Martin Scorsese News

James Naughton and Joanne Woodward Join Cast of "A Holiday Garland"at Westport Country Playhouse. Two-time Tony Award winner James Naughton and Academy Award winner Joanne Woodward have joined the cast of "A Holiday Garland" at Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director). Staged December 13 - 21, the production will feature holiday songs, funny stories, poignant readings, jokes and poems compiled to celebrate the season and enchant the family. Performances are Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m.

Two-time Tony Award winner James Naughton and Academy Award winner Joanne Woodward have joined the cast of 'A Holiday Garland' at Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director).

In this wry, energetic semiautobiographical adventure play, acclaimed actor Carlo D'Amore takes the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the life of a flamboyant, live-for-the-moment con artist mother, who has no trouble posing as an attorney, professor, daycare worker, or nun --- as seen through the eyes of the young son who acts as her look-out, bail, partner-in-crime, and follows her across borders, into jail, and finally to the end of the road. No Parole plays at The Marsh San Francisco November 13 - December 12, 2008.

Variety is reporting that Mike Nichols is set to direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa's film 'High and Low', with a screenplay penned by David Mamet.

Andrea Martin, Michael Cumpsty and Tony Yazbeck have been cast in On the Town, the opening production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running November 19 - 23. On the Town, the first Broadway musical written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green with a score by Leonard Bernstein, will be directed by John Rando with music direction by Todd Ellison and choreography by Warren Carlyle

A new video feature on the World Premiere production of The Medium at Large at Village Players in Oak Park has been posted to YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lSoeETp3U]

Julia Roberts, Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis and Casey Affleck will all be coming together to honor Paul Newman by continuing his charity work

Paul Newman, star of stage and screen lost his long battle with cancer on Friday he was 83 years old. A celebrated actor he had won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award, along with many honorary awards.

Alan Alda stopped by the New World Stages to visit his old M*A*S*H television castmate Jamie Farr and his current co-star Anita Gilette and catch a performance of their hit Off-Broadway comedy, Flamingo Court.

The New School for Drama has announced that award-winning actor John Turturro will be the distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2008-09 academic year. Turturro is the recipient of a multitude of awards and accolades for his extensive acting work in theater, film and television.

The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell Bernard, Trustee) in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the guidelines for the fourth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced today that post-show discussions will follow performances of THE FEVER CHART: THREE VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Naomi Wallace on Tuesday, April 29 and Sunday, May 11. Both discussions will immediately follow performances of THE FEVER CHART and no additional tickets are necessary.

The 80th Annual Academy Awards were broadcast live from the Hollywood Kodak Theatre on February 24 on ABC-TV, hosted by Jon Stewart. Top winners included Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Diablo Cody, Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton.

The 60th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were held Saturday, January 26, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Century City, California.

The 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast tonight, December 26 on CBS at 9PM (Eastern). Recipients to be honored at this year's national celebration of the arts are pianist Leon Fleisher, actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, and songwriter Brian Wilson.

Further casting has been announced for the two night only concert version of the smash hit London musical Jerry Springer The Opera which will play Carnegie Hall for two nights only on January 29 and 30, 2008. Joining Harvey Keitel are Max von Essen, Emily Skinner, Linda Balgord, Lawrence Clayton, Luke Grooms, Sean Jennes, Patricia Phillips, Sam Kitchin and Laura Shoop.

The New York Public Library will honor John Hope Franklin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Martin Scorsese, and Tom Stoppard at its tenth anniversary Library Lions benefit on Monday, November 5, 2007 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Well-known writer Julian Fellowes, who rocketed to international fame with his Oscar-winning screenplay for Gosford Park and who is currently represented both on the London stage and on Broadway with the hit musical production of Mary Poppins, for which he wrote the book, will collaborate with recent Oscar winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese on The Young Victoria.

Angie Dickinson, Dennis Hopper, Cloris Leachman, Quincy Jones, Edward Norton and John Turturro are among additions to the line-up of peers, family members and childhood friends featured in Brando, a new original two-part documentary premiering May 1-2, that sifts through the mystery behind one of Hollywood's most-respected and celebrated practitioners of the art and craft of acting.

Tuesday, January 16 will see the opening of the revue 'And The World Goes Round' at one of London's most atmospheric and intimate pub theatres, the Landor. The show draws its material from the songbook of John Kander and Fred Ebb, one of the greatest of all musical theatre song-writing duos, whose resume boasts the scores for such musicals as 'Cabaret', 'Chicago', 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman', 'Woman Of The Year', 'The Rink', and 'Flora, The Red Menace'.