Carly Mensch News

Westport Country Playhouse will host two special events, 'Teen Night' and 'Mom's Day Off,' in conjunction with the World Premiere of OBLIVION, a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's NURSE JACKIE and WEEDS, and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently helming Broadway's RODGER'S AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA.

Westport Country Playhouse will host two special events, 'Teen Night' and 'Mom's Day Off,' in conjunction with the World Premiere of OBLIVION, a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's NURSE JACKIE and WEEDS, and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently helming Broadway's RODGER'S AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA.

Belief or oblivion?What happens when what you believe in no longer has any meaning for you? That is the problem that the four characters face in Carly Mensch's new play, Oblivion, which had its world premiere at the Westport Country Playhouse.

Westport Country Playhouse will host two special events, 'Teen Night' and 'Mom's Day Off,' in conjunction with the World Premiere of OBLIVION, a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's NURSE JACKIE and WEEDS, and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently helming Broadway's RODGER'S AND HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA.

Westport Country Playhouse stages the World Premiere of 'Oblivion,' a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie' and 'Weeds,' and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently represented on Broadway with 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.' The coming-of-age comedy-drama runs now through September 8. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

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Westport Country Playhouse will stage the World Premiere of 'Oblivion,' a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie' and 'Weeds,' and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently represented on Broadway with 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.' The coming-of-age comedy-drama runs from tonight, August 20 through September 8.

Ars Nova announces a September lineup featuring exciting new comedy, music and theater programming.

Westport Country Playhouse presents a world premiere about family and belonging by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's WEEDS and NURSE JACKIE. In OBLIVION, sixteen-year-old Julie won't come clean about where she spent the past weekend, but it was not on the college recruiting trip she led her parents to believe. What could she possibly be hiding?

Westport Country Playhouse will stage the World Premiere of 'Oblivion,' a provocative new play about parents and teenagers, and the gulf that often exists between them, by Carly Mensch, writer for Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie' and 'Weeds,' and directed by Mark Brokaw, currently represented on Broadway with 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.' The coming-of-age comedy-drama runs from August 20 through September 8.

Performances begin today for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's eighth annual First Look Repertory of New Work, featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory today, July 29 - August 25, 2013 in the Garage Theatre (1624 N Halsted St).

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium with guest speaker Francesca Coppa, foremost American expert on the British playwright Joe Orton, following today's 3 p.m. matinee performance of Orton's 'Loot,' a wickedly funny send-up of larcenous, lascivious behavior among the English middle classes.

Performances begin in three weeks for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's upcoming eighth annual First Look Repertory of New Work, featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory July 29 - August 25, 2013 in the Garage Theatre (1624 N Halsted St). First Look 2013 includes: Annie Bosh is Missing by Janine Nabers, directed by Shade Murray; Buena Vista by Edith Freni, directed byensemble member Tim Hopper; and The Gospel of Franklin by Aaron Carter, directed by Robert O'Hara. Scroll down for a sneak peek at Annie Bosh, Buena Vista and The Gospel of Franklin in rehearsal!

Westport Country Playhouse will stage the British farce, 'Loot,' a wickedly funny send-up of larcenous, lascivious behavior among the English middle classes, written by Joe Orton and directed by David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director, playing from tonight, July 16 through August 3. The play won the coveted Evening Standard Award for Best Play in 1967.

Performances begin in three weeks for Steppenwolf Theatre Company's upcoming eighth annual First Look Repertory of New Work, featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory July 29 - August 25, 2013 in the Garage Theatre (1624 N Halsted St).

To kick off its third production of the season, 'Loot' by Joe Orton, Westport Country Playhouse will host a free film screening of 'Prick Up Your Ears,' the 1987 film adaptation of Orton's biography, starring Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, and Vanessa Redgrave, and directed by Stephen Frears, today, July 14, 4 p.m., in The Playhouse's Sheffer Studio.

Westport Country Playhouse hosted an unveiling of a portrait of the late actor Jason Robards, for whom the theater is named, on Tuesday, July 9. The portrait depicts Robards in the role of Cornelius Melody in 'A Touch of the Poet' by Eugene O'Neill. Donated to the Playhouse by Robards's children, Jake and Shannon, it is displayed in the Playhouse lobby. The portrait artist is Clyde Smith of Silvermine Arts Center. Click below to watch a video clip (taken by Chad Kinsman) from the unveiling!