Christopher Hampton News

Hope Davis, who stars in Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit play GOD OF CARNAGE, is featured in the Los Angeles Times. She talks with LA Times writer Choire Sicha about acting on stage in GOD OF CARNAGE and playing Hillary Clinton for television.

The Unexpected Man Extends! The Unexpected Man, a play by Yasmina Reza in the Christopher Hampton translation, directed by Stephen Drewes, has been extended through August 15.

The Tony nominated cast of Yasmina Reza's GOD OF CARNAGE have extended their contracts through November 15. The entire production will take a 6 week summer hiatus beginning after today's performance to allow the cast to fulfill previously scheduled family commitments. The production, starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden will resume performances on Tuesday, September 8 and continue through Sunday, November 15.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that Laura Benanti, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Michael Cerveris, Maria Dizzia, Thomas Jay Ryan, Wendy Rich Stetson, and Chandler Williams will be featured in its upcoming production of IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, to be directed by Les Waters.

Broadway?s hottest new play God of Carnage is featured in The Daily News. Joe Dziemianowicz writes about how the Tony nominated cast members plan to spend their summer vacations. The Tony award winning Best New Play starring Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden will resume performances on Tuesday, September 8 and continue through Saturday, November 14.

GOD OF CARNAGE's Tony nominated Jeff Daniels will sit down with the ladies of 'The View' Friday, July 17. Daniels will discuss GOD OF CARNAGE and his new film, The Answer Man. The program can be seen locally in New York on WABC7, channel 7 between 11AM - 12PM.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.

East West Players' (EWP) 44th Anniversary Season includes a white painting costing 200k, a Chinese cooking show, a video game about world peace according to Buddhist, and an inside look at performer who played the lead role of Kim of Miss Saigon. This season, themed Art is... includes Art, by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin, Cave Quest by Les Thomas and Road to Saigon developed and directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.

GOD OF CARNAGE's Tony nominated Jeff Daniels will sit down with the ladies of 'The View' Friday, July 17. Daniels will discuss GOD OF CARNAGE and his new film, The Answer Man. The program can be seen locally in New York on WABC7, channel 7 between 11AM - 12PM.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.

James Macdonald returns to the Almeida to direct the world premiere of Christopher Hampton's new version of Ödön von Horváth's Judgment Day. Judgment Day will run at the Almeida from 3 September - 17 October 2009, with press night on 10 September. Set designs are by Miriam Buether with costume design is by Moritz Junge, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Chris Shutt and music by Matthew Herbert.

La Jolla Playhouse announced today the addition of the world-premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde, to its 2009-10 season, replacing The Big Time. This production features music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance), book by Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and direction by Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!). Bonnie & Clyde will run November 10 - December 20, 2009 in the Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced a one-week extension of Waiting for Godot through Sunday, July 12th, 2009.

A new production of The Mysteries - Yiimimangaliso, the musical that has been seen by audiences of over 250,000 worldwide, will return to London for twenty five performances only at the Garrick Theatre from 11 September - 3 October, with press night on 15 September.

Spare Stage Presents the San Francisco Premiere of Yasmina Reza's deliciously ironic comedy THE UNEXPECTED MAN, directed by Stephen Drewes. Starring Ken Ruta and Abigail Van Alyn in the Christopher Hampton translation. July 10-25, 2009 at the EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street near Mason, in San Francisco.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present Victor Garber in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, directed by Nicholas Martin. Previews begin January 2, 2010 with an Opening Night set for January 21, 2010. The production will be a limited engagement.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) in association with Long Wharf Theatre presents Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein with Patch Darragh (Tom Wingfield), two-time Tony® Award winner Judith Ivey (Amanda Wingfield), Keira Keeley (Laura Wingfield).

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Laura Linney ('John Adams,' The Savages) will play the lead role in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of TIME STANDS STILL by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies. The limited engagement, to be directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Accent on Youth, Sight Unseen on Broadway, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends) will begin previews at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 in preparation for a Thursday, January 28, 2010 opening night. The production had previously been announced to play MTC's New York City Center - Stage I.

Entertainment Tonight obtained a family photo of the couple is showing off their twin baby girls. In the photo, Sarah Jessica and Matthew are each holding one of their new daughters -- Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge. The twins' 6-year-old brother James Wilkie affectionately looks over one of his baby sisters.