaker (Hello Dolly) as part of it inaugural PaleyFest Rewind Classic TV Festival.

Roundabout Theatre Company and Todd Haimes, Artistic Director announced that Tony® Award winner Sutton Foster will star as "Reno Sweeney" in a new Broadway production of ANYTHING GOES, directed and choreographed by Tony® Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; New book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.

Tony, Grammy & Golden Globe Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony & Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch will return to Broadway in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award-winner Trevor Nunn.

Unbuttoned, the solo show co-written and performed by Andreas Beckett, has been chosen to have its World Premiere at the first-ever Hollywood Fringe Festival with performances taking place Sunday, June 20th - Sunday, June 27th. The venue is the 50-seat Lounge Theatre located at 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood.

Rona Barrett, the first to bring Entertainment Reporting to TV and original cast member of 'Good Morning America', as well as hosting numerous star interview TV specials for ABC and NBC, will return to the spotlight and appear in a one-woman show, 'Rona Barrett: Nothing But The Truth', premiering at The Payley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, on Thursday June 17th, 2010.

Steven Janicki, Executive Director of the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts, is pleased to announce the 2010-2011 Performing Arts Season with 25 sensational shows.

Stephanie J. Block (Drama desk nomination for 9 to 5, Wicked, The Boy From Oz) will join Gretchen Bieber (Hairspray), Joel Blum (Two-time TONY nominee, Steel Pier, Showboat), Rebecca Eichenberger (Phantom of the Opera, Carousel), Jonathan Kaplan (Diary of Anne Frank, Theatre World Award, Tony nomination for Falsettos), Erik Liberman (Lovemusik), Lindsay Northen (Wicked), Noah Weisberg(Enron, South Pacific )and Lee Zarrett (Hair) for an industry reading of a new musical MY AMERICAN FAMILY .

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills will host evenings celebrating the 45th anniversary of Rodgers & Hammerstein's iconic1965 television production of Cinderella starring Lesley Ann Warren and a salute to the innovative 1960's television musical comedy series That's Life which starred Robert Morse (Mad Men) and E.J. Peaker (Hello Dolly) as part of it inaugural PaleyFest Rewind Classic TV Festival.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & MC COY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT are thrilled to announce that Caroline Aaron will star as Marjorie Taub opposite Marilu Henner who will star as Lee Green in Charles Busch's hilarious Broadway hit, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, opening October 1 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.

The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.

Unbuttoned, the solo show co-written and performed by Andreas Beckett, has been chosen to have its World Premiere at the first-ever Hollywood Fringe Festival with performances taking place Sunday, June 20th - Sunday, June 27th. The venue is the 50-seat Lounge Theatre located at 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood.

Stephanie J. Block (Drama desk nomination for 9 to 5, Wicked, The Boy From Oz) will join Gretchen Bieber (Hairspray), Jonathan Kaplan (Diary of Anne Frank, Theatre World Award, Tony nomination for Falsettos), and Erik Liberman (Lovemusik) for an industry reading of a new musical MY AMERICAN FAMILY

Tony, Grammy & Golden Globe Award winner Bernadette Peters and Tony & Emmy Award winner Elaine Stritch will return to Broadway in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, directed by Tony Award-winner Trevor Nunn.