Swoosie Kurtz News

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of The Memory Library by Joe Waechter, directed by Pam MacKinnon.

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage the delicious comedy Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn, reuniting author, director and cast members from one of last season's biggest hits, Relatively Speaking.

Christopher Sieber (Spamalot) and Paul Reubens ('Pee Wee's Playhouse') will guest star on 'Pushing Daises' on Wednesday November 21.

Ars Nova presents, as part of the OUT LOUD series, a free reading of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Joanna Settle. Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat on Monday, October 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova

An array of stars recently attended the Public Theater's party for Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, and BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet!

Tony Award-winner Swoosie Kurtz, most recently seen on Broadway in Heartbreak House, recently visited with Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens stars Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson backstage at the hit musical.

The 2007 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing, aired live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS on Sunday, June 10th. Stars from the worlds of theatre, film and TV strolled down the red carpet before the ceremony!

A star-studded after-party followed the 2007 Tony Awards, which took place at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 10th!

The casts of dozens of Broadway shows took part in the annual concert 'Stars in the Alley,' which was held in Shubert Alley on June 6th, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the event!

Kevin Spacey, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Xanthe Elbrick, Swoosie Kurtz, Jan Maxwell, Martha Plimpton and Julie White will join the casts of dozens of Broadway show for the annual concert 'Stars in the Alley

The Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for all media covering New York theatre, presented its annual awards ceremony on Thursday, May 24th at the legendary Sardi's Restaurant, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On May 17th, New Dramatists presented their 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee at the group's 58th Annual Benefit Luncheon, and BroadwayWorld was there for the star-studded gala event!

Dylan McDermott, Peter Krause, Jill Clayburgh, Taye Diggs, Kristin Chenoweth, Jim Dale, Swoosie Kurtz, Christina Applegate, Jean Smart, Frances O'Connor, Victor Garber, Laura Benanti, Loretta Devine and Judy Greer will be among the theatre veterans featured in new shows as part of ABC's fall TV line-up.

On May 17th, a Meet the Nominees Press Reception for 2007 Tony Award-nominees was held at the Marriott Marquis' The View restaurant, and BroadwayWorld captured all of the excitement!

E! Online reports that 'Eli Stone,' a pilot with Broadway's Laura Benanti among its stars, has been picked up by ABC.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will present its annual Monte Cristo Award posthumously to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein in recognition of her distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the American theater exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's standard of excellence.

Comic playwright Christopher Durang talks with BWW about musicals, politics, maturity, and the hits & misses of his career.

Ars Nova (voted 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine), as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, presents THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Alex Timbers. THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read by Jeff Binder, Elliotte Crowell, Billy Eichner, Sam Forman, Van Hansis, David Josefsberg, Julie Lake, Maggie Lauren, Austin Lysy, Reginald Veneziano and Taylor Wilcox on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). A Neanderthal woman and Cro-Magnon man embark on a passionate love affair at the very dawn of time. But fate, not to mention an assortment of mystics, priestesses, dwarfs, and beautful blonde Californian twins have other things in store for them. Things that could threaten their very existence! Can love survive? Find out in THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, the world's first genocidal romantic comedy. RACHEL SHUKERT (Writer) is a playwright and author based in New York City. Her plays include Bloody Mary (NYIT Award nominee), Sequins for Satan, The Blackstone Hotel, and Soiled Linens. Her work has been developed and produced at Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Culture Project, the Ontological/Hysteric, and the EVOLVE series at Galapagos. In 2003, she was the Playwright-in-Residence at e74 productions in Amsterdam, and her work was performed extensively throughout the Netherlands. As a performer, she has appeared with Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theater, in New York and internationally; Les Freres Courbusier, the T.E.A.M., Salt Theater, e74, and with her own company, the Bushwick Hotel, which she founded in 2002 with the director Stephen Brackett. She is a regular contributor to Nerve.com (2005 ASME finalist, 2006 'Best Writing' Webby Award) and her work will be featured in their latest print anthology. She has also contributed to Heeb Magazine, McSweeney's, Babble, Culturebot, and Critical Moment. Her upcoming collection of essays, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard. ALEX TIMBERS (Director) Recent credits include Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actor's Playhouse and 59E59), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop; OBIE Award- NYC and Garland Award, Best Director- LA), Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse), underground with David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave and US tour), Boozy (Culture Project- 10 Best of 2005, Daily News and Time Out), Marge (Summer Play Festival), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival), and Heddatron (HERE). Alex is a Williamstown Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Director of award-winning theater company Les Freres Corbusier. OUT LOUD has attracted a variety of the industry's top artists, including writers Stephen Belber, Jorge Cortinas, Daniel Goldfarb, Stephen Guirgis, Rinne Groff, Rogelio Martinez, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Julian Sheppard, Jonathan Marc Sherman; directors Peter Askin, Jo Bonney, David Esbjornson, Moises Kaufman, Brian Kulick, James Lapine, Lisa Peterson, David Warren; and actors Jason Biggs, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Sean Leonard, Marsha Mason, Denis O'Hare, Rosie Perez, Paul Rudd, Mercedes Reuhl, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Swoosie Kurtz, David Strathairn, Fred Weller. Ticket & Schedule Information THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out www.arsnovanyc.com.

The American Theatre Wing's upcoming 'Working in the Theatre' will feature four accomplished Broadway actresses - Blair Brown, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz and Julie White- on CUNY TV on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce a one-week extension of the Off-Broadway revival of Suddenly Last Summer now through Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 7:30PM!