The Goodman Theatre News

On March 27th, F. Murray Abraham and Deborah S. Craig will star in a reading of Charles L. Mee's The Mail Order Bride

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On March 6th, playwright, director and McCarter Theatre artistic director Emily Mann will be featured at Shop Talk

Complete casting for Romance, starring John Mahoney, has been announced; the play will run at Chicago's David Mamet Festival from April 1st through 23rd at the Goodman Theatre

Telecharge.com has posted an alert that today's matinee performance of Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life has been cancelled today due to the snow.

On February 6th, the male ensemble of Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life will perform a skit at Splash; there will also be a raffle

Cast members of The Light in the Piazza will appear at Joe's Pub on Monday, February 6th in a one-night-only cabaret performance titled The Lights of the Piazza.

The Drama Desk Award-winning Keen Company presents the first New York revival of Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning play Children of a Lesser God

Katie Clarke, Patti Cohenour, Aaron Lazar and other cast members from the hit musical will perform at Joe's Pub on February 6th as The Lights of the Piazza

Debra Monk, Karen Ziemba and Edward Hibbert will join David Hyde Pierce in the pre-Broadway world premiere of Kander and Ebb's Curtains at the Ahmanson Theatre in LA this summer

Curtains, the long-in-development Kander and Ebb murder mystery musical comedy, will play a pre-Broadway run at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. this summer; David Hyde-Pierce will star

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life will feature the addition of 'America' from West Side Story beginning this weekend

A full cast and creative team are now in place for the Center Theatre Group's production of The Cherry Orchard, running from February 2nd through March 29th, and starring Alfred Molina and Annette Bening

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life may be embarking on a national tour in 2007

An interview with Chita Rivera will be aired on CUNY TV on December 9th (with a repeat on December 11th)

Broadway legend Chita Rivera will play seven performances a week in The Dancer's Life, which begins Broadway previews on November 23rd and opens on December 11th

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life will extend yet another week at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre; it will now stay through November 6th

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life has extended its run at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and will now end its limited engagement there on October 30th

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.

Beginning Monday, October 3, Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom, will return to the title role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at The Majestic Theatre.