Sean Patrick News

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage John Steinbeck's classic drama, 'Of Mice and Men,' directed by Mark Lamos. Peformances began October 7th and will run through November 1. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel 'The Grapes of Wrath.' The production will honor the late Paul Newman, who was married to Westport's Artistic Director Joanne Woodward and who participated in many Westport Playhouse productions.

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage John Steinbeck's classic drama, 'Of Mice and Men,' directed by Mark Lamos, October 7 through November 1. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel 'The Grapes of Wrath.'

The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) has announced a two-week extension of its newest hit play WIG OUT! by Tarrell Alvin McCraney -- author of the acclaimed play, THE BROTHERS SIZE and the first recipient of The Vineyard's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award in 2007 -- now set to play through November 2.

WIG OUT! at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) will open officially tonight, September 30th, 2008 at 7PM after beginning previews on September 11th

WIG OUT! will officially open at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) tomorrow, September 30th, 2008. The show began previews on Thursday, September 11 and will play a limited engagement through October 19th.

Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre will celebrate its season opener, Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play WIG OUT! and honor New York's ball scene with 'The Stunt and Show,' a one-night-only event featuring red-carpet arrivals and a 9pm performance of WIG OUT! on Wednesday, October 1, at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street).

WIG OUT! at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) will begin previews on Thursday, September 11, one day later than previously announced, due to the need for an additional technical rehearsal.

Actor Erik King, best known for his portrayal of Sergeant James Doakes on Showtime's 'Dexter,' is set to join the cast of Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play WIG OUT! beginning previews September 10 prior to its official press opening September 30 at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street).

Actor Daniel T. Booth -- best known as downtown drag star Sweetie and set to co-star in Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play WIG OUT! beginning previews September 10 prior to its official press opening September 30 at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) -- walks the runway of the hit design reality series 'Project Runway' in an all-drag episode first airing Wednesday, August 20 on Bravo

On Monday, August 11, Jim Caruso's Cast Party presented ExtravaGAINZA:The Songs Of Henry Gainza as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE:WMG), today announced an extension of its long-term worldwide publishing agreement with musical theater, film and television composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

LECTURE, WITH CELLO, by ROBERT MOULTHROP, is a one-person drama with absurdist echoes; a skewed version of music history becomes the platform for an exploration of the conjunction of madness, violence & art. KENT PAUL directs this AEA Approved Showcase Production, featuring TIMOTHY BABCOCK as 'The Professor.'

The OBIE, Drama Desk and Lortel Award-winning Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) will present the final show of their 2007/2008 season: EMANCIPATION, a new play by longtime company member and OBIE Award-winner Ty Jones.

Cabaret and concert star Andrea Marcovicci brings her own captivating high style to the role of the magnificent and mercurial fashion doyenne, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel in 42nd Street Moon's upcoming production of Coco. Alan J. Lerner and Andre Previn's musical memory play - unseen anywhere since the early 1970s -- will preview April 24 and 25, open on April 26, and run through May 11.

The Emelin Theatre, a non-profit performing arts center in Mamaroneck, NY, today announced that Giuseppe Tornatore, director of Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Academy Award-nominated Director John Sayles will screen their latest movies at the Emelin and answer questions from the audience. Tornatore will screen The Unknown Woman on Wednesday, December 5 at 7:30 PM, and Sayles will screen Honeydripper on December 13 at 8:15 PM.

The highly anticipated 'ABC World Premiere Movie Event: A Raisin in the Sun' has been selected to be screened (out of competition) at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, January 23, 2008, it was announced yesterday by the Sundance Institute. This will be the first time that a broadcast network film will be featured at the celebrated festival.

The highly anticipated special three-hour television movie adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun will air as an 'ABC Premiere Event' on Monday, February 25 (8-11PM Eastern), on ABC.

Go for the costumes, go for the music, and go for the amazing Zaza (aka James Beaman) - you'll have a ball without the beach

The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, opens the Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage on July 4. Set in a Chicago newsroom in the late 1920's, this classic Broadway comedy about the nature of media in society is directed by Ron Daniels.