Frances Sternhagen News

EQUUS officially opened on Broadway last night, September 25th, after beginning previews on September 5. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture the star studded arrivals at the Broadhurst Theatre.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd St.) will present the next of its free staged readings, KINGDOM OF THE SHORE by Terence Lamude, on Friday, September 26th at 3 PM. Tickets are free, and the event is open to the public. An RSVP to 212-727-2737 is required.

A.R. Gurney returned to Primary Stages last night with a comedy that centers around Amanda, a once successful television personality whose star is now fading.

Cause Célèbre 'Recipe for Life', benefiting The Honorable Tina Brozman.

Cause Célèbre presents 'Recipe For Life' benefit on June 10th.

Cause Célèbre presents 'Recipe For Life' benefit on June 10th.

The No Frills Company's acclaimed production of 'VITA & VIRGINIA', starring KATHLEEN CHALFANT (WIT, ANGELS IN AMERICA) and PATRICIA ELLIOTT (One Life to Live, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, THE SHADOW BOX) will end its limited engagement at The Zipper Factory Theater, 336 West 37th Street, on Monday, April 28, 2008 at 7 PM. Pamela Berlin directed the play Eileen Atkins adapted from the correspondence between writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage the delicious comedy Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn, reuniting author, director and cast members from one of last season's biggest hits, Relatively Speaking.

Tony Award-winner Frances Sternhagen will substitute for Kathleen Chalfant in Vita and Virginia for two performances, March 17 and 31.

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with Tony Award winning actress, Frances Sternhagen, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28). Sternhagen will appear as the special guest on Friday, January 18 at 6 p.m. The show will repeat on Saturday January 19 at noon, Sunday January 20 at 7 p.m., and Wednesday, January 23 at midnight.

Dozens of stars of stage and screen attended the Opening Night of the 40th Anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's Tony Award-winning masterwork The Homecoming at The Cort Theatre (138 West 48th St) on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM.

Golden Globe Award and five-time Emmy nominee Jill Eikenberry, two-time Tony Award-winner Frances Sternhagen and Broadway actress Myra Lucretia Taylor will read short stories at 'Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story,' the live performance version of the renowned public radio show of the same name, on Tuesday, January 15 at 8PM, at Westport Country Playhouse.

The New York Times 2008 Arts & Leisure Week will take place January 7 to 13. The Times' annual signature event is now a seven-day international celebration of the arts that includes a wide range of activities, from interviews between journalists and their guests at TheTimesCenter in New York City, to special offers at cultural institutions around the world.

Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS presented renowned actor Corin Redgrave in Tynan, based on the diaries of the influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan, for one performance only on Monday, October 22 at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place). The performance benefited Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS and The Actors' Fund.

An impressive collection of Broadway and screen stars arrived for the officially opening of the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Pygmalion on Thursday, October 18 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street). This new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is directed by David Grindley and stars Claire Danes in her Broadway debut as 'Eliza Doolittle' with Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as 'Henry Higgins', Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as 'Colonel Pickering' and Jay O. Sanders as 'Alfred Doolittle.' This is a limited engagement through Sunday, December 16.

International Star and Tony Award Nominee Eleanor Reissa will bring her highly praised Off-Broadway show, Hip, Heymish and Hot! to White Plains Performing Arts Center for two performances on Saturday, November 10 at 8PM and Sunday, November 11 at 2PM.

Marian Seldes, Frances Sternhagen and Three Mo' Tenors are among the performers scheduled for this year's Broadway Blessing concert, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on September 10 at 7PM.

Larry Shue's comedy closes Sunday, August 5 in Essex. Can't it be extended?

The first annual Joel and Phyllis Ehrlich Award for a socially relevant new work of theater will be awarded to one of the four plays being showcased in June as part of the TRU Voices New Plays Reading series, announced Bob Ost, President of Theater Resources Unlimited

A new play, The Jesus Hickey, will receive a staged reading with an all-star cast at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street on Monday, June 11th at 7 pm.