Primo News

'High School Musical 2,' the sequel to Disney's smash TV hit, broke a number of viewership records.

Tonight's the night that Disney Channel debuts 'High School Musical 2!' It's finally here, and everybody's still writing about it!

Olivier Award-winner Anthony Sher will play the fiery 19th century Shakespearean actor of the title in an upcoming West End production of Jean Paul Sartre's Kean, which will begin previews at the Apollo Theatre on May 24th and open on May 30th for a limited run.

Victoria Clark and Norbert Leo Butz will be among the presenters at the Outer Critics Awards ceremony at Sardi's on May 25th

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

Jersey Boys took home Best Musical, and The History Boys and The Drowsy Chaperone lead the pack with 4 wins each.

Nominations for the 51 st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today at The New York Friars Club by theater notables Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie, who revealed the nominees for the 2005/2006 theater season in front of a crowd of theater professionals at the press conference this morning.

'The Pajama Game' Heads the List with 8 Nominations followed by 'Grey Gardens' with 7 Nominations and 'The Drowsy Chaperone' and 'Jersey Boys' with 6 Nominations

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President; Roger T. Danforth and Gabriel Shanks, Co-Managing Directors) proudly announces nominations for the 2005-06 Drama League Awards, to be awarded at the 72nd Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 5, 2006 (Noon) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of Alan Bennett's THE HISTORY BOYS, will open on Sunday, April 23, 2006 on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with the National's acting company for a 20-week limited engagement.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the first time in the 2005-2006 season to decide eligibility for the first five Broadway shows to open this season and to announce a new Tony Award category, Best Performance by an Actor/Actress Recreating a Role.

PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, will extend its run at the Music Box Theatre for one more week, through Sunday, August 14.

Sir Antony Sher's solo play is adapted from Primo Levi's book of imprisonment in Auschwitz

Sir Anthony Sher, currently starring in Primo at the Music Box Theatre, will appear at Barnes and Noble on July 18th to discuss his book Primo Time

Sir Anthony Sher's adaptation of a memoir by the Italian writer, chemist and Holocaust survivor of the title, Primo will open at the Music Box Theatre on July 11th

Bill Kenwright and Thelma Holt will bring the acclaimed National Theatre of Great Britain production of PRIMO, starring Antony Sher as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, to Broadway this summer for 32 performances only beginning Friday, July 8 through Sunday, August 7. Opening night for PRIMO, which is based on Levi's memoir Survival in Auschwitz, as adapted for the stage by Antony Sher, and directed by Richard Wilson, is Monday, July 11 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45 Street).