Richard Thomas News

To celebrate the arrival of spring, RACE will take over Times Square on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 11 am - 1 pm and will have nearly two dozen women wear red sequined dresses for the public. This event will also celebrate the fact that RACE is currently the longest-running play of this Broadway season. The women will be coming from all over the city to wear the show's famous red sequined dress, a major plot point in the play.

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. The spring programme includes a diverse range of work for audiences aged 5+ happening in venues small and large, rural and urban, throughout the UK and beyond. Upcoming events include Simple Girl, Kursk, and MUST: The Inside Story.

To celebrate the arrival of spring, RACE will take over Times Square on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 11 am - 1 pm and will have nearly two dozen women wear red sequined dresses for the public. This event will also celebrate the fact that RACE is currently the longest-running play of this Broadway season. The women will be coming from all over the city to wear the show's famous red sequined dress, a major plot point in the play.

GPR Records' first release will be 'Poetic License' featuring 100 poems read by 100 performers of the stage and screen. The CD will be released on April 2nd in celebration of National Poetry Month and will be available on Amazon.com and on itunes. There has never been a spoken word recording that has included so many performers reading such a wide variety of poetry, each selection a personal choice of the performer. GPR Records is presenting this collection in hopes of inspiring audiences with a new appreciation of the spoken word.

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. The spring programme includes a diverse range of work for audiences aged 5+ happening in venues small and large, rural and urban, throughout the UK and beyond. Upcoming events include Simple Girl, Kursk, and MUST: The Inside Story.

The Kennedy Center today announced casting for Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata. The play will star Malcolm Gets as Stephen, John Glover as Mendy, and Chris Hartl as Paul and will run March 20 to April 11, 2010 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, and Yul Vázquez) celebrates the legendary playwright Tennessee Williams with TENN 99, a three-day weekend event, a nonstop, 24/7 marathon celebration of the works of Tennessee Williams. The event will run day and night, all weekend long at The Cherry Lane Theater's 'Cherry Pit' beginning Friday afternoon, March 26th and concluding Sunday evening, March 28th. Admission is free

On Monday, March 15, 2010, the New York Philharmonic celebrated Stephen Sondheim with its star-studded Spring Gala. The show was taped for future airing on PBS. Stay tuned for full photo coverage of the entire concert later this week on BroadwayWorld.com!

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. The spring programme includes a diverse range of work for audiences aged 5+ happening in venues small and large, rural and urban, throughout the UK and beyond. Upcoming events include Simple Girl, Kursk, and MUST: The Inside Story.

The new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas entitled ANNA NICOLE, will debut at London's Royal Opera House in February of next year. The opera centers around the late actress/model Anna Nicole Smith.

The American Theatre Wing announced today that the 2010 Jonathan Larson® Grants will be presented on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 W 42nd Street, 5th Floor) in New York City. This year, Peter Lerman, Daniel Mate, and songwriting team Michael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (book & lyrics) were selected to receive the prestigious grants, totaling $10,000. The evening will include special performances of the recipients' work by Brian d'Arcy James, Kerry Butler and Brad Bass, John Eric Parker, and Ephraim Sykes from Memphis will perform a rarely heard Jonathan Larson song.

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. The spring programme includes a diverse range of work for audiences aged 5+ happening in venues small and large, rural and urban, throughout the UK and beyond. Upcoming events include Simple Girl, Kursk, and MUST: The Inside Story.

RACE, the critically acclaimed new play, written and directed by DAVID MAMET, starring JAMES SPADER, DAVID ALAN GRIER, KERRY WASHINGTON and RICHARD THOMAS, will play its 100th performance on Wednesday, March 3rd at 8:00.

Glen Roven, Peter Fitzgerald, and Richard Cohen are pleased to announce the formation of a new CD label, GPR Records, (www.GPRRecords.com) which will record and distribute Broadway, classical, spoken word, and children's music. GPR aims to surprise listeners with recordings that are both unusual and entertaining

Award-winning actor David Alan Grier and Richard Thomas who are currently starring on Broadway in David Mamet's RACE will host the Canal Room's benefit concert, 'Light for Haiti,' on Sunday, February 28, @ 8 p.m. at The Canal Room ( 285 West Broadway) in Soho.

Award-winning actor David Alan Grier and Richard Thomas who are currently starring on Broadway in David Mamet's RACE will host the Canal Room's benefit concert, 'Light for Haiti,' on Sunday, February 28, @ 8 p.m. at The Canal Room ( 285 West Broadway) in Soho.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the second time this season to decide the eligibility of nine Broadway productions for the 2010 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards®, presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards Administration Committee will meet a total of four times throughout the 2009-2010 season to decide the eligibility for the 2010 Tony Awards.

Fuel produces fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists. The spring programme includes a diverse range of work for audiences aged 5+ happening in venues small and large, rural and urban, throughout the UK and beyond. Upcoming events include Simple Girl, Kursk, and MUST: The Inside Story.

Composed by Richard Thomas, in his first large-scale production since the legendary West End and Broadway hit 'Jerry Springer-The Opera' is partnering with director and choreographer Stephen Mear for a new dance revue called 'Shoes' slated to premiere at Sadler's Wells for a limited engagement September 3-11, 2010.

The New York Times has just announced that David Mamet's A Life in the Theater, will be the famed writer/director's next show to hit the stage on the Rialto. Producer Jeffrey Richards, who is also the producer behind Mamet's Race, currently playing the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and the recent revival of Mamet's Speed the Plow, confirmed that A Life in the Theater would hit Broadway in the fall of 2010.