Arthur Conan Doyle News

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Fake, written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson Featuring ensemble members Kate Arrington, Francis Guinan and Alan Wilder.

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2009-2010 season, exploring the theme of belief, with the world premiere of Fake, written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. Fake features ensemble members Kate Arrington, Francis Guinan and Alan Wilder with Coburn Goss and Larry Yando. Fake plays September 10 - November 8, 2009 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted. The press performance is Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Alley Theatre will produce the Sherlock Holmes Mystery The Crucifer of Blood during its popular ExxonMobil Summer Chills series. The perfect summer outing for Houstonians seeking a cool respite from the summer heat, ExxonMobil Summer Chills is a great way to introduce live theatre to first-timers, giving them an opportunity to thrill in suspenseful moments and unexpected revelations.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company launches its 2009-2010 season, exploring the theme of belief, with the world premiere of Fake, written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. Fake features ensemble members Kate Arrington, Francis Guinan and Alan Wilder with Coburn Goss and Larry Yando.

Watson, a grieving widower, takes up lodgings once again with famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, a man the world believed to be dead. Holmes is approached with a case that involves a Hound from Hell. Could this Hell Hound be the key to the afterlife, and to Watson's lost love Mary?

Theatre Works, America's premier radio theater company, is back on the road, bringing two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. War of the Worlds and The Lost World, which played last fall to great audience and critical acclaim, heads out for the spring leg of a seven-month national tour through May 2. John de Lancie ('Q' on Star Trek: The Next Generation) directs the double bill.

Theatre Works, America's premier radio theater company, is back on the road, bringing two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. War of the Worlds and The Lost World, which played last fall to great audience and critical acclaim, heads out for the spring leg of a seven-month national tour through May 2. John de Lancie ('Q' on Star Trek: The Next Generation) directs the double bill.

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case.

After 23 years of guiding Totem Pole Playhouse into national prominence as a premiere professional summer theatre, Carl Schurr and Wil Love are stepping down at the end of the 2008 season. As Producing Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director, respectively, this theatrical duo has produced, directed and acted in well over one hundred productions since assuming their current positions in 1985. Ray Ficca, long time friend of Schurr and Love and a resident company member at the Playhouse will become the artistic director in September of this year.

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case.

L.A. Theatre Works, America's premier radio theater company, is back on the road, bringing two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure to performing arts centers and theatres across the country. War of the Worlds and The Lost World, which played last fall to great audience and critical acclaim, heads out on a seven-month national tour February 27 ? May 2, with a stop in Omaha, for one performance at the Holland Performing Arts Center?s Kiewit Concert Hall on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. John de Lancie ('Q' on Star Trek: The Next Generation) directs the double bill.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is excited to announce its 2009-2010 Subscription Season, exploring the theme of belief. Season subscriptions go on-sale to the public on Tuesday, February 3 at 11 a.m. Steppenwolf ensemble members currently confirmed for the 2009-2010 Season include: Alana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Frank Galati, Jon Michael Hill, Francis Guinan, Tina Landau, Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, William Petersen, Rondi Reed, Anna D. Shapiro, Eric Simonson and Alan Wilder. Additional casting to be announced.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College opens its 2008-2009 season with a sci-fi double bill, War of the Worlds and The Lost World, presented by America's premiere radio theatre company, L.A. Theatre Works, on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 3pm. This performance is the first in Brooklyn Center's Theater series.

The world premiere of 'Becky's New Car,' written by Steven Dietz and directed by Kurt Beattie opens October 23, 2008 at the ACT Theatre, 700 Union Street, Seattle WA 98101. Tickets are $10/$15 (for students/people 25 and under) to $55, with a Pay-What-You-Will showing on October 30 at 2:00 p.m. Call (206) 292-7676 or (253) 839-4204 (for group sales) or visit www.acttheatre.org for tickets and information.