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Jessica Lange Wins 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Jessica Lange has won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her work in HBO Films Grey Gardens. (more...)

Marymount Manhattan College Premieres GIRL GONE, 10/21

Marymount Manhattan College Theatre Arts Division (Mary Fleisher, department Chair) will present Girl Gone by Mac William Hopkins from October 21 - October 25. Tickets go on sale today. (more...)

Marymount Manhattan College Presents GIRL GONE, 10/21-10/25

Girl Gone by Mac Wellman with direction by Paul Lazar, choreography by Annie-B Parson, with music composed and directed by Cynthia Hopkins marks the premier fall production at Marymount's Division of Fine Arts. The production will play 5 performances only; Wednesday, October 21 through Sunday, October 25 at the Theresa Lang Theatre. (more...)

Marymount Manhattan College Premieres GIRL GONE, 10/21

Marymount Manhattan College Theatre Arts Division (Mary Fleisher, department Chair) will present Girl Gone by Mac William Hopkins from October 21 - October 25. Tickets go on sale today. (more...)

Marymount Manhattan College Presents GIRL GONE, 10/21-10/25

Girl Gone by Mac Wellman with direction by Paul Lazar, choreography by Annie-B Parson, with music composed and directed by Cynthia Hopkins marks the premier fall production at Marymount's Division of Fine Arts. The production will play 5 performances only; Wednesday, October 21 through Sunday, October 25 at the Theresa Lang Theatre. (more...)

Marymount Manhattan College Presents GIRL GONE, 10/21-10/25

Girl Gone by Mac Wellman with direction by Paul Lazar, choreography by Annie-B Parson, with music composed and directed by Cynthia Hopkins marks the premier fall production at Marymount's Division of Fine Arts. The production will play 5 performances only; Wednesday, October 21 through Sunday, October 25 at the Theresa Lang Theatre. (more...)

Unicorn Theatre Hosts GREY GARDENS Benefit 11/15

Unicorn Theatre invites everyone to join us for An Evening in the Grey Gardens on November 15, 2009 from 6-10pm. (more...)

Constellation Announces Documentary Programming for November 2011

Constellation, a new Virtual Theatrical 'VT' Exhibition and online social media platform, is excited to announce the first line-up of documentary programming, for TOP DOCS. TOP DOCS, is a specially curated program where documentary filmmakers discuss their most recent works in live online hosted screenings. (more...)

Unicorn Theatre Hosts GREY GARDENS Benefit 11/15

Unicorn Theatre invites everyone to join us for An Evening in the Grey Gardens on November 15, 2009 from 6-10pm. (more...)

Lynda Bellingham to Star in Kay Mellor's A PASSIONATE WOMAN at Sheffield, Sept 10-21

According to the Daily Mail, Lynda Bellingham will star in Kay Mellor's 'slightly re-written' version of her play A Passionate Woman for Sheffield Theatres. Bellingham will reunite with 'All Creatures Great And Small' co-star Christopher Timothy, as well as Peter McMillan. The show runs September 10-21, 2013, before heading out on a national tour. Mellor will direct. (more...)

BWW Reviews: GREY GARDENS at ACT Not Quite Up To Expectations

You know when you go on vacation and come across that amazing restaurant that serves one of the most surprising dishes you've ever had that you pine over for years and then you find a restaurant back home that makes the same recipe? And maybe they don't have all the best ingredients or maybe the chef isn't quite as good but it just doesn't live up to the original? Well, unfortunately that's the equivalent of what I witnessed last night at "Grey Gardens" currently at ACT. It's still the same amazing show by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, and Michael Korie and definitely had some outstanding moments but the whole just didn't quite compare to when I saw it on Broadway with the incredible Christine Ebersole. (more...)

BWW TV: AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S In The Wings - Dramaturg Anne Cattaneo

ANNE CATTANEO is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab. A three term past president of Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, she is the recipient of LMDA's first Lessing Award for lifetime achievement of dramaturgy. She has worked widely as a dramaturg on classical plays with directors such as James Lapine, Robert Wilson, Adrian Hall, Robert Falls, Mark Lamos and JoAnne Akalaitis. As the director of the Playworks Program at the Phoenix Theater during the late 1970's, she commissioned and developed plays by Wendy Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic) Mustapha Matura (Meetings) and Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy). For the Acting Company, she created two projects: Orchards (published by Knopf and Broadway Play Publishing) which presented seven Chekhov stories adapted for the stage by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams, and Love's Fire (published by William Morrow) responses to Shakespeare sonnets by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Wendy Wasserstein. Her own translations of 20th Century German playwrights include Brecht's Galileo (Goodman Theater 1986 starring Brian Dennehy) and Botho Strauss' Big and Little (Phoenix production starring Barbara Barrie, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) She is currently on the faculty at Juilliard. (more...)

Anne Cattaneo Wins 2011 Margo Jones Award

The Ohio State University Arts and Humanities and University Libraries' Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute has announced that it will present the prestigious 2011 Margo Jones Award to Lincoln Center Theater dramaturg Anne Cattaneo. The award, which will be presented to Ms. Cattaneo in a ceremony in the Vivian Beaumont Theater lobby on Monday, July 11 beginning at 5:30, is given annually to a 'citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a significant impact, understanding and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.' (more...)

Sofa Snark: Emmy Nods, Twitter Reaction

While publicists and studio executives tire themselves out today making calls and greasing the marketing wheels, celebrities took things into their own hands on Twitter. Here are a few 140-character messages that showed up this morning from those internet savvy celebs ? or possibly their overpaid ghost tweeters... (more...)

Extra Performance of DIVE! DIVA! DIVAS! Added to Summer Festival At Northwestern University

A third evening of song by three of Chicago's top female music theatre performers has been added to the Theatre and Interpretation Center of Northwestern University's 2009 Music Theatre Festival calendar. (more...)

HBO Films' 'GREY GARDENS' To Be Released On DVD 7/14

HBO Films' 'GREY GARDENS' will be released on dvd July 14, 2009. Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, Grey Gardens tells the tender, intimate story of an eccentric mother and daughter (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka 'Big and Little Edie') and stars Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Open Fist Opens a Glamorous STAGE DOOR

Even if we've seen and heard it a million times over, the old show biz debate about devotion to stage versus film is a treat as served up in Kaufman and Ferber's Stage Door, being given a red carpet production at the Open Fist Theatre. (more...)

STREGA NONA Highlights COCA 2010-11 Family Season

COCA announces its family entertainment season! (more...)

'GREY GARDENS' Star Jessica Lange On 'Big Edie', 'Insane?, No!'

The Academy Award winning actress talks to The Los Angeles Times' Tom O'Neil in his Gold Derby column about about playing Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale in HBO Films Grey Gardens. (more...)

HBO Films' 'GREY GARDENS' To Be Released On DVD 7/14

HBO Films' 'GREY GARDENS' will be released on dvd July 14, 2009. Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy, Grey Gardens tells the tender, intimate story of an eccentric mother and daughter (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka 'Big and Little Edie') and stars Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. (more...)

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