John Simon News

Yale School of Drama is pleased to announce that Yale University President Richard C. Levin has appointed Paula Vogel as the Eugene O'Neill Professor (Adjunct) and Chair of the Department of Playwriting, effective July 1, 2008, for a five-year term.

On Friday, January 11 at 12:30AM on Thirteen, 'Theater Talk' welcomes Tod Haimes, Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, now celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere production of LoveMusik will begin its final week of performances Tuesday, June 19. The limited engagement will end on Sunday, June 24 at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). The production will have played 24 previews and 61 regular performances.

In a gala Tony night special, Theater Talk's 'Tony Cavalcade' features top New York critics commenting on their favorite Broadway performers and Tony-nominated productions of the season.

The 2007 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards were presented at a cocktail reception held on Monday, May 14, at the Algonquin Hotel.

The New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards have been announced

Adam Feldman, president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle (NYDCC), announced today that the Circle will meet at the offices of Time Out New York magazine on Monday, May 7, to select the winners of the 71st annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, which will be announced at approximately 7pm, immediately following the meeting.

Project Shaw 2007 will continue with a reading that includes Broadway stars Marian Seldes, Barrett Foa, Paxton Whitehead and George S. Irving

Tomorrow night on THEATER TALK, author NEAL GABLER discusses his impressive new biography, WALT DISNEY: THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN IMAGINATION.

Tonight on THEATER TALK at 12:30 AM on Thirteen, critics: Jacques le Sourd of Gannett and WCBS radio, John Simon of Bloomberg News and Linda Winer of Newsday review SPRING AWAKENING, THE VERTICAL HOUR, MARY POPPINS, and more.

A memorial service for Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes will be held on Tuesday, December 12th at 2pm at the Walter Kerr Theatre

A memorial service for Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes will be held on Tuesday, December 12th at 2pm at the Walter Kerr Theatre

A starry cast has been assembled for the Project Shaw reading of Captain Brassbound's Conversion, which will take place at the Players Club on November 20th

The latest star-studded Shaw Project staged reading will feature Sally Ann Howe, Andrea Marcovicci, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Brian Murray and Paxton Whitehead, among others

Marian Seldes, Brian Murray, George S. Irving, Barrett Foa, Charlotte Rae and more will headline The Apple Cart, the latest starry staged reading to be presented as part of Project Shaw

Broadway theatres will dim their lights Wednesday, July 12 in memory of Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes