Matthew Broderick News

'Good Boys and True' opens at Second Stage Theatre.

On Monday, June 9, 2008 at 7.30 PM an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit gala performance of 'Comden and Green's New York'. All proceeds from the event will benefit Greenwich House Music School.

Naked Angels, New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company, will, in the latter half of 2008, embark on a new chapter in their storied history, commencing with 'Angels in Progress: Old School at The New School,' a workshop series of new American plays that will be presented from May 28 - June 9 at The New School for Drama (151 Bank Street).

Kristin Chenoweth to star in indie film 'Into Temptation.'

'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words', has extended its run to include two more performances on Mondays, May 5 & 12th (7:30PM) at The Triad Theater.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson will present playwright and actor Wallace Shawn with the Samuel H. Scripps Award at Theatre for a New Audience's Gala Celebrating Shakespeare's 444th Birthday. The celebration, Monday, May 12, will be held at The Powerhouse at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street.

Stage, film and television star Kristin Chenoweth joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its annual Corporate Night celebration on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. Led by conductor Andrew Lippa, Chenoweth will perform songs from some of Broadway's most celebrated musicals, including 'Wicked,' 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,' and 'The Music Man,' alongside beloved standards and opera classics.

The stars came out for the Broadway opening of A Catered Affair which is playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre. A Catered Affair has a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino, who is making his Broadway debut as a composer and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle.

Last night, April 17th 2008, A Catered Affair opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre. A Catered Affair has a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle.

Tony® Award-winning film and stage actor Matthew Broderick and Oscar® and Tony®-nominated actor Liam Neeson will be presenting the awards at PENCIL's 2008 Spring Gala. Business leaders, companies and school principals who have demonstrated their commitment to transforming public schools through PENCIL partnerships or outstanding leadership in the educational community will be honored.

'How To Succeed...' is an excellent musical with wit, intelligence and a fabulous Frank (Guys And Dolls) Loesser score. It is one of the handful of musicals to win the Pulitzer Prize. Matthew Broderick won another Tony when he starred in the 1990s revival. Of course, he played the part made famous in the original production by Robert Morse.

On Thursday, March 27th the musical Gypsy opened at the St. James Theater. The after party was held ad the NYC club 'The Mansion' Gypsy tells the dramatic musical tale of the legendary stage mother of Gypsy Lee Rose and June Havoc, a woman who drove her two daughters into show business with a misguided and terrifiying passion. The classic musical is a journey that travels from the slowly fading vaudeville venues of yesterday to backstages of it's often unseemly replacement the strip-tease house. Gypsy starsTony Award winner Patti LuPone. The Broadway production reunites LuPone with her City Center co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti.

Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Gypsy will reunite LuPone with co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will present its annual Monte Cristo Award to Pulitzer Prize and triple Tony Award-winning playwright Neil Simon, in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the American theater, exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's standard of excellence. The Award will be presented to Mr. Simon at a gala dinner in the Rainbow Room's Pegasus Suite on Monday, April 21st at 6:30 p.m.

Young Frankenstein's Megan Mullally is scheduled to co-host 'Live with Regis & Kelly' Wednesday, March 26th. This national program airs locally on WABC - 7 at 9:00am.

Multi-award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch will make his New York Philharmonic debut as conductor and host of Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers, featuring songs from Les Misérables, Carousel, My Fair Lady, and his own Pulitzer Prize-winning score for A Chorus Line, among others, Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. Joining Mr. Hamlisch will be two of Broadway's brightest stars, Kristin Chenoweth and Raúl Esparza, in his Philharmonic debut.

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).

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage the delicious comedy Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn, reuniting author, director and cast members from one of last season's biggest hits, Relatively Speaking.

This Monday evening, March 10th, Matthew Broderick, Sherri Shepard, Rick Holmes, and others joined a long list of stars performing in 'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words' at the Triad Theater (158 W 72nd Street). Produced by Angelo Fraboni, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and Peter Martin, the show continues to draw top talent to its rotating cast and bold -faced names to its sold-out audiences.

Before the world fell in love with Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City on TV, she was a theatre baby. She starred as Annie and co starred opposite her husband, Matthew Broderick, in How to Succeed in Business... She also headlined as Princess Winnifred in the 1996 Broadway revival of Once Upon A Mattress. We take you back to 1996 when she spoke of how she first caught the theatre bug!