George Orwell News

The Wilma Theater proudly celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the upcoming 2008-2009 Season

he Wilma Theater opens its 30th Anniversary Season with the Philadelphia Premiere of the 2008 Tony® nominee for Best Play, Rock 'n' Roll, by Academy Award®-winner and four-time Tony Award®-winner Tom Stoppard.

'1984' returns to Los Angeles as part of an extensive national and international tour that has traveled to cities across the U.S. and to Hong Kong, Melbourne and Athens.

The Actors' Gang's critically acclaimed production of George Orwell's '1984' returns to Los Angeles. Tim Robbins, co-founder and artistic director of The Gang, directs Michael Gene Sullivan's stage adaptation at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) for a limited two-week engagement June 18-29.

The Wilma Theater proudly celebrates its 30th Anniversary with the upcoming 2008-2009 Season. 'We have chosen plays that will be among the most inventive and thrilling ever to grace our stage,' say co-Artistic Directors Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizka, who staged their first Wilma production in 1979 - an original adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

Buried Child returns to Off-Broadway beginning October 5th

Casting has been announced for Buried Child, the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sam Shepard, which will return to New York for an Off-Off-Broadway run

Edward Miller's dystopian drama ends its run at the Sande Shurin Theatre this weekend.

Wicked director Joe Mantello angrily responded to a controversial review by Chicago Sun-Times Critic Hedy Weiss