John Lee Beatty News

The New York Post has reported that tickets to The Odd Couple starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are no longer available.

Doubt's Tony Award-winner Cherry Jones will be interviewed on the Joan Hamburg Show on radio on September 30th

When the curtain rises this season on The Color Purple, theatergoers will see Oprah Winfrey's name above the title as producer.

DOUBT made it onto Variety's Top 10 list for the first time, for the week of September 5-11, 2005. The production was the 8th highest grossing production on Broadway, a rare feat for a new play.

LaChanze has been announced as the star of the upcoming musical The Color Purple, which will begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on November 1st

The MTC revival of Alan Ayckbourns' Absurd Person Singular will being rehearsals today, August 18th

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards

Cherry Jones, Brían F. O'Byrne, Heather Goldenhersh and Adriane Lenox, the award-winning original cast of DOUBT, have extended their contracts in the Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning play through Sunday, January 8, 2006.

Tony Award-winning Doubt star Adriane Lenox will show up at Border's Columbus Circle on August 11th for a question and answer session and a script signing

Sam Robards has signed on as the sixth lead of Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, which will open on October 18th

Tickets for the bonanza October revival of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple are currently on sale to the general public through Ticketmaster

The marquee for The Color Purple, which will begin previews on October 25th and open on December 1st, has been put up at the Broadway Theatre

The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).

The production opens Tuesday, October 18 on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews begin Thursday, September 22.

The well-reviewed but ill-attended revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will end its run on September 4th

A new block of tickets for DOUBT, this year's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Best Play, goes on sale on Friday, July 22.

For the seventh time, Doubt has shattered Walter Kerr Theatre box office records, grossing $550,109 for the week of July 11-17

John Patrick Shanley, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of DOUBT, will join the production's Tony Award-winning stars Cherry Jones and Brían F. O'Byrne at 92 Street Y's Makor Center (35 West 67th Street) on Monday, July 11 at 7:30 PM.

The Associated Press reports that the musical will open later this year at the Broadway Theatre. Casting is currently underway.

DOUBT, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, has recouped its investment.