Thursday, June 19, 2025

Brenda Pressley to Succeed LaTanya Richardson Jackson in Purpose on Broadway by Hayley Levitt

Brenda Pressley will join the cast of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose at the Hayes Theater. Pressley takes over the role of matriarch Claudine…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PM
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Brenda Pressley to Replace LaTanya Richardson Jackson in Purpose on Broadway by Hayley Levitt

Brenda Pressley will join the cast of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose at the Hayes Theater. Pressley takes over the role of matriarch Claudine…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:36PM
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

I interviewed Linda Lavin in 2012, when she was starring on Broadway in “The Lyons ... - Threads

I interviewed Linda Lavin in 2012, when she was starring on Broadway in “The Lyons.” She was very charming and warm. playbill.com/artic…

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Monday, December 30, 2024

Linda Lavin, Tony Winner and Star of TV’s Alice, Dies at 87 by Beth Stevens

Linda Lavin, the warm and witty actress known for her lead role in the 1970s sitcom Alice and for her Tony-winning performance in Broadway Bound, died on December 29 in Los Angeles. She was …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM
Friday, May 24, 2024

Highlights from ALMOST HOME! by BroadwayWorld

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: The world premiere of Walter Anderson's play Almost Home, directed by Michael Parva and produced by The Directors Company, opened last tonight, September 18, at…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:36AM
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Appropriate Announces Complete Cast by Ruthie Fierberg

Full casting has been announced for Second Stage Theater’s upcoming production of Appropriate. The previously reported Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play, directed by Lila Neugebauer, will begi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:19PM
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Tony Winner Linda Lavin to Star in Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick Off-Broadway by Caitlin Moynihan

Tony winner Linda Lavin is set to return to the New York Stage in the Roundabout Theatre Company's world premiere of Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick. Sam Pinkleton will direct the production …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:07PM
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The Lyons Reunion and New Plays by Charly Evon Simpson and David Cale Set for Vineyard Season

The Vineyard will also transfer Is This A Room and Dana H. to Broadway.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:24PM
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Musical of the Month: Hairspray: The Cast by JK

We started off this month's Musical of the Month, Hairspray with a look back at the origins and facts behind the original Broadway production. This week, we take a closer look at that cas…

SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:12PM
Monday, June 1, 2020

Checking In With… Tony Winner Linda Lavin, Star of Broadway Bound, Alice, Collected Stories, The Lyons, More by Andrew Gans

The Broadway favorite is offering Wednesday afternoon Facebook Live concerts with Billy Stritch during the pandemic.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Stephanie J. Block, Linda Lavin & More to Lead Sarah Silverman & Joshua Harmon's New Musical The Bedwetter by Andy Lefkowitz

Stephanie J. Block, the celebrated star who picked up a 2019 Tony Award for her turn in The Cher Show, will co-star with Tony-winning legend Linda Lavin this spring in The Bedwetter, a new m…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:12PM
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Central Park Took Their Land, And Now, At Long Last, They’re Getting A Monument by Artsjournal2

The Lyons family of New York were a vital part of New York’s Seneca Village. They “were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:06PM
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Inside the Beau Album (feat. John Krause) by Angela Tricarico

In advance of Sony Masterworks’ release of Beau, a new musical by Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar, The Ensemblist speaks to Broadway actors featured on the album. In Beau, eight actor-m…

SOURCE: www.theensemblist.com at 09:19PM
Friday, March 22, 2019

Brenda Pressley Replaces Suzzanne Douglas in Chisa Hutchinson's World Premiere Proof of Love by Andy Lefkowitz

New York stage alum Brenda Pressley will now star in the upcoming off-Broadway staging of Chisa Hutchinson's new solo play Proof of Love. Jade King Carroll directs the production—which wil…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Chisa Hutchinson's Surely Goodness and Mercy Sets Casting for New York Premiere by Andy Lefkowitz

Casting is complete for Keen Company's New York premiere staging of Surely Goodness and Mercy, written by Chisa Hutchinson (Somebody's Daughter). Jessi D. Hill (How the World Began) …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Most Shows at One Theater (Part 3) by JK

Over the past weeks, I began to celebrate the start of my 36th year of going to Broadway shows, by looking at the theaters where I've seen multiple distinct productions. Miss the first part?…

SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 07:36AM
Friday, June 2, 2017

The Lyons at the Road by Peter Finlayson

  The Road Theatre just opened a new show at their Lankershim location –  The Lyons by Nicky Silver. This play Which originally opened off Broadway at The Vinyard Theatre in 2011. Th…

SOURCE: footlights.click at 05:05PM
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The Lyons by Steven Morris

The LyonsReviewed by Lovell Estell IIIThe Road Theatre on LankershimThrough July 1RECOMMENDED Nicky Silver’s mordant comedy revisits the familiar generative terrain of the dysfunctional fa…

SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:11PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Review: ‘The Lyons’ at Isis Productions by Deb Miller

Expletives, insults, and accusations fly, when an unhappy wife, alcoholic daughter, and gay son gather in the hospital room of their dying husband and father for a farewell verbal slug-fest.…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04PM
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Michael Esper on Playing Tom in London's Glass Menagerie, Working with David Bowie and Sting & His NYC Plans by Matt Wolf

Broadway actor Michael Esper has made a sizable impression on the London stage of late, moving from his acclaimed performance opposite Michael C. Hall in the U.K. stage debut of the David Bo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AM
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Broadway Mourns the Passing of Tony Winner Dick Latessa by Alan Henry

Yesterday BroadwayWorld was saddened to report the passing of Tony Award Winner Dick Latessa, who is fondly remembered for his timeless Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning performance as Wilbu…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PM
Saturday, December 3, 2016

"This Day Forward" Lacks Momentum by Broadway & Me

The playwright Nicky Silver sat in a seat in the back of the audience the night my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Silver's new play This Day Forward, which is running at the Vineyard Thea…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:24PM
Friday, December 2, 2016

This Day Forward ** by Barry

By: Isa Goldberg The horrors of family life have been fueling Nicky Silver’s dramadies for some time now.  In his early play, Pterodactyls (1993), he wished the nuclear family into ex…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PM
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

BWW Review: Bad Choices Have Lasting Impact In Nicky Silver's THIS DAY FORWARD by Michael Dale

As with their Vineyard Theatre success of five years ago, THE LYONS, in THIS DAY FORWARD, the team of playwright Nicky Silver and director Mark Brokaw display an impressive talent for packag…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PM
Monday, November 21, 2016

‘Til Death Do Us Part: ‘This Day Forward’ at Vineyard Theatre by Matthew Wexler

by Samuel L. Leiter Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls, The Lyons), comic dramatist of family angst, is at it again with Vineyard Theatre’s This Day Forward, a schizophrenic dramedy that has an id…

SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12PM

'This Day Forward': Theater Review

Grown children wrestle with their parents' troubled legacy in 'This Day Forward,' the new dark comedy by Nicky Silver, author of 'The Lyons.'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM

This Day Forward Opens at The Vineyard Tonight by Olivia Clement

The world-premiere production reunites Mark Brokaw and Nicky Silver following their collaboration on The Lyons.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, August 4, 2016

This Week in L.A. Theatre by Julio Martinez

IN THE NEWS Road Theatre Company in NoHo reveals its 2016-17 season, beginning with Edward Albee’s The Play About The Baby, starring Co-Artistic Directors Sam Anderson and Taylo…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 06:18PM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Spotlight On...John Carhart by Michael Block

Name: John CarhartHometown: That’s tricky…I moved 18 times before college….but I will say I was born in Jersey!Education: BA in Theatre from Muhlenberg College, and 2 year program at T…

SOURCE: TheaterInTheNow at 08:54PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Review: The Lyons/AstonRep Theatre Company by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom

Nicky Silver’s scripts are always a little bit absurd, focused on the dynamics of close personal relationships and absolutely brilliant. Over the past couple of years, AstonRep Theatre Com…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PM
Thursday, August 27, 2015

AstonRep’s THE LYONS Runs Aug 27 – Sept. 27 at the Raven Theatre by Michael J. Roberts

AstonRep Theatre Company is pleased to kick-off its 2015-16 season with the Chicago premiere of Nicky Silver’s darkly humorous family drama THE LYONS, directed by Company Member Derek…

SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:38PM