Frances Sternhagen News

On Monday, December 5, 2011, stars from your favorite Broadway shows will perform a one-night-only New York concert event to benefit Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The world premiere of the action-comedy TOWER HEIST will take place at New York's Ziegfeld Theatre on Monday, October 24, 2011.

Festival Stage of Winston-Salem opens its second season with Joan Vail Thorne's enchanting comedy, 'The Exact Center of the Universe,' featuring daily performances, except Mondays, October 21 to November 6 in the Hanesbrands Theatre at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem.

Frances Sternhagen joins Estelle Parsons, Lois Smith, George Bartenieff, Marsha Warren & more for the 80th Anniversary Tribute to The Group Theatre at Symphony Space on October 10.

Plays for Living is proud to announce an engaging one night performance of 'Still Growing'. This VERY SPECIAL event will take place tonight 6-8pm, Atria West 86 - Media Room, 333 West 86th Street, New York, New York. Refreshments will be served and seating is limited.

Frances Sternhagen joins Estelle Parsons, Lois Smith, George Bartenieff, Marsha Warren & more for the 80th Anniversary Tribute to The Group Theatre at Symphony Space on October 10.

Plays for Living is proud to announce an engaging one night performance of 'Still Growing'. This VERY SPECIAL event will take place, Thursday, October 6, 2011, 6-8pm, Atria West 86 - Media Room, 333 West 86th Street, New York, New York. Refreshments will be served and seating is limited.

Festival Stage of Winston-Salem opens its second season with Joan Vail Thorne's enchanting comedy, 'The Exact Center of the Universe,' featuring daily performances, except Mondays, October 21 to November 6 in the Hanesbrands Theatre at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem.

Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, directed by Antony Marsellis, will end performances at The Acorn Theatre (410 W 42 Street) on August 14, 2011. Each performance will be followed with a Q & A with star and Academy Award nominee Danny Aiello.

Road Less Traveled Productions' (RLTP's) Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW) today announced a set of special benefit readings of Love Letters , the highly popular play by RLTP's 2012 American Theatre Master, Buffalo native A.R. Gurney. The readings will be presented at 7:30PM on two consecutive nights, Friday, August 12 th and Saturday, August 13 th , at the Road Less Traveled Theater (RLTT) in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, in Downtown Buffalo. The readings benefit the NPW, an integral component of RLTP's mission to develop and produce plays by Western New York (WNY) writers.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), has opened the nomination process for The Zelda Fichandler Award, which awards an unrestricted grant of $5000 to an outstanding director or choreographer making an exceptional contribution to the national arts landscape through theatre work in a region.

Cause Celebre is proud to announce Academy Award® Nominee Danny Aiello will star in what he calls "a role of a lifetime," in the World Premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, directed by Antony Marsellis.

Road Less Traveled Productions' (RLTP's) Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW) today announced a set of special benefit readings of Love Letters , the highly popular play by RLTP's 2012 American Theatre Master, Buffalo native A.R. Gurney. The readings will be presented at 7:30PM on two consecutive nights, Friday, August 12 th and Saturday, August 13 th , at the Road Less Traveled Theater (RLTT) in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre, in Downtown Buffalo. The readings benefit the NPW, an integral component of RLTP's mission to develop and produce plays by Western New York (WNY) writers.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), has opened the nomination process for The Zelda Fichandler Award, which awards an unrestricted grant of $5000 to an outstanding director or choreographer making an exceptional contribution to the national arts landscape through theatre work in a region.

Plans are underway for a memorial performance celebrating the life of former Theatre By The Sea producer Tommy Brent, who passed away June 4.

A legendary producer on the New England straw hat circuit, most notably for over two decades at Rhode Island's historic Theatre-by-the-Sea theatre, Tommy Brent, the man who single-handedly saved one of the nation's iconic summer stock theater twice -passed away on June 4th, 2011, Even at 88 years old, Brent a non-stop ambassador of theatre was expected to join the theater's opening-night party at the theater Friday (6/3), but did not attend.

Cause Celebre is proud to announce that Academy Award® Nominee Danny Aiello will star in what he calls "a role of a lifetime," in the World Premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, directed by Antony Marsellis.

As a special 80th anniversary event for Westport Country Playhouse, noted actors Kathleen McNenny, Frances Sternhagen and Richard Thomas will star in a Script in Hand reading of A. R. Gurney's delightfully witty game of cat and mouse, "The Golden Age," on Monday, June 20, 7 p.m. Director is John Tillinger.

The coming of age story of a 13-year-old girl whose life is forever altered by a boy in peril halfway round the world.

During this centennial year of Tennessee Williams, Cause Celebre (Susan Charlotte, Founding Artistic Director) is excited to present the New York Premiere of Williams' one-act version of The Glass Menagerie entitled The Pretty Trap starring Ms. Katharine Houghton and Mr. Robert Eli, directed by Antony Marsellis.