Keith Carradine, Ann Harada, and Anika Larsen have joined The New Group's 2010 Gala Benefit to honor Robyn Goodman. Goodman will be presented the Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater. The Gala will take place January 25th at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill and will be hosted by Wallace Shawn and Jeff Whitty.
The 8th Annual Nightlife Awards, hosted by Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch, will celebrate the most outstanding performances this past year in cabaret, comedy and jazz in the clubs of New York City. The show will take place at Town Hall on Monday, January 25th (curtain at 7 PM).
Erik Parillo, last seen as part of the cast of Mindgame at The Soho Playhouse, will join the cast of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York history, on Monday, December 7, 2009.
Erik Parillo, last seen as part of the cast of Mindgame at The Soho Playhouse, will join the cast of Perfect Crime, the longest-running play in New York history, on Monday, December 7, 2009.
Centre Stage presents Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, paired each evening with another Capote classic, The Thanksgiving Visitor, as well as carols of the season and complimentary hot apple cider! Don't miss this warm, immersive and delicately directed feast for the heart and the senses featuring Amy Stryker Mathena, whose screen credits include starring roles opposite such notables as Carol Burnette, Hume Cronyn, Meg Tilly and Tim Matheson. Rounding out director Benjamin P. Robinson's cast are Christopher M. Evans, JeanE Bartlett and Mary Sparks Gray.
Centre Stage presents Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, paired each evening with another Capote classic, The Thanksgiving Visitor, as well as carols of the season and complimentary hot apple cider! Don't miss this warm, immersive and delicately directed feast for the heart and the senses featuring Amy Stryker Mathena, whose screen credits include starring roles opposite such notables as Carol Burnette, Hume Cronyn, Meg Tilly and Tim Matheson. Rounding out director Benjamin P. Robinson's cast are Christopher M. Evans, JeanE Bartlett and Mary Sparks Gray.
Charles Conrad, a distinguished acting coach who has trained some of theater and film's most celebrated performers including Susan Sarandon, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Dennis Quaid, Michelle Pfiedder, Diana Ross and Robert Duvall, died from kidney failure on October 29 in Port Townsend, Washington. He was 84.
Michael Kadin Craig, currently appearing as Matthew in the smash hit Off-Broadway musical 'Altar Boyz,' will be this week's guest on WGHT Radio's 'Curtain Call' Wednesday, November 4th at 9:30 a.m.
Actor and comedian Henry Gibson, who charmed audiences as the poet on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and as a cranky judge on Boston Legal, died in his home on Monday after a short battle with cancer. He was 73.
Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will join the cast of the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
The new documentary, 'Hair: Let the Sun Shine In,' after screenings at the Webster University Film Series in April, will air on July 27 at 8:00 p.m. on the Sundance Channel. Award-winning filmmaker Pola Rappaport?s documentary excavates the origins of this culturally transformative theatre work, including interviews with co-creator James Rado and original cast members, as well as abundant and rare archival footage. The result is a delectable deconstruction of a musical that defined an era, a generation and its politics. New Line Theatre's artistic director Scott Miller, author of the book 'Let the Sun Shine In: The Genius of Hair,' is also featured in the film. New Line Theatre produced HAIR last fall to enormous critical acclaim.
On Monday, July 27th at 9:00pm Sundance Channel presents Hair: Let the Sunshine In (U.S. Television Premiere) - Directed by Pola Rapaport. This richly illustrated history of 'Hair' examines the origins, impact and enduring power of the 'tribal love-rock musical' that opened off-Broadway in 1967 and moved to Broadway in 1968.