Ed Williams News

Screen Actors Guild Awards® Committee Chair JoBeth Williams announced that next award season's 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards has been scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

AMNH has announced the following upcoming events.

On Sunday, September 18, Oak Park Festival Theatre will present a lecture by former Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Richard Christiansen on the 1944 world premier of The Glass Menagerie and Claudia Cassidy's review of the play that launched Williams' career.

The second decade of The Latin Recording Academy®'s evolution continued today when nominations for the 12th Annual Latin GRAMMY® Awards (www.latingrammy.com) were announced at a press conference attended by national and international media at the Avalon in Hollywood, Calif.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors) the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway company 'dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit,' announces complete casting for Children, by A.R. Gurney, the first production of the company's 2011/12 season.

On Sunday, September 18, Oak Park Festival Theatre will present a lecture by former Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Richard Christiansen on the 1944 world premier of The Glass Menagerie and Claudia Cassidy's review of the play that launched Williams' career.

On Sunday, September 18, Oak Park Festival Theatre will present a lecture by former Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Richard Christiansen on the 1944 world premier of The Glass Menagerie and Claudia Cassidy's review of the play that launched Williams' career.

In the Hollywood Bowl's production of Hairspray August 5, 6 and 7, directed by Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, John Stamos will play the super suave TV Host Corny Collins. Stamos starred on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Cabaret, Nine and Bye Bye Birdie and is known for his television work on Full House and ER, and this season on Glee and Law & Order: SVU. In our chat, he talks about Corny and his favorite theatrical ventures.

Cause Celebrè (Susan Charlotte, Founding Artistic Director) in association with Mary J. Davis is proud to celebrate a collection of worthy non-profits throughout the run of The Shoemaker and The Pretty Trap this summer, beginning July 14 through July 24 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre.

Following a successful run at Georgetown University, GU's Theater and Performance Studies Program and Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater present Tennessee Williams' most autobiographical work The Glass Menagerie in conjunction with The Glass Menagerie Project.

Cause Celebrè (Susan Charlotte, Founding Artistic Director) in association with Mary J. Davis is proud to celebrate a collection of worthy non-profits throughout the run of The Shoemaker and The Pretty Trap this summer, beginning July 14 through July 24 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre.

During this centennial year of Tennessee Williams, Cause Celebrè (Susan Charlotte, Founding Artistic Director) is excited to present the New York Premiere of Williams' one-act version of The Glass Menagerie entitled The Pretty Trap directed by Antony Marsellis .

This one-person tour de force performance encompasses the life of one of baseball's legendary greats: The Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams. Through the art of performance and visual imagery, we follow Ted's life from his humble beginnings in San Diego to his shinning accomplishments on the diamond.

Award-winning actor Martin Sheen, set to star in a one-night only reading of Samuel Shem & Janet Surrey's record-breaking play Bill W. and Dr. Bob, will be sharing the stage with a diverse group of acclaimed actors: Emmy Award nominee Ed Begley Jr. (Spinal Tap, St. Elsewhere), veteran stage and screen actress JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist, Kramer vs. Kramer) and Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele, The Story Lady). Two more actors are still to be announced. A joint fundraiser for the Geffen Playhouse andHazelden- a non-profit leader in addiction treatment for more than 60 years - the evening will feature a reading of the play, a post-show discussion with the cast and playwrights as well as a dessert reception. Directed by Jenny Sullivan, Bill W. and Dr. Bob recounts the story of Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, two men whose friendship ultimately led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Together with their wives, who went on to develop Al-Anon Family Groups, their discoveries have touched and saved countless lives since the program's inception. The reading will take place on Monday, June 27 at 8pm.

Long Wharf Theatre will present the improv and sketch comedy show The Best of Second City from June 15-19 on the Mainstage.

CELEBRATE A CELESTIAL SUMMER AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

This one-person tour de force performance encompasses the life of one of baseball's legendary greats: The Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams. Through the art of performance and visual imagery, we follow Ted's life from his humble beginnings in San Diego to his shinning accomplishments on the diamond.

Long Wharf Theatre will present the improv and sketch comedy show The Best of Second City from June 15-19 on the Mainstage.

Samuel Williams - the U.K.-based sculptor whose current exhibit Instructions has been adding one sculpture per day to Inova's gallery - will travel to Milwaukee this Friday, May 20th for a special reception. This week marks the creation and installation of the final Williams sculpture in the Instructions exhibit. The reception will take place in Inova's Kenilworth location at 2155 N. Prospect from 5-8pm. Free and open to the public!

Samuel Williams - the U.K.-based sculptor whose current exhibit Instructions has been adding one sculpture per day to Inova's gallery - will travel to Milwaukee this Friday, May 20th for a special reception. This week marks the creation and installation of the final Williams sculpture in the Instructions exhibit. The reception will take place in Inova's Kenilworth location at 2155 N. Prospect from 5-8pm. Free and open to the public!