Richard Thomas News

The opera based on the life of tabloid queen Anna Nicole Smith opened at Royal Opera House in February, and now the show has just been released on DVD and Bluray.

The Red Bull Theater will present a benefit reading of Ben Jonson's Volpone on Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 7:30 pm.

Labyrinth Theater Company has announced final casting for the World Premiere Production of The Atmosphere of Memory by David Bar Katz. Performances begin Saturday, October 15th with Opening Night scheduled for October 30th at Labyrinth's new home, the Bank Street Theater for a limited engagement through Sunday, November 13th.

Mary McDonough, who may be best known for the role of Erin Walton that she created and played for over a decade on the hits series 'The Waltons,' has penned a memoir, which is the winner of the Ella Dickey Literacy Award, entitled of Lessons From the Mountain: What I Learned From Erin Walton (Kensington Publishers). McDonough has taken her book on the road, signing and speaking in various venues. She appeared at the Barnes & Noble at 2289 Broadway in New York City yesterday. View photos from the event below!

Mary McDonough has declared her New York début of Lessons From the Mountain: What I Learned From Erin Walton, featuring a Q&A with TV brother, Richard Thomas, as a success.

From post-performance discussions to an LGBT Night, Westport Country Playhouse will offer several special events and opportunities surrounding its Tennessee Williams centennial production, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' written by Williams and directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director.

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial, Westport Country Playhouse will stage Tennessee Williams' poetic, sensual and evocative drama, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' directed by Playhouse associate artistic director David Kennedy, playing August 23 - September 10.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) announces casting for the second week of the popular reading series, NEW WORK NOW!, running thru Sunday, September 18 in The Public's Martinson Theater (425 Lafayette Street). Casting for the free readings includes Donald Moffat, Richard Thomas, Michael Cristofer, Veanne Cox, Peter Francis James, Bill Heck, and S. Epatha Merkerson. All readings are free and open to the public and may be reserved by contacting the box office at (212) 967-7555.

Barnes And Noble bookstores are set to welcome Tom Perrotta, Calvin Trillin, Jackie Collins, Michael Moore, Goldie Hawn, Joel Osteen, Jermaine Jackson, Perez Hilton, Eoin Colfer, Jane Lynch, Karl Marlantes, Dyan Cannon, Florence Henderson, Neal Stephenson, Lee Child, John Lithgow, Alton Brown, Molly Shannon, Peter Carey & John Freeman with Phil Klay & Samantha Smith, Jim Lehrer in conversation with Jon Meacham, Toure with Charles Blow, Marc Lamont Hill & Nelson George, Mary McDonough in conversation with Richard Thomas, and many more this month.

Quintessence Theatre Group launches its second season with two classic comedies: Carlo Goldoni's THE VENETIAN TWINS, in a translation by Ranjit Bolt, and William Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, to be presented in repertory and directed by Alexander Burns.

This Summer, Manhattan Repertory Theatre will be presenting 18 new plays featuring some of this country's finest playwrights, actors and directors in a theatrical celebration of new work - MRT's SUMMER ONE ACT PLAY SERIES 2011. Tickets are $20. For reservations call: (646) 329-6588.

In celebration of Tennessee Williams' centennial year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage a special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in 'A Distant Country Called Youth,' based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams, on Monday, August 29, 7 p.m.

Though most well-known to Broadway babies for his starring role in the original Broadway production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's JEKYLL & HYDE, over the last few decades Robert Cuccioli has carved out quite a career for himself as a performer of considerable range, as his resume amply evidences: from LES MISERABLES and CAMELOT in the 80s and early 90s, to Maury Yeston's PHANTOM and the original Off-Broadway production of the Susan Stroman-directed Kander & Ebb revue AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND, as well as Woody Allen's CELEBRITY starring Kenneth Branagh, to JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS as well as a string of Shakespeare roles in the 00s, all the way up to today and his participation in three brand new original musicals - in between rehearsing Iago for an upcoming production of OTHELLO, of course - including: Bruce Hornsby's SCKBSTD, CUTMAN: THE BOXING MUSICAL, and his own solo show, A STANDARD LOVE. Discussing many aspects of these enterprises and much more - and even a comment or two on LONE STAR LOVE and the Quaids' shenanigans - Cuccioli also shares all about his upcoming appearance at Feinstein's in BROADWAY LIVE! and what we can expect from him on Monday night, as well as in the future, near and far - with his long-awaited solo album of romantic standards included!

Primary Stages will host the Fifth Annual New York One-Minute Play Festival, the proceeds from which will benefit the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA).

From post-performance discussions to an LGBT Night, Westport Country Playhouse will offer several special events and opportunities surrounding its Tennessee Williams centennial production, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' written by Williams and directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director.

From post-performance discussions to an LGBT Night, Westport Country Playhouse will offer several special events and opportunities surrounding its Tennessee Williams centennial production, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' written by Williams and directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director.

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial, Westport Country Playhouse will stage Tennessee Williams' poetic, sensual and evocative drama, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' directed by Playhouse associate artistic director David Kennedy, playing August 23 - September 10.

Long before the stage saw puppets having sex and Ugandans confronting Mormons, there was JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA, a joyously foul-mouthed stage musical that's as much of a hilarious guilty pleasure as its title suggests. The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills is the latest American regional theater to take on this racy, over-the-top show. Due to popular demand--and, frankly, rightly so--this surreal musical's run has been extended through August 14. At the height of its popularity, Jerry Springer's eponymous TV program which inspired this reverent parody cornered the market in shocking reveals, loud on-stage brawls, and outrageous fringe parades. So the idea that this low-brow talk show-slash-circus sideshow has somehow been immortalized into a musical theater piece--specifically an Opera, perhaps the most high-brow of the Arts--attracts nothing less than amusing curiosity.

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial, Westport Country Playhouse will stage Tennessee Williams' poetic, sensual and evocative drama, 'Suddenly Last Summer,' directed by Playhouse associate artistic director David Kennedy, playing August 23 - September 10.

A special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in A Distant Country Called Youth, based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams.