Ernest Hemingway News

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Anthony Hopkins will portray American writer Ernest Hemingway in the new film HEMINGWAY & FUENTES. Andy Garcia, who will portray fisherman, Gregorio Fuentes, is set to direct the film.

Mint Theater today announced the cast for the first-ever revival of Love Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. The Mint production will run from May 26 to July 22 at their home (311 West 43rd Street). Opening Night is set for Monday, June 18th.

Academy Award(R) nominee andGolden Globe winner Clive Owen and Academy Award(R) and three-time Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman star in the title roles of HBO Films' HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN, under the direction of Academy Award(R) nominee Philip Kaufman. Kaufman directs from a script by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner.

Academy Award(R) nominee andGolden Globe winner Clive Owen and Academy Award(R) and three-time Golden Globe winner Nicole Kidman star in the title roles of HBO Films' HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN, under the direction of Academy Award(R) nominee Philip Kaufman. Kaufman directs from a script by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner.

'Marlene Dietrich -- ein Name, der mit unglaublicher Zärtlichkeit beginnt und mit einem Peitschenknall endet.' schrieb Ernest Hemingway. Die große Dietrich, Schauspielerin, Sängerin, Entertainerin und berühmteste Tochter Berlins, verstarb vor zwanzig Jahren am 06. Mai 1992. 20 Jahre ist es auch her, dass der Lesben- und Schwulenverband Berlin-Brandenburg gegründet wurde. Aus diesem Anlass gab es eine große Benefizgala im Wintergarten Theater mit dem erklärten Ziel Spenden zugunsten eines Denkmals für Magnus Hirschfeld zu sammeln, um an die im 19. Jahrhundert entstandene und im Nationalsozialismus zerschlagene erste homosexuelle Emanzipationsbewegung zu erinnern. Das Denkmal soll gegenüber dem Bundeskanzleramt am Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer errichtet werden.

McCarter Theatre Center has announced the final two productions of its 2012-13 Theater Season: Elevator Repair Service's production of The Select (The Sun Also Rises) and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, produced in association with Fiasco Theater.

Artistic Director Sean Murray is proud to announce Cygnet Theatre's second World Premiere production - acclaimed local writer Richard Platt's RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND - An Evening with Henry David Thoreau. This production, which began as a staged-reading in collaboration with Write Out Loud, will once again feature Cygnet Resident Artist Francis Gercke as Thoureau, and will be directed by Eric Poppick. RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND will run for four performances only, April 16th, 17th, 23rd, and 24th at 7:30pm. All four performances will take place at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town State Historic Park.

Martha Plimpton joins the cast of Selected Shorts: La Vie Bohème/Boho Brooklyn on Wed, Apr 11 at 7pm. Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope) reads from Jersey girl Sylvia Beach's memoir about opening Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris in 1919, at Symphony Space's April 11 Selected Shorts. The evening is devoted to literary life in Paris in the 1920s-40s and in Brooklyn today.

Artistic Director Sean Murray is proud to announce Cygnet Theatre's second World Premiere production - acclaimed local writer Richard Platt's RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND - An Evening with Henry David Thoreau. This production, which began as a staged-reading in collaboration with Write Out Loud, will once again feature Cygnet Resident Artist Francis Gercke as Thoureau, and will be directed by Eric Poppick. RIPPLES FROM WALDEN POND will run for four performances only, April 16th, 17th, 23rd, and 24th at 7:30pm. All four performances will take place at Cygnet Theatre in Old Town State Historic Park.

Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Tina Howe (her Painting Churches was a 1984 finalist for the prize and Pride's Crossing was a Pulitzer finalist in 1997), and Mark Richard, the author of the best-selling House of Prayer No. 2, will be among the special guests at this year's Southern Literary Festival, held March 29-31 on the Lipscomb University campus in Nashville.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) presents its 25th Anniversary Season production of The Feast: an intimate Tempest, an original CST commission and artistic collaboration with Redmoon.

Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

Chekhovek, a new comedy adapted and directed by Melania Levitsky from nine of Anton Chekhov's best known short stories, is given its New York premiere at the ArcLight Theatre, 152 West 71st Street.

Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

The New Victory Theater and Barnes and Noble host an evening with playwright Laura Eason on February 27th at 7 p.m.

Laura Eason, the author of more than 15 plays (Sex With Strangers, Around the World in 80 Days) and former Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, will discuss the delights and challenges of adapting Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the stage.