Jonathan Demme News

Annaleigh Ashford and Alex Lacamoire will perform on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7PM, as part of the long-running, critically-heralded and popular concert series Broadway at Birdland.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will host its 4th annual Stella by Starlight gala benefit on March 17, 2008 at Cipriani 23rd Street. This event will be a memorable evening with an extraordinary line-up of honorees. Martin Sheen will accept the Marlon Brando Award for a life committed to social activism and excellence in film art

Zonya Love made her Broadway debut as Celie, alongside recording-stars Chaka Khan as Sofia and BeBe Winans as Harpo yesterday, Wednesday January 9, 2008, in the smash hit musical 'The Color Purple' with LaKisha Jones, and produced by Oprah Winfrey.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting closed the 2nd annual Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts on September 17 with a presentation of the Harold Clurman Spirit Award to actress Marian Seldes.

Theatre veterans Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin and Anna Deavere Smith will star with Debra Winger in Dancing with Shiva, a new film by Jonathan Demme

On Monday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m., Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh and Kathleen Russo hosted a special screening of Spalding Gray's Gray's Anatomy at IFC Center

Producers Eric Falkenstein and Michael Alden have announced that Whoopi Goldberg will be the next guest actor to step into the acclaimed Naked Angels production of Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell

Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, which combines the late actor-writer's monologues and stories with unpublished letters and journal entries, officially opens at the Minetta Lane Theatre March 6; previews began Feb. 20. Featuring Frank Wood, Kathleen Chalfant, Hazelle Goodman and Ain Gordon, this limited engagement will play through May 13.

For 10 performances only, the British premiere of Stephen Dillane's solo Macbeth