Jason Robards News

Angelo Del Rossi, who helmed the famed Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn , New Jersey for forty years and launched the careers of many performers such as Kristin Chenoweth, Anne Hathaway and Laura Benanti, will be honored at Sardi's Thursday, July 16.

Westport Country Playhouse will reunite six audience favorites---playwright Alan Ayckbourn, director John Tillinger, and cast members Paxton Whitehead, Cecilia Hart, Geneva Carr and Carson Elrod---in the classic comedy, 'How the Other Half Loves,' playing July 28 through August 15.

Westport Country Playhouse will reunite six audience favorites---playwright Alan Ayckbourn, director John Tillinger, and cast members Paxton Whitehead, Cecilia Hart, Geneva Carr and Carson Elrod---in the classic comedy, 'How the Other Half Loves,' playing July 28 through August 15.

BroadwayWorld Congratulates Derek McLane, 2009 Tony Award Winner, 'Best Scenic Design of a Play'

Circle in the Square students' Final Project is Urinetown: The Musical with Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann and a book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis

Kelly Bishop, Maryann Plunkett, Jake Robards and Paxton Whitehead share the stage for a benefit reading of Noel Coward?s A Song at Twilight. This outstanding group of actors is being brought together by director James Glossman to raise funds for Luna Stage. The company is moving in July from its current home at 695 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair to a new space in West Orange. Says Managing Director, Mona Hennessy, ?When James approached us with the offer of directing this reading as a Luna Stage fundraiser, we were thrilled. What better way to say goodbye to our Montclair home than by having a classic play read by wonderful actors! That is, after all, Luna is all about ? good theatre!?

The 2008/2009 POW! Professional Performance season concludes in May 16, 2009 with a rare live appearance by the peerless screen legend Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, Raintree County, North by Northwest, etc.).

Village Players Performing Arts Center presents Love Letters - featuring Burt Natarus, former Chicago 42nd Ward Alderman and Radio Talk Show Host/Producer, Cathi Watson - in a special, limited run engagement, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 & Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

BroadwayWorld Presents The 2009 Tony Award Nominees: 'Best Scenic Design of a Play'

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, widely considered the most influential artist working in American musical theater over the past half-century, will visit Indiana University in April at the invitation of IU's Department of Theatre and Drama.

Acclaimed television, stage and movie actor Neil Patrick Harris ('How I Met Your Mother,' Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Assassins) has been named the host of the 7th Annual 'TV Land Awards,' it was announced today by Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. 'The TV Land Awards' will be taped on Sunday, April 19th at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City and air in TV Land PRIME on Sunday, April 26th at 9pm ET/PT.

This Saturday, April 25 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC and online at www.scpr.org/programs/latw/, L.A. Theatre Works will air Park Your Car in the Harvard Yard by Israel Horovitz, starring Judith Ivey and Jason Robards.

Village Players Performing Arts Center presents Love Letters - featuring Burt Natarus, former Chicago 42nd Ward Alderman and Radio Talk Show Host/Producer, Cathi Watson - in a special, limited run engagement, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 & Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

The 2008/2009 POW! Professional Performance season concludes in May 16, 2009 with a rare live appearance by the peerless screen legend Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, Raintree County, North by Northwest, etc.).

This Saturday, April 25 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC and online at www.scpr.org/programs/latw/, L.A. Theatre Works will air Park Your Car in the Harvard Yard by Israel Horovitz, starring Judith Ivey and Jason Robards.

Broadway and screen favorite Elaine Stritch returns to home to Detroit in a benefit production of A. R. Gurney's ANCESTRAL VOICES, April 17 and 18. The production will benefit the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts and the Restore The Horse Foundation, an effort to restore a century old barn on Belle Isle.

NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a worldwide, year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright ISRAEL HOROVITZ. Barefoot will lead over 50 theatre companies from around the globe including France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea & the United States, performing readings, staged readings & fully staged productions of 70 of Horovitz's plays. THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010. The evening will be hosted by Barefoot Theatre Company Advisory Board Member, Pierre Dulaine. The entire Barefoot Theatre Company will be present at the event to greet all guests, along with the Horovitz family.

NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a worldwide, year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright ISRAEL HOROVITZ. Barefoot will lead over 50 theatre companies from around the globe including France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea & the United States, performing readings, staged readings & fully staged productions of 70 of Horovitz's plays. THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010. The evening will be hosted by Barefoot Theatre Company Advisory Board Member, Pierre Dulaine. The entire Barefoot Theatre Company will be present at the event to greet all guests, along with the Horovitz family.

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, widely considered the most influential artist working in American musical theater over the past half-century, will visit Indiana University in April at the invitation of IU's Department of Theatre and Drama.

NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT, a worldwide, year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright ISRAEL HOROVITZ. Barefoot will lead over 50 theatre companies from around the globe including France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea & the United States, performing readings, staged readings & fully staged productions of 70 of Horovitz's plays. THE 70/70 HOROVITZ PROJECT will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010. The evening will be hosted by Barefoot Theatre Company Advisory Board Member, Pierre Dulaine. The entire Barefoot Theatre Company will be present at the event to greet all guests, along with the Horovitz family.