Neil LaBute News

MCC Theater has announced that Brooke Smith will play Sam, a Seattle housewife, in the U.S. premiere of the stage play Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute

Eric McCormack will join the previously-announced Maura Tierney in MCC's upcoming production of Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s)

MCC THEATER announced today that FELICIA FIELDS (The Color Purple), along with a special performance by members of Broadway's THE WEDDING SINGER will join the celebrity cast of 'MISCAST,' a star-studded musical revue featuring some of Broadway's biggest names singing show tunes in roles they would never, ever perform.

ER's Maura Tierney will star as one of Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) for MCC Theater from May 17th through June 24th

Catch the latest video show preview, 'Barefoot In The Park,' now available on BroadwayWorld.com.

The first-ever revival of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park, starring Patrick Wilson, Amanda Peet, Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts, opened on February 16th

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

MCC THEATER today announced that the New York premiere of The Wooden Breeks by Glen Berger, directed by Trip Cullman, will now open one week later on Tuesday, February 21, 7pm at the Lucille Lortel (121 Christopher Street) in order to implement further artistic changes.

The Wooden Breeks, written by Glen Berger and starring Veanne Cox and others, will begin previews on February 2nd

MCC has replaced Neil LaBute's Swallowing Bicycles with the same playwright's Some Girls, in its American premiere; it will open on June 8th

At the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills January 16, 2006, Broadway celebs including Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, S. Epatha Merkerson, Paul Newman, Sandra Oh, Mary-Louise Parker, and Rachel Weisz took home Golden Globes.

The stars of the upcoming Barefoot in the Park revival--Amanda Peet, Patrick Wilson, Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts--gathered to pose for pictures

Katie Finneran, Denis O'Hare and David Marshall-Green will headline Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, which will be presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company in the summer of 2006

David Schwimmer and Zeljko Ivanek will star in a revival of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial that will open in spring of 2006

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) with direction by Michael Greif (Rent).

Lauren Ambrose, Jason Biggs, Zoe Caldwell and other performers will join acclaimed writers in 20, a benefit evening for MCC Theater

Ron Eldard will star as Father Flynn in DOUBT, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Doug Hughes.

Ashlie Atkinson will star as Marilyn Monroe in Making Marilyn, an off-Broadway play running from November 23rd through December 8th

The revival of Barefoot in the Park, starring Amanda Peet, Patrick Wilson, Jill Clayburgh and Tony Roberts, will open at the Cort Theatre on Broadway on February 16th

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.