Kathleen Chalfant News

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, along with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and in conjunction with Anthology Film Archives and Baryshnikov Arts Center, will bring the works and words of one of France's greatest writers to New York this winter in a four-week series entitled, In the Words of Duras.

Kathleen Chalfant will join a host of other attendees at this year's Marguerite Duras Festival, taking place from February 17th through March 18th. The works of Marguerite Duras, France's well-known author, playwright and film director, will be celebrated during a month-long multidisciplinary festival in New York City. The festival will also feature French actor William Nadylam and a presentation of Duras' Diptych: The Lover and La Musica Deuxieme directed by Astrid Bas.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) is pleased to announce another all-star line-up for the company's highly anticipated annual gala, to be held Monday, March 1, 2010 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues).

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced complete casting for the company's third and final production of their 2009-2010 season, Beth Henley's Family Week, directed by Jonathan Demme.

Kathleen Chalfant, André De Shields, and George Bartenieff have been confirmed for the cast of the American premiere of Karen Malpede's 'fierce and funny' new drama, Prophecy, praised in London last season, that will begin previews at Manhattan's East Fourth Street Theater, 83 East Fourth Street, on May 27 2010.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) is pleased to welcome acclaimed actor Kathleen Chalfant to the company of its upcoming Shakespeare Remix Macbeth, a product of the troupe's nationally acclaimed after-school program that was recently honored with the 2009 Coming Up Taller Award (Friedman and youth Remix participant Shana Brown traveled to Washington, D.C., for a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama to accept the award).

John Kander -- the renowned, Tony Award-winning composer of such beloved musicals as CHICAGO, CABARET, KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN and many others -- will be honored by Vineyard Theatre at the company's annual Gala on Monday, March 8th beginning at 6 PM at the Hudson Theater (145 West 44th Street) in Manhattan, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of Vineyard Theatre.

John Kander, the renowned, Tony Award-winning composer of such beloved musicals as CHICAGO, CABARET, KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN and many others, will be honored by Vineyard Theatre at the company's annual Gala on Monday, March 8th beginning at 6 PM at the Hudson Theater in Manhattan, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of Vineyard Theatre. David Hyde Pierce - Tony Award-winner for his appearance in the musical CURTAINS by John Kander and his collaborator, the late Fred Ebb - will host.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) is pleased to welcome acclaimed actor Kathleen Chalfant to the company of its upcoming Shakespeare Remix Macbeth, a product of the troupe's nationally acclaimed after-school program that was recently honored with the 2009 Coming Up Taller Award (Friedman and youth Remix participant Shana Brown traveled to Washington, D.C., for a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama to accept the award).

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) is pleased to welcome acclaimed actor Kathleen Chalfant to the company of its upcoming Shakespeare Remix Macbeth, a product of the troupe's nationally acclaimed after-school program that was recently honored with the 2009 Coming Up Taller Award (Friedman and youth Remix participant Shana Brown traveled to Washington, D.C., for a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama to accept the award).

Barnes & Noble Bookstore Upper Westside located at 2280 B'WAY AT 82 Street in New York City is presenting free events on December 7 and 9 at 7pm.

The Talented Miss Highsmith:The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. Playwright Joan Schenkar talks about a writer whose characters living closeted sexual lives in fiction mirrored her real life.

Variety is reporting that Tony-nominated actress Kathleen Chalfant has joined the MCC's upcoming production of 'Family Week' by Beth Henley, which will run frmo Apr 7-May 23, 2010 and will be directed by Jonathan Demme.

Barnes & Noble Bookstore Upper Westside located at 2280 B'WAY AT 82 Street in New York City is presenting free events on December 7 and 9 at 7pm.

Arena Stage and Georgetown University's Theatre and Performance Studies Program will present a special presentation of Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith,a performance honoring the life and work of life and work of Studs Terkel, on December 7, 2009 at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall.

Barnes & Noble Bookstore Upper Westside located at 2280 B'WAY AT 82 Street in New York City is presenting free events on December 7 and 9 at 7pm.

Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce a ONE NIGHT ONLY performance of words by one of Sag Harbor's most renowned storytellers, Spalding Gray. SPALDING GRAY: STORIES LEFT TO TELL will be presented on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, November 28th at 8pm.

Actress Kathleen Chalfant and analyst Margaret Klenck will interpret C.G. Jung's Red Book during THE RED BOOK DIALOGUES at the Rubin Museum of Art on Sunday, November 15th at 6PM.

The Talented Miss Highsmith:The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. Playwright Joan Schenkar talks about a writer whose characters living closeted sexual lives in fiction mirrored her real life.

On November 9, The League of Professional Theatre Women will be present a New Play Festival on at the Cherry Lane Theatre in downtown Manhattan. The festival entitled 'Turning Points: Women Have Their Say' is designed to provide a forum for women in the arts to showcase their work.