Matthew Modine News

The new theatre company, The Fire Dept, founded by Neil LaBute, Kathleen Chalfant, Janeane Garafalo and more, will launch with the new collaborative play SpeakEasy

Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, Matthew Modine and David Strathairn will appear at Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th St.) on Wednesday, September 27th for an evening of readings entitled 'Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience'

Michael Cerveris, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Cady Huffman and other patriotic theatre stars took part in the benefit concert 'Broadway Stands for Freedom!' on July 24th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On June 2nd, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep and other stars of the upcoming Robert Altman film will appear in A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at the Hollywood Bowl

Sam Waterston has joined the star-studded cast of Our Time Theatre Company's June 12th benefit

London's Old Vic has announced its 2006-2007 season, with a number of Shakespearean plays, a pantomime-inspired adaptation of Cinderella by Stephen Frye and a production of John Osborne's The Entertainer starring Robert Lindsay among the highlights

After a hit run at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company, Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on May 3rd and BroadwayWorld was there!

Paul Rudd will host Our Time Theatre Company's benefit on June 12

The high-profile West End production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, helmed by film director Robert Altman and featuring an array of stars, will close a week early on April 15th

The Royal Shakespeare Company's current production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible will receive a West End transfer, with the play to begin previews on March 29th and open on April 5th

Robert Altman's production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues--featuring a starry cast that includes Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine--will open March 2nd at the Old Vic for a run through April 22nd; the show began previews on February 14th

Beginning on March 22nd, Audra McDonald will be seen in 'The Bedford Diaries,' a new WB ensemble drama co-starring Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine, Jane Adams and Maximilian Schell are among the actors who will join Neve Campbell in the London premiere of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues, directed by Robert Altman

Producers of The Creative Coalition met with cast members of The Color Purple on November 16th

A fall workshop of the play will take place in September, and the NY Post reports it'll arrive in New York this Spring.

Film and theatre legend will star in a workshop production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans in Los Angeles in September

Film and stage star Al Pacino will star in a Los Angeles workshop of Lyle Kessler's tense play Orphans in July and August; neither specific dates nor a theatre have been announced

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, the lunch-time play reading series, under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Susan Charlotte, will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary when it opens its Spring 2005 season on Wednesday, February 23 with the New York premiere of a new Tennessee Williams' work Me, Vashya.

On Dec. 12 the NY premiere of The Phantom of the Opera film took place at the Ziegfeld Theater. The film opens in LA, NY and other select cities on Dec. 22, and across the country in Jan. 2005.