Private Lives Revival

Victor Hawks' blue-collar comedy Construction will run off-Broadway from September 19th through October 2nd

Sam Waterston has joined a cast that includes Hewitt, Stephenson and Keating in the Long Wharf Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties

Cameron Mackintosh has honored two of his theatrical heroes by renaming the Strand Theatre after Ivor Novello and the Albery after Noel Coward

Private Lives is this writer's favorite Noel Coward play

WHO: Vagabond Players WHAT: 'An Actor's Nightmare'/'Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You' WHEN: now through April 2, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM HOW MUCH: $15.00

Seattle Rep stages a superb and unique new revival of Noёl Coward's timeless comedy...

Grab your highballs for an evening of swellegant sophistication: COCKTAILS WITH COWARD, the all-new, divinely witty, deliciously irreverent musical revue makes its New York debut this July!

A delightful Noel Coward revue that presents his songs in the uncloseted atmosphere that wasn't acceptable in his lifetime

The Seattle Rep will present Radio Golf, the final play by August Wilson, from January 19th through February 18th

Jefferson Mays, Michael Cumpsty and David Strathairn will discuss cross-dressing in Shakespeare in Boys Will Be Girls on February 13th

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2005. The 37th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place Monday, March 13 at the El Portal Theatre, located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood.

Maria Tucci, Richard Easton, Tammy Grimes, and Judd Hirsch have signed on to appear in plays presented as part of the Food for Thought series of play readings at the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) this March.

Gabriel Barre directs a cast of Seattle's best actors in Noel Coward Classic Private Lives, starting March 2nd...

Legends! will reunite the two Dynasty stars first in Toronto, then New York in 2006.

The upcoming national tour of Legends, starring Linda Evans and Joan Collins, has announced stops in Kansas City and Phoenix

On Monday, March 7, the 92nd Street Y presents The Rage of Achilles-the world premiere of Kathryn Walker's adaptation for the stage of Robert Fagles' translation of The Iliad.

William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure opens at The Pearl Theatre Company on Sunday, March 5th and runs through Sunday, April 9th. Rachel Botchan (Richard III) and Sean McNall (The Gentleman Dancing Master) star and Beatrice Terry (Double Infidelity) directs.

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

Private Lives is this writer's favorite Noel Coward play

Broadway and TV actress Audra McDonald will star in a special two performance concert of the Transport Group's Drama Desk nominated production of the OBIE award-winning musical First Lady Suite by Michael John LaChiusa, Tony Award nominated composer-lyricist ('Marie Christine' and 'The Wild Party') on Monday, May 2nd & Tuesday, May 3rd, 7:00 p.m. at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street.

Audra McDonald will star in a special two performance concert of the First Lady Suite by Michael John LaChiusa.