Jack Viertel News

In a gala Tony night special, Theater Talk's 'Tony Cavalcade' features top New York critics commenting on their favorite Broadway performers and Tony-nominated productions of the season.

Laura Benanti will play Louise and three-time Tony-winner Boyd Gaines will play Herbie in Gypsy starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone, in the New York City Center's Encores! Summer Stars debut presentation directed by Gypsy bookwriter Arthur Laurents

Radio Golf and Jujamcyn Theaters producer Jack Viertel chats with BroadwayWorld in our Tony Award nominee interview series

The American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' reflects upon August Wilson's legendary career on CUNY TV on Sunday, May 27 at 5 p.m.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 7 p.m at Weill Recital Hall., the New York Festival of Song presented the benefit concert 'Too Marvelous for Words!,' a gala evening of Johnny Mercer songs starring Anika Noni Rose and Liz Callaway

The 2007 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards were presented at a cocktail reception held on Monday, May 14, at the Algonquin Hotel.

For two and a half glorious hours your only care in the world should be deciding which of the magnificent songs you'll be humming on your way out of the theatre.

­ Jujamcyn Theaters has announced that A Catered Affair, a new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by acclaimed composer John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, will open on Broadway at a theater to-be-announced in the coming season (Spring 2008).

The 36th Annual Theater Hall of Fame ceremony will be hosted by Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, with Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes - the stars of the upcoming Terrence McNally play Deuce - among the presenters

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an annual three-week event created in 2004 to smash the developmental glass ceiling and highlight the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will be accepting open submissions from January 1 through March 1 for its fourth season. This year's festival will run from September 17 through October 7, 2007.

The Tony-nominated The Pajama Game star performed her show 'Beauty Bright...An Evening with Kelli O'Hara' on December 9th at the Kaplan Playhouse

More stars have signed on to the eagerly awaited Encores! staged concert of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman classic Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center

As part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's series of education seminars, 'Crossing Over: Adapting Musicals from Other Media' will be presented on Thursday, September 21, 6:00-7:30pm, at New World Stages

Producer Melody Brooks describes some of NYMF's educational programs and seminars

Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark has found her next role--vulnerable ex-showgirl Sally Durant Plummer in the upcoming Encores! staged concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which will run from February 8th through 11th at City Center

Arlene Shuler, President and CEO of New York City Center, announced today that the 14th season of its acclaimed ENCORES! series will celebrate the great Broadway revue, a form that flourished from just before 1900 until the early '50s.

The life and works of August Wilson are discussed in the latest issue of Play by Play, TDF's theatre newsletter written by and for teens

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is seeking submissions for its 2006 Next Link Project season

New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.