Eric Simonson News

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents PASSION PLAY by Pulitzer Prize nominee and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl, directed by OBIE Award-winner Mark Wing-Davey at the University Theatre (222 York Street, New Haven), September 19-October 11 only. Opening Night is Thursday, September 25

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Daniel Sullivan, Acting Artistic Director 2007-2008) has announced the 2008 recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative commissions.

The prestigious STAGE International Script Competition, now in its third year, announces this year's winner for the best new play about science and technology. Photograph 51, by New York playwright Anna Ziegler, was chosen by a stellar panel of judges, all multiple award-winners in their own right: Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Award winning playwright David Auburn; Tony, Olivier, and Obie Award-winning playwright John Guare; Nobel Laureate in physics and KBE Sir Anthony Leggett; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire; and Nobel Laureate in physics Dr. Douglas Osheroff.

The Board of Trustees of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA and its Chairman, Hon. John F. Lehman, announced today the recipients of 2008 Princess Grace Awards.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Daniel Sullivan, Acting Artistic Director 2007-2008 Season) is pleased to announce the lineup for this spring's Ernst C. Stiefel '7@7' Reading Series, formerly known as '6@6.'

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2007-2008 Season with Carter's Way, written and directed by Oscar-winning ensemble member Eric Simonson, with original jazz music by Darrell Leonard.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2007-2008 Season with Carter's Way, written and directed by Oscar-winning ensemble member Eric Simonson, with original jazz music by Darrell Leonard. The production, featuring ensemble members Robert Breuler, K. Todd Freeman, Ora Jones and James Vincent Meredith, with Anne Adams, Calvin Dutton, Curtis M. Jackson, Keith Kupferer, Danny McCarthy and Michael Pogue, runs February 28 - April 27, 2008 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted. The press opening is Saturday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m.

Donna Lynne Champlin opens the program at the 25th Anniversary Princess Grace Awards at Sotheby's on October 25.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium on 'The Writings of Henry James,' following the October 14 at 3PM matinee performance of The Turn of the Screw, a thriller adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James, directed by Loy Arcenas.

The acclaimed Chicago theatre company Steppenwolf has announced its 2007-2008 season, featuring an all-American line-up of works by Arthur Miller, Sarah Ruhl, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and more

Steppenwolf Theatre Company co-founder Gary Sinise and Honorary Host Congresswoman Mary Bono will host the Company's 4th annual Celebrity Golf Classic March 8th-11th in Indian Wells, California.

A production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring 'Queer as Folk's Randy Harrison will be among the highlights of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, which will be held from June through October this year.

Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's adaptation of the classic John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie's The Grapes of Wrath, a new opera based on the John Steinbeck classic, will be given its world premiere by the Minnesota Opera Company next year

Amy Brenemann, Marsha Mason, Tony Roberts, Jobeth Williams, Lili Taylor, Adam Arkin, Jill Clayburgh and Hector Elizondo are among the theatre, film and TV veterans who will be seen in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Voices from the Edge' 2006-2007 season of play

The 78th Annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday, March 5, 2006. It was Hollywood's biggest night of the year, but with the worlds of stage and screen colliding more often by the day - how could we resist bringing you photo coverage of the night? We couldn't!

Along with Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for 'A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.'