Those of you who live outside of New York, and can't get here to experience the award-winning Side Man for yourself will be pleased to hear that not only is the play's script now available in hardcover and paperback editions, but a new CD titled "Jazz Classics from the Broadway Hit" will be released by RCA Victor Feb. 23 (The release date was pushed back two weeks from an originally announced Feb. 9.)

Those of you who live outside of New York, and can't get here to experience the award-winning Side Man for yourself will be pleased to hear that not only is the play's script now available in hardcover and paperback editions, but a new CD titled "Jazz Classics from the Broadway Hit" will be released by RCA Victor Feb. 9, 1999.

Christian Slater will continue his role of Clifford, the narrator in Bway's Side Man, through February 28, according to a press spokesperson (Jan. 11). Slater had originally signed on to play the role through Jan. 21.

The profession of theatrical press agent will be scrutinized at a Jan. 14 panel sponsored by the Drama Desk organization. The 5:30 event will take place at the WWF Underground Theatre cabaret at 1501 Broadway in Manhattan.

Film director Stanley Kramer, who helmed the movie version of "Judgment at Nuremberg," has died at age 87. According to the Associated Press, Kramer, suffering from pneumonia, died Feb. 19 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills. His death comes only four days after previews began at the Longacre Theatre for Abby Mann's new stage adaptation of Nuremberg, set to open March 26.

With I.B.M. fending off allegations that they offered technology to the Nazis, and on-line auction sites debating whether to allow vendors to sell Third Reich memorabilia, what better time than now for a Broadway mounting of Judgment at Nuremberg, an adaptation of Abby Mann's teleplay and screenplay about war guilt and responsibility? Rehearsals began in mid-January for the courtroom drama, which starts previews Feb. 15 and opens March 26. John Tillinger directs the drama, currently scheduled to run through the end of May, according to spokesrpersons at the Springer/Chicoine press office.

Twenty-one performers are all busy rehearsing Judgment at Nuremberg, a new drama starting previews Feb. 15 at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. Rehearsals began last week for the show, slated to open March 26. John Tillinger directs Abby Mann's script, adapted from his own screenplay.

Actor Maximilian Schell underwent an emergency appendectomy over the past weekend, forcing him to miss nearly a week's worth of performances of Broadway's Judgment at Nuremberg. According to a production spokesperson at the Springer/Chicoine office, the actor is expected due back in the production tonight, March 16. However, it's not yet known whether he'll be able to do both performances on March 17.

You won’t hear “Nessun Dorma,” but you’re likely to encounter just about everything else in Blue Light Theatre Company’s season opener, Princess Turandot, a farcical love story loosely based not only on Puccini’s famed opera but Busoni’s opera and Carlo Gozzi’s 1792 play. Darko Tresnjak, who staged last season’s Hotel Universe, has penned the new comedy and directs it as well. (And yes, it even includes two characters named Nessun and Dorma.)

You won’t hear “Nessun Dorma,” but you’re likely to encounter just about everything else in Blue Light Theatre Company’s season opener, Princess Turandot, a farcical love story loosely based not only on Puccini’s famed opera but Busoni’s opera and Carlo Gozzi’s 1792 play. Darko Tresnjak, who staged last season’s Hotel Universe, has penned the new comedy and directs it as well. (And yes, it even includes two characters named Nessun and Dorma.)

In late December, the editors and staff of Playbill On-Line pulled out their notepads and revisited hundreds of past articles on our site to determine the most important theatre stories in 1999.