Chevy Chase News

When last we left The Mint Theater, that extraordinary collective of theatre archivists that specialize in mounting first-class Off-Broadway productions of time-obscured plays by still-famous names, they were teaching many New Yorkers that Leo Tolstoy took a crack at playwrighting once with his grim drama, The Power of Darkness.  Now they're surprising those who didn't know that even Ernest Hemingway was represented on Broadway once with The Fifth Column, which premiered at the Alvin in March of 1940 and logged in 87 performances.

New York: Babel Theatre Project (Geordie Broadwater, Artistic Director, Jeremy Blocker, Producing Director) will kick off its new season with the World Premiere of A Great Place to Be From, by Norman Lasca, directed by Geordie Broadwater.

New York: Babel Theatre Project (Geordie Broadwater, Artistic Director, Jeremy Blocker, Producing Director) will kick off its new season with the World Premiere of A Great Place to Be From, by Norman Lasca, directed by Geordie Broadwater.

Actors in the Baltimore production at Center Stage discuss their work.

An interview with Broadway star (and Maryland native) Barbara Walsh, soon to star in A Little Night Music at CENTERSTAGE.

This Monday, March 10th The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony took place for 2008. New inductees included Madonna, Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp, and the Ventures and the David Clark Five. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff also presented the Ahmet Ertegun Award. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.

A staged reading of the Broadway/West End-bound musical, Twice Upon a Time will be presented in Los Angeles on Monday, November 5, 2007...

On Thursday, May 24, 2007, Cunard Line welcomed guests from the New York City Opera (City Opera) and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) aboard the company's flagship Queen Mary 2 for The Britannia Ball, a gala evening benefiting both cultural institutions.

On this evening's episode of 'That's Kentertainment!,' host Ken Kleiber sits down for Part One of an excusive interview with actress/singer Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was most recently seen in Jack Goes Boating at the Public Theatre and Les Miserables on Broadway.

Student plays selected for honors from over 300 statewide entries. Staged readings, awards ceremony to be held April 16th.

Billy Crystal, Felicity Huffman, Tony Kushner and Marcia Gay Harden were just a few of those who appeared at the gala benefit 'Tisch on Broadway' on December 4th

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, a new musical starring the Tony Award-winning funnyman, opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on Thursday, August 17

The Black Women Playwrights' Group (BWPG), a service and advocacy group for playwrights of color, will celebrate its 17th year with a flurry of Washington, D.C. readings to focus on the work of its members and voices of color within the community

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. It was Hollywood's biggest night of the year, but with the worlds of stage and screen colliding more often by the day - how could we resist bringing you photo coverage of the night? We couldn't!

Tony Adams, the veteran film and stage producer whose credits include Blake Edwards' Pink Panther hits, S.O.B. '10,' and the film and stage versions of Victor/Victoria died Saturday, October 22nd, of a stroke at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. He was surrounded by family and friends. He was 52 years old.

DEMOCRACY, the critically acclaimed play by Michael Frayn, will celebrate its 100th performance on Broadway with the evening performance on Saturday, February 12. The production, directed by Michael Blakemore, is playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street).