Edward Albee News

The three time New York Innovative Theatre Award winning Theatre C will present Kyoung H. Park's disOriented, February 16-March 5 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

According to Telecharge.com, Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman are set to star in a reading of THE ODD COUPLE at Cherry Lane Theatre. The event will benefit PS 3 and will take place on January 9 at 7 PM.

The Almeida Theatre will produce Edward Albee's A DELICATE BALANCE. Imelda Staunton and Lucy Cohu will join the previously announced Penelope Wilton. The play is set to begin performances May 5.

Silver Spring Stage announces a new series, Project Underground, dedicated to challenging and provocative contemporary plays.

McCarter Theatre (Emily Mann, Artistic Director; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director) is pleased to announce that Academy Award, Tony and Obie Award winner Mercedes Ruehl will star in the two-character world premiere of Sarah Treem's The How and The Why. Directed by Emily Mann, the cast will also feature New Jersey native Bess Rous.

John Martello, Executive Director of THE PLAYERS, announced that two-time Academy Award® winner, Kevin Spacey, CBE, will be presented with the EDWIN BOOTH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at a special fundraising gala at the landmarked Gramercy Park Club in New York City on January 10, 2011.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2010-2011 season with Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Pam MacKinnon.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) will kick off its new series, VINEYARD MASTERS - master classes with leading Vineyard Theatre artists - on Sunday, January 9, 2011 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. with 'DIE VAMPIRE, DIE! WORKSHOP' conducted by the actress Susan Blackwell and actor and Tony-nominated writer Hunter Bell, both stars of the musical [title of show], which was given its world-premiere at the Vineyard in 2006 prior to its Broadway transfer in 2008.

Playwrights Horizons announced in December that it had commissioned FAR FROM HEAVEN, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain), music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens) and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath).

The Common Tongue's CONNECT FIVE unites new writers with established playwrights in an evening of one act plays by award winning writers Wendy MacLeod and Lucy Thurber and emerging playwrights Danny Mitarotondo and Bronwen Prosser.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents August Wilson's THE PIANO LESSON, directed by Liesl Tommy, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street) January 28-February 19, 2011.

Court Theatre continues its 56th season with Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. The production will run January 13 - February 13, 2011 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue.

Silver Spring Stage announces a new series, Project Underground, dedicated to challenging and provocative contemporary plays.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/02 for Washington, DC

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/02 for Chicago

Neil Patrick Harris and longtime partner David Burtka welcomed twins Gideon Scott and Harper Grace this October with the help of a surrogate. The happy parents are featured in a new People magazine spread.

In 2011, The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, on Sunday, January 9, the first of many special events will be offered: FringeTALK, a live-streamed town hall event during which anyone from anywhere in the world can ask anything about the festival via Twitter or Facebook and/or our built in chat room.

Michael Dale names ten memorable theatre moments from some of New York's lesser known 2010 productions.

Better Left Unsaid TV and The Clyde Fitch Report present FringeTALK, an interactive live-streamed Town Hall on the occasion of the 15th Anniversary of The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) Sunday, January 9th at 9pm.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).