Tamara Tunie News

New York's eternally boundary-pushing theater company Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director and Brittany O'Neill, Managing Director) presented the official Off Broadway premiere of Fault Lines, on September 30th, 2008. The new play by Stephen Belber is directed by David Schwimmer. Performances began Monday, September 22 at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street).

While it may take a village to raise a child, an impressive team of award-winning celebrities along with The Juilliard School, New York State Governor David A. Paterson, and other notables have taken the lead to collaborate in support of students of color at Juilliard via a scholarship benefit concert honoring legendary Juilliard alumnus, Luther Henderson, Mr. Henderson, who died in 2003, was a gifted American arranger, composer and orchestrator with an extraordinary talent for creating music for choreographic movement.

Epic Theater Ensemble, in partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, will host a one-night only special event to benefit Epic's innovative, civic-minded in-school and after-school education programs. Some of today's top writers and performers will honor a large group of First Time Voters with an evening of satirical, scandalous, and inspiring short plays, songs, sketches, and toasts

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers presented the 23rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway on Monday night, May 5, 2008.

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers presented the 23rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway on Monday night, May 5, 2008.

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers presented the 23rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway on Monday night, May 5, 2008 at the Union Square Theatre.

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, in partnership with THE VIERTEL/FRANKEL/BARUCH/ROUTH GROUP and Leap (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program), announced today that Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson ('Law & Order', Come Back, Little Sheba), two-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominated actor Charles S. 'Roc' Dutton, Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio, Henry V) and Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow ('Third Rock from the Sun', Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) headline an impressive roster of Broadway luminaries lending time and support for Fidelity FutureStage, a comprehensive arts education initiative designed to bring professional theater into the classrooms of participating New York City schools.

Jennifer Maloney, one of the producers of the Broadway hit, Spring Awakening, presents the NYC premiere concert of NATEKid. NATEKid, along with an ensemble of prodigious musicians, will be premiering a new genre of music, a fusion of hip-hop and jazz at NYC's legendary club The Cutting Room located at 19 W. 24th St. (between Broadway & 6th Avenue) on April 2, 2008 promptly at 7:30pm.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will hold its highly celebrated annual fundraiser gala, 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare,' on March 29 at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park. Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte and the Board of Trustees of The Shakespeare Theatre are proud to announce that Prudential, a major supporter of The Shakespeare Theatre, will be the 2008 Gala Sponsor. This annual Shakespeare Theatre event kicks off each season and is the theatre's largest fundraiser of the year.

'The Daily Show' and New York stage regular Aasif Mandvi will host the 7th Annual Winter Gala of Epic Theatre Ensemble on Monday February 25 at 6PM at 24 Fifth. Others set to lend their support include Cicely Tyson, Tamara Tunie, Gregory Generet, David Strathairn, Leigh Silverman, Kathleen Chalfant, Gordon Elliot and musical guests The Petersons.

Amas Musical Theatre will celebrate its 39th year with a Gala evening on Monday, March 31 featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' concert performance of Mama, I Want to Sing, a star-studded concert of the gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues hit musical that began at Amas in the early nineteen eighties. The Amas Gala will also honor award winning actress Phylicia Rashad and PricewaterhouseCoopers with 'The Rosie Award', named for Amas Founder Rosetta LeNoire.

The most awarded African-American playwright in history, August Wilson's crowning achievement was his ten-play cycle, August Wilson's 20th Century in which each work is set in a different decade in the 1900's. The cycle, often titled the Pittsburgh Cycle because nine of the ten plays are set in Pittsburgh, chronicles the African-American experience in the 20th century. August Wilson's 20th Century will be presented in a series of staged readings at the Kennedy Center.

Dozens of stars from stage and screen attended the official opening night of Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba on January 24 at Biltmore Theatre.

Dozens of stars of stage and screen attended the Opening Night of the 40th Anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's Tony Award-winning masterwork The Homecoming at The Cort Theatre (138 West 48th St) on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM.

The 40th Anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's Tony Award-winning masterwork The Homecoming officially opened at The Cort Theatre (138 West 48th St) on Sunday, December 16 at 7PM. The After Party was held at Restaurant Bond 45.

Dozens of stars arrived for the official opening night of Tracy Letts' new play, August: Osage County, on Tuesday, December 4 at Imperial Theatre

The highly-anticipated movie-musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd held an exclusive New York City premiere on December 3 at the Ziegfeld Theater. For limited national release December 21, 2007 and wide January 11, 2008.

Rosie O'Donnell's All Kids Foundation Gala was held at the Marriott Marquis on November 19, 2007.

NYMF honored the award-winning shows and artists, along with three young Broadway producers - Robert Ahrens, Pun Bandhu and Jennifer Maloney - at its November 4 Awards Gala at the Hudson Theatre

The New York Musical Theatre Festival announced the winner of the 'Theater for the American Musical (TAM) Award', along with many of the performers who will be appearing at the NYMF Awards Gala, to be held November 4 at the Hudson Theatre.