Wallace Shawn News

Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival The Threepenny Opera opens officially on Thursday, April 20th, 2006 as a part of their 40th Anniversary Season.

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The Roundabout Theatre Company's 40th Anniversary season continues with NPR's 'Morning Edition' on Saturday, April 15 on WNYC-FM (93.9); the program will include interviews with Todd Haimes, Harry Connick Jr., Alan Cumming, Scott Elliott, Ana Gasteyer and Wallace Shawn

The New Group will present A Spalding Gray Matter, written and performed by Michael Brandt, from May 3rd through 27th

The cast of The Threepenny Opera came out after their first preview on Friday night, March 24th to celebrate and to welcome Cyndi Lauper to Broadway. The star's portrait was unveiled at Tony's DiNapoli Time Square on their Broadway Wall of Fame.

On March 24th, the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Threepenny Opera will play its first preview performance

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming revival of The Threepenny Opera, with Christopher Innvar, Brooke Sunny Moriber and Maureen Moore among those who will join the cast

The box office of Studio 54 will open on January 15th, when tickets for The Threepenny Opera will go on sale

Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, has extended at the Acorn Theatre through April 8th; Wallace and Allen Shawn's The Music Teacher will now move to the Minetta Lane Theatre

On December 31st, Nellie McKay, one of the stars of the upcoming The Threepenny Opera, will perform at Ars Nova

Variety confirms that Cyndi Lauper will make her Broadway debut in 2006, replacing Edie Falco in the role of Jenny Diver.

According to pop star Cyndi Lauper, producers of the upcoming Threepenny Opera revival have asked her to take part in the musical

Edie Falco has withdrawn from the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming production of The Threepenny Opera

Mike Leigh's play Abigail's Party, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, has extended an extra four weeks, through February 1st, in its New Group production

The New Group production of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party opened Off-Broadway on December 1, 2005 and BroadwayWorld was there! The show stars Max Baker, Lisa Emery, Darren Goldstein, Elizabeth Jasicki and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

The New York Times reports that Ana Gasteyer has joined the cast of Roundabout's 'Threepenny Opera' for which previews will beging on March 24th.

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG), Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures announced today that they will join forces to provide viewers of Starz Cinema a first look at exclusive footage from Revolution Studios' 'Rent', the much-anticipated movie adaptation of the smash Broadway musical.

The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.