New Group News

Recent news for Avenue Q includes an Olivier Award nomination, a new 'Scrubs' episode and a new house record

Wallace Shawn's The Fever, presented by The New Group, will open on January 24th

Tomorrow night's special 9PM ET episode of NBC TV's popular comedy 'Scrubs' - subtitled 'My Musical,' with original songs by Avenue Q's Tony winning songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx - will feature Avenue Q Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo as its guest star

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present John Mahoney (Old Man), Annie Parisse (Rita) and Alan Tudyk (Peter) in a new Broadway production of Craig Lucas' romantic drama Prelude to a Kiss with Robin Bartlett (Mrs. Boyle) and James Rebhorn (Dr. Boyle), directed by Daniel Sullivan at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St).

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip at the El Portal Theatre as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics...

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 National Festival, has announced the January / February schedule of the New York presentations of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays

The American Theatre Wing's Grants Program will honor its 2006 grant recipients, 53 New York City not-for-profit theatres that reflect the range of diversity of New York's theatres, at a luncheon at Sardi's on December 7 at noon.

In January, the New Group will present The Fever, written and performed by Wallace Shawn

New Theatre Company Opening in NYC In October

The New Group has announced a benefit evening honoring Derek McLane and Wendy Ettinger with the first annual Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Theater

For the second time, the hit London production of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has been extended

The New Group has extended its limited run of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tony Award-winner Cynthia Nixon in the title role, through December 9th

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival, have announced that 65 theater companies in New York City have been selected to participate in the year-long production of Parks' '365 Days/365 Plays'

In its 2006-2007 season, the New Group will present The Fever by Wallace Shawn and The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub

The New Group's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will begin previews on September 20th for an October 9th opening

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of Simon Mendes da Costa's LOSING LOUIE at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews for LOSING LOUIE begin Thursday, September 21 for a Thursday, October 12 opening.

London theatregoers will be able to stroll down Avenue Q for another few months; the West End production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical has announced an extension through January 27th, 2007 at the Noel Coward Theatre

Cynthia Nixon--currently Tony-nominated for her last Broadway turn in Rabbit Hole--will star in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which will be revived by the New Group in September