Jane Alexander News

On April 20th, Cynthia Nixon and the late Wendy Wasserstein will be honored at the T. Schreiber Studio's luncheon; Julie Halston will host

The former summer theater in a barn, the Olney Theater Center is now a jewel in the Baltimore/Washington area.

Beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died at age 55 of complications from lymphoma

George E. Harris, a pioneer in the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway movement and a theatre, film and TV veteran, passed away on December 29th

According to the New York Daily News, playwright Wendy Wasserstein is battling leukemia at a New York hospital.

According to a Newsday article, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein is gravely ill with an undisclosed illness

Complete coverage of the opening night red carpet for A Naked Girl on the Appian Way!

Blythe Danner, Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close and a slew of other theatre stars have been nominated for Emmys

For the first time ever, FOUR unveilings occured, honoring stars from the same show, at the same ceremony.

The entertainment community came out to honor the life and career of the legendary actor Jerry Orbach.

Emmons, a seven-time Tony nominee, is spotlighted in the second of BWW's special Women's History Month profiles.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), is proud to announce its third production of the 2004-2005 season: WHAT OF THE NIGHT, an American premiere based on the writings of Djuna Barnes, created for the stage by Jane Alexander, Noreen Tomassi, Birgitta Trommler, directed and choreographed by Ms. Trommler, and starring Ms. Alexander (The Great White Hope; Kramer vs. Kramer; Testament; The Sisters Rosenzweig). The production marks Trommler's New York directorial debut.

MCC THEATER will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a star-studded benefit reading of new, one-act plays written by some of the leading voices in American theater today.

Stage and Screen veteran, Jane Alexander recently attended Children's Letters to God with her Granddaughter.

The stars turned out to honor two of the best beloved and most influential forces in the American theatre.

Tony Award winning actress ELAINE STRITCH is the latest theatre woman of achievement profiled by the Oral History Program of the League of Professional Theatre Women, on Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 6pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in the Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

On November 21, The Metropolitan Opera Guild honored Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a benefit at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Actress, operatic diva, and philanthropist Kitty Carlisle Hart talks about her husband Moss, the Marx Brothers, and raising funds for the Arts.

On Sunday evening, November 21, 2004, The Metropolitan Opera Guild will honor Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a gala benefit program and dinner at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. This unique double tribute --- affectionately entitled HART TO HART --- will celebrate the achievements and contributions of these two icons from the worlds of film, opera, radio, television, theater, and politics.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.