Mamma Mia!, Urinetown and Penis Cast Members on "The Daily Show"

Nobu McCarthy, Former Artistic Director of East West Players, Dead at 67

Playwright Bargaining Legislation Introduced in Washington, DC

Senators Propose Bill to Help Playwrights

Law, Izzard & Brit Productions Look to NYC Stage

Life After Juno by Ken Mandelbaum

Report: Jude Law and Eddie Izzard Hope to Hit Broadway

Report: Hyde Pierce, Hagen Will Not Dance in Lessons on Broadway

What Follies! Linden, Duke, Carr, Bosley Do Sondheim in L.A. June 15-23

Bohmer, McDermott & Daytime TV Stars Headline May 6 Leukemia Benefit

Lookin' for Love? Try FL's Coconut Grove, Where Urban Cowboy Will Debut in Fall

Titanic's Michael Cerveris To Star in Kennedy Center's Passion

Helen reviewed by Brooke Pierce

Talk reviewed by Dan Bacalzo

Newsday: A Spring Bounce to the Season by Patrick Pacheco

WITH THE OPENING of "Fortune's Fool," "The Graduate," and "Topdog/Underdog" in quick succession, a disappointing (some might say boring) Broadway season, suddenly perked up. Box-office jugg…

Legislation to Help Playwrights Negotiate

Law, Izzard shows to visit New York

ATG preps Brit slate for Gotham transfer
Jude Law and Eddie Izzard look ready for their grand returns to the New York stage.

Bill dramatizes playwrights' effort

Legit scribes look to collectively negotiate contracts

Burton Shines In Career

When Kate Burton left home for Brown University in 1975, she had no notion of studying drama. Instead, the daughter of worldrenowned actor Richard Burton opted for Russian studies. Good thi…

Three Legs of the Rat Race

Que Pasa? Viva Variety & Vaudeville!

Urban Cowboy Set for World Premiere in Florida

Urban Cowboy, which was announced for a Broadway run last season, will have its world premiere at the Coc...[Read More]

Capitol Steps Readies for Opening at the Houseman

As we reported on April 5, Capitol Steps is set to replace Puppetry of the Penis on the John Housem...[Read More]

Weaver & LaPaglia Set for Film Version of The Guys

ContentFilm will finance and distribute a motion picture based on Anne Nelson�s The Guys. Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia, who previously appeared together in the stage production of …

STEALING JOKERS

By MICHAEL ROVNER
THE fastest route to the comedy big time often starts on the stage of a small Chelsea theater.In the last year, such shows as "Saturday Night Live" and "MadTV" have poached more than a dozen performers from a comedy theater called the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB, to those in the know).

A PAGE FROM OPRAH'S BOOK

By JARED PAUL STERN
BOOKWORM LAST week Oprah Winfrey announced that she was scaling back on her book club because she could no longer find novels she felt "absolutely compelled to share." From a woman who has felt compelled to share an awful lot of crap over the years, this is a surprising statement. One suspects that the fact that her book club shows drew lower ratings is closer to the mark.

WHEN GOOD SHOWS GO BAD

By DON KAPLAN
JUMP the Shark," a popular Website where people talk about when and how their favorite TV series began to go downhill, is being turned into a syndicated TV show.

Chicago's Court Presents Irreverent, Intimate My Fair Lady April 18

San Jose Rep Reads Bohmler Musical, Winchester House, in Fest June 14-16

Love and War: Off-Bway's Vineyard Opens Swimming With Watermelons April 11

Former Footloose Star Heads to the WB Network

PHOTO CALL: Jonathan Freeman Gets Hung Up at Sardi's

Coverse Stars in Premiere of Hatcher Play, Mercy of a Storm, April 11-May 5

Maltby and Shire's Evening in Nyack Includes Crosby, Groenendaal and Take Flight April 11

Atlantic Theater Presents Series of One-Acts in April

La Chanze, de Haas, and New Childs Musical Featured in the American Songbook April 11-13

Today In Theatre History: APRIL 11

Shirley MacLaine Live at the Palace Gets CD Release April 23

Puppetry Moves to Smaller Houseman Space April 16; Capitol Steps Starts May 8

Report: Duke, Leonard, Tomei and Shenkman To Read Odets' Awake and Sing May 6

NYC's Irish Rep Wallows in Finn's Pigtown April 19-June 9

Archive Import - Comment

This is major news. Changing the DG contract will amount to increased prices on Broadway, if you can believe that. Broadway writers are protected much more than Hollywood writers. These changes can make borderline productions unproducable. Does no one worry that Broadway producers see less and less of a reason to keep producing Broadway shows? Producing film and television is becoming the haven for wouldbe Broadway producers.