Frances McDormand News

The new book In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights features dozens of portraits of great dramatists

An all-star cast will headline Naked Angels' September 18th reading of the classic 1976 political drama All the President's Men

Michael Cerveris, Lisa Kron, Olympia Dukakis, as well as Anna Deveare Smith herself, will read from Smith's Letters to a Young Artist on September 25th

The revival of Awake and Sing!, starring Lauren Ambrose, Ben Gazzara, Mark Ruffalo and more, opens on Broadway on April 17th

On March 24th, Lincoln Center Theatre's starry production of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! will begin Broadway previews

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took take place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. Here's all the night's big winners!

Love, a one-night only benefit performance that will feature readings of short plays about love by some of today's hottest young women playwrights, will be presented on February 13th

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!

The 78th Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 5, 2006 and will air on ABC live at 8pm EST.

The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast live tonight on NBC

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and Cynthia Nixon are among the actors nominated for SAG Awards, which will be presented on January 29th

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

Theatre veterans such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and many more received Golden Globe Award nominations

Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing will be revived by Lincoln Center Theatre in spring 2006, with the production to open on April 17th at the Belasco Theatre

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.