Second Stage Theatre News

Douglas Carter Beane's new play The Little Dog Laughed will close following the matinee performance on Sunday, February 18. The acclaimed Broadway comedy, which is currently the only new American play to have opened on Broadway this season, features Tom Everett Scott, Julie White, Johnny Galecki, and Ari Graynor.

Two-time Emmy Award-winner Daniel J. Travanti ('Hill Street Blues') will make his New York stage debut in the New York premiere of The Last Word… --a new play by Oren Safdie, author of the Off-Broadway hit Private Jokes, Public Places--with Off-Broadway previews to begin January 30, prior to an official opening February 8, at Theatre at St. Clement's in Manhattan

The American Theatre Wing's Grants Program will honor its 2006 grant recipients, 53 New York City not-for-profit theatres that reflect the range of diversity of New York's theatres, at a luncheon at Sardi's on December 7 at noon.

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Christopher Evan Welch and Anna Camp round out the cast for Theresa Rebeck's The Scene, which will be presented at Second Stage

An extra performance has been added for Douglas Carter Beane's Hollywood satire The Little Dog Laughed, which is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre

'Monk' star and theatre veteran Tony Shalhoub will join the previously-announced Patricia Heaton for the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's The Scene

Due to rearrangement of his schedule, Johnny Galecki will not miss the first two preview performances of Broadway's The Little Dog Laughed

Johnny Galecki will miss the first two preview performances of Broadway's The Little Dog Laughed

This month, jazz musician, actress and comedian Lea DeLaria will headline two industry readings of the new jazz musical Play It Cool

The first national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will come to The Merriam Theater at 250 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia from Tuesday, October 17 through Sunday, October 22, 2006 for eight performances

Stage and screen actress Sandy Duncan will 'coax the blues right out of the horn,' as she makes her Barrington Stage debut as the glamorous Mame Dennis in a semi-staged concert version of Jerry Herman's legendary musical 'Mame,' directed by Julianne Boyd. BSC's first fall production in its new home in Pittsfield, at 30 Union Street, will run for two weeks from October 4 through 15.

Ari Graynor will complete the cast of Douglas Carter Beane's Broadway-bound Hollywood satire The Little Dog Laughed, which will be leashed to the Cort Theatre on October 26th for a November 13th opening

Heather MacRae, Anne L. Nathan and Clifford David will star in Disorder: A Mother-Daughter Vaudeville at Barrington Stage Company

Second Stage Theatre has shuffled the schedule for its upcoming 2006-2007 season. In addition, Tripp Cullman has been announced to helm the New York premiere of Terrence McNally's Some Men and Rebecca Taichman will do the same for Theresa Rebeck's The Scene

Tom Everett Scott, Julie White and Johnny Galecki will star in the Broadway transfer of The Little Dog Laughed, which opens on November 13th at the Cort Theatre

The American Theatre Wing's Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee has nominated 57 theater artists for recognition of their outstanding work in 39 productions presented during the 2005-2006 New York theater season

Kieran Culkin will return to the stage in Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia, which will be presented by Second Stage Theatre beginning in September

Keira Naughton will headline Barrington Stage Company's upcoming production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Wonder of the World

Barrington Stage Company has announced updates in its Musical Theatre Lab schedule, including the extension of The Burnt Part Boys and the addition of Travels with My Discontent and Disorder: A Mother/Daughter Vaudeville