Gina Gionfriddo News

Bart DeLorenzo directs when L.A. Theatre Works records four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason, Matt Letscher (Brothers and Sisters) and Emily Bergl (reprising her Off Broadway role) in the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash Off-Broadway hit comedy by Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo. When Suzanna decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

Becky Shaw - A Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash Off-Broadway hit, Becky Shaw is the latest comedy from Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo (After Ashley, writer/producer of 'Law & Order'). When Suzanna (Emily Bergl, reprising the role she played Off Broadway) decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. Mixing sharp wit and humor with the taut suspense of a psychological thriller, Becky Shaw is a comedy of romantic errors that keeps audiences at the edge of their seats guessing what will happen next. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series,which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

2nd Story Theatre will host a casual conversation with Obie Award-winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo and Artistic Director Ed Shea on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM at 2nd Story, 28 Market Street, Warren, RI. The pair will talk about Becky Shaw, Ms. Gionfriddo's highly acclaimed play set in Providence, RI.

The Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, located at 2252 South Kinnickinnic,celebrates 25 years of staging dynamic, eclectic theatre when its 25th Silver Anniversary season continues with the Milwaukee premiere of acclaimed New York playwright Gina Gionfriddo's cracked comic valentine "BECKY SHAW" (Wednesday, February 16th through March 20th, 2011 / 13 performances / 5 weeks).

Gina Gionfriddo's biting social commentary, based here in Rhode Island, plays at 2nd Story through February 20th

Bart DeLorenzo directs when L.A. Theatre Works records four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason, Matt Letscher (Brothers and Sisters), Emily Bergl (reprising her Off Broadway role), Josh Stamberg (Drop Dead Diva, Six Feet Under) and Missy Yager (Mad Men, Boston Public) in the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash Off-Broadway hit comedy by Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo. When Suzanna decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating it's thirty-third year. The Houston-based Prize received the 2010 Theatre Communications Group's National Funder Award. The annual honor goes to a company, foundation or other entity for 'leadership and sustained national support of theater in America.'

Naked Angels is collaborating with the Furious Theatre Company in Pasadena, CA to bring its unique 3-Step Formula for creative development to the West Coast and expand its programming to feature works for film and television in addition to the stage.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues its inaugural season this spring with an unparalleled tribute to one of the nation's greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee. The company has mounted a two-month festival featuring 30 events, making nearly every one of his plays available in performance spaces throughout the Mead Center.

Bart DeLorenzo directs when L.A. Theatre Works records four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason, Matt Letscher (Brothers and Sisters) and Emily Bergl (reprising her Off Broadway role) in the Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash Off-Broadway hit comedy by Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo. When Suzanna decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues its inaugural season this spring with an unparalleled tribute to one of the nation's greatest living playwrights, Edward Albee.

Naked Angels is collaborating with the Furious Theatre Company in Pasadena, CA to bring its unique 3-Step Formula for creative development to the West Coast and expand its programming to feature works for film and television in addition to the stage.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). Directed by Trip Cullman (Adam Bock's The Drunken City at PH and Swimming in the Shallows, plus Bachelorette, Some Men, The Last Sunday in June, the recent Edgewise, Adam Rapp's upcoming The Hallway Trilogy) the production will close Sunday, January 23 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the Globe's revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Becky Shaw - A Pulitzer Prize finalist and smash Off-Broadway hit, Becky Shaw is the latest comedy from Obie Award-winner Gina Gionfriddo (After Ashley, writer/producer of 'Law & Order'). When Suzanna (Emily Bergl, reprising the role she played Off Broadway) decides to set her best friend Max up on a blind date with her husband's mysterious co-worker, Becky Shaw, she sets into motion a series of cataclysmic events forever changing all of their lives. Mixing sharp wit and humor with the taut suspense of a psychological thriller, Becky Shaw is a comedy of romantic errors that keeps audiences at the edge of their seats guessing what will happen next. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series,which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

Peter DuBois directs the British premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, from 13 January and running until 5 March, with press night on 20 January 2011.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).

Huntington Theatre Company announces casting for its world premiere production of Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam (columbinus, Speech & Debate), directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois (Becky Shaw at the Almeida Theatre - London, Off Broadway, and the Huntington; Vengeance is the Lord's; Trust). Drama Desk Award winner Santino Fontana (The Importance of Being Earnest, Billy Elliot, Brighton Beach Memoirs) plays Joseph, a former runner now dealing with health issues and the recent death of his father. Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner Joanna Gleason (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joe Egg, Into the Woods) plays Gloria, a formerly successful New York editor who is now Joseph's employer in Nazareth, PA.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the Globe's revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.