Moss Hart News

Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, Alison Louise Hubbard, Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak have been selected as the winners of the 16th Annual Kleban Awards, which honor achievement in writing for musical theatre

In July, Back Stage Books will publish Moss Hart: A Prince of the Theatre by Jared Brown

On May 18th, New Dramatists will present Chita Rivera with a Career Achievement Awrd

The New York Times reports that Ana Gasteyer has joined the cast of Roundabout's 'Threepenny Opera' for which previews will beging on March 24th.

The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.

Drama Dept. (Douglas Carter Beane, Artistic Director and Michael S. Rosenberg, Executive Director) and The Zipper are pleased to announce the first of three co-productions: a revival of Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, ROPE.

Beginning Monday, October 3, Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom, will return to the title role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at The Majestic Theatre.

David Javerbaum of the Daily Show has won the 15th annual Kleban Award as the most promising lyricist in American musical theatre

Musicals Tonight! presents the American premiere of this West End musical by two Broadway favorites

Tom Dillon, longtime President of the entertainment industry charity The Actors' Fund of America and a veteran performer in all venues of show business, succumbed, Monday, March 14, 2005 of natural causes at The Actors' Fund Homes in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 86 years old and had been living at the facility for several weeks, surrounded by show business colleagues he had worked with and served.

Alan Cumming, Edie Falco and Nelli McKay to appear in a new Roundabout production of The Threepenny Opera.

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.

The stars turned out to honor two of the best beloved and most influential forces in the American theatre.

The York Theatre Company is presenting some of composer Harvey Schmidt's collection of Times Square memorabilia at the company's home at Saint Peter's Church in Citigroup Center (619 Lexington Avenue, enter on 54th Street).

On November 21, The Metropolitan Opera Guild honored Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a benefit at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Actress, operatic diva, and philanthropist Kitty Carlisle Hart talks about her husband Moss, the Marx Brothers, and raising funds for the Arts.

On Sunday evening, November 21, 2004, The Metropolitan Opera Guild will honor Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a gala benefit program and dinner at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. This unique double tribute --- affectionately entitled HART TO HART --- will celebrate the achievements and contributions of these two icons from the worlds of film, opera, radio, television, theater, and politics.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.

Musicals Tonight! revives the show that brought us 'Begin the Beguine', 'Just One of Those Things' and 'The Kling-Kling Bird on the Top of the Divi-Divi Tree'

From a chorus boy in the original cast of 'Oklahoma!' to a one-man show off-Broadway and a Tony Award in between, George S. Irving has been one of Broadway's most endearing and enduring character men