Phylicia Rashad News

The musicals that will be presented as part of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival have been announced

Ghostlight Records, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records, will release the premiere recording of Bernarda Alba on Tuesday, July 11th

On June 12th, The York Theatre Company presented some of Broadway's brightest stars singing the songs of emerging composers and lyricists in 'NEO2,' and BroadwayWorld was there for the event!

Tonight at York Theatre Company, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will host two sold-out performances of 'NEO2' at 6:00pm and 9:00pm; the evening will feature some of Broadway's brightest stars

Sh-K-Boom Records is now accepting pre-orders for the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa's Bernarda Alba

Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiva Rose, Marian Seldes and Kerry Washington will be among the starry line-up taking part in a reading of Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets on June 12th

Due to overwhelming demand, and with the 9pm performance sold out, York Theatre Company has announced an additional performance of 'NEO2,' a benefit concert celebrating emerging musical theatre writers, at 6:00pm on Monday June 12th

Variety reports this morning that the dynamic producing duo of Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are bringing another show to the small screen - A Raisin in the Sun, which will go before the cameras in December for a 2007 airing on ABC featuring the leads of the Broadway revival - Sean 'Diddy' Coms, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.

On Tony Career Day, New York City Department Of Education theatre students from all five boroughs will gather together on Tuesday, May 23rd to learn what it really takes to be a theatre professional

On June 12th, the York Theatre Company's NE02 benefit concert will feature the work of emerging musical theatre songwriters, as performed by stars such as Stephanie J. Block, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Phylicia Rashad and Michael Rupert

Tony Award-winners Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun), Natasha Richardson (Cabaret) and Liev Schreiber (Glengarry Glen Ross) announced nominations for the 60th Annual Tony Awards on Tuesday, May 16th at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium

Announced this morning and reported on live at BroadwayWorld.com, we've got all the nominees for the 2006 Tony Awards, which will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 11th.

The 51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, Off Broadway's highest honor, were handed out last tonight at the Skirball Center on the campus of New York University in a ceremony hosted by Lili Taylor and Eric Bogosian presented by S. Epatha Merkerson, Christine Ebersole, Edward Hibbert, Douglas Carter Beane, Phylicia Rashad and Oskar Eustis.

On Sunday, May 21, 2006, the New York Musical Theatre Festival will host UNLEASHING THE NEXT LINK, a celebration to kick-off the new theater season and to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's NYMF Next Link Project, as well as a peak at many of the invited works.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today to decide eligibility of thirteen Broadway productions for the 2006 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards®, presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing.

Sam Waterston has joined the star-studded cast of Our Time Theatre Company's June 12th benefit

Tickets for the 60th Annual Tony Awards will go on sale on May 16th

Tony Award-winners Phylicia Rashad, Natasha Richardson and Liev Schreiber will announce nominations for the 60th Annual Tony Awards on Tuesday, May 16th at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium

Marking the 60th annual presentation of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, XM Satellite Radio will launch a four week series of encore episodes of 'Downstage Center,' featuring interviews with Tony Award-winners