Ensemble Studio Theatre News

The premise is simple: take 25 young (under 30-years-old) playwrights in the Ensemble Studio Theatre Youngblood lab program, have them draw titles, actors, directors and songs from a hat, and give them one week to write, rehearse and produce a ten-minute play.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, tonight through October 16 in the Nafe Katter Theatre, Storrs.

Playwright Jason Odell Williams will be in residence at the Playhouse throughout the rehearsal and performance process. Two special 'Playwright Talk-backs' will take place after the 8 p.m. performance on November 10th and after the 3pm matinee performances on Sunday, November 13th and 20th. In the 2010-2011 season, three of Jason's plays were produced in New York. He began writing plays in 2007, and since then his work has been developed at Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Jersey Rep, The Bleecker Street Theatre, The Jewish Cultural Arts Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rep Stage and The Baltimore Playwrights Festival.

Ego Actus is pleased to announce two additional performances to their run of Aliens With Extraordinary Skills, the critically acclaimed play by Saviana Stanescu. The added shows will be performed on Saturday, November 12th at 5pm and Saturday, November 19th at 5pm.

Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles will be presenting 'House of Gold', by Gregory S. Moss. The production will be directed by Gates McFadden, best known as the star of TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation'.

It's been a quarter of a century, but the women of Star Trek: TNG are still going strong. Twenty-five years after they first met on the series, Gates McFadden ("Dr. Beverly Crusher") and Denise Crosby("Tasha Yar") are thrilled to collaborate at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, where artistic director McFadden directs company member Crosby in the West Coast premiere of Gregory Moss's House of Gold.

CEO Theatre (formerly Cockeyed Optimists Theatre Company) proudly presents their newest production, The Complaint. Directed by Bryn Boice (Navy Pier; Orange Flower Water, InProximity Theatre), Randy Noojin's (writer/performer Hard Travelin' with Woody, FringeNYC) unexpected new comedy opens at 45th Street Theatre Thursday, October 27 and runs through Sunday, November 13, 2011.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presents Outlaws: The Ballad of Billy the Kid a world premiere rock musical by Perry Liu, Joe Calarco and Alastair William King.

Penumbra Theatre Company and Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church announce a special musical tribute to Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

The Bats are back in The Flea Theater's world premiere production of SHE KILLS MONSTERS, a comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker.

Can a parent love a child just for him or herself alone? Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA will present the West Coast premiere of a darkly comic, yet poignant new play about childhood in America. Inspired by the unsolved murder of six-year old JonBenét Ramsey, House of Gold by Gregory Moss opens on October 22 at Atwater Village Theatre, with low-priced previews beginning October 15.

Theater Communications Group has announced the fourth annual Free Night of Theater New York City, which will take place at participating Off-Broadway, Independent Theaters, and Music and Dance venues in all five boroughs during the entire month of October 2011. Tickets are available during the following windows of time:

City Theatre welcomes Matt M. Morrow as its new Associate Artistic Director. Mr. Morrow joins City Theatre's artistic staff for the 2011-12 Season. In addition to working closely with Artistic Director Tracy Brigden and the artistic staff, Matt will direct the 12th Annual Young Playwrights Festival in September and October and the season play Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock in April.

Following their successful production of Play Nice! at 59e59 Theaters, Ego Actus will present Aliens With Extraordinary Skills, the critically acclaimed play by Saviana Stanescu.

PAE Live!, Furious Theatre Company and Circle X Theatre Co. have been selected through a competitive application process to present three new plays at [Inside] the Ford in 2011-12.

Rachel Reiner Productions is proud to present the World Premiere of Victor L. Cahn's Dally With The Devil, directed by Eric Parness. Dally With The Devil will begin performances on Saturday, September 10 and will open on September 14 running thru October 8, 2011 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). Tickets are $55 and can be purchased at www.Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.