Emanuel Azenberg News

Theatre Talk presents producers Emanuel Azenberg and James Freydberg, who will appear on Friday, October 24th at 1:00 AM (Saturday morning) on Thirteen. Also coming up, actors Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe appear on Friday, October 31st at 1:00 AM (Saturday morning) on Thirteen.

'Theater Talk,' the nationally syndicated program co-hosted by New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel and producer Susan Haskins, has announced two new additions to their upcoming lineup

Kathleen Marshall and a team of producers have withdrawn from the Gershwin musical 'Nice Work If You Can Get It.'

Grammy Award and Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. will return to Broadway in Spring 2009 in Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, and book by Joe DiPietro ( I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, All Shook Up). Two-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town) will direct and choreograph.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will present its annual Monte Cristo Award to Pulitzer Prize and triple Tony Award-winning playwright Neil Simon, in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and contributions to the American theater, exemplifying Eugene O'Neill's standard of excellence. The Award will be presented to Mr. Simon at a gala dinner in the Rainbow Room's Pegasus Suite on Monday, April 21st at 6:30 p.m.

Bo Eason's RUNT OF THE LITTER begins perfs November 30 Off-Broadway at 37 Arts.

The American Theatre Wing's Producing and The Theatre Business: Working in the Theatre, a collection of advice and anecdotes from many of the most influential and successful producers working in theatre today, will be available in bookstores on May 14, 2007.

The national tour of Movin' Out, the Tony Award-winning new musical conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp and based on 24 classic songs by Billy Joel, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 21, 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, after 1,111 performances and three years of touring North America and Japan

Movin' Out will play Chicago from June 28th thorugh July 9th

Movin' Out will play Chicago for a limited engagement from June 28th through July 9th

Through January 22nd, Brad Garrett will fill Nathan Lane's role as The Odd Couple's Oscar while the latter actor recovers from laryngitis

The Odd Couple star Nathan Lane has come down with laryngitis, resulting in the cancellation of today's matinee and evening performance

The Odd Couple, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, has extended its run through June 4th

MOVIN' OUT's final performance at the Broward Center is January 15. It returns to South Florida at the Jackie Gleason Theater, January 24-29.

After the Broadway curtain comes down on December 11th, Movin' Out will head across the pond to the UK for a limited run beginning March 28, 2006.

Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT is offering a few hundred tickets to the October 29th performance of The Odd Couple in exchange for donations

The AP reports that Lane, who slammed his finger in a door requiring 14 stitches, will perform in the show, without bandages.