Douglas Taurel News

Prolific producer John Chatterton's MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL is now a series of three lavish events every year - Autumn, Spring, and Summer - presenting powerful works from around the world. Scroll down for a sneak peek at some of the shows from this year's Autumn Edition, running November 2-22 at The Jewel Box Theater @ The Workshop (312 W 36th Street) in NYC! 

The Midtown International Theatre Festival is becoming a year-round program!

59E59 Theaters presents its 2015 EAST TO EDINBURGH festival, beginning today, July 7 for a limited engagement through Sunday, July 26.

59E59 Theaters announces the 2015 line up for the annual EAST TO EDINBURGH festival, beginning on Tuesday, July 7 for a limited engagement through Sunday, July 26. The performance schedule varies. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues).

In July and August, experienced stage, film and television actor, Douglas Taurel, will be bringing the debut of his powerful and passionate new solo show The American Soldier to New York and Edinburgh.

The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing and presenting new works of theatre and film from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, presented a successful one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned at The Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014. Check out a look back below!

The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing new works from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, announced today full casting and creative team for its one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned. All profits raised from the evening, which will take place at The Mainstage at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm, will go to the Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBTQ Youth. Broadway legend, Tony and Drama Desk Award winner Dick Latessa (Broadway's The Lyons, Promises, Promises, Brighton Beach Memoirs) will star in the reading directed by two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses).

The Wild Root Company, a new production endeavor committed to developing new works from emerging playwrights and screenwriters, announced today initial casting for its one-night-only benefit reading of Gloria, a brand new screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Beautiful and Damned. All profits raised from the evening, which will take place at The Mainstage at Playwrights Horizons on Monday January 6, 2014 at 8:00 pm, will go to the Ali Forney Center for Homeless LGBTQ Youth.

WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY known for acclaimed productions of plays by Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams commemorates Tennessee Williams' 100th Birthday by presenting his play, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. The play is directed by White Horse Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion recognized for her recent revivals of Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER will play a three-week limited engagement at Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th Street, btw. 9th & 10th Ave.). Performances begin Friday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, October 2. Opening Night is Monday, September 19 (8 p.m.).

The Hudson Guild Theater's production of Suddenly Last Summer will host a Sept. 18th Special Panel called Tenn at 100: Re-imagining the work of Tennessee Williams.

The Hudson Guild Theater's production of Suddenly Last Summer will host a Sept. 18th Special Panel called Tenn at 100: Re-imagining the work of Tennessee Williams.

WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY known for acclaimed productions of plays by Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams commemorates Tennessee Williams' 100th Birthday by presenting his play, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. The play is directed by White Horse Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion recognized for her recent revivals of Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER will play a three-week limited engagement at Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th Street, btw. 9th & 10th Ave.). Performances begin Friday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, October 2. Opening Night is Monday, September 19 (8 p.m.).

WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY known for acclaimed productions of plays by Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams commemorates Tennessee Williams' 100th Birthday by presenting his play, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. The play is directed by White Horse Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion recognized for her recent revivals of Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER will play a three-week limited engagement at Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th Street, btw. 9th & 10th Ave.). Performances begin Friday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, October 2. Opening Night is Monday, September 19 (8 p.m.).

WHITE HORSE THEATER COMPANY known for acclaimed productions of plays by Sam Shepard and Tennessee Williams commemorates Tennessee Williams' 100th Birthday by presenting his play, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. The play is directed by White Horse Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion recognized for her recent revivals of Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Small Craft Warnings and In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER will play a three-week limited engagement at Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th Street, btw. 9th & 10th Ave.). Performances begin Friday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, October 2. Opening Night is Monday, September 19 (8 p.m.).

On Monday September 20, 2010, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Lisa Kron, announced the 2010 recipients at the Sixth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at Cooper Union.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2010 nominees at its annual sold-out event at the Carmine Street Recreation Center located at 25 Carmine Street. The 2010 IT Awards Ceremony will be on Monday, September 20, 2010.

The Milk Can Theatre Company presents its seventh season production of two new works in which eccentric behavior and mental illness are often separated by little more than a razor's edge. Presented in repertory, ML Kinney's full-length comedy Life Among the Natives, a story of coming out and coming to terms with one's roots - and The Disorder Plays, an evening of six short works both somber and satirical, about psychiatric disorders and mental illness - will be presented at The Theatre at 30th Street, located at 259 West 30th Street, beginning May 14th through May 30th.

Eccentric behavior and mental illness are often separated by little more than a razor's edge. The Milk Can Theatre Company looks at both sides of the equation with ML Kinney's full-length comedy Life Among the Natives, a story of coming out and coming to terms with one's roots; and The Disorder Plays, six short works both somber and satirical, about psychiatric disorders and mental illness, presented in one performance.

Eccentric behavior and mental illness are often separated by little more than a razor's edge. The Milk Can Theatre Company looks at both sides of the equation with ML Kinney's full-length comedy Life Among the Natives, a story of coming out and coming to terms with one's roots; and The Disorder Plays, six short works both somber and satirical, about psychiatric disorders and mental illness, presented in one performance. Both shows will be performed in repertory at Urban Stages, located at 259 West 30th Street, beginning May 7th.

Eccentric behavior and mental illness are often separated by little more than a razor's edge. The Milk Can Theatre Company looks at both sides of the equation with ML Kinney's full-length comedy Life Among the Natives, a story of coming out and coming to terms with one's roots; and The Disorder Plays, six short works both somber and satirical, about psychiatric disorders and mental illness, presented in one performance.