About Face Theatre News

Nationally Acclaimed Producer/Director/Playwright Named New Head of About Face Theatre

This fall, Lincoln Center Theater will begin a new programming initiative - LCT3 - which will be devoted to producing the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers.

The Little Dog Laughed currently playing the Hoover-Leppen Theatre at the Center on Halsted, and presented by About Face Theatre is a clever dissection of the celebrity haze currently cast over America.

This October, Berkeley is the epicenter of Bay Area drama when Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati brings after the quake to Berkeley Repertory Theatre; performed on the Thrust Stage beginning previews October 12, opening October 17 and runs through November 25.

Cast to feature Peter Weller as Frank Lloyd Wright, Harris Yulin as Louis Sullivan, Chris Henry Coffey, Holley Fain, Mary Beth Fisher, Maggie Siff, Jeremy Strong and Jay Whittaker

The winners of Chicago's Jefferson Awards were announced in a ceremony at the DePaul Merle Reskin Theatre (60 Balbo Drive) in Chicago on November 6th

Stephen Flaherty, Frank Galati, Gary Griffin, Mary Zimmerman, David Ives and James Lapine, as well as performers Tyler Hanes, Rondi Reed, Mary Beth Peil, Hollis Resnik, Anthony Crivello and E. Faye Butler are among the nominees for the 2006 Joseph Jefferson Awards, which recognize achievement in Chicago-area Equity theatre

The newest collaboration between Chicago's groundbreaking About Face Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art is the freshest piece of musical theatre to been seen in the windy city in some time.

Loving Repeating, premiering in Chicago on February 14th, is a collaboration between Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati adapted from the writing of Gertrude Stein