Hal Brooks News

Josephson Entertainment, Erich Jungwirth/VoiceChair Productions and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd announced today the Off-Broadway premiere of BASIC TRAINING (www.BasicTrainingNYC.com), a new comedy created by and starring Kahlil Ashanti. BASIC TRAINING is a hilarious story based on one soldier's outrageous experience in the U.S. Air Force and will play the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow St. at 7th Avenue, 1 block south of Christopher Street) beginning Friday, Sept. 26th with an official opening on Monday, Oct. 13th.

Josephson Entertainment, Erich Jungwirth/VoiceChair Productions and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd announced today the Off-Broadway premiere of BASIC TRAINING (www.BasicTrainingNYC.com), a new comedy created by and starring Kahlil Ashanti. BASIC TRAINING is a hilarious story based on one soldier's outrageous experience in the U.S. Air Force and will play the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow St. at 7th Avenue, 1 block south of Christopher Street) beginning Friday, Sept. 26th with an official opening on Monday, Oct. 13th.

The hit off-Broadway show Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years Of Monogamy In One Terrifying Hour), written and performed by award-winning monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) will end its scheduled run at the SoHo Playhouse on August 31, 2008.

The hit off-Broadway show Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years Of Monogamy In One Terrifying Hour), written and performed by award-winning monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) will end its scheduled run at the SoHo Playhouse on August 31, 2008.

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year, LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour), written and performed by celebrated monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) opened Off-Broadway. Life In A Marital Institution began performances on Thursday, June 26 for a limited engagement through Sunday, August 31. James Braly talks to Broadway World about the evolution of his one man show.

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year, LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour), written and performed by celebrated monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks (Thom Pain, No Child) opened Off-Broadway.

Sundance Institute today announced the acting company for its 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, to be held July 7 to July 27 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The 2008 ensemble company includes: Satya Bhabha, (Queens Boulevard) Reed Birney (Stuff Happens), J. Alex Brinson (The Happening), Amari Cheatom (Histoire du Soldat), Michael Chernus (Hunting and Gathering), Tracee Chimo (Water and Discarded Hair), Jennifer Dundas (Good as New), Greg Felden (Naked Will), Chinai Hardy (In the Red and Brown Water),Erin Hill (a-ha), Nicholas Hormann (The Little Foxes), Ella Joyce (Roc), Lisa Joyce (U.S. Drag), Christina Kirk (Well),David Margulies (Angels in America, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Wonderful Town), James McDaniel (Malcolm X), Kristine Nielsen (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Green Bird), Deirdre O'Connell (In the Blood, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore), Nija Okoro (August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Susan Pourfar (The Last Sunday in June), Gita Reddy (Hindustan), Heidi Schreck (Major Barbara), Jeanine Serralles (Hold, Please), Lois Smith (The Trip to Bountiful, Buried Child, The Grapes of Wrath) and Susie Sokol (The Sound and the Fury).

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year, Life In A Marital Institution (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour) is moving Off-Broadway.

After a critically-acclaimed, sold out run at 59E59 Theaters, 'Life In A Marital Institution (20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Hour)' is moving off-Broadway to the Soho Playhouse beginning June 26, 2008.

Second Stage Theatre has announced initial casting for its 'New Works Festival' on Friday, June 13

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this year, 'Life In A Marital Institution' (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour), written and performed by celebrated monologist James Braly and directed by Hal Brooks is moving Off-Broadway.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced another extension for its production of 'No Child…'

Today, as a result of glowing reviews and stellar ticket sales, Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced a one-week extension for its production of No Child.... Although it only began its Berkeley run on Sunday, this uplifting off-Broadway show is already attracting enthusiastic local fans - just as it did in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC.

This May, Berkeley Repertory Theatre continues its string of solo shows by presenting No Child…, the off-Broadway play that became the breakaway hit of the year. Performed by Nilaja Sun and directed by Hal Brooks, No Child… runs from May 11 through June 1 on Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage. Opening night is Monday, May 12.

In No Child?, Sun's highly entertaining and message driven one-woman play, now running at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the life altering affect theatre can have on children is thrown center stage...

Direct from a triumphant year-long Off Broadway run, starring the acclaimed teaching artist and solo performer Nilaja Sun brings her tour-de-force exploration of the New York City public school system, No Child…, to theaters across the country for the 2007 - 08 season.

Three world premieres are among the six new plays presented in the 2007-8 season of the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

No Child, Nilaja Sun's acclaimed solo show, will give its final New York performance on Sunday, June 3rd,

The American Conservatory Theatre's Master of Fine Arts program presents Christopher Durang's 'Baby With The Bathwater' and Charles Busch's 'Red Scare on Sunset,' playing in repertory October 18 through November 4 at the Zeum Theater.

Nilaja Sun's completely absorbing and exceptionally performed solo play, based on her experiences teaching in some of New York's toughest public schools, is easily one of the best offerings currently available in any New York theatre