Mark Lamos News

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) has announced casting for the first production of its 2006-2007 season: the world premiere of Indian Blood by A.R. Gurney.

The Public Theater is taking applications for the 2006 Shakespeare Lab, a thirteen-week acting intensive scheduled to take place May 30th through August 27th; the application deadline is Friday, March 31st

Primary Stages' 2006-2007 season will feature works by Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and A.R. Gurney, as well as performances by stars such as Marian Seldes, Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

In Edward Albee's Pulitzer winner, we evolved, we are evolving and we damn well better keep evolving because the only other option is to return to the sea and degenerate back into amoeba

Stopping by Weller's dressing room after a recent matinee found the 35 year old Weller still in the process of removing his green makeup. ..

Phylicia Rashad, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Sally Murphy and others have joined the cast of Michael John LaChiusa's latest musical The House of Bernarda Alba

Edward Albee's Seascape, starring Frances Sternhagen and George Grizzard, opens on November 21st at the Booth Theatre

A new American Theatre Wing seminar on November 4th will be entitled 'Staging the Classics,' and Mark Lamos, Anne Bogart and Bartlett Sher will take part in the discussion

See What I Wanna See's Michael John LaChiusa and Marc Kudisch will take part in a new American Theatre Wing seminar on October 27th, while a seminar on Staging the Classics will be held on November 4th

The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. today announced the new fall season, highlighted by big names, up-and-coming talent, classic shows, and new works.

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

The production, will feature George Grizzard, Elizabeth Marvel, Frances Sternhagen and Frederick Weller with previews beginning October 28th, for a November 21 opening.

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).

Rain may have kept the cast from rehearsing as planned in the Park yesterday, but not from posing for BroadwayWorld.com!

Rosario Dawson has been cast as Julia in the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park revival of the musical adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, which will run from August 16th through September 11th

Richard Thomas will portray Tennesee Williams in Blanche and Beyond on August 8th at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, MA

All the speeches from all of last night's big winners!

Productions of As You Like It and The Two Gentlemen of Verona will comprise the Public Theatre's summer season

The Public Theater announces that Brian Bedford, Lynn Collins, Jennifer Ikeda, Richard Thomas, and James Waterston have joined the cast of As You Like It for Shakespeare in the Park. As You Like It is the first production scheduled in The Public's year-long 50th Anniversary Celebration, with performances beginning Tuesday, June 25th and continuing through Sunday, July 17th.