Robert Klein News

On Wednesday, February 20, 2008, The Friars Club hosted a celebrity luncheon in honor of Friar Robert Klein.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com presented Lucie Arnaz at Broadway at Birdland on Sunday November 18 and Monday November 19 at 7PM.

Penguin Rep, a suburban Equity house formed in 1977 as a community theater, is presenting 'The Goldman Project' in NYC.

The City of New York named a portion of 53rd Street at 8th Avenue after legendary star of stage and screen, Jerry Orbach. The street sign reading 'JERRY ORBACH WAY' was unveiled during a dedication ceremony on Monday, September 17 at 2:30PM on the southwest corner of the block.

The American premiere production of Coram Boy opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre on May 2nd, and BroadwayWorld was there for the star-studded event!

Prolific thespian Richard Harris has reprised his role of King Arthur once again, as he takes to the small screen in Acorn Media's DVD release of Lerner & Loewe's 'Camelot.' Also out is 'The Best of the Tony Awards - The Plays' for the first time individually.

Acorn Media wil release Camelot, The Best of the Tony Awards-The Plays and Wallis and Edward

On May 1, Acorn Media will release home video debut of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, the Tony-nominated revival, mounted for Broadway in the early 1980s at New York's historic Winter Garden Theatre and filmed for television by HBO. It will also release 'The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays' the same day

A benefit reading of the late Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosenweig tonight

A limited number of loge tickets priced at $75 are available to the general public to the performance portion of this year's Lincoln Center Theater benefit, a reading of Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, featuring Tony Award winners Christine Baranski and Stockard Channing, Edie Falco, Ari Graynor, John Michael Higgins, Simon Jones, original cast member Robert Klein, Aaron Krohn and Peter Scanavino, directed by the play's original director Daniel Sullivan, on Monday, March 5 at 7pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater

Adrift in Macao, a new musical with book and lyrics by Christopher Durang and music by Peter Melnick, opened on February 13th at 59E59 Theaters after beginning previews on January 23rd

Producer Scott Siegel has announced the addition of country music legend Larry Gatlin, Jersey Boys star Daniel Reichard, Broadway favorite Charles Busch and jazz band Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Septet to the line-up of talent for the 2007 Nightlife Awards, the one and only 'All Performance Awards Show.'

'The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor' will celebrate Neil Simon, one of America's foremost playwrights, humorists and screenwriters

Robert Klein, Michael Cumpsty and more joined acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz in a discussion of his craft on October 3rd at the Kaufmann Concert Hall

Robert Klein, Lindsay Crouse and Jill Clayburgh will take part in two upcoming readings at the Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts; the readings will honor the theatre's artistic director, playwright Israel Horowitz, who is retiring

Comedian DARRELL HAMMOND best known for his impressions of Bill Clinton, and the entire Bush cabinet (Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld) on NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' has joined the roster for next Monday's COMEDY CARES 3 - benefit for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS at Caroline's on Broadway.

Anne Runofsson, Christine Pedi, Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz are among the stars who have been announced to take part in National Symphony Orchestra's Pops 2006-2007 season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C

Beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died at age 55 of complications from lymphoma

Two new Neil Simon plays have been/will be workshopped this month, while the playwright is also reportedly at work on a sequel to The Sunshine Boys