The New Group News

Tomorrow night's special 9PM ET episode of NBC TV's popular comedy 'Scrubs' - subtitled 'My Musical,' with original songs by Avenue Q's Tony winning songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx - will feature Avenue Q Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo as its guest star

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 National Festival, has announced the January / February schedule of the New York presentations of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays

The American Theatre Wing's Grants Program will honor its 2006 grant recipients, 53 New York City not-for-profit theatres that reflect the range of diversity of New York's theatres, at a luncheon at Sardi's on December 7 at noon.

In January, the New Group will present The Fever, written and performed by Wallace Shawn

The New Group has announced a benefit evening honoring Derek McLane and Wendy Ettinger with the first annual Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Theater

For the second time, the hit London production of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has been extended

The New Group has extended its limited run of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tony Award-winner Cynthia Nixon in the title role, through December 9th

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival, have announced that 65 theater companies in New York City have been selected to participate in the year-long production of Parks' '365 Days/365 Plays'

In its 2006-2007 season, the New Group will present The Fever by Wallace Shawn and The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub

The New Group's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will begin previews on September 20th for an October 9th opening

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of Simon Mendes da Costa's LOSING LOUIE at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews for LOSING LOUIE begin Thursday, September 21 for a Thursday, October 12 opening.

London theatregoers will be able to stroll down Avenue Q for another few months; the West End production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical has announced an extension through January 27th, 2007 at the Noel Coward Theatre

Cynthia Nixon--currently Tony-nominated for her last Broadway turn in Rabbit Hole--will star in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which will be revived by the New Group in September

The New Group will present the final production of its 2005-2006 mainstage season, Everythings Turning Into Beautiful, from Monday, July 17 - Saturday , September 2 at The New Group at Theatre Row

Next season, Keen Company moves uptown and Off Broadway! First show of their 2006/07 Season is the NYC premiere of Theophilus North, by Matthew Burnett, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder.

New Georges, the OBIE-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, has announced an extension through June 30th of its world premiere production of Sheila Callaghan's Dead City, directed by Daniella Topol

Cynthia Nixon--currently Tony-nominated for her last Broadway turn in Rabbit Hole--will star in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which will be revived by the New Group in September

Tony Award-nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega--before taking on the role of Fantine in Broadway's Les Miserables beginning in October--will headline Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Everything's Turning Into Beautiful for the New Group; the play runs from July 17th through August 26th