A View From the Bridge
Author:

Arthur Miller
Award to Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Roger Berlind, James M. Nederlander, Nathaniel Kramer, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Roy Gabay, Old Ivy Productions

Playbill.com digs into its archives to explore past articles. In the next installment, a 16-year-old Natalie Portman shares why she decided to make her Broadway debut starring in The Diary of Anne Frank.

Can it really be 20 years since the name Whoopi Goldberg first went widely public with her one-woman Broadway show, Whoopi Goldberg?

Talking Heads, the celebrated two-evening experience of six plays by Alan Bennett officially welcomes a seventh play into the repertory June 2, when a new summer schedule begins.

Tuesdays With Morrie, the Jeffrey Hatcher-Mitch Albom stage version of the best-selling memoir by Mitch Albom, will give its last Off-Broadway performance at the Minetta Lane Theatre on Feb. 23. It will have played a total of 20 previews and 108 regular performances.

Tuesdays With Morrie, the Jeffrey Hatcher-Mitch Albom stage version of the best-selling memoir by Mitch Albom, will give its last Off-Broadway performance at the Minetta Lane Theatre on Feb. 23. It will have played a total of 20 previews and 108 regular performances.

The upcoming production of Oedipus Rex — starring Al Pacino — will replace the Daryl Roth Theatre’s long-running tenant, De La Guarda sometime within the year. Variety reports that producer Daryl Roth confirmed that the Estelle Parsons-directed play is headed for her theatre on East 15th Street.

The war of words continues for Godspell, the long-running Off Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's biblical pop musical. Its co producer, director and publicist, Richard Haase, is up-in-arms over two issues: the New York media's scant coverage of the show, which has already racked up a six-month run yet has not been reviewed by the major dailies; and reports that a second, updated version of Godspell, based on similar ideas, is being readied for a commercial tour.

VIVA VEANNE!: Last month The Food Chain, Nicky Silver's manic antic at the Westside Theatre, finished its lengthy and critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run. Veanne Cox, the hysterically altar-bound bride of the Roundabout's Company (who made the runnings for this year's Tony and Drama Desk Awards), had recently inherited the lead role of the neurotic newlywed that was originally portrayed by Hope Davis.

Come fall, you'll probably find Cox in The Batting Cage, the Joan Ackerman comedy that she and Babo Harrison launched (under Lisa Petersen's direction) last spring in the 20th Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Producers David Stone, Amy Nederlander-Case, Andrew Kato and Jenny Weiner have hired the trio to repeat their chores Off-Broadway.

In case you've never made the Louisville trek, Heinemann just published two volumes of A Decade of New Comedy: Plays from the Humana Festival. Included are the works of Eduardo Machado (In the Eye of the Hurricane), Arthur Kopit (Road to Nirvana), Richard Dresser (Below the Belt), Regina Taylor (Watermelon Rinds), Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman (Trendy Blue), Jane Martin (Cementville). The Kopit had a run at Circle Rep a few seasons back, and the Dresser just completed a much-too-brief one (in light of the glowing reviews) at the John Houseman, freeing Judd Hirsch to replace the already perfectly cast Robert Klein in the Roundabout revival of Herb Gardner's A Thousand Clowns; that shuffle disappointed some theatre buffs who were already calling it A Thousand Kleins.

Lucky shoes: check. Tailored coat: check. Oversized scissors: check. It's a week before the 88th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and executive producer Amy Kule is ready for her close up.

Katharine Hepburn has been handed her eviction notice.

The League of American Theatres and Producers have announced the first annual "National Broadway Theatre Awards" — informally nicknamed "The Star Awards" — which honor eligible Broadway touring shows. Unlike the Tonys (and, in fact, almost all other theatre awards), the NBTA winners are chosen by audience vote, rather than by critics and theatre insiders.

The League of American Theatres and Producers has announced that Sherie Rene Scott (“Amneris” in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida) will co host the first National Broadway Theatre Awards (NBTA) along with Alan Cumming (Cabaret, Design for Living). The awards take place at the Supper Club in New York City on May 21.

The League of American Theatres and Producers confirms that it has named actor Alan Cumming (Cabaret, Design for Living) as host for the National Broadway Theatre Awards (NBTA). The awards will take place at the Supper Club in New York City on May 21.

What is it that the Tony, Pulitzer, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics Circle, OBIE, Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards don't do? For all their various rules and fiefdoms, none of these organizational awards recognize national touring shows.

Change will come to two of Broadway's blazing marquees at 7:30 PM May 9, when the Plymouth Theatre becomes the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and the Royale becomes the Bernard B. Jacobs.