Theatre Development Fund News

Laura Benanti, Mary Testa, Alice Ripley and Lisa Howard will star in a Joe's Pub concert of Michael John LaChiusa's Little Fish on July 10th

The 21st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Oustanding Achievement Off-Broawday were presented on Monday, May 1st at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street) at 7 PM.

THE LEAGUE OF OFF-BROADWAY THEATRES AND PRODUCERS has announced that THE 21st ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OFF-BROADWAY were presented on Monday, May 1st at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street) at 7 PM. A celebration followed at Ruth's Chris Steak House (148 West 51st Street).

The Theatre Development Fund will open a temporary TKTS Ticket Booth today, Monday, May 1 at 3pm, for same-day discount tickets in the theatre district just outside the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on West 46th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue

Bebe Neuwirth, Paul Rudd, Veanne Cox and Carol Kane will be among the presenters of the Lucille Lortel Awards on May 1st

Tony Award-winner Bryan F. O'Byrne and actress/comedienne Judy Gold have been lined up to host the 21st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, which will take place at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages) on Monday, May 1st at 7 PM

The TKTS Ticket Booth in Times Square's Duffy Square--a New York theatre institution that has offered theatregoers same-day discount tickets for 32 years--will temporarily move into the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on May 1st as the new TKTS home undergoes construction

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).

Nominees for the 2006 Lucille Lortel Awards have been announced

Honoring the legacy of its founder, the late Frederic B. Vogel, The Commercial Theater Institute will once again offer its annual three-day intensive training program, 'Producing for the Commercial Theater,' from April 28th through 30th.

On March 13th, Lincoln Center will host a tribute to late playwright Wendy Wasserstein at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre

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The 2006 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards have been announced, with Franco Zeffirelli the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design Award

CanStage announces the line-up for 2006/07 including a return engagement of THE OVERCOAT!

The League of American Theatres and Producers has awarded its coveted New York Education Grants to education programs for the hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the recently opened play, Rabbit Hole.

A memorial service for Frederic B. Vogel, founder and President of the Commercial Theater Institute, producer, and one of the theatre community's most respected and knowledgeable management advisors, will be held on Thursday, February 9 at 1:30 p.m.

Beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died at age 55 of complications from lymphoma

Nominations for the Lucille Lortel Awards will be announced on April 4th, with the awards ceremony to be held on May 1st

The life and works of August Wilson are discussed in the latest issue of Play by Play, TDF's theatre newsletter written by and for teens

A memorial service for Frederic B. Vogel, founder and President of the Commercial Theater Institute, producer, and one of the theatre community's most respected and knowledgeable management advisors, will be held on Thursday, February 9 at 1:00 p.m. at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue).