Catherine Zuber News

Tonight, March 15th, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt will celebrate its 400th Broadway performance

Sadly, in this musical, the March family does a lot more plodding than marching.

Negotiations are currently underway for a possible 'Live at Lincoln Center' TV presentation of The Light in the Piazza

Two new productions of operas by Rossini and Puccini will be helmed, respectively, by The Light in the Piazza's Bartlett Sher and Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's Jack O'Brien as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season

Doubt's Eileen Atkins will be interviewed on NY-1's 'On Stage' this weekend

Cherry Jones will recreate her work as Sister Aloysius in the touring production of Doubt, which will launch in September of 2006

Tomorrow night, Theater Talk will interview Eileen Atkins, the new star of DOUBT on Broadway. Theater Talk, hosted by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, airs Friday night (early Saturday morning) at 12:30 AM on WNET, PBS Channel 13.

Ron Eldard, who stars as Father Flynn in the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning DOUBT on Broadway, will be featured on 'WB11 Morning News' and 'The Tony Danza Show' on Thursday, February 16.

Variety reports that the Tony-winning tunes will begin a national tour in August after the Broadway show closes in June.

Cast members of The Light in the Piazza will appear at Joe's Pub on Monday, February 6th in a one-night-only cabaret performance titled The Lights of the Piazza.

Screen star Mark Ruffalo will join Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary and Zoe Wanamaker in the starry upcoming revival of Odets' Awake and Sing!

Katie Clarke, Patti Cohenour, Aaron Lazar and other cast members from the hit musical will perform at Joe's Pub on February 6th as The Lights of the Piazza

Eileen Atkins, who has mostly recovered from a bad case of the flu, will join Ron Eldard, Jena Malone and Adriane Lenox in tonight's January 17th performance of Doubt

Victoria Clark will stay with The Light in the Piazza through its closing on July 2nd, but understudy Patti Cohenour will go on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings

Announced earlier to join Doubt tonight, Eileen Atkins will not be performing due to the flu

Originally scheduled to debut on Tuesday, January 10th Eileen Atkins will join the show tonight. Ron Eldard, and Jena Malone are expected to follow suit shortly.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order): Chris Bauer (Chaplin White), Stephen Lang (Colonel Littlefield), Trevor Long (Gunney), Margaret Colin (Margaret Littlefield), Jeremy Strong (Private Evan Davis), and Chris Chalk (Captain Lee King).

A full cast and creative team are now in place for the Center Theatre Group's production of The Cherry Orchard, running from February 2nd through March 29th, and starring Alfred Molina and Annette Bening

DOUBT has broken the house record at the Walter Kerr Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $603,566 for nine performances for the week of December 26-January 1. DOUBT had previously set a record of $550,109 for the week of July 11-17, 2005.

Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Jonathan Hadary, Zoe Wanamaker and others will headline the Lincoln Center revival of Awake and Sing! on Broadway in spring of 2006