Douglas J. Cohen News

Catch this BroadwayWorld.com exclusive as we take you backstage with the cast and creative team of the east coast premiere of 'The Opposite Of Sex' starring Kerry Butler, Gregg Edelman, Kaitlin Hopkins, David Burtka and more. You won't want to miss this special presentation featuring several clips from the show, only right here on BroadwayWorld.com!

Williamstown Theatre Festival scores big with East Coast Premiere

The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of The Opposite of Sex, the musical's East Coast premiere starring Kerry Butler, Gregg Edelman, Kaitlin Hopkins and more, began August 9

The Williamstown Theatre Festival production of THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, the musical's East Coast premiere, begins August 9.

Emmy Rossum and Sharon Lawrence will respectively play Juliet and Anything Goes' Reno Sweeney at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, running from July 6th through August 27th

Malcolm Gets, Matt Cavenaugh, Beth Fowler, Kerry Butler, and Kristine Nielsen--as well as Kathleen Turner in her theatrical directing debut--will be among the participating stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in MA, running from July 6th through August 27th

On May 2nd, the York Theatre Company presented a One-Night-Only performance of Douglas J. Cohen's The Gig, starring Michele Pawk, Karen Ziemba, Michael McCormick and others, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The York Theatre Company will present a one-night-only benefit concert of Douglas Cohen's The Gig, featuring Michele Pawk, Karen Ziemba and more, on May 2nd

The Douglas J. Cohen musical The Opposite of Sex--previously seen in San Francisco--will be one of the shows presented as part of this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival

The York Theatre Company will present benefit concerts of the musicals The Gig and People Like Us on May 2nd and May 7th, respectively; Jay Records will record cast recordings of both

30 Days of NYMF on BroadwayWorld continues with the scoop on The Big Time, with Douglas Carter Beane and Douglas J. Cohen's The Big Time.

WPIX Channel 11, Tribune Broadcasting's WB Television Network affiliate (a.k.a. The WB11), has begun shooting 'The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival,' a half-hour special report on the ambitious efforts of the eponymous annual festival, now in its second year.

A press conference for the 2005 NYMF took place on August 30th with a special preview of The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Big Time, The Mistress Cycle, Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, No Boundaries, Plane Crazy, and Project Footlight.

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

Festival passes for the 2nd annual New York Musical Theatre Festival will go on sale on August 8th

The 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), currently entering its sophomore year, has announced a series of invited productions and events to round out this year's slate along with the previously announced titles for the 'Next Link Project.'

Students in the BMI Workshop will have their work performed in the Art and Artists Stars of Tomorrow concert on May 24th

The 50th Annual Drama Desk Awards Ceremony took place on Sunday, May 22. The big winners of the night were Doubt and The Light in the Piazza, each of whom received 5 awards. Outstanding Musical however, went to Spamalot.

The Official Drama Desk Cocktail Reception honoring this year's nominees was held on May 3. The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, May 22.

Spamalot leads the pack with 12 nominations, followed by Light in the Piazza with 11, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with 10. Click in to see all the nominees.