Peter James Zielinski News

Surfside Players will present David Mamet's GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS September 10 - 26, by Special Arrangement with Samuel French.

Penguin Rep Theatre presents Jim Brochu as Zero Mostel in ZERO HOUR, the acclaimed Off Broadway play, for one performance only, Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at SUNY Rockland Community College's Cultural Arts Theatre in Suffern, New York.

The Sunrise Civic Center Theatre in Sunrise, Florida will present PETER AND THE WOLF...WITH A DIFFERENCE on September 25 at 2pm.

Operation Smile, a worldwide children's medical charity, will honor Harrison Ford, John Stamos and Susan Casden at its 9th Annual Smile Gala on September 24, 2010, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Access Hollywood host Billy Bush will serve as Master of Ceremonies and a special performance will be given by members of the cast of GLEE. The Smile Gala is co-chaired by Dayna and Steven Bochco, Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, Vicky and Raphael Mense, Kelly and Ron Meyer, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Nicholson-Salke, and Leslie and Robert Zemeckis.

The 2009 Drama Desk Award winner and 2010 Bistro Award winner Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words returned for a new season with two shows on Monday, September 20 at New York's Triad Theater. The cast will featured Scott Adsit, Craig Bierko, Matthew Broderick, Rachel Dratch, Kristen Johnston, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below!

Hennepin Theatre Trust will host a special 5 p.m. Billy Elliot 'Happy Hour' On Sale Event set for Thursday, Sept. 23 at the State Theatre Box Office in downtown Minneapolis to launch single ticket sales and give those in attendance the best chance for great seats. On that day starting at 5 p.m., tickets will only be sold in person at the State Theatre. Added Happy Hour attractions include refreshments, exclusive offers by Trust restaurant partners and an appearance by BT, the Cities 97 Radio personality. The first 97 people in line will also receive a free Billy Elliot CD cast recording with purchase.

Playwrights Lynn Nottage and Will Eno were joined by Edward Albee, Elizabeth Ashley, André Bishop, Arthur French, Carlin Glynn, Tony Kushner, Jim Houghton, Peter Masterson, David Margulies, Charles Mee, Christopher Shinn, Lois Smith and Diane Foote, Hallie Foote and Horton Foote, Jr., among others to receive Horton Foote Prizes for Outstanding New American Play and Promising New American Play respectively.

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, the five-time Grammy Award nominated, platinum-selling singer and pianist, will release his new CD Fly Me To The Moon - featuring guitar legend JOE NEGRI - on September 28, 2010. The disc, released through DuckHole Records, will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com and in stores on Tuesday, September 28. The CD is being released in conjunction with 'Michael Feinstein's American Songbook,' the primetime PBS-TV reality/documentary series, which starts airing nationally on Wednesday, October 6. Feinstein and Negri will have a special in-store performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway at 66th Street) at 5:00 PM on Monday, October 18.

92nd Street Y has announced that Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, will embark on a new season of his multi-evening conversation series, "Broadway Talks," with Grammy Award-winning vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tony Award-winning Director Michael Mayer.

TIME STANDS STILL cast members Laura Linney ('The Big C', Sight Unseen on Broadway), Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek, Next to Normal) , Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, 'Law & Order: CI') , Christina Ricci (Monster, The Addams Family), director, Daniel Sullivan (The Merchant of Venice, Proof) and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories) met the press today in anticipation of their Broadway opening.

Yesterday, September 15, the JERSEY BOYS company celebrated 2000 performances on Broadway. JERSEY BOYS opened on Broadway to critical acclaim on November 6, 2005. The show is currently playing in New York; Las Vegas; London; Sydney, Australia; and in cities across the U.S. on a National Tour. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the celebration and brings you photo coverage below!

Hennepin Theatre Trust will host a special 5 p.m. Billy Elliot 'Happy Hour' On Sale Event set for Thursday, Sept. 23 at the State Theatre Box Office in downtown Minneapolis to launch single ticket sales and give those in attendance the best chance for great seats. On that day starting at 5 p.m., tickets will only be sold in person at the State Theatre. Added Happy Hour attractions include refreshments, exclusive offers by Trust restaurant partners and an appearance by BT, the Cities 97 Radio personality. The first 97 people in line will also receive a free Billy Elliot CD cast recording with purchase.

Yesterday, September 14, Tony Award winner Richard Easton, Tony nominee Andre De Shields, Tony nominee Dana Ivey, Tony nominee Laurence Luckinbill, Marni Nixon and more joined special guests New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Katherine Oliver, Commissioner for the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, for the second-annual Broadway Salutes, a unique public celebration honoring the myriad of professionals who have made Broadway great for decades - with special recognition for those individuals who have worked 25, 35 and 50 years in their respective theatrical craft. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below!

92nd Street Y has announced that Jordan Roth, President of Jujamcyn Theaters, will embark on a new season of his multi-evening conversation series, "Broadway Talks," with Grammy Award-winning vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tony Award-winning Director Michael Mayer.

On Wednesday, September 15th at 6:30PM, the Broadway community will gather alongside Stephen Sondheim as the lights of the newly dedicated Stephen Sondheim Theatre marquee are lit for the first time.

Four big-name comedians, Sinbad, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby and Bill Engvall, will end the year with laughter at the Treasure Island Theatre.

Manhattan Theatre Club's (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) American premiere of Tony Award winner Lee Hall's THE PITMEN PAINTERS begins previews tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The play will celebrate a September 30 opening night. Today, the company met the press and BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage below!

According to The Sun today, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is ready to participate in another TV audition to find the West End's newest star.

The Tisch School of the Arts announced today that it will be honoring Tony Award® and Emmy Award® winning actor Billy Crystal, Class of 1970, at its annual gala, The Face of Tisch on Monday, December 6th at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South, V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, in partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and The Women Donors Network, will host two special performances of SWIMMING UPSTREAM directed by Eve Ensler, in New Orleans on September 10th at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre and in New York on September 13th at the Apollo Theatre.