William Finn News

'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' will launch its national tour after a limited four-week engagement at Atlanta's Alliance Theater beginning August 23.

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley will perform at the Blue Note jazz club from May 30th through June 4th

On March 6th, Spelling Bee's Lisa Howard will perform her concert Inspiration at Ars Nova

The upcoming national tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will play a tryout run in Atlanta before embarking on its national tour

No Doubt they'll be no Angry Men (or Women) now that the HIPP has a Wicked Scoundrel of a Bee Season with lots of Spam and Charity

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced that Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning star Christine Lahti will make her eagerly-awaited return to the stage in the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season,

The first block of tickets for the Chicago production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will go on sale on February 10th

Spellers and bee staff are raring to go for the open-ended Chicago company of the new Tony-award winning Broadway musical comedy THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE.

Beginning March 8 (when performances begin at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati), Julia Murney will assume the role of Elphaba, Alma Cuervo will become Madame Morrible, P.J. Benjamin will step into the role of the Wizard, Sebastian Arcelus will be Fiyero, and Jennifer Waldman will be Nessarose. Beginning March 28 (when the show will be playing at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia), K. Todd Freeman assumes the role of Dr. Dillamond.

Mike Nichols has signed on to join stars such as Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep, Donna Murphy, Donna McKechnie and Zach Braff in The Public Sings: A 50th Anniversary Celebration on January 30th

Tony Award-winner Dan Fogler will depart The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on January 29th

Jay Reiss, who created the role of Vice Principle Douglas Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, will return for one 'adults-only' performance of the show on January 22nd

A host of stars including Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Idina Menzel, Donna McKechnie and Savion Glover will be on hand for The Public Sings: a 50th Anniversary Celebration on Monday, January 30th

Elaine Stritch and Brian Stokes Mitchell will perform at the 2006 Nightlife Awards on February 6th, while other celebrities such as Michael Cerveris, Karen Ziemba, Marin Mazzie and William Finn will also appear

Having not learned their lesson (and having had a tremendous success with the first 'adults-only' performance last October), the organizers of The 25thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee have scheduled more 'for-mature-audiences-only' performances of the Tony Award-winning new musical.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Tony Award-winning musical has broken Circle in the Square Theatre's house record for the eighth time

Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley will guest star on an upcoming episode of the NBC crime drama 'Law and Order: SVU'

A new musical by Keith Bunin and Patty Griffin will have a developmental reading at Joe's Pub, starring Sutton Foster and Christian Borle, from January 30th through February 13th

Cast recordings of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hair, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee were nominated as Best Musical Show Album in the 48th Annual Grammy Awards

Stars such as Julia Murney, Max Von Essen and Billy Porter will perform at the Scott Nevins Holiday Special on December 19th