Eve Ensler News

Kicking off its 2010-11 season, HERE proudly presents Border Towns from Nick Brooke/The Cabinet, playing September 10-18. With music and sound as the driving force, this productionjourneys through the psychological landscape of the U.S., creating a theatrical reflection onrecording, location and culture. Border Towns is created and directed by HERE Resident ArtistNick Brooke, with co-direction by Jenny Rohn. Official Opening Night is set for Sunday,September 12 at 9:00 PM at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue).

Jewish Voice for Peace has collected over 150 names of Obie/Emmy/Tony/Pulitzer and other prize- winning theater and film professionals in support of the Israeli actors'/playwrights' boycott of Israeli settlements. The issue has exploded in Israel and now support for the boycott has gone global.

Randie Parliament, Artistic Producer of Ghost Light Projects, announced the company's line up of shows for the upcoming year. All three shows will be produced at Buddies In Bad Times - Tallulah's Cabaret.

The League of Independent Theater and the Innovative Theatre Foundation will co-sponsor The Community Forum on the Ohio Theatre. The event will begin at 6:30pm at the Ohio Theatre located at 66 Wooster Street in Soho, NY. After two years of negotiation, two lease extensions, and a 29-year history as an indispensable pillar of the downtown theatre scene, the Ohio Theatre must close the doors at its Wooster Street space forever on August 31, 2010.

The Ohio Theatre, a pillar of New York's downtown theatre scene for 29 years, will close on August 31, 2010. The new landlord has issued official notice and no further negotiations are scheduled.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South, V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, in partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and The Women Donors Network, will host two special performances of SWIMMING UPSTREAM directed by Eve Ensler, in New Orleans on September 10th at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre and in New York on September 13th at the Apollo Theatre.

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and 'After Hours' series in the Raymond James Theatre continue with four productions in July and Aug., THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, THE DUMB SHOW, VIVE LA PIAF and A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS.

V-Day is pleased to announce that renowned actor/singer LaChanze, best known for her Tony award winning performance in Broadway's The Color Purple has joined the cast of Swimming Upstream, September 10th at The Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans and September 13th at The Apollo Theater in New York City. The two-night only performances will commemorate the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and pay tribute to the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South.

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and 'After Hours' series in the Raymond James Theatre has amended its September schedule of events affecting THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, THE DUMB SHOW (now 321), JAYNE SINGS: MY TRIBUTE TO LENA HORNE and JAZZ ON THIRD (now BROADWAY ON THIRD).

For the first time, ABC Daytime and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center are teaming up to produce a benefit engagement of Kander & Ebb's award-winning musical revue, The World Goes ‘Round. The performances will feature All My Children's Bobbie Eakes and Natalie Hall and General Hospital's Bradford Anderson and Brandon Barash

For the first time, ABC Daytime and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center are teaming up to produce a benefit engagement of Kander & Ebb's award-winning musical revue, THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND. The performances will feature All My Children's Bobbie Eakes and Natalie Hall and General Hospital's Bradford Anderson and Brandon Barash. Each performance will be hosted by another star from one of the shows. The World Goes ‘Round will be performed on October 7, 9 and 10 at the Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre, and net proceeds will raise much needed funds for its Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic.

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and "After Hours" series in the Raymond James Theatre continue with eight productions in Aug. and Sept., DAMAGE CONTROL, VIVE LA PIAF, A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, THE DUMB SHOW, JAYNE SINGS: MY TRIBUTE TO LENA HORNE, LOVE WITH THE LIGHTS ON and JAZZ ON THIRD.

Starting July 6th at the Provincetown Theater, producer Robert Driemeyer, in association with Jim A. Landé, is proud to present David Parr's provocative new play SLAP&TICKLE. The production will be directed by Obie Award winner David Drake, whose critically acclaimed mounting of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic OUR TOWN enjoyed a extended run at the Provincetown Theater this spring.

Playing in Traffic, written by eight hot playwrights from the acclaimed Women's Project Playwrights Lab and directed by Alice Reagan, will be presented for two performances on one night only, Thursday, August 12, at 7:00pm and 9:30pm at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 Wet 52nd Street.

American Stage Theatre Company's Susan R. Hough Cabaret and "After Hours" series in the Raymond James Theatre continue with eight productions in Aug. and Sept., DAMAGE CONTROL, VIVE LA PIAF, A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, THE DUMB SHOW, JAYNE SINGS: MY TRIBUTE TO LENA HORNE, LOVE WITH THE LIGHTS ON and JAZZ ON THIRD.

Two-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda will star in '33 Variations,' the compelling new play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, January 30 through March 6, 2011. Opening is set for February 9.

WONDERLAND: A New Alice. A New Musical Adventure will open on Broadway Sunday, April 17, 2011 and performances will begin Monday, March 21, at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. The musical will be directed by Gregory Boyd, the artistic director of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, with a book by Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War -Tony nomination) and lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde - Grammy nomination, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War - Tony nomination, Dracula, Victor/Victoria) and choreography by Marguerite Derricks (Fame, Emmy Awards for '3rd Rock From The Sun' and 'Fame LA'). WONDERLAND: A New Alice. A New Musical Adventure will play a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ferguson Hall at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (Judy Lisi, President and CEO) in Tampa, Florida January 4 through January 16, 2011.

After weeks of playing to packed houses, Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore is extending its Los Angeles run in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse through at least August 1.

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company is proud to announce a call for submissions for its sixth season of the Global Age Project (GAP) festival of new works. The company will choose four new plays to be presented as staged readings with professional directors and actors during the GAP festival in February of 2011; the festival will coincide with the company's fully-staged World Premiere of 2010 GAP finalist Allison Moore's new comedy, COLLAPSE, the second main stage production to develop from the GAP.

A world premiere, fully-staged production by John Patrick Shanley, the first professional production for playwright Tracy Thorne, and the newest musical project from the multi-award winning director Michael Mayer will be just a few of the many highlights of Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, June 25 - August 1, 2010.