Cumming, Loveless and Szot Featured in Lincoln Center's 'American Songbook' 2009 Season, Runs 1/14 - 3/6
by Eddie Varley - Oct 27, 2008
Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns in January for its eleventh season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 17 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, R&B, country, rock, show tunes, bluegrass and multimedia, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting. The 2009 season - January 14 through March 6 - will bring to the stage some of today's most gifted interpreters of song, including top vocalist Kurt Elling and country's winning Patty Loveless. It will feature the rare opportunity to hear Paulo Szot, star of Broadway's South Pacific, and film and stage star Alan Cumming, in intimate concert settings.
Tony-Nominated Character Actress Anne Pitoniak Dies at 85
by BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2007
Two-time Tony Award-nominee Anne Pitoniak died of cancer last Sunday in Manhattan at the age of 85. She received Tony nominations role her roles in 1983's night, Mother and in the 1994 revival of William Inge's Picnic.
Spacey's A Moon for the Misbegotten Hits Broadway in March
by BWW News Desk - Jan 12, 2007
Olivier Award winner Eve Best, Academy Award and Tony Award winner Kevin
Spacey and Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney will reprise their acclaimed
performances in The Old Vic Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's A
MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th
St) for 84 performances only.
Full Casting Announced for TARZAN, The Broadway Musical
by BWW News Desk - Dec 8, 2005
The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.
Jean-Claude Carrière's THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID Begins Previews February 8th
by BWW News Desk - Jan 5, 2005
The Public Theater, George C. Wolfe, producer; Mara Manus, executive director, announces the New York premiere of THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID, an exciting new masterwork by French playwright and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière that brings to life the stunning real-life debates of the Catholic Church in the 16th century, as it tried to determine whether or not natives an ocean away were indeed human.