The Donmar Warehouse News

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley will perform at the Blue Note jazz club from May 30th through June 4th

On February 23rd, Ian McKellen will begin his run in the Donmar Warehouse's production of Mark Ravenhill's The Cut

Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street), will present legendary concert artist Barbara Cook in a five-week engagement beginning March 1.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

The nominations have been released for the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards. The ceremony for this year's awards will take place at the Park Lane Hilton on February, 2006. Leading the pack this year are Billy Elliot with nine nominations, and Guys and Dolls with eight.

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley will guest star on an upcoming episode of the NBC crime drama 'Law and Order: SVU'

The Donmar Warehouse's 2006 season will be high in star-power, with performances by Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Derek Jacobi, Claire Higgins, Michael Sheen and others

Patti LuPone's latest solo CD, The Lady with the Torch, will be released by Ghostlight Records in April

Rebecca Pidgeon, Alicia Silverstone and Mary Steenburgen will headline David Mamet's Boston Marriage, which will run from February 8th through March 12th at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse.

Billy and the Donmar pick up major awards, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf transfers, Dawn French joins Kathy Burke for Smaller and two shows post closing notices

The New York Times reports that Ana Gasteyer has joined the cast of Roundabout's 'Threepenny Opera' for which previews will beging on March 24th.

The 2005 Evening Standard Awards have been announced, with Billy Elliot and The Home Place winning the top awards

The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.

From November 4th through 12th, Sue Costello will perform in her one-woman show The Evolution of a Sexy Mutha FuKah!! at the Zipper Theatre

Kathryn Frawley and Chris Neuner are pleased to announce the return of Infertility: the musical that's hard to conceive, which was previously seen in New York as part of the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.

Casting beings for Michael Grandage's production of Evita, Jason Robert Brown does more concerts before a possible Last Five Years production and Joanna Riding does another play

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley will offer a series of master classes in Song Interpretation from September 19th through 29th in New York City

The Australian paper Sydney Confidential has reported that Hugh Jackman is being considered for the role of Max Von Mayerling in the film version of Sunset Boulevard

Neil LaBute's Some Girls, which stars David Schwimmer, will open at the Gielgud Theatre on May 24th

Outstanding high school theatre students will be rewarded at the Betty Lynn Buckley Awards on May 16th at Fort Worth's Casa Manana Theatre