The 2009 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Reception took place today and BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there. Stay tuned for more exciting pictures and video right here on BWW!
For the June 2009 issue, Vanity Fair gathered 25 acclaimed Broadway stars of stage and screen for an original portrait taken by famed photographer Mark Seliger. The actors featured are now appearing on the New York stage in some of the hottest Broadway plays of the spring season.
Nominations in 27 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced today by Tony Award Winners Cynthia Nixon and Lin-Manuel Miranda from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
The 23rd ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION was a great success with $3,402,147 being raised this year by the 58 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tour companies to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Since it began in 1987, 23 editions of the Annual Easter Bonnet Competition have raised nearly $39 million for BC/EFA.
The 23rd ANNUAL EASTER BONNET COMPETITION was a great success with $3,402,147 being raised this year by the 58 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway, and National Tour companies to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. Since it began in 1987, 23 editions of the Annual Easter Bonnet Competition have raised nearly $39 million for BC/EFA.
Marcia Gay Harden, who is currently starring in Broadway's hot new comedy, GOD OF CARNAGE, is currently featured in the Toronto Star. Click here to read the article.
Burning Coal Theatre Company will present one additional performance of 1960 by Ian Finley and members of the Burning Coal Theatre Company next Thursday, May 7 at 8 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Tickets may be obtained by calling 919-834-4001. Tickets are $20 or $15 for students/seniors/active military.
Directly from its critically acclaimed run at Chicago's prestigious Goodman Theatre comes a work of monumental passion and epic sensuality. An intense erotic journey. An experience you will not soon forget... Eugene O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, starring two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy, stage and screen star Carla Gugino, and Tony nominee Pablo Schreiber, under the direction of Tony Award Winner Robert Falls.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present the 23rd Annual Easter Bonnet Competition on Monday, April 27 (4:30 PM) and Tuesday, April 28 (2 PM) at the Minskoff Theatre (200 West 45th Street). The proceeds from the event will benefit BC/EFA.
Broadway hit GOD OF CARNAGE may be extending its run on the Rialto, according to Variety. The trade paper recently spoke with GOD OF CARNAGE star Marcia Gay Harden, and when asked if the show might extend, Harden replied 'We are trying to figure it out. If we can all go on, we will, happily. We are such a team.'
Christopher Durang's comedy WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM opened at The Public Theater on Monday April 6. This world premiere, directed by Nicholas Martin, began previews March 24 and will run through April 26.
Burning Coal Theatre Company, a small professional, theatre based in Raleigh, North Carolina will conclude its 2008/2009 season with the world premiere of 1960, written by Ian Finley and the Burning Coal Theatre Company, directed by Jerome Davis, Burning Coal's Artistic Director. The production runs April 9 - 26, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Performances are April 9 - 11, 16 -18 and 23 - 25 at 7:30 pm and April 12, 19 and 26 at 2 p.m.
Burning Coal Theatre Company, a small professional, theatre based in Raleigh, North Carolina will conclude its 2008/2009 season with the world premiere of 1960, written by Ian Finley and the Burning Coal Theatre Company, directed by Jerome Davis, Burning Coal's Artistic Director. The production runs April 9 - 26, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Performances are April 9 - 11, 16 -18 and 23 - 25 at 7:30 pm and April 12, 19 and 26 at 2 p.m.
GOD OF CARNAGE's Jeff Daniels, will appear as a live guest on CW11's 'Morning News' Friday, April 10 on channel 11.
The Yasmina Reza comedy opened Sunday, March 22 to rave reviews. Starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Matthew Warchus GOD OF CARNAGE is playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45 Street).
Bob Balaban (Waiting for Guffman, Gosford Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Midnight Cowboy), Brian Cox (Bourne Supremacy, X2, Manhunter - here reprising the role he played on Broadway) and Jeff Perry (Grey's Anatomy, Nash Bridges, Broadway's August: Osage County, co-creator of Steppenwolf Theatre) star when L.A. Theatre Works records Yasmina Reza's Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy, 'ART' for broadcast on LATW's nationally syndicated public radio theater series, The Play's The Thing.
Stars from Broadway's hit play GOD OF CARNAGE, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden, will be guests on WOR Radio's 'Joan Hamburg Show' tomorrow, Wednesday, April 1 from 11:30AM-12:00PM. WOR is found at 710am. Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Matthew Warchus opened to rave reviews on Sunday, March 22 and is now playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45 Street)
Hosted by WABC-7 News Anchor Lori Stokes and Tony Award winner & ACCENT ON YOUTH star David Hyde Pierce, WABC is set to bring viewers on a sneak peek at Broadway's upcoming and newest shows including, 33 VARIATIONS, ACCENT ON YOUTH, EXIT THE KING, GOD OF CARNAGE, IMPRESSIONISM, MARY STUART, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, THE PHILANTHROPIST, WAITING FOR GODOT.
Hosted by WABC-7 News Anchor Lori Stokes and Tony Award winner & ACCENT ON YOUTH star David Hyde Pierce, WABC is set to bring viewers on a sneak peek at Broadway's upcoming and newest shows including, 33 VARIATIONS, ACCENT ON YOUTH, EXIT THE KING, GOD OF CARNAGE, IMPRESSIONISM, MARY STUART, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, THE PHILANTHROPIST, WAITING FOR GODOT.