Margot Harley News

Gerald Schoenfeld, Board Chairman of The Shubert Organization and The Shubert Foundation, will receive the Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award from The Acting Company on Monday, November 12. Legendary producer Edgar Lansbury, will be presented the John Houseman Award honoring his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater.

Maria Aitken, director of London's Olivier-winning Best New Comedy, will bring an all star ensemble of Broadway actors to the stage of the Laura Pels Theatre on Monday, April 9th at 7pm as The Acting Company presents a benefit staged reading of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered.

Four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury makes a return to the Broadway stage heading the cast of This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a staged reading adapted by Tom Fontana to benefit The Acting Company on Sunday, November 5, 7pm at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street. Boyd Gaines, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes and Lynn Collins complete the cast.

The Acting Company's Macbeth and The Three Musketeers, playing in repertory through May 20th, began performances on May 9th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the celebration!

The Acting Company will perform Macbeth and The Three Musketeers in repertory between May 9th and May 20th

The Acting Company will present both Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Shakespeare's Macbeth in New York this May

Patti LuPone, Lynn Ahrens, Edward Albee, S. Epatha Merkerson and more will be featured on CUNY's 'Women in Theatre' series

Tom Hewitt has joined the cast of the upcoming benefit reading of When Ladies Meet, which will be performed on February 27th

On February 27th, Tony Award-winners Victoria Clark and Boyd Gaines will star in a benefit reading of Rachel Crothers' When Ladies Meet

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Harriet Harris, Frances Conroy and Lisa Banes will headline This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a benefit for The Acting Company held in LA on December 5th

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy and others will headline a staged reading of This is Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker in LA on October 10th; the reading will benefit The Acting Company

Following a national tour, during which kids and adults alike proclaimed, 'Shakespeare Rocks!,' Love, Shakespeare will be presented by The Acting Company on Saturday, May 14 at 2pm at The Acorn on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street.

Noted British actress/director/writer Maria Aitkin directs Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) in Terence Rattigan's Man & Boy, which takes place on the eve of a giant merger. Gregor Antonesco, the world's greatest financier, manipulates his estranged son, an obscure jazz composer, into unwittingly playing a part in the old man's latest ethically-questionable business venture.