The Pillowman - 2005 - Broadway Articles Page 17

2005 is Broadway's highest grossing calendar year ever, and the highest in paid attendance in two decades, according to the League of American Theatres and Producers

Brad Oscar, Audra McDonald, Steven Pasquale, John Dossett, Judy Blazer, Will Chase, Michael Felciano and Jennifer Simard are the latest names slated to participate in the upcoming all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005 (7:30 p.m.) at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for the Arts (111 West 46th Street).

Susan Vargo is pleased to announce plans for the new, spectacular all-star benefit, PLAY ON BROADWAY - the first-ever Broadway game show - on Sunday, October 16, 2005.

Red Bull Theater, Artistic Director Jesse Berger, the company that brought us the critical smash hit of Shakespeare's Pericles in 2003, announces their fall season with the return of Revelation Readings, a popular reading series exploring new plays of heightened language and neglected Jacobean plays.

Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards

Benefit performances for the Actors' Fund of America of Glengarry Glen Ross and The Constant Wife will be held on Sundays August 14th and 21st

The Actors' Fund of America will host two benefit performances of The Pillowman and Glengarry Glen Ross on August 7th and August 14th

Plays by Rolin Jones, Harold Pinter, Martin McDonagh and a new musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater will be presented in the Atlantic Theater Company's 2005-06 season

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 will end on August 1st, but tickets for a number of benefit performances can still be ordered after

Ten new works from the Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway 2004-2005 theatre season have been selected for publication in the latest Best Plays Theater Yearbook

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 has started, and a number of benefit performances are still lined up for the rest of the summer, as well

The Actors' Fund will present a number of benefit performances in addition to its Auction of 1000 Stars from July to September

Silence! the Musical, the musical parody of the Silence of the Lambs that will play the New York International Fringe Festival from Aug. 12th through 28th, will feature Paul Kandel, Jenn Harris and Lisa Howard

Plays by 16 rising playwrights will be performed as part of the SPF 2005 Summer Play Festival, which runs from July 5th to July 31st at various Theatre Row venues

All the speeches from all of last night's big winners!

The Light in the Piazza, Doubt and Spamalot were the big winners in the 2005 Tony Awards

Planet Hollywood threw a Tony Awards after-party for the casts of Spamalot, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Pillowman, and Democracy and BroadwayWorld was there!

Click in for the complete list of 2005 Tony Award Winners. By the numbers, the Light in the Piazza led the pack followed by Doubt, and Spamalot (which won Best Musical).

The 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season boasted thriving grosses and a terrific number of Tony-eligible plays and musicals

The annual gala honored Billy Crystal, Roger Berlind, Phyllis Newman, Neil Sedaka and more...

The 50th Annual Drama Desk Awards Ceremony took place on Sunday, May 22. The big winners of the night were Doubt and The Light in the Piazza, each of whom received 5 awards. Outstanding Musical however, went to Spamalot.

Doubt, Twelve Angry Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage and Norbert Leo Butz take home awards.

Doubt by John Patrick Shanley today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best play of the 2004-2005 season. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh received the award for best foreign play. No award was given for best musical.

Doubt, and Spamalot lead the pack, followed by La Cage, and The Light in the Piazza.