James Joyce News

Lincoln Center Theatre has appointed its upcoming production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House with a starry cast that will include Tony Award-winner Blair Brown and Oscar-nominee Jill Clayburgh

The Storefront's 'New Mondays' concert on July 31st will feature songs by Stephen Schwartz, David Zippel and Deborah Abramson

Due to popular demand, Donna Lynne Champlin will return for a third time to Ars Nova for her show 'Finishing the Hat' on October 1st

The American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco has announced its 2006-07 season in their 40th Annivesary of award-winning and celebrated theatre in the Bay Area.

Joining previously announced two-time Oscar-winner Meryl Streep in the highly anticipated Delacorte Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage will be Christopher Walken

With the success of this year's $ELLOUT FESTIVAL, The Brick Theater, Inc. is proud to continue this year's most artistically void summer festival throughout the summer, with the extension of several shows.

Tony Award-nominee Rachel York, John Schneider and Jeffrey Tambor have joined the cast of the upcoming Hollywood Bowl (2301 Highland Avenue) concert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, which will take place on Friday, July 28th and Sat. July 29, and Sunday, July 30

Megan Lawrence and Michael Winther will be among the stars joining songwriter Deborah Abramson for the Duplex' June 19th Broadway Downtown concert

Sweeney Todd star Donna Lynne Champlin played an encore performance of her hit Ars Nova concert 'Finishing the Hat' on June 4th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the event!

Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense will have its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in spring of 2007

On June 4th, Sweeney Todd star Donna Lynne Champlin will perform an encore concert at Ars Nova

Denis O'Hare and Marian Seldes will be among the many actors reading from James Joyce's Ulysses and from the works of Samuel Beckett for Bloomsday on Broadway on June 16th

Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Performance Space 122 announced that Heather Woodbury is the recipient of the first Spalding Gray Award

Marni Nixon will play the Mother Abbess in the upcoming Hollywood Bowl staged concert presentation of The Sound of Music on July 28th and 29th

Donna Lynne Champlin, currently starring in 'Sweeney Todd,' will take to the Ars Nova stage as part of the Broadway Spotlight Series.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).

Plays by Bruce Norris, Tanya Barfield, David Cale, Richard Nelson and A.R. Gurney will be presented as part of Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season

John Weidman, Jo Bonney and others will select the 16 plays to be selected for the SPF Summer Play Festival