Marsha Mason News

A look at 'The Ritz', 'A Feminine Ending' and Kristin Chenoweth 's latest honor.

Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award winning actress Marsha Mason, starring in A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons, will be hosted by the New York Women in Film and Television for an evening entitled 'Conversations With…' on Monday October 22.

Directed by Tony Award winner Blair Brown, A Feminine Ending opens on Wednesday, October 17 at 7PM. Performances will continue through Sunday, November 11 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

This season, Playwrights Horizons announced the creation of LIVE for FIVE, a ticketing initiative that makes available $5 tickets for the first preview performance of each Playwrights Horizons production via an online lottery.

Playwrights Horizons has announced additional casting and details for the second production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of A Feminine Ending, a new play by Sarah Treem.

BroadwayWorld brings you more glamorous red carpet arrivals photos from the 2007 Tony Awards!

The 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 9:00 PM, at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, and BroadwayWorld was there to bring you the excitement!

A star-studded pre-show party preceded the Drama Desk Awards, which were presented at the LaGuardia Concert Hall on May 20th!

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced new details for three productions of its 2007/2008 Season, including the first casting news.

Inherit the Wind, starring two time Tony Award-winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, opened April 12th at the Lyceum Theatre, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Having transferred from an acclaimed run at the Old Vic Theatre, A Moon for the Misbegotten began Broadway previews March 29 and opened on April 9th at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

The new musical In the Heights, which began previews on January 9th, opened on February 8th at Off-Broadway's 37 Arts

The Vineyard Theatre celebrated its 25th Anniversary with the presentation of the first Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney.

THE VINEYARD THEATRE celebrated its 25th Anniversary on Monday, January 29 at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor) in Manhattan. Highlights of the company's 25th Anniversary Gala to include musical performances from past Vineyard hits.

Ars Nova (voted 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine), as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, presents THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Alex Timbers. THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read by Jeff Binder, Elliotte Crowell, Billy Eichner, Sam Forman, Van Hansis, David Josefsberg, Julie Lake, Maggie Lauren, Austin Lysy, Reginald Veneziano and Taylor Wilcox on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). A Neanderthal woman and Cro-Magnon man embark on a passionate love affair at the very dawn of time. But fate, not to mention an assortment of mystics, priestesses, dwarfs, and beautful blonde Californian twins have other things in store for them. Things that could threaten their very existence! Can love survive? Find out in THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, the world's first genocidal romantic comedy. RACHEL SHUKERT (Writer) is a playwright and author based in New York City. Her plays include Bloody Mary (NYIT Award nominee), Sequins for Satan, The Blackstone Hotel, and Soiled Linens. Her work has been developed and produced at Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Culture Project, the Ontological/Hysteric, and the EVOLVE series at Galapagos. In 2003, she was the Playwright-in-Residence at e74 productions in Amsterdam, and her work was performed extensively throughout the Netherlands. As a performer, she has appeared with Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theater, in New York and internationally; Les Freres Courbusier, the T.E.A.M., Salt Theater, e74, and with her own company, the Bushwick Hotel, which she founded in 2002 with the director Stephen Brackett. She is a regular contributor to Nerve.com (2005 ASME finalist, 2006 'Best Writing' Webby Award) and her work will be featured in their latest print anthology. She has also contributed to Heeb Magazine, McSweeney's, Babble, Culturebot, and Critical Moment. Her upcoming collection of essays, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard. ALEX TIMBERS (Director) Recent credits include Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actor's Playhouse and 59E59), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop; OBIE Award- NYC and Garland Award, Best Director- LA), Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse), underground with David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave and US tour), Boozy (Culture Project- 10 Best of 2005, Daily News and Time Out), Marge (Summer Play Festival), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival), and Heddatron (HERE). Alex is a Williamstown Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Director of award-winning theater company Les Freres Corbusier. OUT LOUD has attracted a variety of the industry's top artists, including writers Stephen Belber, Jorge Cortinas, Daniel Goldfarb, Stephen Guirgis, Rinne Groff, Rogelio Martinez, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Julian Sheppard, Jonathan Marc Sherman; directors Peter Askin, Jo Bonney, David Esbjornson, Moises Kaufman, Brian Kulick, James Lapine, Lisa Peterson, David Warren; and actors Jason Biggs, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Sean Leonard, Marsha Mason, Denis O'Hare, Rosie Perez, Paul Rudd, Mercedes Reuhl, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Swoosie Kurtz, David Strathairn, Fred Weller. Ticket & Schedule Information THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out www.arsnovanyc.com.

One of America's most celebrated and produced playwrights, Israel Horovitz, will be launching a new theater company in NYC that has been 32 years in the making

Amy Brenemann, Marsha Mason, Tony Roberts, Jobeth Williams, Lili Taylor, Adam Arkin, Jill Clayburgh and Hector Elizondo are among the theatre, film and TV veterans who will be seen in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Voices from the Edge' 2006-2007 season of play

'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off,' a star-studded tribute to Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, took place on June 19th at Symphony Space

Judy Kaye will be available for lunch as part of the starry silent auction that will be featured in 'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off,' a tribute to Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach that will take place on June 19th

Two-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) will fly from Chicago to New York next Monday, to join the cast honoring Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in 'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off;' The event will take place on June 19th at Symphony Space