Acclaimed actress Keira Naughton has confirmed plans to conduct an eight-week course, SCENE & MONOLOGUE STUDY, as part of her Drama Society Organization. The laboratory runs on Mondays, from May 10th to June 28th, and auditions are required - please see details below. Naughton has appeared in numerous Broadway and off Broadway productions, and will soon perform the seminal role of Lady Macbeth at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, this July/August.
On Monday, May 10 Annie Award winning actress Jen Cody (Disney's The Princess and the Frog) hosts PLAYSCRIPTS, INC 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA. The evening will take place at 6:00 PM at Caroline's on Broadway (1626 Broadway, NYC) and will benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.
Fresh off American Idiot's official Broadway opening, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong visited the SIRIUS XM studios to talk with On Broadway's Julie James. During the interview, which will air in its entirety during the weekly show Broadway Names with Julie James, Billie Joe shares with listeners his reaction to seeing the multi-platinum and Grammy®-winning album come alive on stage at the St. James Theater.
Today, Women Who Care hosted their 9th Annual Luncheon, celebrating women who serve as role models in their community as caregivers, professionals and volunteers. This year's honorees were Ann Curry, News Anchor, 'The Today Show,' Francine LeFrak, Producer/Philanthropist, Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO The Kaplan Thaler Group, JoanAnn Natola, Managing Partner, Element Financial Group
Dr. Pamela F. Gallin, Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology, New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, and Anita & Gary Geresi, Parent Advocates.
The new musical PROMETHEUS BOUND based on the play by Aeschylus will have its world premiere at The American Repertory Theatre in March 2011. Directing the production will be A.R.T's artistic director Diane Paulus.
Helen Stenborg and Stephen McKinley Henderson have been named to receive the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The award, a $1,000 check and crystal trophy for each, honors a veteran female and male character actor for the best performance in a supporting role in a Broadway or Off-Broadway production.
The Riverside Theatre, Voza Rivers/New Heritage Theatre, and Walk Tall Girl Productions will present Obie Award-winner Daniel Beaty in his new solo play THROUGH THE NIGHT. Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, the New York Premiere of THROUGH THE NIGHT will have a limited engagement, May 4 - May 23, 2010 at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue.
Limelight Theatre and VA based theatre company 1st Stage both in their second seasons are co-producing Tony Award-winning composer (for Parade) Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
USA Today featured an article titled 'Singing 'Sondheim' Praises by Elysa Gardner. The article begins: Don't get theater and cabaret veteran Barbara Cook started on the physical attributes of singer/actress Vanessa Williams, her co-star in Sondheim on Sondheim, the new Broadway musical at Studio 54.
Christian Campbell, the star of Reefer Madness: The Musical, tick, tick... BOOM! and Trick, will headline the cast of the New York premiere of Magnetic North, a play by William Donnelly about the perilous space between flirtation and betrayal.
Tony Award Winner LaChanze will sign copies of her new children's book 'Little Diva' on Tuesday May 11. LaChanze will also be performing the original song that accompanies the book.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tony nominee Jane Fonda will star alongside Catherine Keener in the upcoming indie film 'Peace, Love, and Understanding,' to be directed by Bruce Beresford.
The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St. in Manhattan) will conclude the 12th annual season of its award-winning Mentor Project Series with the debut of Winter Miller's play PATERNITY, performing May 18 through May 29 in the Studio Theatre at Cherry Lane.
'I'm so excited. I'm a late sleeper so I figured last night that if there was going to be good news this morning that I'd find out when i woke up and at least get in a few more hours of my beauty sleep. My boyfriend had called to tell me the news. I just love working on this show. Kristin Chenoweth and I have known each other forever and I'm a huge fan of hers so getting to do a show with her has been great and, God, Sean Hayes is a comedic genius. He's just so generous. The reason that I can do what I do up there is because he encourages complete abandonment. I'm so glad that he's making his Broadway debut in such a huge way.'
terraNOVA Collective honors Nilaja Sun as the 2010 soloNOVA Artist of the Year on May 21 at 8pm in the Downstairs Theater at Performance Space 122 as part of the 7th Annual soloNOVA Arts Festival.
Lynn Redgrave died yesterday, May 3, at the age of 67. She appeared at the Alley Theatre in 1994 with her one woman show Shakespeare For My Father. Her death comes just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave. She was the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and is survived by sister Vanessa Redgrave, a son Ben, and daughters Pema and Annabel.
Yesterday, May 2, Primary Stages concluded its celebratory 25th Anniversary Season with a special celebrity benefit stage reading performance of Godfather IV written by Emmy Award-winner Tom Fontana ('St. Elsewhere,' 'OZ'), with original music by Stephen Elkins. The reading was a collaborative effort between Primary Stages and the Writers Guild of America, East Foundation, for which Fontana is Foundation president. Proceeds from the reading will benefit both organizations. BroadwayWorld was there to capture the event.
