Michael Sommers News

Twelve performers have won 2005-06 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway Debut Performances.

The History Boys, by Alan Bennett, today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the 2005-2006 season. The Best Musical award was given to The Drowsy Chaperone (book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison).

Lucie Arnaz and Jonathan Pryce will be among the presenters at the Theatre World Awards on June 6th

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 Thursday, May 11, to select the winners of the 70th annual New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, which will be announced at approximately 7pm, immediately following the meeting.

One of the most popular new musicals of the season -- [title of show], which extended its run three times Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre will return, by popular demand, for a limited engagement this summer starting July 14.

[title of show] -- the new hit musical by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell -- extends its Off-Broadway premiere through April 9 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street), it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre's Artistic Director Douglas Aibel.

The December 16th edition of PBS' 'Theater Talk' will feature a discussion on stars in the closet

The Best Plays Theatre Yearbook, 2003-2004 will honor both male and female playwrights with more of an emphasis on the women this year

The Rivals' Dana Ivey and Twelve Angry Men's Larry Bryggman have been chosen as the 2005 recipients of Actors' Equity's Richard Seff Award

Christian Borle and Ari Graynor are this year's recipients of Actor's Equity's Clarence Derwent Awards

Doubt by John Patrick Shanley today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best play of the 2004-2005 season. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh received the award for best foreign play. No award was given for best musical.

Win tickets to see Kathleen Turner & Bill Irwin in Edward Albee's legendary Tony Award winner 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'

Producers of BUG, Tracy Letts's hit psychological thriller directed by Dexter Bullard (Four Lortel Awards, including Best Play, and 2 Obie Awards), announced today that the long-running play at the Barrow Street Theatre will close on Sunday, January 30, 2005.

LONE STAR LOVE, the new musical at the John Houseman Theatre, has been extended by popular demand through February 6. The Amas Musical Theatre Production, also known as the Merry Wives of Windsor Texas, was originally scheduled to run through January 9.

HERE Arts Center is proud to present the New York premiere of puppeteer and director Chris Green's visually arresting puppet/dance theatre piece Lyubo beginning January 20 and closing January 30.

DOUBT playwright John Patrick Shanley and star Cherry Jones will be interviewed live on 'The Leonard Lopate Show' today beginning at noon. The interview will air locally on WNYC (93.9 FM).