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.
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.
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.
Dozens of movie and Broadway stars came out Thursday, October 4 for the opening night of the Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre.
On June 21st, the Snapple Theater Center - currently home to the Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks and to the long-running mystery Perfect Crime - named once of its two stages after the late Broadway legend Jerry Orbach, who created the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks' original 1960 production.
Radio Golf, August Wilson's final work in his 10 play Century Cycle, the historic decade-by-decade portrait of 20th Century African-American life, will play its final performance at the matinee Sunday, July 1st at Broadway's Cort Theatre
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!
Tony Award-winners Carol Channing, James Earl Jones and Tommy Tune were honored by the American Theatre Wing in a benefit at Cipriani 42nd Street on Monday, June 4th
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!
BroadwayWorld takes you into the press room and star-studded VIP reception for the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!
