Bernard Shaw News

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced John Patrick Shanley as the recipient of its Ingram New Works Fellowship.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents George Bernard Shaw's provocative romantic comedy CANDIDA, Starring Amy Irving, Richard Thomas, Bobby Steggert, and featuring Cassie Beck, Cary Donaldson, and Nick Wyman Monday, September 27 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South)

Gingold Theatrical Group -- which made history last December as the first company ever to present every play (including full-length works, one-acts and sketches) written by George Bernard Shaw -- continues its fifth year of PROJECT SHAW with CANDIDA, Shaw's provocative romantic comedy about a minister and his wife whose marriage is threatened by a young poet, on Monday, September 27 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. David Staller produces and directs.

The Alley Theatre was founded over sixty years ago as Houston's theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works - to provide the inspirational and the provocative - to make our audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is committed to moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. For more information call 713-220-5700.

On Wednesday, September 15th at 6:30PM, the Broadway community will gather alongside Stephen Sondheim as the lights of the newly dedicated Stephen Sondheim Theatre marquee are lit for the first time.

Florida Studio Theatre presents Sylvia, a comedy about a middle-aged man and the two women in his life, his wife and his dog. The final production of FST's Summerfest Series, A.R. Gurney's funny and stirring Sylvia opens July 28.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its popular annual summer tradition of family theatre under the stars with a new translation/adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Servant of Two Masters. Performances begin on June 23 and continue through August 1. Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 8:15pm at the outdoor amphitheatre on the campus of the College of St. Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road in Morris Township.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is delighted to announce the 2010 - 2011 Season!

Beginning Saturday, August 28, 2010, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, starring Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston, and Paxton Whitehead.

English propriety is laid low by fistfights, gunplay, broken crockery, and a plane crash in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance.

West Palm Beach's Palm Beach Dramaworks, will launch its 11th Anniversary Season with 'Candida,' the acclaimed play by the Nobel Prize winning playwright George Bernard Shaw on Friday, October 8th (8PM) at their downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard.) Special priced preview performances are slated for October 6th & 7th (8PM) and the production will play through November 21st.

Beginning Saturday, August 28, 2010, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, starring Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston, and Paxton Whitehead.

Main Street Theater opens its 35th season with George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma. With previews September 4, 5 and 8, Dilemma... opens September 9 and runs through October 3 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd.

Yesterday, August 19, the cast of Roundabout's Tigers Be Still, a new play by Kim Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold met the press. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photo coverage below. Tigers Be Still features Reed Birney (Joseph), Halley Feiffer (Sherry), Natasha Lyonne (Grace), and John Magaro (Zack).

West Palm Beach's only resident professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks will kick off its 11th Anniversary season with George Bernard Shaw's play 'Candida' on Friday, October 8th (8PM) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard). The season will continue with a distinguished roster of plays including the southeast premiere of 'Freud's Last Session' by Mark St. Germain, 'Dinner With Friends' by Donald Margulies and 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' by Martin McDonagh.

All the wrong men chase all the wrong women in Misalliance, an exuberant comedy from George Bernard Shaw that opens South Coast Repertory's 47th season. This witty classic, helmed by SCR Artistic Director Martin Benson, runs Sept. 10 through Oct. 10 on the Segerstrom Stage.

Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn Lipuma lead the staff, board and artists in celebration as the theatre closes its 2009/10 Season and enters the arresting 2010/11 Season. Significant achievements were met both artistically and fiscally, including increasing national recognition for the theatre and its productions.

The last time Sam Underwood appeared on stage he was completely naked. He was playing Alan Strang in the much lauded production of Peter Schaffer's EQUUS at East Hampton (NY)'s John Drew Theatre. Those who are familiar with the play know that it culminates in a 20 minute nude scene for the actor playing the tormented young Strang. How then would the actor be recognized when he walked into a restaurant in New York City fully clothed?

The South Coast Repertory Theater has announced its upcoming schedule for August through November, 2010.

Sell a Door Theatre Company produces THE PHILANDERED by Bernard Shaw. This rarely performed gem was last seen in London nearly twenty years ago. This fresh, raw and dynamic production revives one of Bernard Shaw's best comedies.