Vineyard Theatre News

The Vineyard Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park will present the New York premiere of History of the Word - a multi-cultural play about the urban high school experience - written by Ben Snyder (New York Stage and Film, NYC's Hip Hop Theater Festival), and featuring the poetry/spoken word of NYC high school students.

For one week only, Off-Broadway will offer tickets for only $20 twenty minutes before show time

The Vineyard Theatre celebrated its 25th Anniversary with the presentation of the first Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney.

THE VINEYARD THEATRE celebrated its 25th Anniversary on Monday, January 29 at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor) in Manhattan. Highlights of the company's 25th Anniversary Gala to include musical performances from past Vineyard hits.

The Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q will welcome back Christian Anderson to the roles of 'Nicky/Trekkie Monster' in the long-running musical beginning Monday, January 29, 2007.

THE VINEYARD THEATRE celebrates its 25th Anniversary on Monday, January 29 at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor) in Manhattan. Highlights of the company's 25th Anniversary Gala to include musical performances from past Vineyard hits.

Recent news for Avenue Q includes an Olivier Award nomination, a new 'Scrubs' episode and a new house record

Tomorrow night's special 9PM ET episode of NBC TV's popular comedy 'Scrubs' - subtitled 'My Musical,' with original songs by Avenue Q's Tony winning songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx - will feature Avenue Q Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo as its guest star

Making Books Sing - the New York-based company dedicated to turning books for young readers into musical works for the stage - is making it possible through the generosity of its members for over 100 homeless families across New York City to see their new family musical A Shelter in Our Car, with book and lyrics by Sophie Jaff and music by Robert L. Wilson III based on the award-winning book by Monica Gunning

Keir Dullea and newcomer Paige Howard set to lead ensemble cast of The Vineyard Theatre revival of J.M. Barrie's 'Mary Rose'

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an annual three-week event created in 2004 to smash the developmental glass ceiling and highlight the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will be accepting open submissions from January 1 through March 1 for its fourth season. This year's festival will run from September 17 through October 7, 2007.

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

Paige Howard - a 21-year-old NYU theatre student and daughter of film director Ron Howard - has been cast in the title role of Mary Rose, J. M. Barrie's rarely-seen, 1920 play, being given its first major revival in over 50 years at The Vineyard Theatre, starting February 1, 2007

Nicky Silver's play The Agony and the Agony begins performances December 8, 2006 at the Vineyard Theatre

The American Theatre Wing's Grants Program will honor its 2006 grant recipients, 53 New York City not-for-profit theatres that reflect the range of diversity of New York's theatres, at a luncheon at Sardi's on December 7 at noon.

The Vineyard Theatre is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with the creation of a new playwriting award named in honor of playwright Paula Vogel.

Cheyenne Jackson has joined the cast of The Agony and the Agony, Nicky Silver's new play at the Vineyard Theatre

For the second time, the hit London production of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has been extended

Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark will return to the stage in The Agony and the Agony, a new play by Nicky Silver that will play Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre in December