John Patrick Shanley News

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) have announced the 2005-06 season, which will include two plays by José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries).

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.

The Manhattan Theatre Club is the recipient of three Artios Award nominations, for its casting of Doubt, Reckless and Sight Unseen

Starring Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) with Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).

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.

John Patrick Shanley's new play Defiance has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club's 2005-2006 season roster; it will open on February 28th

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).

New York Stage & Film and Vassar have completed casting for the new workshop production of DEFIANCE (formerly called CHAIN OF COMMAND) to be presented July 29, 30 and 31 at Vassar College.

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

Dana Delaney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Chris Bauer are some of the actors cast in the workshop production of John Patrick Shanley's new play Defiance, which will run at Vassar from July 29th to July 31st

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

Jill Clayburgh will star in the New York premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's new comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way.

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.

Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) opens this year's Nikos Stage season with Create Fate on July 13 at 8:00 p.m.

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

The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Doubt will mark its 100th performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre on June 25th

Pultizer Prize-winner John Patrick Shanley's new play Chain of Command will move to a longer run at Vassar's Powerhouse Theatre from July 29th to 31st

For the sixth time, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt has trumped its own house record at the Walter Kerr Theatre

Tony-winning Doubt star Cherry Jones is one of the profiled performers in Entertainment Weekly's Must List of 2005; the issue hits stands today, June, 17th