Gary Griffin News

A new contest is offering theatre fans the chance to win free opening night tickets to the Broadway revival of The Apple Tree

Since its first preview on November 1, 2005 THE COLOR PURPLE has the highest cumulative attendance figures of any new Broadway show of the 2005-2006 season. Nearly 750,000 audience members from across the country and around the world have seen the production.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce a one-week extension of the Off-Broadway revival of Suddenly Last Summer now through Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 7:30PM!

On Wednesday, November 29th, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple bookwriter Marsha Norman will join Broadway star LaChanze, who will reprise her Tony Award-winning role as Celie in a free event to promote the new book The Color Purple: A Memory Book of the Broadway Musical.

The first preview of the Roundabout Theatre Company's The Apple Tree has been delayed

On Tuesday, November 28th, the producers of the hit musical The Color Purple will hold an open casting call for current roles and future replacements for both Broadway and the upcoming national tour, kicking off at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in April, 2007

On November 15th, a The Color Purple event at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center featured a discussion, book signing and musical performances

Goodspeed Musicals has announced its 44th season of shows, all of which will be presented at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.

A 'The Color Purple' event at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center will feature a discussion, book signing and musical performances

The winners of Chicago's Jefferson Awards were announced in a ceremony at the DePaul Merle Reskin Theatre (60 Balbo Drive) in Chicago on November 6th

The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Bock and Harnick's The Apple Tree will begin previews Tuesday, November 28th and open officially on Thursday, December 14th

The smash hit musical, The Color Purple, nominated for eleven 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the recipient of a Best Actress Tony Award, for LaChanze (as Celie), celebrates its first year anniversary on Broadway

On November 5th, LaChanze will bid farewell to The Color Purple, the musical in which she gives a Tony Award-winning performance as Celie

Tickets will go on sale to holders of American Express cards on Tuesday, October 17th for Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of The Apple Tree

Brian d'Arcy James, Marc Kudisch and Walter Charles have been announced to join Kristin Chenoweth in the Roundabout's new production of The Apple Tree.

Jack Noseworthy made his solo nightclub debut with 'You Don't Know Jack!' at The Metropolitan Room on September 19th and 20th

Kristin Chenoweth will star in a revival of The Apple Tree at Studio 54

Stephen Flaherty, Frank Galati, Gary Griffin, Mary Zimmerman, David Ives and James Lapine, as well as performers Tyler Hanes, Rondi Reed, Mary Beth Peil, Hollis Resnik, Anthony Crivello and E. Faye Butler are among the nominees for the 2006 Joseph Jefferson Awards, which recognize achievement in Chicago-area Equity theatre

Jack Noseworthy, who recently appeared at the Delacorte Theatre in Mother Courage, will make his solo nightclub debut with 'You Don't Know Jack!' at The Metropolitan Room on Tuesday, September 19 at 10:00 pm and Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00pm

English National Opera announces that Michael Ball will perform the role of Hajj/Poet in the new production of Robert Wright & George Forrest's KISMET. Based on themes of Alexander Borodin and the play by Edward Knoblock, the book is by Charles Lederer & Luther Davies. This is the first new West End production for almost 30 years.