Atlantic Theatre Company News

A weekly column on Broadway and Baltimore/Washington theater.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the American premiere of Simon Mendes da Costa's LOSING LOUIE at the Biltmore Theatre. Previews for LOSING LOUIE begin Thursday, September 21 for a Thursday, October 12 opening.

In this edition: MAF in final weekend, Chekhov at Spotlighters, Music Man at Cockpit, The Baltimore Playwrights Festival, plus - a day in New York.

Casting has been announced for the first week of Summer Play Festival shows

On July 10th and July 24th, the Summer Play Festival will present a series of free panels addressing both practical and philosophical issues surrounding the theatre and will include an impressive line up of industry professionals

Conor McPherson, whose play Shining City was up for a Best Play Tony Award, will direct his new play The Seafarer for the National Theatre in London beginning this September

After a hit run at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company, Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on May 3rd and BroadwayWorld was there!

After a hit run at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company, Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on May 3rd and BroadwayWorld was there!

Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, starring Brian D'Arcy James, opens on Broadway May 3rd

The 21st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Oustanding Achievement Off-Broawday were presented on Monday, May 1st at New World Stages (formerly Dodger Stages, 340 West 50th Street) at 7 PM.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director; Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) presents the New York premiere of a provocative new play by Christopher Denham (star of Red Light Winter), directed by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, 'Winter Passing').

On April 4th, Alison Pill will replace Kerry Condon in the Atlantic Theatre Company's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which will soon be receiving a Broadway transfer

Sixty-three U.S. theatres have been announced as recipients of the Actors' Equity Foundation's 2005-2006 Theater Grants

BURLEIGH GRIME$, a new comedy about sex, money, rock & roll and a whole lot more, opens Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at Dodger Stages (340 W. 50th St.), in the heart of the Theater District.

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.

Elizabeth Marvel and Bryon Jennings will enact scenes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra while Shakespearean expert Kristin Linklater will moderate the reading on September 26th

The Atlantic Theater's production of The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow opens Monday, September 19th

Irish playwright Conor McPherson's Shining City will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with a tentative opening date set for November 10th

The Atlantic Theatre Company's production of The Cherry Orchard will run from June 15th to July 3rd

John Mahoney leads cast in European premiere of David Mamet's Romance