The Actors' Fund of America News

We recently sat down with Frank Conway of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to learn about some upcoming events they have planned... and get the backstage lowdown on crazy happenings!

On February 27th, Jay Harnick, the co-founder and former artistic director of TheatreWorks USA, died at the age of 78 after suffering a long illness.

In anticipation of the upcoming 12th Annual 'There's Nothing Like a Dame' benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Phyllis Newman hosted a reception in her home

On Sunday, February 11th at 7 AM, Smooth Jazz CD 101.9's 'Sunday's at 7 with Paul Cavalconte' will feature The Drowsy Chaperone's Tony Award-winning star and author Bob Martin

On Friday, February 9th at 12:20 p.m. (ET), The Drowsy Chaperone's Tony Award-winning-star Bob Martin and Grammy Award-nominated musical director Phil Reno will be interviewed on WCBS Radio

Drowsy Chaperone's Burstein and Smith on Sirius Radio's 'Broadway's Best'

Make way for the Dames! Coming March 19, 2007 at 8:00 PM at the Marquis Theatre (1565 Broadway), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS presents The 12th Annual NOTHING LIKE A DAME benefiting The Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America.

The Zipper Theatre, Ryan Hill and John Johnson are pleased to announce a one-night only, newly adapted concert version of WORKING, the 1978 musical adapted from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This one-night only premiere concert event to benefit the Actor's Fund of America will take place on Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street, between 8 th and 9th Avenues).

A limited edition, vinyl album of the Grammy Award-nominated original cast recording of the five-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will be released by Ghostlight Records on Valentine's Day, Wednesday, February 14

The 12th Annual Nothing Like a Dame concert will take place on March 19th

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present interviews with actress Daphne Rubin-Vega and executive directors Joseph P. Benincasa and Tom Viola, of The Actors Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, respectively, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway

Hollywood was alive with the sounds of a bygone era, as Tony nominated actress, dancer and film star Valarie Pettiford dazzled with a cabaret performance in the Pantages Theatre lobby December 4...

The life and legacy of Eddie Weston, a veteran Broadway and film dancer and former Actors' Equity, Actors' Fund of America and Career Transition for Dancers official, will be celebrated at memorial services in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, November 17, and Monday, November 20

Valarie Pettiford will perform in Los Angeles on December 4th

A song list has been announced for The Country Music Association (CMA)'s second annual 'Broadway Meets Country' gala benefit concert, featuring a star-studded line-up of Broadway talent and country music stars

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.

On October 18th, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia! celebrated five years on Broadway!

In celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Mamma Mia! on Broadway, BroadwayWorld is pleased to bring you this montage of clips from the international smash hit!

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Joanna Gleason and David Henry Hwang will be among the members of the 2006-2007 Tony Award Nominating Committee