Michael Feingold News

Works by Alan Bennett, Adam Rapp, and Martin McDonagh are included in The Best Plays of 2005-2006

The American Theatre Wing's Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee has nominated 57 theater artists for recognition of their outstanding work in 39 productions presented during the 2005-2006 New York theater season

Plays by Caryl Churchill, Michael Frayn, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Paula Vogel, August Wilson and other playwrights of note are celebrated in the 86th edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2004-2005, which will be released on July 19th by Limelight Edition

Beginning on June 14, readers of The Village Voice will find more theatre coverage with a newly expanded theatre section

The Roundabout's new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera might well have been the most shocking and innovative theatre event of the 1967-68 Broadway season

San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater (ACT) completes its 2005-06 season with Brecht's 'Happy End,' to open at the Geary Theatre June 8.

The 51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, Off Broadway's highest honor, were handed out last tonight at the Skirball Center on the campus of New York University in a ceremony hosted by Lili Taylor and Eric Bogosian presented by S. Epatha Merkerson, Christine Ebersole, Edward Hibbert, Douglas Carter Beane, Phylicia Rashad and Oskar Eustis.

Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

The History Boys, by Alan Bennett, today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the 2005-2006 season. The Best Musical award was given to The Drowsy Chaperone (book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison).

Linda Mugleston will star in the American Conservatory Theatre's production of the Weill-Brecht musical Happy End in San Francisco this June; the production will feature choreography by John Carrafa

Adam Feldman, president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle (NYDCC), announced today that the Circle will meet at the offices of Time Out New York magazine on Thursday, May 11, to select the winners of the 70th annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, which will be announced at approximately 7pm, immediately following the meeting.

Christine Ebersole, Phylicia Rashad, Oskar Eustis and others will be among the presenters of the Obie Awards on May 15th, with more to be announced

Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart opens at The Pearl Theatre Company on Sunday, April 30th and runs through Sunday, May 21st. Joanne Camp (recently seen in 'Hecuba') and Carol Schultz (recently seen in 'Measure for Measure') star and Eleanor Holdridge (The Imaginary Invalid) directs.

On February 27th, critics Christopher Isherwood, Adam Feldman and Michael Feingold will take part in a panel entitled 'What Makes a Critic Tick?'

The January 19th edition of the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' seminars will focus on theatre critics

Audra McDonald, Denis O'Hare, and Billy Crudup will be among the noted actors taking part in the first annual Congress of Actors and Acting Teachers on January 7th and 8th

The Actors Center proudly announced today that it is to present its first Congress of Actors and Acting Teachers at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts on January 7 and 8, 2006.

The Light in the Piazza's Michael Yeargan and Christopher Akerlind are among the winners of the 2005 Henry Hewes Awards

The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, has announced the judges for the 2005-2006 Obie Awards.

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards