Alec Baldwin will host the Arthur Miller Foundation’s inaugural honors gala in New York celebrating the work of HBO Documentary Films and playwright Tony Kushner. The inaugural Arthur Miller Foundation Honors is set for Monday, Oct. 22, at Manhattan’s City Winery. Baldwin hosts, with appearances by Nathan Lane, Edie…

Playwright Tony Kushner, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America is back on Broadway, will be the honoree of the Theatre Development Fund’s 50th anniversary gala in June, TDF announced today, with playwright/director James Lapine set to receive the organization’s inaugural TDF Founders Award. "Tony Kushner is…

It seems like only yesterday that Marg Helgenberger first won legions of admirers playing the mouthy, entrepreneurial K.C. Kolowski on ABC’s landmark series China Beach. Now the C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation star has signed on for the off-Broadway premiere of What We’re Up Against, an early play by Theresa Rebeck…

The National Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner’s landmark 1993 play Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes has booked a limited Broadway run early next year. Reprising their London performances will be Nathan Lane (F. Lee Bailey in American Crime Story‘s The People v. O.J. Simpson) as lawyer…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg has found his next film. He’ll direct for Amblin Entertainment The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara, an adaptation of the the book by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Kertzer that Tony Kushner has adapted. Mark Rylance, who won the Best Supporting Oscar for Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies and who plays…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Kushner has come aboard to adapt He Wanted The Moon, a memoir by Mimi Baird and Eve Claxton. The project is a co-production between Brad Pitt's Plan B and Cross Creek Pictures. Pitt bought the book himself last year, and the expectation is he might play Dr. Perry Baird, a Texan Harvard-educated doctor…

What Moscow rejects, Manhattan embraces: Moisés Kaufman’s celebrated 1997 docuplay Gross Indecency: The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde, recently canceled by the Kremlin during pre-production, will be presented in October by a star-driven cast as a fundraiser in New York. Emmy-winner Michael Emerson (Lost, Person Of Intere…

Jeremy Gerard has covered the evolving fortunes of Jujamcyn Theatres since it became a formidable competitor to the larger Shubert and Nederlander organizations in the late 1980s. In 2013 producer Jordan Roth became Jujamcyn's majority owner and the Street's youngest power broker. In this ongoing conversation they…

Artistic directors of some 60 of the country’s most prominent nonprofit theaters responded swiftly and forcefully to the firing last Thursday of Ari Roth, a playwright and a.d. of Theater J, a prominent Washington D.C. company funded by the Jewish Community Center. In their letter, the chiefs — including Oskar Eustis…

George Lucas, Tony Kushner and Elaine May are among the honorees for the 2012 National Medal of Arts that will be presented by President Barack Obama next week at the White House. Lucas is being honored for his contributions to American cinema. “By combining the art of storytelling with boundless imagination and…

Los Angeles – Writers Guild and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Tony Kushner has been chosen to receive the WGAW's 2013 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay for Lincoln. Named after the late Selvin, who served as counsel to the Guild, the award is given to the WGA member whose script best embodies the…

Whittling down the 56-year life of a landmark U.S. president to a feature-length screenplay is a daunting task, and playwright Tony Kushner initially turned down the offer to adapt Abraham Lincoln's story for the big screen for Steven Spielberg, even after their Oscar-lauded collaboration on 2005's Munich. But if…