Emily Mann News

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce upcoming productions for its 2006-2007 season, including two shows on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and four productions at MTC's Off-Broadway theatres at Stage I and Stage II at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). A third Biltmore production will be announced at a later date.

Theatre veterans Barbara Bryne, Dennis Creaghan, Allan Corduner, Randall Newsome, Charlotte Parry and Henry Stram will headline the upcoming McCarter Theatre production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party

Emily Mann's play Annulla, about a Jewish woman who posed as an Aryan during the Nazi regime, will run Off-Broadway from May 4th through June 11th

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will present an all-day Clifford Odets celebration among other free theatre events througout the month of May

Tina Landau's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring Lea DeLaria, runs at the Paper Mill Playhouse through May 21st

Edmund Gaynes and West End Artists Company will present the off-Broadway premiere of Anulla by Emily Mann. Performances begin May 4 and continue through June 11. Opening Night is set for May 14 at 7pm, at The Theatre at St. Luke's (308 West 46th Street). Pamela Hall directs Eileen De Felitta as Anulla and Neva Small as The Voice of Emily, the Interviewer.

On April 20th, Cynthia Nixon and the late Wendy Wasserstein will be honored at the T. Schreiber Studio's luncheon; Julie Halston will host

Patti LuPone, Lynn Ahrens, Edward Albee, S. Epatha Merkerson and more will be featured on CUNY's 'Women in Theatre' series

On March 6th, playwright, director and McCarter Theatre artistic director Emily Mann will be featured at Shop Talk

A new staging of Carnival, as well as touring productions of The Light in the Piazza, The Phantom of the Opera, Carnival and Twelve Angry Men will be among the highlights of the Kennedy Center's 2006-2007 season

Shop Talk, a new series that will feature conversations with theatre people, will kick off on February 13th

Martin Platt, Co-director of the Perry Street Theatre Company, has been tapped to direct the European Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award Winning Drama, DOUBT to begin performances at Vienna's English Theatre at January 30 - March 11, 2006.

A daffy and loveably cynical Kristine Nielsen stars in Christopher Durang's absurd comedy of reincarnation

Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon has extended its run at Playwrights Horizons through January 1sts

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.