Paul Rudnick News

AUDITIONS for supporting roles in Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet will be held at Freeport Performing Arts Center on Saturday April 17 @3pm and Sunday April 18 @ 7pm.

Las Vegas Little Theatre presents Regrets Only by Paul Rudnick from April 2 - 18, 2010. Directed by Walter Niejadlik.

TVGuide.com is reporting that 'Mad Men' actor Bryan Batt will guest star on the April 7 episode of 'Ugly Betty'. Batt will reportedly play 'Spencer Cannon', a soap opera actor, who is set up with Michael Urie's character 'Marc'.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, L.A.

Pride and Joy and Other Plays by Paul Rudnick will be presented by Actors & Artists Against AIDS to benefit AIDS WALK Kansas City, April 1 through 18, 2010. Directed by Jeff Church, Producing Artistic Director of the Coterie Theatre, this provocative and outrageous comedy, features a collection of hilarious characters, starring local legends, Ron Megee and Missy Koonce.

The delightful comedy /I Hate Hamlet/ is set to close on March 7 at The Great American Melodrama.

'TalkOut Mondays' began March 1st at the critically acclaimed hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans that opens Off Broadway at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

'TalkOut Mondays' begin March 1st at the critically acclaimed hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans that opens Off Broadway at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Sunday, February 28th.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, L.A.

AUDITIONS for supporting roles in Paul Rudnick's I Hate Hamlet will be held at Freeport Performing Arts Center on Saturday April 17 @3pm and Sunday April 18 @ 7pm.

'TalkOut Mondays' (the after performance discussions) begins this coming March 1st with Larry Kramer & Paul Rudnick at the critically acclaimed hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, L.A.

Tony Award winners John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle star as MR. & MRS. FITCH in the world premiere comedy from Douglas Carter Beane at Second Stage Theatre. The production marks MR. Beane's return to Second Stage Theatre where his critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated play The Little Dog Laughed premiered in 2005. MR. & MRS. FITCH will be directed by Scott Ellis, who also staged the world premiere and Broadway transfer of The Little Dog Laughed. Opening night for MR & MRS FITCH is scheduled for Thursday, February 22.

A photo from Cortland Repertory Theatre's 2009 summer production of 'I Hate Hamlet' is now appearing on the cover of the spring edition of Southern Theatre Magazine. The photo, taken by Cortland photographer and CRT Board Member David Blatchley, was the winner of the magazine's annual Cover Photo Contest. It features actor Robert Boardman as John Barrymore and CRT regular Dustin Charles as Andrew Rally in a scene from the Paul Rudnick comedy. The contest was open to members of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), which is the largest regional theatre organization in the country. Now in its 61st year, the SETC holds regional auditions for actors twice a year in various cities in the south eastern United States. CRT attends the spring auditions, which will be held this year in Lexington, Kentucky on March 4 - 6.

Stage and screen actor Bryan Batt's autobiography 'She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother: A Memoir' will be released on May 4, 2010 by Random House.

Theater Talk is the TV series featuring in-depth conversations with actors, directors, writers and others working in the New York theater. The show is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post, and the show's Executive Producer, Susan Haskins, and is jointly produced by Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV, the station of The City University of New York. In an upcoming episode, Riedel and Haskins discuss the truth behind gossip columnists - like those portrayed in Mr. & Mrs. Fitch - with the play's scribe, Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu, The Little Dog Laughed, Give It Up!). BroadwayWorld brings you a preview of the conversation.

Ma-Yi Theater Company - the Off-Broadway, Obie Award-winning company dedicated to producing new works about the Asian-American experience - will present the world-premiere of Michi Barall's play 'RESCUE ME (A Post-modern classic with snacks)', an adaptation of Euripides 'Iphigenia in Taurus,' previewing March 23 and opening March 30 at the Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster St.) in Manhattan.

'TalkOut Mondays' begin March 1st at the critically acclaimed hit show 'The Temperamentals' by Jon Marans that opens Off Broadway at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Sunday, February 28th.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner will help make Times Square a little pinker - and all of New York City, in fact - when they present actor Leslie Jordan in his acclaimed solo show, My Trip Down The Pink Carpet, at the Midtown Theater (163 West 46th Street) this Spring.

BroadwayWorld's 2010 Valentine's Day gift to you, the 5th Annual 'What's the Most Romantic Broadway Love Song Ever?' brings you over 500 stars, industry professionals, and personalities from across the globe, and this year Barbra Streisand, Susan Boyle, Bernadette Peters, Cameron Mackintosh, HAIR, GLEE and many, many more!