The Colonial Theatre presents James Naughton
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| James Naughton on July 13th at 7:30PM; $45 and $35 |
Two-time Tony Award-winner (Chicago, City of Angels), film & television star James Naughton celebrates the swing tradition and the Ellington legacy in an intimate evening of cabaret. Naughton has won critical acclaim in dramas, comedies and musicals. He has met equal success with his elegant and intimate solo concert/Cabaret acts, receiving the 1999 Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs Award for Best Male Vocalist.
A graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, Naughton made his New York debut as Edmund in Arvin Brown’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, winning immediate recognition with Theatre World, New York Drama Critics and Vernon Rice awards for his performance. His other Broadway credits include Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, I Love My Wife and Whose Life Is It Anyway.
Off-Broadway he has appeared in E.L. Doctorow’s Drinks Before Dinner and Losing Time. Both a prolific performer and director at the Williamstown Theater Festival, he directed a critically acclaimed production of The Price which moved to Broadway in the winter of 1999 and received a Tony nomination. He most recently directed a production of Our Town on Broadway starring Paul Newman, which appeared on Showtime as well as The Good German for the Westport Country Playhouse.
Naughton’s film credits include The Good Mother opposite Diane Keaton; The Glass Menagerie with Joanne Woodward; The Paper Chase, First Kid, Cat’s Eye, A Stranger Is Watching, Second Wind and more recently Labor Pains. He has appeared in such television movies as Travelin’ Man, Necessity, Last of the Great Survivors, The Bunker and Look Homeward Angel.
More recently, Naughton starred in The Birds II for Showtime and the return of Cagney and Lacey. He has also starred in a number of network television series, including Who’s the Boss?, Making the Grade, Planet of the Apes, Farady and Co., Brooklyn Bridge, The Cosby Mysteries, Ally McBeal as Ally Macbeal’s father, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and was most recently seen opposite Meryl Streep in the hit film The Devil Wears Prada.
