Franz Kafka News

World Premiere of The Grass Was Never Greener by Jim Blanchette runs May 20 through May 30th at the new Write Act Eastside in residence at The Richmond Shepard Theatre (formerly The Vineyard Theatre), located at 309 East 26th Street. Show time is 8 pm Thursday through Saturdays with a 3 pm matinee on Sundays. Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors, students, unions and groups. For reservations call 212-684-2690. More information is available at http://www.jewelboxla.com/greener.htm

Trap Door Theatre (1655 W. Cortland Ave.) will be hosting a post show discussion with Playwright Ken Prestininzi, Director Kate Hendrickson and the cast of CHASTE on Saturday May 22nd, moderated by the Chicago Tribune's Kerry Reid. The cast include Antonio Brunetti, John Kahara, Sara Tolan Mee, and Tiffany Joy Ross.

World Premiere of The Grass Was Never Greener by Jim Blanchette runs May 20 through May 30th at the new Write Act Eastside in residence at The Richmond Shepard Theatre (formerly The Vineyard Theatre), located at 309 East 26th Street. Show time is 8 pm Thursday through Saturdays with a 3 pm matinee on Sundays. Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors, students, unions and groups. For reservations call 212-684-2690. More information is available at http://www.jewelboxla.com/greener.htm

Trap Door Theatre (1655 W. Cortland Ave.) will be hosting a post show discussion with Playwright Ken Prestininzi, Director Kate Hendrickson and the cast of CHASTE on Saturday May 22nd, moderated by the Chicago Tribune's Kerry Reid. The cast include Antonio Brunetti, John Kahara, Sara Tolan Mee, and Tiffany Joy Ross.

Trap Door presents the World Premiere of Chaste Written by Ken Prestininzi and Directed by Kate Hendrickson. The cast consists of Antonio Brunetti, John Kahara, Sara Tolan Mee, and Tiffany Joy Ross.

The TRAP DOOR THEATRE presents The World Premiere of CHASTE. Written by Ken Prestininzi and directed by Kate Hendrickson.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) announces the 2010 Season, running from July 12 - August 1, 2010. 24 plays and five musicals have been chosen. All tickets are $18. Selected plays for SHORT SUBJECTS, a division for plays that run under 60 minutes, will be announced at a later date.

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company, now celebrating its 18th season, lit up the night on Monday, May 3 with an evening of heavenly wining and dining at Aurora Borealis, the company's 12th annual benefit, held at the newly-renovated historic Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley. Over 200 guests attended the sold-out fundraising fête, chaired by Deborah Goodman, which raised upwards of $180,000. Funds raised at the gala event will support Aurora Theatre Company's outstanding live performances, innovative education program, and the Global Age Project new works program.

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.

Closing Aurora Theatre Company's 18th season is the Bay Area Premiere of Stephen Karam's fiercely funny SPEECH & DEBATE. Robin Stanton (Betrayed, The Busy World is Hushed, and Permanent Collection) directs this distinctive new play Entertainment Weekly called 'One of the top ten plays of the year...Even if you're not fluent in IM, you'll LOL at this subversive comedy.' Featuring Jayne Deely, Jason Frank, Maro Guevara, and Holly Hornlien, SPEECH & DEBATE plays June 11 through July 18 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. For tickets ($34-55) and information the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org. Contains mature themes and subject matters.

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Trap Door presents the World Premiere of Chaste Written by Ken Prestininzi and Directed by Kate Hendrickson. The cast consists of Antonio Brunetti, John Kahara, Sara Tolan Mee, and Tiffany Joy Ross.

Berkeley?s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company proudly announces the lineup for its 19th season. The company opens the season with the Professional Bay Area Premiere of Alice Childress? stunning TROUBLE IN MIND, starring Bay Area favorite Margo Hall, directed by Robin Stanton. Acclaimed solo performer David Cale returns to the Bay Area with the Bay Area Premiere of his new one-man play PALOMINO.

As the Helen Hayes Awards ceremony on April 5th honors performances and productions from the past year, DC theatergoers will be hearing two gorgeous scores by Jason Robert Brown and Jeanine Tesori, and seeing a new opera about a boxer, a splashing pool on stage, Tyne Daley as diva Maria Callas, Maurice Hines tapping his way on the Lincoln Theatre stage, Mrs. Robinson seducing Benjamin, a red balloon thrilling young audiences, Harvey Fierstein wishing he was a rich man, tales and songs from a Scottish Jewish composer, a new children's show with lots of princesses, a little musical with the title in [ ], a triumphant mounting of a short-lived Broadway musical, and a wordless Kafka classic performed in Georgian style. The crocuses, cherry blossoms, and azaleas will be in full bloom, as the nation's capital will be awash in beautiful colors. It's the perfect time to visit and see some great shows in our DC area theatres.

Today, 26 March 2010, Digital Theatre announces its first collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company - the RSC's production, in association with Told by an Idiot, of The Comedy of Errors directed by Paul Hunter.

Furious Theatre Company will close the first show of its seventh season, the West Coast Premiere of MEN OF TORTUGA, written by Jason Wells and directed by Alexis Chamow, on March 21st.

The Wilma Theater announced the four plays that will make up its upcoming 2010 - 2011 season as it celebrated the World Premiere opening night of Language Rooms on Wednesday March 10, 2010.

Nigel Redden, Director of the Lincoln Center Festival, which runs from July 7 through July 25, 2010, today announced the Festival's line-up, which includes ten North American, U.S., and New York premieres, and debuts. The Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island-the North American premiere of Peter Stein's 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's searing Teorema, adapted and staged by Ivo van Hove.

The DC area stages' theatre choices in March are dizzying! There's a new play by Terrence McNally at the Kennedy Center, and an off-Broadway gem at Signature Theatre. Adam Guettel's gorgeous Tony Award-winning harmonies will fill Arena Stage in Crystal City. Fagin and his orphans and zaftig Edna Turnblad and her daughter Tracy - will be singing and dancing at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Baltimore and Columbia, MD, and a blood-thirsty musical will be establishing roots at Ford's Theatre. With over 30 shows opening this month, come visit the DC area's 205 theatre venues, and have a monumental time!