Michael Higgins News
USA's current longest running original series on-air, PSYCH returns as part of the network's summer weekday block of USA original series. PSYCH will premiere on WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 at 10/9c.
USA Network, the number one cable network, is set to continue its track record of award-winning and highly-rated original series for the 2010-2011 television season. Jeff Wachtel, president, original programming, USA Network and co-head, original content, Universal Cable Productions, today announced the network development slate of seven new pilot scripts from acclaimed television and film notables, including Steve Carell ('The Office'), John Michael Higgins ('Best in Show'), and Anthony Edwards ('ER'). Additionally, USA showrunners Steve Franks, creator of PSYCH, and John McNamara, executive producer of IN PLAIN SIGHT, along with FACING KATE writer Jan Nash, are in talks to develop projects, demonstrating the network's confidence in its current series collaborators.
According to a report in Variety, William H. Macy will team up with Sally Hawkins in Dirty Girl, a coming of age comedy about friendship and the search for identity set in the 1980s. The film is directed by Broadway performer and choreographer Abe Sylvia, who will be making his feature film directorial debut. The film is currently being shopped at the American Film Market.
The New York Times has reported that stage actor Michael Higgins passed away on November 5th in New York City from heart failure. He was 88 years old.
Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Interim Managing Director Kevin Maifeld, continues its 2008 season with the comedy The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Fracaswell Hyman.
Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Bartlett Sher and Interim Managing Director Kevin Maifeld, continues its 2008 season with the comedy The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Fracaswell Hyman.
The long anticipated film version of Naked Boys Singing is now in theatres and Co-Creator and Director Robert Schrock details the history and the difficulties of making a movie of the stage musical.
A benefit reading of the late Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosenweig tonight
A limited number of loge tickets priced at $75 are available to the general public to the performance portion of this year's Lincoln Center Theater benefit, a reading of Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, featuring Tony Award winners Christine Baranski and Stockard Channing, Edie Falco, Ari Graynor, John Michael Higgins, Simon Jones, original cast member Robert Klein, Aaron Krohn and Peter Scanavino, directed by the play's original director Daniel Sullivan, on Monday, March 5 at 7pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater
While the Broadway world was honoring its best of the year on Sunday evening at the Tony Awards, Los Angeles Theatre was celebrating its own greatness in theatre with the American Premiere of David Hare's Stuff Happens at the Mark Taper Forum.
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