Michael Korie News

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

The original cast recording of Grey Gardens--previously announced as a PS Classics recording--is now set for an August 22nd release date

Grey Gardens, the hit Playwrights Horizons musical about two eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, is set to be planted at the Walter Kerr Theatre for an opening on November 2nd; it will begin previews on October 3rd

Zhivago, the new musical at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, has extended its run by two weeks through July 9th

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

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).

Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Rudd, Veanne Cox and Carol Kane will be among the presenters of the Lucille Lortel Awards on May 1st

Nominations for the 51 st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today at The New York Friars Club by theater notables Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie, who revealed the nominees for the 2005/2006 theater season in front of a crowd of theater professionals at the press conference this morning.

Tony Award-winner Bryan F. O'Byrne and actress/comedienne Judy Gold have been lined up to host the 21st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, which will take place at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages) on Monday, May 1st at 7 PM

The Barrington Theatre Company's first Musical Theatre Lab will feature workshops of three new shows, including one by the creators of Grey Gardens

Matt Bogart has replaced Jason Danieley in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of the new musical Zhivago, opening on May 25th

Grey Gardens will blossom with a third and final extension at Playwrights Horizons, running through April 30th; a cast recording will also be released by PS Classics

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).

Nominees for the 2006 Lucille Lortel Awards have been announced

Ivan Hernandez, Jason Danieley, Tom Hewitt and Jessica Burrows will star in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of the musical Zhivago, running from May 9th through June 24th

Grey Gardens composer Scott Frankel and leading lady Christine Ebersole--who recently wowed critics with her portrayal of the unconventional Edie Bouvier--will perform two songs from the Playwrights Horizons musical on the National Public Radio program 'Studio 360' this weekend

The hit Playwrights Horizons musical Grey Gardens, starring Christine Ebersole, has been extended for a second time through April 23rd

Christine Ebersole is sublime in the most perfectly matched starring role of her career

Grey Gardens is one of three new musicals produced by nonprofit theatres to receive a 2006 Richard Rodgers Award