Tony Kushner News

We Will Rock You closes after four years, Judi Dench's Hay Fever opens with a top price of £60, Evita is officially launched and Caroline or Change plans London run

Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change will receive a London production at the National Theatre in mid-October; George C. Wolfe will direct

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA has announced the availability of applications for the 2006 Princess Grace Awards in Theater and Playwriting with application and postmark deadlines of March 31, 2006

Taboo star Euan Morton will release NewClear, his first solo CD in March of 2006

On March 27th, 2006, Eugene O'Neill will be the subject of the PBS documentary series 'American Experience'

From December 8th through 11th, four one-act plays will be presented as part of DirectorFest 2005

Deb Margolin has been awarded the Kesselring Prize for Playwriting

Joe Gallagher will temporarily replace Euan Morton for the Yale Repertory Theatre run of Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's Brundibar, which plays with Comedy on a Bridge

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) with direction by Michael Greif (Rent).

Anika Noni Rose, Ethan Hawke, Cynthia Nixon and others performed in a benefit for The Public Theater at Esquire Downtown on November 3rd

Ethan Hawke, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie Perez, Billy Porter and Anika Noni Rose will perform at a November 3rd benefit performance for the Public Theater

Rita Moreno and Delroy Lindo will be two of the readers in Once Upon a Wild Thing: Celebrating The Works of Maurice Sendak during the Berkeley run of Sendak's and Tony Kushner's Brundibar and Comedy on a Bridge

Mikhail Baryshnikov has been chosen as the first recipient of the inaugural Prince Rainier III Award, which will be presented to him by Prince Alber II at the Princess Grace Awards, with Bebe Neuwirth, Edie Falco and Alan Cumming in attendance

A two-part documentary on The Public Theater will be aired on PBS' WNET station on October 21st and 28th

Euan Morton and William Youmans will respectively star in Brundibar and Comedy on a Bridge, two one-act opera collaborations between Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak that will play engagments in CA and CT before moving to New York

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.

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

Holy Cross Sucks!, billed as a Comedy About the Tragedy of High School, will run from August 31st to October 1st at Ars Nova, with opening night set for Sept. 9

'Brundibar/Comedy on the Bridge' with libretto by Tony Kushner and designs by Maurice Sendak set for Berkeley Rep in November and then NYC bound in April