Tate Donovan News

The New York Times announced today the line up of guests for the Ninth Annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, Jan. 8 to 11. The Times's signature event is a four-day international celebration of the arts with a wide range of activities, from interviews between Times journalists and celebrated guests from the arts, film, music, media and politics, to special offers at cultural institutions around the world. For more information or to purchase advance tickets, which are $30 for each interview, please call 1.888.NYT.1870 or visit www.ArtsAndLeisureWeekend.com. All TimesTalk events will be held at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street.

Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, including a world premiere production, opened over the hot Los Angeles weekend drawing a recognizable crowd to the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City...

Wallace Shawn's The Fever, presented by the New Group in its first revival, opened on January 29th after beginning previews on January 9th.

Peter Gallagher took the stage this past Monday, October 16th at Musical Mondays, a new series of benefit cabarets for The Actors' Fund of America in the lobby of the historic Pantages Theatre.

Marin Hinkle will replace Amy Ryan (A Streetcar Named Desire) for the final week of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which is currently being presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through October 22nd

The Geffen Playhouse will stage the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (starring Amy Ryan, Joyce Van Patten and Tate Donovan), the world premiere of Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will be directed by the playwright