Tony Taccone News

The 2010 Grammy Nominations were announced this morning. Carrie Fisher received a nomination in the Best Spoken Word Album category for her bestselling memoir WISHFUL DRINKING.

Even as it prepares for the holidays with Aurélia's Oratorio, celebrates the success of American Idiot, and gives thanks for the simultaneous Broadway outings of two shows developed on its stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre looks to the future.

This weekend, Wishful Drinking's Carrie Fisher, will appear on WCBS 2 News on Sunday, November 29th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2.

This weekend, Wishful Drinking's Carrie Fisher, will appear on WCBS 2 News on Sunday, November 29th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2.

Tomorrow, November 24th, Carrie Fisher, star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Wishful Drinking, will appear on CBS' 'Late Show with David Letterman' between 11:35AM-12:35AM on channel 2.

Tomorrow, November 24th, Carrie Fisher, star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Wishful Drinking, will appear on CBS' 'Late Show with David Letterman' between 11:35AM-12:35AM on channel 2.

TINY KUSHNER makes West Coast premiere at Berkeley Rep, begins previews on October 16, opens October 21, and closes November 29.

Carrie Fisher, star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Wishful Drinking, will be live in studio Tuesday, November 17th on NBC's 'Today Show' between 10:00-11:00AM on channel 4.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Education Director Greg McCaslin and Composer Adam Gwon will be featured on WABC's 'Viewpoint' on Sunday, November 15th at 5:30AM. Tune in to learn about the Roundabout's Education program and mission over the past year.

At Berkeley Repertory Theatre, opportunities abound for teens who want to explore acting, directing, playwriting, and producing - and now is the time to get involved. The Tony Award-winning company, which currently has two shows playing on Broadway, invites local high-school students to participate in the eighth annual Teen One-Acts Festival.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Jonathan Reinis, Jamie Cesa, Eva Price & Berkeley Repertory Theatre, is pleased to announce a two-week extension of Wishful Drinking, created and performed by Carrie Fisher. Directed by Tony Taccone, the Broadway premiere production will extend through January 17th, 2010.

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY WISHFUL DRINKING Creator & Star Carrie Fisher will be featured on TV tomorrow Tuesday, November 10th CNN's 'Campbell Brown' Between 8:00PM - 9:00PM on channel 78, CNN Headline News' 'The Joy Behar Show' Between 9:00PM - 10:00PM on channel 58

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis with Tony Award winner Julie White as 'Roxanne'.

The old cliché says that New York audiences will always bow in awe and rampage box offices whenever a play from Great Britain washes upon its shores. But in recent seasons it seems that type of grandiose reception has been reserved for productions that land on our stages by way of Chicago. I have no idea what the new black may be but I have a strong hunch Steppenwolf is the new Old Vic.

'Why do I feel like a f**king tourist in my own neighborhood!?!' That is the angry, anguished cry of Robert, a Polish-Puerto Rican native of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who has seen the crime and neglect of his lifelong neighborhood remedied by a gentrifying influx of high-end restaurants, art galleries and expensive building complexes that have priced long-time residents out of their communities.

On Wednesday, November 4th, Carrie Fisher, star of Roundabout Theatre Company's Wishful Drinking, will appear on WOR's 'Joan Hamburg Show' between 11:30AM-12:00PM on channel AM 710.

The New York premiere of Orpheus X, with original music and text by 2007 Pulitzer Finalist Rinde Eckert, video by Denise Marika and directed by Robert Woodruff, draws from several literary and poetic sources, including the Sixth Century Greek poet Ibyous and the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid. Messrs.

In what the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Bill Rauch and Executive Director Paul Nicholson can only describe as amazing, OSF's 2009 season results have exceeded all expectations. Initially anticipating a slump in the 2009 season attendance and revenue, the Festival closed with record attendance of 410,034 (89% of capacity), and record revenues of $17,098,115.

Wishful Drinking is created and performed by Carrie Fisher and directed by Tony Taccone at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th St). Fisher visited NBC's 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' on Thursday, October 29th, and you can watch the segment right here on BWW TV's STAGE TUBE!

Actress Carrie Fisher was on ‘Charlie Rose' last night and to discuss her new one woman Broadway show Wishful Drinking, a Roundabout production.