John Houseman News

The Acting Company will perform Macbeth and The Three Musketeers in repertory between May 9th and May 20th

Gary Littman has joined the cast of the York Theatre Company production of A Fine and Private Place, taking over the role of the Raven, previously played by Gabriel Barre, who is also the show's director. Barre is leaving to direct the 137th edition of the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus.

The radiant Marian Seldes will star as the brilliant wit of the famed Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker in Ellen M.Violett's Dorothy Parker gets the Last Word.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and Denis O'Hare in the co-world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of Greg Kotis's new comedy Pig Farm, directed by John Rando.

The comic noir thriller Rip Me Open will open in Brooklyn tonight, April 7th

The Acting Company will present both Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Shakespeare's Macbeth in New York this May

The comic noir thriller Rip Me Open will run at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn throughout April

Tom Hewitt has joined the cast of the upcoming benefit reading of When Ladies Meet, which will be performed on February 27th

On February 27th, Tony Award-winners Victoria Clark and Boyd Gaines will star in a benefit reading of Rachel Crothers' When Ladies Meet

Dennis Moench, the versatile young actor who plays Abraham in Altar Boyz, finds his character a 'Jewish star' who definitely finds his own way of fitting in

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

'JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS,' the landmark musical, is indeed alive and well and will be revived at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street).

PS Classics released the original cast recording of last season's acclaimed production of Lone STAR LOVE on Tuesday, January 10, 2006.

Michael Kahn will step down from his job as director of the Drama Division at Juilliard in order to dedicate himself to his Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. while continuing to teach at Juilliard

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Harriet Harris, Frances Conroy and Lisa Banes will headline This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a benefit for The Acting Company held in LA on December 5th

Director Doug Hughes and choreographer Christopher Gattelli were presented with Callaway Awards on November 14th

PS Classics will release a cast recording of the off-Broadway musical Lone Star Love on January 10th, 2006