Mario Cantone will host the 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards on May 6 at the NYU Skirball Center. Nominations for the awards, which honor outstanding achievement in off-Broadway productions, were announced on March 29 with Once and Tribes leading the pack with seven and six nominations respectively. As previoulsy announced producer Richard Frankel will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. 

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Nominations for the 2012 Drama Desk Awards were announced on April 27, and Death Takes a Holiday and Follies led the pack with a total of 10 nods each. The awards, which honor Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, will be presented June 3 at Town Hall. Donna Murphy and Brian d'Arcy James announced the nominees, as well as special ...

A star-studded crowd will honor Tony-winning director Walter Bobbie at Classic Stage Company’s annual benefit gala. The event is set for May 21 at Bridgewaters at South Street Seaport. Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth, an original star of Bobbie’s Chicago revival, is among those scheduled to appear, as are current Venus in Fur headliners Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda ...

There are Broadway veterans aplenty in the new animated film Dorothy of Oz. Glee and Spring Awakening's Lea Michele will star as Dorothy Gale alongside Tony winner Bernadette Peters as Glinda, as well as Smash’s Megan Hilty, Venus in Fur’s Hugh Dancy, La Cage aux Folles’ Kelsey Grammer, Martin Short, James Belushi, Patrick Stewart and Oliver Platt ...

The 57th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards ceremony will be held on May 21 at Webster Hall in New York City. The awards will be presented by Eric McCormack, Grace Gummer, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Rylance, Lily Rabe, Michael McKean, Topher Grace and Tracee Chimo. Co-hosts and entertainment for the ceremony will be announced shortly.

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Venus In Fur’s Hugh Dancy has been cast as one of two leads in NBC’s Hannibal, according to Deadline.com. The 13 episode series, from Gaumont International Television, is written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and executive produced by Martha De Laurentiis.

Hannibal, based on the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon, revolves around FBI ...

Dashing leading man Hugh Dancy sizzles as a playwright auditioning actresses, namely the wisecracking Vanda (Nina Arianda), in David Ives’s erotically charged play Venus In Fur. Arianda and Dancy may engage in an onstage romantic game of cat and mouse, but in real life the Dancy’s heart was caught by actress Claire Danes. Dancy sat down with CBS ...

In Venus in Fur dashing leading man Hugh Dancy plays a writer/director auditioning an aspiring actress (Nina Arianda). Dancy may be a big star himself these days, but when he stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on February 20 he opened up about the horrors of his own audition experiences. He even claimed “a dick” producer once threw ...

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for a second time during the 2011-2012 theater season to consider the eligibility of 13 Broadway shows: Man and Boy, The Mountaintop, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish, Other Desert Cities, Godspell, Venus in Fur, Private Lives, Seminar, Bonnie & Clyde, Stick Fly, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and Lysistrata Jones. The following decisions were ...

One Broadway opening wasn't enough for Venus in Fur and its acclaimed stars, Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy: After the sexy play's limited engagement ended at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater, a team of producers stepped in to give the production a second life at the Lyceum Theatre. Centering on a playwright/director and the ...