LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) opens its fall season with the first of two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 23 - November 15, 2008). Ethan Hawke joins the previously announced roster of performers that includes LAB members Eric Bogosian, Elizabeth Canavan, Max Casella, John Doman, Kevin Geer, Didi O'Connell, John Ortiz, Portia, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Stuhlbarg, Yul Vazquez, and David Zayas, among others.
Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), whose current three-play season explores images of Jews as outsiders in the predominantly Christian society of pre-20th-century Europe, has scheduled four free staged readings of modern plays exploring the same controversial theme beginning February 5.
Judy Kaye will be available for lunch as part of the starry silent auction that will be featured in 'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off,' a tribute to Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach that will take place on June 19th
Two-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) will fly from Chicago to New York next Monday, to join the cast honoring Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in 'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off;' The event will take place on June 19th at Symphony Space
Audience members at the June 19 tribute to Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, 'A Life in the Theatre--Onstage and Off,' will have the opportunity to bid on a variety of exclusive theatrical items--including dinner with Michael Cerveris
Two 2006 Tony Award nominees for Best Actress--Kate Burton and Cynthia Nixon--will join a distinguished cast of other award-winners, to honor Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson on June 19