Neil Simon News

'I was both relieved and happy today. I got the news this morning just following along online. My first phone call was to Joe Machota - one of my agents at CAA and one of my closest friends. It was nice to immediately share it with a great friend and an agent all at once! I then spent the day in auditions for LEAP OF FAITH and then I had a lunch meeting for another show that I'm working on - FINDING NEVERLAND. It's so great to get that recognition and it's great to be working on other projects at the same time.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 4, 2010 by Broadway Star Lea Michele and Tony Award Nominee Jeff Daniels.

All tickets go on sale today for Grammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s return to Broadway in HARRY CONNICK, JR. IN CONCERT ON BROADWAY.

Tamzin Outhwaite (Boeing Boeing, Hotel Babylon, Eastenders), who plays the title role of Charity Hope Valentine, leads the cast in the West End transfer of the Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity.

The Tony Awards Nominations were announced this morning on Tuesday, May 4th. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Click here for the full list of nominations! BroadwayWorld.com will be talking to nominees throughout the day so keep checking back!

Totem Pole Playhouse is proud to welcome back to the Playhouse, John Putch, to direct the hilarious Neil Simon comedy, 45 Seconds From Broadway, opening in June 2010. John Putch began his professional career at the age of five, performing in the Totem Pole Playhouse production of Showboat in 1966.

Broadwway veteran Harry Connick Jr. will go down in American Idol history when he becomes the first Idol mentor to arrange and orchestrate the songs for the contestants as well as perform.

The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.

In a recent interview with Continental Magazine, PROMISES, PROMISES star Kristin Chenoweth discussed her career and her current work on Broadway.

In a recent interview with the Telegraph Online, Neil Simon revealed that, when writing the hit musical SWEET CHARITY, the ending changed several times before reaching the Broadway stage.

A tuneful, funny musical score meets a giant man-eating plant when Cabrillo Music Theatre's production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS devours the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, with a hit movie and a Broadway revival to its credit, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS will close Sunday, May 2nd. Locally produced exclusively for Southern California audiences, performances take place at the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Penny Fuller, Sharon Lawrence, Diane Neal, Sherri Shepherd, Cobie Smulders and Myra Lucretia Taylor will join upcoming summertime casts of Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's smash hit show Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

Tamzin Outhwaite (Boeing Boeing, Hotel Babylon, Eastenders), who plays the title role of Charity Hope Valentine, leads the cast in the West End transfer of the Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity.

The U.K. Daily Mail is speculating that the current revival of PROMISES, PROMISES, which opened on Broadway on April 25, 2010, may be getting West End treatment with the show's star, Sean Hayes.

The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre, the only theatre of its kind in the area - offering lunch matinee shows geared for children and their families - continues its 2010 Season with its spring production of Aladdin, which runs through August 8, 2010. The 2010 Season marks the Children's Theatre's fifteenth year of bringing children's stories to life on the stage in Frederick.

Broadwway veteran Harry Connick Jr. will go down in American Idol history when he becomes the first Idol mentor to arrange and orchestrate the songs for the contestants as well as perform.

The Katselas Theatre Company announces final Two Weeks of Shem Bitterman's INFLUENCE: A Dark Comedy. The show is directed by Steve Zuckerman and produced by Gary Grossman. The show must Close May 9, 2010.

Editor/acting teacher Lola Cohen has compiled a priceless book about acting from one of the greatest teachers of our time Lee Strasberg. Strasberg, who advocated Stanislavski and The Method, began his illustrious acting career with the Group Theater and is best remembered for his work on film in The Godfather.

PROMISES, PROMISES, starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth, began previews at the Broadway Theater on Saturday, March 27, 2010 and opened on Sunday night, April 25, 2010. BroadwayWorld.com and Broadway Beat were there to bring you all the excitement of the show's opening night party at The Plaza Hotel.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2009-10 season with famed British theater maker Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious rumination on love and marriage, Round and Round the Garden, directed by Tony Award winner John Rando (Urinetown, The Musical, The Wedding Singer on Broadway; Urinetown, Rich and Famous at A.C.T.).