Maggie Gyllenhaal News

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen will present MONDAY NIGHT OTHELLO, an exciting theatrical experience in which acclaimed actors including Michael Cumpsty, John Turturro, Alan Cumming and Michael Potts will work through and explore a different act of Shakespeare's OTHELLO with an acclaimed director in front of an audience on four Monday evenings this winter at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). The directors are CSC Artistic Director Brian Kulick, former CSC Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Michael Sexton.

Classic Stage Company's upcoming new production of Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA, starring Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare as Vanya, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Yelena and Peter Sarsgaard as Astrov, has set its official opening night for Thursday, February 12 at 7 pm, it was announced today by CSC Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen.

Will Ferrell's upcoming new one-man show You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush tickets are now on-sale to the general public. While the show doesn't open at the Cort Theatre until 2009, Ferrell gave ABC News a small preview of what is in store once he opens on Broadway.

Will Ferrell's upcoming new one-man show You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush are now on general sale, Sunday, December 21, 2008. Tickets may be purchased at the Cort Theatre Box Office (138 West 48th Street), or by visiting telecharge.com or calling (212) 239-6200 in the New York area, and (800) 432-7250 outside the New York metro area.

Will Ferrell's upcoming new one-man show You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush will go on general sale on Sunday, December 21, 2008. Tickets may be purchased at the Cort Theatre Box Office (138 West 48th Street), or by visiting telecharge.com or calling (212) 239-6200 in the New York area, and (800) 432-7250 outside the New York metro area.

Variety is reporting that HBO has signed on as a producer of Will Ferrell's upcoming Broadway show, 'You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush'. The cable network is also set to air a live telecast of the show from Broadway, at a date to be named later. (It's assumed that it'll be from towards the end of the show's run).

Acclaimed film and stage actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard have joined the cast of Classic Stage Company's upcoming new production of Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA, starring Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare as Vanya, and directed by Austin Pendleton, it was announced today by CSC Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen. UNCLE VANYA will begin previews on Saturday, January 17 at Classic Stage Company at 136 East 13th Street. An official press opening date will be announced in the coming weeks. UNCLE VANYA will play a limited engagement through March 1, 2009.

Variety is reporting that HBO has signed on as a producer of Will Ferrell's upcoming Broadway show, 'You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush'. The cable network is also set to air a live telecast of the show from Broadway, at a date to be named later. (It's assumed that it'll be from towards the end of the show's run).

Film and television star WILL FERRELL's upcoming Broadway debut in his new one-man show 'You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush' will officially open on Thursday, February 5th, 2009, with previews starting on January 20th

Tonight, October 13th, a staged reading of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan, adapted by Tony Kushner and directed by Tony Speciale, will take place at Classic Stage Company's, as part of their popular First Look Festival - a program of one-night only staged readings, performed by notable actors.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined Monday's night staged reading of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan, adapted by Tony Kushner and directed by Tony Speciale, as part of Classic Stage Company's, popular First Look Festival - a program of one-night only staged readings, performed by notable actors.

The Seagull, in a new version by Christopher Hampton and directed by Ian Rickson, opened on Broadway last night, Thursday October 2nd at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The production, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Sarsgaard plays a limited 14-week engagement through Sunday, December 21st.

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) has announced that it will present the Off Broadway premiere of The Talk, a new American play by Frank Pugliese, directed by Sheryl Kaller.

Emma Hunton will be making her Broadway debut on Tuesday, February 19 as the free-spirited bohemian 'Ilse' in the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical, Spring Awakening.

The star-studded 79th Annual Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theatre in L.A. on February 25th!

Film Independent's 2007 Spirit Awards were held at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, CA on February 24, 2007.

The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Los Angeles, CA. January 15, 2007

Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy, who appears in the upcoming Oliver Stone film World Trade Center, has come to the defense of the controversial new movie about the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Sean Leonard have been added to the star-filled cast of Symphony Space's Shakespeare birthday celebration marathon on April 23rd

Variety reports that Julianne Moore is headed to Broadway in 'The Vertical Hour', a new play by David Hare.