Chazz Palminteri News

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President; Roger T. Danforth and Gabriel Shanks, Co-Managing Directors) proudly announces nominations for the 2007-08 Drama League Awards, to be awarded at The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 (noon) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square (1535 Broadway at 46th Street).

On Monday, April 21st the Outer Critics Circle Nominees were announced at the Algonguin Hotel in Manhattan. The Outer Circle Awards are chosen by a group a theater critics and writers covering Broadway for publications outside of the New York City area.

The Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.'

The Broadway League announced the winners of the Touring Broadway Awards today at its annual Spring Road Conference. Wicked was recognized for the second year in a row as the 'Touring Broadway Audience Choice Award' and also took home prizes for 'Best Musical Score of a Touring Production' and 'Best Direction of a Touring Production.' The Lion King earned recognition for maintaining high quality over its long run and Twelve Angry Men was awarded 'Best Touring Play.'

The Touring Broadway Awards® presented by The Broadway League, established in 2000, are the first national awards to recognize Touring Broadway will hold their awards ceremony on Monday April 14th at 6PM at the Hilton on 53rd Street. League presenters representing over 240 markets act as a blue-ribbon panel to select award recipients from their Broadway Series

Arriving with a slew of Tony ® Awards, advance popularity and record setting box office numbers to match such earlier powerhouses as WICKED, The Lion King and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Tony ® Award winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, is set to anchor the 2008-2009 Broadway Across America Fort Lauderdale theatrical season

Oscar nominated Chazz Palminteri, writer and star of A BRONX TALE along with Rondi Reed, Madeleine Martin, and Amy Morton, current stars of the Pulitzer Prize winning drama AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY and JERSEY BOYS choreographer, Sergio Trujillo, will present the awards

The Contra Costa Times reports that the blockbuster musical, Wicked, will begin an open-ended engagement in San Francisco at the Orpheum Theatre in January 2009.

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, in partnership with THE VIERTEL/FRANKEL/BARUCH/ROUTH GROUP and Leap (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program), announced today that Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson ('Law & Order', Come Back, Little Sheba), two-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominated actor Charles S. 'Roc' Dutton, Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio, Henry V) and Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow ('Third Rock from the Sun', Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) headline an impressive roster of Broadway luminaries lending time and support for Fidelity FutureStage, a comprehensive arts education initiative designed to bring professional theater into the classrooms of participating New York City schools.

PREVIEW/COMMENTARY: The upcoming season of Broadway Touring shows was announced last Thursday. Here is a review and some thoughts.

The limited engagement of A Bronx Tale starring Chazz Palminteri at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, closed Sunday, February 24 on a high note, recouping its capitalization. A national tour will take place later this year.

A Bronx Tale starring Chazz Palminteri, ends its limited run this Sunday February 24 following the 3 PM matinee. The show will have played 19 previews and 108 performances.

On Wednesday, February 13, Academy Award nominated actor Chazz Palminteri (Usual Suspects, A Bronx Tale) welcomed 100 Fidelity Futurestage students from the Bronx (Stevenson High School, School for Community Research and Learning & Millennium Art Academy) to a performance of A Bronx Tale, which he wrote and is currently starring in, and a post-show talk back at the Walter Kerr Theatr

On Monday, February 11, Charles 'Roc' Dutton, multiple Tony Award Nominated Actor will head out to Martin Luther King Jr. High School to speak to the students of Fidelity Futurestage about how he turned his post-prison life around through his love of the arts. On Wednesday, February 13, Academy Award nominated actor Chazz Palminteri will welcome 100 Fidelity Futurestage students from the Bronx to 'A Bronx Tale'

Chazz Palminteri, star and writer of Broadway's A Bronx Tale will appear on 'Theater Talk' tonight (Saturday morning) January 26 at 1AM. 'Theater Talk' airs locally on Thirteen/WNET and CUNY-TV.

Chazz Palminteri, star and writer of Broadway's A Bronx Tale will appear on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' tonight Thursday, January 17th. 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' airs on Channel 4 - WNBC in the tri-state area between 12:30 - 1:30 AM.

Due to popular demand, Chazz Palminteri's acclaimed show, A Bronx Tale, will extend its limited engagement by two weeks at the Walter Kerr Theatre, running until February 24, 2008.

See Chazz Palminteri in his classic play 'A Bronx Tale.' Dec. 9 & 16 at 7PM: Buy one ticket and get one free! Dec. 23 & 30 at 7PM: Get tickets for just $46.50* (rear mezz) or $57.50* (orch/front mezz)!