Howard Sherman News

The Tony Awards Administration Committee today announced the recipients of the 2006 Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre.

Classic discussions with playwrights Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Harvey Fierstein, John Guare, Alfred Uhry, and David Henry Hwang are among the newly added treasures available in the American Theatre Wing's online archive of the long-running 'Working in the Theatre' Seminars

The American Theatre Wing's Acting: Working in the Theatre (Continuum International Publishing Group/The K.S. Giniger Company Inc.; $14.95; paperback), a collection of advice and anecdotes from a chorus line of the stage's biggest stars, will be available in bookstores on June 30, 2006

Joe Mantello, Doug Hughes and more will take part in the American Theatre Wing's June 15th seminar on directing

Before the 60th Annual Tony Awards are telecast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS from 8 PM to 11 PM on June 11th, Victoria Clark and Norbert Leo Butz will present the first ten Tony Awards in an exclusive webcast on the Tony Awards website beginning at 7:15 PM

Broadway legend Angela Lansbury will be interviews on XM Satellite Radio's 'Downstage Center' on June 9th, with the episode to repeat

Six hours of live coverage of Broadway's biggest night - the 60th annual Tony Awards - will be available exclusively on Sunday, June 11th from 6 PM to midnight ET on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best, channel 77

Sprint's longstanding sponsorship of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards will expand this year as the company partners with The Broadway Channel to produce 'Broadway star interviews at the Tonys' -- a red carpet exclusive with video clips streamed only to Sprint TV

Over 45 more stars have been announced as presenters of the 2006 Tony Awards, taking place on June 11th at Radio City Music Hall

The 60 presenters and co-hosts of the Tony Awards--including Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Bernadette Peters and Chita Rivera--will be honored with designer accessories, gift sets, jewels at the Official Presenter Gift Lounge backstage where they can customize their own gift collection

Chita Rivera has signed on to the starry roster of Tony Awards presenters; she will join 60 other stars in hosting the Tonys, which will be broadcast live on June 11th

Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close and Oprah Winfrey will be among the 60 stage and screen stars serving as presenters at the 2006 Tony Awards

Julia Roberts, Eric McCormack, and Ralph Fiennes have been announced as some of the presenters of the 60th Annual Tony Awards, which will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on June 11th from 8 to 11 PM.

On Tony Career Day, New York City Department Of Education theatre students from all five boroughs will gather together on Tuesday, May 23rd to learn what it really takes to be a theatre professional

This month, CUNY-TV will air the American Theatre Wing's seminars featuring The Drowsy Chaperone and on 'Actors on Performance'

Three Days of Rain playwright Richard Greenberg will be interviewed on 'Downstage Center' on May 19th

Tony Award-winners Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun), Natasha Richardson (Cabaret) and Liev Schreiber (Glengarry Glen Ross) announced nominations for the 60th Annual Tony Awards on Tuesday, May 16th at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium

Tickets for the 60th Annual Tony Awards will go on sale on May 16th

Tony Award-winners Phylicia Rashad, Natasha Richardson and Liev Schreiber will announce nominations for the 60th Annual Tony Awards on Tuesday, May 16th at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium

Marking the 60th annual presentation of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, XM Satellite Radio will launch a four week series of encore episodes of 'Downstage Center,' featuring interviews with Tony Award-winners