Lisa Kron News

Broadway actors Andre DeShields and Jayne Houdyshell will star in a benefit reading of Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' VENUS this Monday March 5th (7:30pm) at Harlem Stage at the Gatehouse.

Ellen Stewart and La MaMa Umbria International will present the 8th Annual International Symposium for Directors, July 15 - August 5, 2007 in Spoleto, Italy.

CenterStage's Josh Lefkowitz discusses life as a monologist, and actor, and as an everyman. His 'Help Wanted' continues at CenterStage through February 17th.

Lisa Kron will star in the Huntington Theatre Company's upcoming production of her play Well, which will run from March 9-April 8 at the Boston University Theatre.

'BFF' premieres at the WET on February 24th.

MacDowell Colony celebrated its upcoming centennial by hosting a gala benefit on December 4th

Eight acclaimed playwrights have been chosen by the Lucille Lortel Foundation as the recipients of eight $50,000 fellowships

The Impact Festival opened on Tuesday, September 12, with the world premiere of The Treatment, a new play by Eve Ensler starring Dylan McDermott

Michael Cerveris, Lisa Kron, Olympia Dukakis, as well as Anna Deveare Smith herself, will read from Smith's Letters to a Young Artist on September 25th

Mother Courage, presented by the Public Theater, opened at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park on August 21st after beginning previews on August 8th

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will open its 12th season with It Goes Without Saying, a solo piece by acclaimed actor and mime Bill Bowers that will run from August 30th through October 8th

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced its 2006-07 season--the company's twelfth; the season will feature plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and mor

Marking 60 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards were being broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 11th, and we've got the winners here! The History Boys led the pack with 6 wins, followed by The Drowsy Chaperone with 5, Jersey Boys with 4 and The Pajama Game, Sweeney Todd, and Awake and Sing with 2.

Lisa Kron's Well, which closed on Broadway last month, has been added to the Huntington Theatre's 2006-2007 season line-up, with the play to be presented at the Boston theatre company from March 9th through April 8th, 2007

Jayne Houdyshell, Jim Dale, Felicia P. Fields and Jason Ritter have been selected as this year's recipients of Actors' Equity Award

Patti LuPone, John Kander, Donna Murphy and many more stars watched Chita Rivera receive New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at their spring luncheon on May 18th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On May 18th, Chita Rivera will be presented with the New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at a luncheon featuring dozens of stars

Announced this morning and reported on live at BroadwayWorld.com, we've got all the nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 11th.

Well, a new comedy written by Lisa Kron and directed by Leigh Silverman, will end its run on Broadway this Sunday, May 14th

Lisa Kron's 'solo show with other people in it' explores the sickness that can inflict both people and communities