George Orwell News

EUROPEAN PREMIERE by Michael Healey, Directed by Eleanor Rhode. Designed by Kim Alwyn-Blotting and Aimee Sajjan-Servaes.

The Subversive Theatre Collective presents the world debut of 84: A Tribute to Orwell's Dystopia, as conceived of and directed by Brian Zybala, at the Many Fried Playhouse in January of 2010.

New Rep On Tour will open its tenth season with George Orwell's Animal Farm. The Tour will travel to 20 Boston area schools and reach over 8,000 students.

Miriam Zendle takes a look at the London theatre scene and recommends shows and actors to see and to avoid.

EUROPEAN PREMIERE by Michael Healey, Directed by Eleanor Rhode. Designed by Kim Alwyn-Blotting and Aimee Sajjan-Servaes.

Fantasy and reality blend in Astoria Performing Arts Center's excellent revival of Martin McDonagh's darkly comic thriller.

Prescott Fine Arts Association is partnering with the Prescott Public Library to present Reader's Theatre performances free to the public. Animal Farm will be performed on Sunday, November 15th in the Library's Founders Suite at 2 p.m.

Prescott Fine Arts Association is partnering with the Prescott Public Library to present Reader's Theatre performances free to the public. Animal Farm will be performed on Sunday, November 15th in the Library's Founders Suite at 2 p.m.

Playwrights Theatre announces the return of the popular roundtable reading series FORUM: Let's Discuss.

Actors' Gang company members April Fitzsimmons (The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Our Town) and Daisuke Tsuji (Love's Labours Lost, 1984) bring their acclaimed solo works to the Ivy Substation company home, kicking off a new performance series with two remarkable journeys.

New Rep On Tour will open its tenth season with George Orwell's Animal Farm. The Tour will travel to 20 Boston area schools and reach over 8,000 students.

Lookingglass Theatre announces today that Andrew White, a founding Ensemble Member, has been elected by the Lookingglass Ensemble to the position of Artistic Director Elect. He will transition into the position under the guidance of outgoing Artistic Director David Catlin, who will step down in June 2010. Catlin recently accepted a Visiting Professorship at Northwestern University; he will remain an active Ensemble Member and will direct his adaptation of Icarus at Lookingglass in December 2009.

Broadway In Chicago is excited to announce Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in the first national tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein. The Chicago engagement will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited six week engagement November 3 - December 13, 2009.

Actors' Gang company members April Fitzsimmons (The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Our Town) and Daisuke Tsuji (Love's Labours Lost, 1984) bring their acclaimed solo works to the Ivy Substation company home, kicking off a new performance series with two remarkable journeys.

Impact Theatre, after a record-breaking 2008-09 season, launches an even more daring year in September with the world premiere of See How We Are, Jon Tracy's contemporary adaptation of Antigone. In fact, See How We Are is only one of three world premieres announced for this season, a particularly bold move considering the current economic climate.

Actors' Gang company members April Fitzsimmons (The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Our Town) and Daisuke Tsuji (Love's Labours Lost, 1984) bring their acclaimed solo works to the Ivy Substation company home, kicking off a new performance series with two remarkable journeys.

Impact Theatre, after a record-breaking 2008-09 season, launches an even more daring year in September with the world premiere of See How We Are, Jon Tracy's contemporary adaptation of Antigone. In fact, See How We Are is only one of three world premieres announced for this season, a particularly bold move considering the current economic climate.

Broadway In Chicago is excited to announce Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in the first national tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein. The Chicago engagement will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited six week engagement November 3 - December 13, 2009.

For its sixth season, the NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble will present Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors in repertory with Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, at the Lebanon Opera House from June 18 through July 4. These two classic plays will showcase the versatile talents of NESE's acting Company: Comedy is a fast-paced popular delight, full of puns, wordplay and slapstick humor, and one of the funniest plays the Bard ever wrote; in contrast, Godot is a tragicomedy, where 'nothing' happens, but audiences still stay glued to their seats.

DesiLit presents the third Kriti Festival, a celebration of South Asian and diaspora literature and arts, to be held June 11-14, 2009, at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Roosevelt University. The four-day Kriti Festival is slated to include participant panels, author readings, writing workshops, publishing and marketing seminars, live performances, and question and answer sessions with literary agents and editors. Desi is a person of South Asian ancestry (living in South Asia or the South Asian diaspora), and kriti is pronounced 'kree-thee.'