Classic Stage Company News

Classic Stage Company will present Obie Award winner Michael Cumpsty in the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III beginning performances Thursday, November 1 at CSC (136 East 13th Street). The production kicks of CSC's 40th anniversary season. Co-directed by Kulick and Cumpsty, Richard III will play a limited engagement from Thursday, November 1 through Sunday, December 9. The official opening night is Tuesday, November 13 at 7PM.

78th Street Theatre Lab will open its 2007-08 season this fall with the world premiere of BOTANICAL GARDENS by Chicago playwright Todd Logan, previews begin August 31, prior to an official press opening of September 9 at the 78th Street Theatre Lab (236 West 78th Street) in Manhattan. Rob Urbinati (BORDER/CLASH) directs.

We talk to Tony Nominee for best lighting design: Kevin Adams of Spring Awakening. Kevin is a self-taught lighting designer with a style and theory al his own, with many of his lighting designs often doubling as set 'installations'. Oh, and he enjoys gardening...

For over half a century, Stuart Vaughan has been - in every sense of the phrase - a true Renaissance man of the theatre. Vaughan's latest project is a new stage version of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic 1850 novel about the conflict between Puritanism and passion. With honesty, eloquence and insight, Vaughan recently answered some questions about his incredible life in the theatre - and about a career that shows no signs at all of slowing down!

Peculiar Works Project, producers of the acclaimed site-specific performance, OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, will present 'BANG! For Your Buck'

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present its 2007 Annual Benefit Gala and third annual Quiz Show on Monday, May 14

On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, longtime theatrical publicist Jeremy Shaffer - who since late 2004 was co-owner/operator of Shaffer-Coyle Public Relations - joins The Publicity Office, the respected New York-based press agency headed by Marc Thibodeau.

Classic Stage Company, led by Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has just announced details for their upcoming 40th anniversary season. The acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company, currently in its 39th season, has been honored in the past with Obies, Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the 1999 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work.

British actor David Oyelowo is gritty and majestic in a production that never matches his performance.

Work Bridges Pop Music, Film Scoring, and Theatrical Projects

Classic Stage Company will conclude its 2006-07 season with Aquila Theatre Company's new production of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, starring rising young British actor David Oyelowo

Heather Goldenhersh and Paul Sparks will star in Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons

Perhaps Yasmina Reza's intention was to write the play Chekhov would have written if he thought he was Pirandello.

Yasmina Reza's A Spanish Play, in its English language premiere, opened on February 1st after beginning previews on January 10th. The show is set to play an extended run through March 4th.

Classic Stage Company will present the second year of its popular Young Company, which creates classical works specially tailored for family audiences.

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present John Mahoney (Old Man), Annie Parisse (Rita) and Alan Tudyk (Peter) in a new Broadway production of Craig Lucas' romantic drama Prelude to a Kiss with Robin Bartlett (Mrs. Boyle) and James Rebhorn (Dr. Boyle), directed by Daniel Sullivan at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St).

Classic Stage Company will present the return of its popular 'First Look Festival' - a program of one-night only staged readings of rarely seen classics, performed by notable actors.

Due to popular demand, Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Brian Kulick, Artistic Director and Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director, has extended the run of the American premiere of Yasmina Reza's A SPANISH PLAY by an additional two weeks through Sunday, March 4.

Tony Kushner, David Ives and more will be part of Makor's January line-up

The American Theatre Wing's Grants Program will honor its 2006 grant recipients, 53 New York City not-for-profit theatres that reflect the range of diversity of New York's theatres, at a luncheon at Sardi's on December 7 at noon.