Nathan Lane News

The John W. Engeman Theater's production of Hairspray will close on August 28, 2011.

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Mario Cantone, Scott Adsit, Joy Behar, Tovah FeldshuhEmmy Nominee and Drama Desk Winner Eugene Pack, Drama Desk Winner Dayle Reyfel and more will make an appearance at Guild Hall for CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The performance will take place on Friday, August 26 at 7pm and 9:30pm.

Primary Stages will host the Fifth Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival, the proceeds from which will benefit the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA).

Farcical final production of Cape Playhouse's 85th season features a cast of summer stock regulars whose crack timing infuses Paul Slade Smith's play with laughter, warmth, and surprises.

Modern Family's past guest stars have included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nathan Lane and more. In this season's premiere on September 21, Tim Blake Nelson will play a cowboy, according to Digital Spy.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to New York. 'West Side Story' on stage and screen, Darren Criss of 'Glee' in 3D, Amy & Freddy, another 'Evita,' 'Schoolhouse Rock Live!,' Jessie Mueller on Broadway and more....

Madeline Austin, S.D. Wagner and Carrie Schoenfeld present the world premiere of Sharyn Rothstein's ripped from the headlines new play THE INVESTED - about greed, ethics, loyalty and corruption inside one of the most powerful banks in the world.

The Broadway Experience returned for a fourth summer at The Manhattan Movement & Arts Center from July 25th - August 7th. With over 60 classes, workshops, lectures, and a performance based second week, TBE had some very special guest speakers this year, Chita Rivera and Bebe Neuwirth. Both spoke about their lives, careers, experience, and took the time to answer questions and offer advise and inspiration.

Led by Max Von Essen (HELLO AGAIN!), Mike Wartella (RENT), and Matthew Gumley (ELF), 'What's So Funny?' a new play by Broadway actor Wesley Taylor will get developmental reading, also including the talents of Christy Pusz (TALK RADIO), Alexandra Socha (SPRING AWAKENING), Logan Rowland (THE ADDAMS FAMILY), Don Stevenson (THE PRODUCERS), Rachel de Benedet (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN), Merwin Foard (THE LITTLER MERMAID), and Valerie Fagan (THE ADDAMS FAMILY).

92nd Street Y has announced that Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, will continue his popular multi-evening 92nd Street Y conversation series, 'Broadway Talks with Jordan Roth' with Golden Globe Award-winning stage and screen star Angela Bassett. Roth and Bassett will discuss her upcoming role opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway premiere of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, as well as her remarkable career on the silver screen, at 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street) on Sunday, October 23rd at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29 and are available at www.92Y.org/BroadwayTalks or by calling 212.415.5500.

Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Mario Cantone, Scott Adsit, Joy Behar, Tovah FeldshuhEmmy Nominee and Drama Desk Winner Eugene Pack, Drama Desk Winner Dayle Reyfel and more will make an appearance at Guild Hall for CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The performance will take place on Friday, August 26 at 7pm and 9:30pm.

Madeline Austin, S.D. Wagner and Carrie Schoenfeld present the world premiere of Sharyn Rothstein's ripped from the headlines new play THE INVESTED - about greed, ethics, loyalty and corruption inside one of the most powerful banks in the world.

The nominations were released earlier this month for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mad Men topped the list with 19 nominations, followed by Boardwalk Empire with 18, Modern Family with 17, Saturday Night Live with 16, Game of Thrones and 30 Rock with 13 and GLEE with 12. Gold Derby got the inside scoop of the episodes that this year's nominees submitted for judges' consideration. Check out the full list below:

British playwright Joe Orton's classic dark comedy ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE, hits Los Angeles this June for a four week run at the Actors Company theater. The play, which originally debuted in London in 1964, tells a sexy, suspenseful, and often humorous story that continues to captivate and surprise audiences today. Director Stan Zimmerman leads an ensemble cast which includes: Ian Buchanan (The Bold and the Beautiful), Olivia d'Abo (THE WONDER YEARS), Emrhys Cooper (We Will Rock You) and Robin Gammell (NIP/TUCK).

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that individual tickets for La Cage Aux Folles, starring film and TV actor George Hamilton and winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, will go on sale Friday, July 29

If you're looking for a quick roundup of all the events in the theatre world, look no further: here are some of the best articles that the week has to offer!

Discover what it takes to pull off Broadway's biggest show-biz scam at the Music Circus premiere of The Producers, July 12-17.

Goodman Theatre Artistic Director RoRobert Falls announced today that he will direct bert Falls The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic portrait of hope and disillusionment, running April 22 - June 10, 2012 in the Albert Theatre. Falls' major revival features Tony Award-winning stage and screen stars Nathan Lane Nathan Lane as hardware salesman and pipe dreambuster Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, and Brian Dennehy Brian Dennehy as one-time syndicalist-anarchist Larry Slade. Hailed by The New York Times as a 'ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power,' The Iceman Cometh marked Falls' and Dennehy's first O'Neill collaboration at the Goodman in 1990-a production which featured Dennehy in the role of Hickey.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Nathan Lane will star in the Goodman Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh.' The show will be directed by Robert Falls and will run in Spring 2012. Falls commented: 'Nathan had approached me about wanting to work on an O'Neill play and I have finally been able to put together this project I have been working on for three years. I think this is the greatest American play.'

The nominations were released this morning for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mad Men topped the list with 19 nominations, followed by Boardwalk Empire with 18, Modern Family with 17, Saturday Night Live with 16, Game of Thrones and 30 Rock with 13 and GLEE with 12. Lots of theatre stars received nominations this year as well, check out the complete list below!