Radio Golf - 2007 - Broadway Articles Page 16

Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg will join Harry Lennix and Tonya Pinkins, the stars of the Broadway production of August Wilson's Radio Golf, the show's co-producer Tamara Tunie ('Law & Order: SVU') and August Wilson's widow Constanza Romero to kick off August Wilson Day, honoring the late two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Friday, April 27th at 10am in Bryant Park

The 25th annual Elliot Norton Awards, presented by Boston Theater Critics Association and honoring the season's best work in Boston theaters (April 2006 to March 2007), will be held on May 21, 2007, at 7:00pm at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

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Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons will hold its annual 'High Standards' Gala Benefit on Monday evening, April 16th at Guastavino's

WABC-TV (Channel 7) will air 'Broadway Backstage: Spring Preview' on Saturday, March 24 at 7:30pm.

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards for 2006 took place on Monday March 19, 2007, at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA).

­ Jujamcyn Theaters has announced that A Catered Affair, a new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by acclaimed composer John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, will open on Broadway at a theater to-be-announced in the coming season (Spring 2008).

Anthony Chisholm, John Earl Jelks and James A. Williams join the previously announced Harry Lennix (Stomp the Yard, Fox's '24,') and Tony Award winner and Olivier Award Nominee Tonya Pinkins (Jelly's Last Jam; Caroline, or Change) in RADIO GOLF, the tenth and final work in two-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's historic, decade-by-decade portrait of 20th Century African-American life.

2007-2008 Season Includes August Wilson's 20th Century, Cook Cabaret series, My Fair Lady and The Lion King

The 36th Annual Theater Hall of Fame ceremony will be hosted by Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, with Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes - the stars of the upcoming Terrence McNally play Deuce - among the presenters

Eugene Lee, who has been been designing at Trinity Rep since 1967, will be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame

Actors Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Elizabeth Wilson, playwright Brian Friel, costume designer Willa Kim and scenic designer Eugene Lee, as well as late playwrights August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, will be inducted into the 2006 Theater Hall of Fame

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

Lisa Kron's Well, which closed on Broadway last month, has been added to the Huntington Theatre's 2006-2007 season line-up, with the play to be presented at the Boston theatre company from March 9th through April 8th, 2007

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Funeral services for the late playwright August Wilson will be held on October 8th in Pittsburgh, the city in which he grew up

Broadway's marquee lights will be dimmed tomorrow night at 8 p.m. (Tuesday, October 4) for one minute in the memory of August Wilson, one of America's greatest playwrights.

Playwright August Wilson lost his battle with liver cancer on Sunday reports the Pittsburg press.

The Virginia Theater, at 245 West 52nd Street will be renamed the August Wilson Theater on October 17th.

August Wilson, arguably the most influential and important living African-American playwright, has been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer