John Lee Beatty News

Understudy Kenita R. Miller will go on for star LaChanze in tonight's final press performance of The Color Purple

Cherry Jones, the two-time Tony Award-winning star of Doubt, is featured in Out Magazine's annual Out 100 list of notable gay and lesbian newsmakers of 2005

Manhattan Theatre Club's limited engagement of Alan Ayckbourn's ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR ends its run on Sunday, December 4 with the 2 PM matinee at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

The June Carnegie Hall concert production of South Pacific, with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell, will air on PBS in April of 2006

The Broadway cast of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is headed to London.

Patti LaBelle and Jill Scott have been drafted to record a song, 'What About Love?' from The Color Purple.

As soon as the curtain comes up on this Broadway revival, the audience is treated to the sight of a pair of actors who appear perfectly matched to play Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison opposite each other. Unfortunately, they're not Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick

Full casting has been announced for the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which will open on February 2nd, 2006

Ron Eldard will star as Father Flynn in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

Absurd Person Singular Alan Ruck will appear on WB11's Morning News on November 7th

The Color Purple, begins previews at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway at 53rd St.) on November 1st and will feature LaChanze as Celie, the central character in the musical's story of incest, pain, love and redemption.

Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT is offering a few hundred tickets to the October 29th performance of The Odd Couple in exchange for donations

The Color Purple star, Renee Elise Goldsberry, who is pregnant, will exit the show soon after its December 1st opening

The revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular will open tonight, October 18th, at the Biltmore Theatre

Eileen Atkins, a four-time Tony Award® nominee, will star as Sister Aloysius in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

Richard Greenberg's new comedy may remind you of a certain Brady Bunch fantasy

The cast of The Color Purple will be seen on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the second week of November

The AP reports that Lane, who slammed his finger in a door requiring 14 stitches, will perform in the show, without bandages.

Former Presidential candidate, and current Senator John Kerry visited the first preview of The Odd Couple with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry last night and we're happy to bring you an exclusive backstage photo.

DOUBT made it onto Variety's Top 10 list for the fourth week in a row, for the week of September 26 - October 2, 2005. The production grossed $517,702, playing to 93.8% capacity at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).