Marsha Norman News

Rags, by Stephen Schwartz and Charles Strouse, will be the next World AIDS Day concert

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

On July 11th, The Color Purple offered a special performance to benefit the Actors' Fund of America, and stars such as Fran Drescher turned out to catch the show

The Color Purple will begin the casting process in Chicago July 14 - 18 for the National Tour of the Broadway smash hit musical, which will kick off at the Cadillac Palace Theatre April 17, 2007

The musicals that will be presented as part of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival have been announced

The Color Purple has broken the Broadway Theatre's house record for the week ending July 2

On August 28th, composer Jenny Giering will celebrate the release of her solo CD with a concert at Joe's Pub

MCC Theater announced today that its 2006-07 mainstage season at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St.) will include the 10th anniversary production of MCC's acclaimed Nixon's Nixon--reuniting playwright Russell Lees, director Jim Simpson with actors Gerry Bamman and Steve Mellor--and a world premiere by Neil LaBute, recently named MCC playwright in residence

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.

Elisabeth Withers-Mendes--who is currently Tony-nominated for her performance in The Color Purple--will release her debut solo CD in late June

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.

Playwright Marsha Norman is nominated for Best Book for The Color Purple, and tells us about the challenges of bringing that show to the stage and more...

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.

On Sunday, May 21, 2006, the New York Musical Theatre Festival will host UNLEASHING THE NEXT LINK, a celebration to kick-off the new theater season and to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's NYMF Next Link Project, as well as a peak at many of the invited works.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) will present MARATHON 2006, E.S.T.'s 28th annual festival of new one-act plays, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street). Performances begin Friday, May 23rd and continue through Sunday, June 25th.

The Actors' Fund will give Special Performances of Barefoot in the Park and The Color Purple on May 21st and July 11th, respectively

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director; Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) presents the New York premiere of a provocative new play by Christopher Denham (star of Red Light Winter), directed by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, 'Winter Passing').

Goodspeed Musicals will present three new shows--Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, The '60s Project and Meet John Doe--at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut as part of its Brand New Musical! program