The Goodman Theatre News

Casting is set for the world premiere of Richard Nelson's Frank's Home, which will begin performances at the Goodman Theatre on November 25th toward a December 5th opening

Playwright Mark Schultz is the recipient of The National Arts Club's 2006 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting. The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to a playwright of exceptional promise.

The acclaimed Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA will present Kander and Ebb's The Visit, which will be presented as the first show of its 2007-2008 season

The Kander and Ebb musical All About Us, based on the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, will be presented at the Westport Country Playhouse in CT from April 10th through 28th, 2007.

Broadway will likely be bringing up the Kander-Ebb-Holmes musical Curtains during the 2006-2007 theatre season

Chita Rivera will perform in Australia--in Sydney from August 12th through 19th and Melbourne from August 26th through 29th

Casting is now complete for the highly anticipated world premiere of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains, which will begin previews at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre on July 25th, open on August 9th and run through September 10th

Sigourney Weaver will return to the stage in Crazy Mary, a world premiere play by A.R. Gurney that will be presented at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage in May of 2007

Applications are now being accepted by the Fred Ebb Foundation for the second annual Fred Ebb Award

Chita Rivera has signed on to the starry roster of Tony Awards presenters; she will join 60 other stars in hosting the Tonys, which will be broadcast live on June 11th

Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense will have its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in spring of 2007

Patti LuPone, John Kander, Donna Murphy and many more stars watched Chita Rivera receive New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at their spring luncheon on May 18th, and BroadwayWorld was there!

On May 18th, Chita Rivera will be presented with the New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at a luncheon featuring dozens of stars

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

The Fred Ebb Foundation in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the guidelines for the second annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters, the winner of which will be announced this November

On May 18th, New Dramatists will present Chita Rivera with a Career Achievement Awrd

Keira Naughton, Jana Robbins and more will join the previously-announced F. Murray Abraham and Deborah S. Craig in the March 27th reading of Charles L. Mee's The Mail Order Bride