Marsha Mason News

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

Broadway Barks 8!, the latest celebrity-filled installment in the series of fundraising for New York City animal shelters, will take place in Shubert Alley on July 8th

The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre presents a high-profile new production of Euripides' Hecuba starring Marsha Mason.

Marsha Mason will take on the title role in the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's production of Hecuba from April 26th through June 18th

RED LIGHT WINTER, a new play written and directed by Adam Rapp, will begin rehearsals in New York tomorrow.

Dozens of stars will serve as presenters of up-for-adoption animals in Broadway Barks! 7, which will be held on July 30th in Shubert Alley

Steel Magnolias' last performance on July 31st will be a benefit for the Actors' Fund of America

On Saturday, July 9th, BroadwayWorld joined Delta backstage at Steel Magnolias for a visit with her Aunt and friends from Mississippi!

The show will play its final performance (its 136th) at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway on Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 3pm.

Marsha Mason, who stars as Ouiser in the Broadway production of Robert Harling's STEEL MAGNOLIAS, will be interviewed live on the Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends' on Friday, July 8 at 8:50am

Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters will host the seventh annual BROADWAY BARKS! along with many Broadway stars.

The Broadway production of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias will acheive its 100th performance on Thursday, June 30th at the Lyceum Theatre

Celebrities from the worlds of TV and film as well as of theatre have been flocking to see Steel Magnolias, currently running at the Lyceum Theatre