Classic Stage Company News

Classic Stage Company will present four-time Tony Award-winner Zoe Caldwell in her return to the New York stage in the American and English language premiere of Tony Award winner Yasmina Reza's A Spanish Play, beginning January 10 for a limited engagement through February 18 only

The playwright, director and star of the new comedy Danny's Boy, premiering at the 10th Annual New York Fringe Festival, talk about making a comedy work.

Complete casting is set for the upcoming Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic historical tragedy Richard II, which will be presented by Classic Stage Company from September 6th through October 15th, with opening night set for September 17th

Hermanas, starring former Miss Universe Denise Quinones and Ryan Duncan, will run as part of FringeNYC

Naughty Prep School Stories will be presented as part of the 10th New York International Fringe Festival- FringeNYC, running from August 12th through August 27th at Classic Stage Company

Zayd Dohrn's Permanent Whole Life, presented by The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Inc., will be presented as part of the New York International Fringe Festival from August 11th through August 26th

Among the attractions of Classic Stage Company's next season will be Michael Cumpsty in the title role of Richard II and Zoe Caldwell, Denis O'Hare and Linda Emond in Yasmine Reza's A Spanish Play

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

Jefferson Mays, Michael Cumpsty and David Strathairn will discuss cross-dressing in Shakespeare in Boys Will Be Girls on February 13th

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce the full cast for the upcoming New York premiere of BEAUTY OF THE FATHER by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics) with direction by Michael Greif (Rent).

Tony Award and Academy Award-winning actor KEVIN KLINE will star in a special benefit for Classic Stage Company on Monday evening, November 7 at 7:00 pm at Classic Stage Company at 136 East 13th Street.

On November 7th, Kevin Kline will be featured in The Readiness is All: A Shakespearean Actor's Process on November 7th in a benefit for Classic Stage Company

A new American Theatre Wing seminar on November 4th will be entitled 'Staging the Classics,' and Mark Lamos, Anne Bogart and Bartlett Sher will take part in the discussion

See What I Wanna See's Michael John LaChiusa and Marc Kudisch will take part in a new American Theatre Wing seminar on October 27th, while a seminar on Staging the Classics will be held on November 4th

Lisa Kron, whose 'Well' is Broadway-bound, will take part in an October 24th reading of The Importance of Marrying Wells to benefit the New Orleans-based theatre company Southern Rep

John Cullum, Rosemary Harris and Gene Farber will star in Ariel Dorfman's new play The Other Side, which will be presented by MTC; it opens on December 6th