Signature Theatre Company will celebrate 2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee with their 2008 annual gala this Monday, March 10 at 583 Park Avenue (Park Avenue and 63rd Street).
Judy Kuhn, the acclaimed actress and singer, will bring her show Serious Playground - The Songs of Laura Nyro back to New York at the Iridium Jazz Club on Thursdays at 7PM from January 10 - 31.
John Breglio will be receiving The Actors Fund Medal of Honor, to be given by Broadway legend and longtime Actors Fund supporter, Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall on October 15. The celebration will continue with the Carnegie Hall solo debut concert of Brian Stokes Mitchell, Tony-Award winner and President of The Actors Fund. The entire evening will celebrate the Fund's 125th Anniversary.
Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director of New York's award-winning Primary Stages, has been named the new artistic director of the upcoming Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival
transFigures, a new work for Women's Project, conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, and inspired by the Jerusalem Syndrome (the well-documented psychosis that causes ordinary tourists to channel Biblical figures, create togas out of hotel bed-sheets, and parade through the Holy City as Moses, Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and other religious icons) begins previews April 6th, opens April 16th for a run through May 6th at the Julia Miles Theater,
For Martha Clarke's upcoming production of Pirandello Project, the inaugural Tony Randall Grant was presented to the New York Theatre Workshop on June 21st at Sardi's
At an event held at Sardi's Restaurant in New York on Wednesday, June 21st, Heather Randall and Jack Klugman, along with the Board of Directors of the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund, and the Grant Selection Committee announced the beneficiary of the inaugural Tony Randall Grant.
Complete casting was announced today for the upcoming Broadway production of LENNON, the world premiere musical based on the life and songs of John Lennon. The cast includes Will Chase, Chuck Cooper, Julie Danao, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Chad Kimball, Terrence Mann, Julia Murney, and Michael Potts.
The world of the famed French artist Toulouse-Lautrec comes to life when Lincoln Center Theater's production of BELLE EPOQUE, a new work by Martha Clarke and Charles L. Mee, directed by Ms. Clarke, opens this Sunday (November 21) at 6:45pm at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. BELLE EPOQUE is the second production of Lincoln Center Theater's 20th Anniversary season.
Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion
between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers,
continues its sixth season with pre-performance talks tomorrow (Wed., Nov.
17) with Martha Clarke and Charles L. Mee, the co-creators of the new work
about Toulouse-Lautrec, Belle Epoque.' Belle Epoque is part of Lincoln
Center Theater's 20th Anniversary Season.