Jed Bernstein News

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

The Commercial Theater Institute's (CTI) upcoming 3-Day Producing Conference will take place on April 29 - May 1, 2011. The 30th Annual 3-Day Conference features an outstanding cast of top Broadway producers including: David Stone, Hal Luftig, Kristin Caskey, Larry Hirschhorn, Todd Haimes, Ted Chapin, and Kevin McCollum. The conference will also feature Tony Award® nominated actors Penny Fuller, Marc Kudisch, Tony Roberts, and theatre industry professionals including the Executive Director of The Broadway League, Charlotte St. Martin; Victoria Bailey, Executive Director of Theatre Development Fund; as well as Jed Bernstein, Program Director of CTI.

Broadway In Chicago and the producers of WORKING are thrilled to announce that Chicago star Rebecca Finnegan is joining the cast of WORKING, beginning tonight, April 26, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut).

The Commercial Theater Institute's (CTI) upcoming 3-Day Producing Conference will take place on April 29 - May 1, 2011. The 30th Annual 3-Day Conference features an outstanding cast of top Broadway producers including: David Stone, Hal Luftig, Kristin Caskey, Larry Hirschhorn, Todd Haimes, Ted Chapin, and Kevin McCollum. The conference will also feature Tony Award® nominated actors Penny Fuller, Marc Kudisch, Tony Roberts, and theatre industry professionals including the Executive Director of The Broadway League, Charlotte St. Martin; Victoria Bailey, Executive Director of Theatre Development Fund; as well as Jed Bernstein, Program Director of CTI.

Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, DRIVING MISS DAISY will end its extended Broadway premiere engagement April 9 at the John Golden Theatre with its three original stars: Tony Award winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines.

Broadway producer Jed Bernstein will be a guest professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design during the university's current Spring 2011 quarter, beginning April 14.

Broadway In Chicago will say goodbye to the Tony Award Winning Musical Revival HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical on March 20, 2011.

Having received unanimous rave reviews and nightly accolades from delighted audiences, Broadway In Chicago and the producers of WORKING are thrilled to announce a four-week extension through June 5, 2011 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St., Chicago)

The Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI), in association with The League of Chicago Theatres, is proud to feature Broadway In Chicago's WORKING in an all-day case study on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the third annual Chicago Producing Intensive Conference at the Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn).

The Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI), in association with The League of Chicago Theatres, is proud to feature Broadway In Chicago's WORKING in an all-day case study on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the third annual Chicago Producing Intensive Conference at the Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn).

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the 2009 Tony Award Winning Musical Revival HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, is coming to Chicago for a limited engagement March 8-20, 2011. Group tickets (15+) are available now by calling 312-977-1710. Public on sale and additional information will be announced at a later date.

The revised version of the 1970s musical "Working," that montage of monologues with the Frankenstein score that is usually called "the blue collar 'A Chorus Line'" (though it isn't), opened on Wednesday night in the town that originally birthed it, full of life and emotion and enough Chicago grit, grime and elbow grease to give it another 35 years in the repertoire, and then some.

Broadway In Chicago presents WORKING, which began previews February 15, 2011, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut). WORKING is a vital new musical based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Chicago's own Studs Terkel. Newly adapted by Stephen Schwartz (WICKED, PIPPIN and GODSPELL) from the original adaptation by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, WORKING is the working man's A CHORUS LINE. A musical exploration of 26 people from all walks of life, with songs by all-star composers Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Tony AwardTM winning Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz and Grammy AwardTM winning James Taylor. WORKING celebrates everyday people in a genuinely funny and touching way. Portrayed by some of Chicago's brightest stars including E. Faye Butler, Barbara Robertson and Gene Weygandt, Emjoy Gavino, Michael Mahler and Gabriel Ruiz, WORKING fills you with hope and inspiration and is the perfect musical for everyone who has ever worked a day in their lives.

Kathryn Stockett (best-selling author of The Help), and Jonathan Schorsch participated in a special post-performance talkback series next month at Driving Miss Daisy. As previously announced, the series, celebrating Black History Month, will feature talkbacks after all Wednesday evening performances throughout the month of February.

Driving Miss Daisy's successful February talkback series concludes tomorrow night (Wednesday, 2/23), when Kathryn Stockett, bestselling author of The Help, and Columbia professor Jonathan Schorsch take the stage at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45 Street) for a post-performance discussion immediately following the evening performance.

Broadway In Chicago presents WORKING, which began previews February 15, 2011, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut). Check out a preview from the production below!

HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, will play Heinz Hall for a limited engagement February 15-20, 2011.

Broadway In Chicago and the company of WORKING are pleased to announce their 'Local Heroes' program, created to honor and complement the new musical WORKING, which begins previews February 15, 2011, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut). The program is designed to pay tribute to Studs Terkel's vision of showcasing everyday people. WORKING will honor Chicago's own through post-show conversations about who they are, what they do in life and how they make a difference. These conversations will include fascinating professions from doctors to firemen, to waitresses, assistants and sanitation workers and professions from every spectrum of our lives along with cast members of WORKING.

Driving Miss Daisy's talkback series continued last night, when former United States congressman and frequent 'Morning Joe' contributor Harold Ford Jr. and NYU professor Jennifer Morgan took the stage at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45 Street) for a post-performance discussion immediately following the evening performance. Driving Miss Daisy producer Jed Bernstein moderated the conversation.

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced previously that an elite group of influencers, including Kathryn Stockett (best-selling author of The Help), former U.S. congressman Harold Ford, Jr, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, and many more will participate in a special post-performance talkback series this month at Driving Miss Daisy.