John Patrick Shanley News

Manhattan Theatre Club's production of John Patrick Shanley's DEFIANCE will begin performances tonight, February 9 at New York City Center - Stage I in preparation for a Tuesday, February 28 opening night.

Ron Eldard, Eileen Atkins and Jena Malone are currently starring alongside original cast member Adriane Lenox in Doubt

Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me will play from July 5th through 16th in Chicago before opening on Broadway on August 10th

Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 'One-on-One Conversation Series' with Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes (Defiance, Doubt) and Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) with moderator Mandy Greenfield, MTC Director of Artistic Operations, on Monday, March 13 at 6 PM at New York City Center- Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Variety reports that 'Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me' will open at a TBA Shubert theatre on August 10, 2006.

On February 16th, an American Theatre Wing seminar on 'Playwriting' will feature Christopher Durang, Lisa Kron, Marsha Norman, John Patrick Shanley and Diana Son discussing their craft

New theatre-related items are up for auction on eBay, with stars such as Christina Applegate, Joel Grey, Sarah Paulson and Cherry Jones featured among the memorabilia

Eileen Atkins, who has mostly recovered from a bad case of the flu, will join Ron Eldard, Jena Malone and Adriane Lenox in tonight's January 17th performance of Doubt

Announced earlier to join Doubt tonight, Eileen Atkins will not be performing due to the flu

Originally scheduled to debut on Tuesday, January 10th Eileen Atkins will join the show tonight. Ron Eldard, and Jena Malone are expected to follow suit shortly.

Off-Broadway¹s Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer - Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director ­ Elliot Fox, Managing Director) and Bloomingdale¹s have formed a corporate partnership in celebration of the New York Premiere of Charles Grodin¹s new play, The Right Kind of People, which begins performances at Primary Stages, the resident company at 59E59 Theaters, Tuesday, January 24, 2006, and is slated to run until Sunday, March 5, 2006.

Elaine Stritch and Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform at the 2006 Nightlife Awards on February 6th, while other celebrities such as Michael Cerveris, Karen Ziemba, Marin Mazzie and William Finn will also appear

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order): Chris Bauer (Chaplin White), Stephen Lang (Colonel Littlefield), Trevor Long (Gunney), Margaret Colin (Margaret Littlefield), Jeremy Strong (Private Evan Davis), and Chris Chalk (Captain Lee King).

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) presents the second developmental production of the 2005-06 season, ALL THE BAD THINGS by Cusi Cram, directed by Paula Pizzi. ALL THE BAD THINGS will begin performances on Wednesday, February 15th at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) for 15 performances only through Sunday, March 5th.

DOUBT has broken the house record at the Walter Kerr Theatre for the eighth time, grossing $603,566 for nine performances for the week of December 26-January 1. DOUBT had previously set a record of $550,109 for the week of July 11-17, 2005.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show featuring Tony Award winning Broadway stars, Donna McKechnie and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Martin Platt, Co-director of the Perry Street Theatre Company, has been tapped to direct the European Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award Winning Drama, DOUBT to begin performances at Vienna's English Theatre at January 30 - March 11, 2006.

DOUBT celebrated its 300th performance on Broadway this past weekend, with the evening performance on Saturday, December 17. DOUBT began performances on March 9, 2005 and opened on March 31, 2005 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Stephen Lang has been cast in John Patrick Shanley's play Defiance, which will be presented by MTC, directed by Doug Hughes and will open on February 28th

LAByrinth Theater Company Co-Artistic Director Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in the 2005 Barn Series Festival reading of Stephen Adly Guirgis's THE LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE.