Alan Ball News

To benefit their 2016 return to their East Village home, Performance Space 122 (PS122) and Executive Producer Anson Mount bring together widely acclaimed playwright Eric Bogosian and director Jo Bonney, along with their close friends, for two-nights of hand-selected, intimate performances from Bogosian's 100 Monologues series.

Next on the Main Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's drama, The Diary of Anne Frank, adapted by Wendy Kesselman and directed by Joseph Discher. Nearly 75 years ago in the Netherlands, a young girl received a diary for her 13th birthday. Today, Anne Frank's humor, strength, and innate goodness continue to shine forth from her words to inspire readers and audiences of all ages. The powerful story of her family's will to survive comes to unforgettable life for a new generation in this adaptation of the Pulitzer, Tony, and NY Drama Critic's Circle Award-winning play.

MCC Theater has just announced the the New York premiere of John Pollono's Lost Girls, BroadwayWorld has confirmed.  Golden Globe nominated star of stage and screen, Piper Perabo-who recently completed five seasons of the USA's popular drama series "Covert Affairs" for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, and was last seen onstage in the Broadway and MCC Theater productions of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty-stars alongside Ebon Moss-Bachrach (HBO's "Girls"), Meghann Fahy (Next to Normal), Tasha Lawrence (Good People, The Whale), and newcomers Lizzy DeClement and Josh Green. 

Premium TV network EPIX(R) announced today that Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 'Hannibal') has been cast as the lead in Berlin Station, the 10-part contemporary spy series produced by Paramount TV and Anonymous Content.

Premium TV network EPIX announced today that Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 'Hannibal') has been cast as the lead in Berlin Station, the 10-part contemporary spy series produced by Paramount TV and Anonymous Content. Armitage will portray Daniel Meyer, the cerebral, newly-anointed CIA case officer who goes from being an analyst at Langley to an undercover agent in Berlin tasked with finding an informant. Also joining the ensemble cast is Emmy Award nominee Michelle Forbes ('The Killing,' 'True Blood,' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2) in the role of Valerie Edwards, the no-nonsense administrator who serves as a Berlin Station Section Head.

Cinemax has cancelled its drama series BANSHEE. The show will end following the upcoming eight-episode fourth season, scheduled to premiere in early 2016.

Michigan Shakespeare Festival is currently presenting HENRY IV, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Michigan Shakespeare Festival presents THE RIVALS this summer, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Michigan Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

Just in time for wedding season, Carrollwood Players Theatre will present Alan Ball's irreverent comedy, Five Women Wearing The Same Dress, at the Carrollwood Playhouse, 4333 Gunn Highway, Tampa, FL, 33618 from June 5th until June 27th, with performances on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm and on Sundays at 3pm.

?Production has begun in Pittsburgh on the fourth season of the Emmy®-winning CINEMAX action series BANSHEE

Hanover Little Theatre will present Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, April 10-19, which takes a comic look at five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids avoiding the reception. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration.

GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organization, today announced it will honor writer, producer, director, and philanthropist Roland Emmerich at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on March 21, 2015.

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Humanitas, which has for years given budding television writers a leg up through its New Voices mentorship initiative, will now add support for locally based playwrights through PLAY LA, a new program launched in collaboration with Center Theatre Group (CTG). The announcement was made jointly by Humanitas President Ali LeRoi and CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.

CineMax's BANSHEE will return for its ten-episode third season TONIGHT, JAN. 9, at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The Emmy®-winning series is executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes.

?BANSHEE returns for its ten-episode third season TONIGHT, JAN. 9 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. The Emmy-winning show is executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes.

?BANSHEE returns for its ten-episode third season FRIDAY, JAN. 9 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on CINEMAX. The Emmy®-winning show is executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes.

The SAG Awards® Holiday Auction benefiting the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's Children's Literacy and Assistance programs is live at sagawards.org/auction.