Joanne Woodward News

Jane Curtin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon will read short fiction in 'Selected Shorts,' a live version of the renowned NPR show of the same name and a celebration of the short story, on Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

'The Glass Menagerie' is a play about truth and illusion. Rupert Goold's staging at the Apollo theatre manages to reveal truth with appropriate subtlety of direction and paints a pleasantly disguised illusion with atmospheric lighting and a quartet of strong performances

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Charles Grodin, Joanna Gleason and Chris Sarandon were among the all-star cast reading classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' which took place on Saturday February 10, 8 p.m., at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT.

For more information and tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or for out-of-town callers toll-free at 888-927-7529, or visit the box office at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Information about the Playhouse is also available at www.westportplayhouse.org.

Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason and Oscar-nominee Chris Sarandon, new residents of Fairfield, have joined previously announced local cast members Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman of Westport, and Eartha Kitt and Charles Grodin, both of Weston, to read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here'

Last Monday, January 22nd, despite the rush hour, snow flurries and freezing temperatures, supporters of playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith headed to the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT for The Last Journey

Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Eartha Kitt, Charles Grodin and others to be announced will read classic, contemporary and humorous love poems in 'Come Be My Love….Love Spoken Here,' on Saturday February, 10, 8 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse.

The Williamstown Theatre Festival (2002 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre) will salute the three-time Tony Award-winng playwright and Academy Award-winning film writer Tom Stoppard (The Real Thing, Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) at a Gala to benefit the Festival on Monday, November 13, 2006 in New York.

Kerry Butler has joined the Williamstown Theatre Festival's salute to Sir Tom Stoppard, which will take place on November 13th in New York City

The Williamstown Theatre Festival will salute Sir Tom Stoppard at a Gala to benefit the Festival on November 13th

Legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who served as an apprentice at Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut 56 years ago, will return to the venerable Playhouse as guest of honor for 'The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim.'

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of Simon Mendes da Costa's LOSING LOUIE at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews for LOSING LOUIE begin Thursday, September 21 for a Thursday, October 12 opening.

Lawrence J. Sacharow, director of the theatre program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, and Obie Award-winning director of Len Jenkin's 'Five of Us,' died Monday, August 14, at New York Hospital, of complications from leukemia. He was 68.

The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be broadcast live tonight on NBC

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and Cynthia Nixon are among the actors nominated for SAG Awards, which will be presented on January 29th

Theatre veterans such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Dame Judi Dench and many more received Golden Globe Award nominations

The Autograph Suit, featuring the signatures of dozens of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench and Ethel Merman, will be auctioned off on eBay to fund a Broadway-bound musical premiering at a Pennsylvania high school

Blythe Danner, Hugh Jackman, Glenn Close and a slew of other theatre stars have been nominated for Emmys