Jean Cocteau News

A dazzling array of some 150 theatrical set and costume design models and sketches will be on display in StageStruck: The Magic of Theatre Design at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery from November 14 to December 22.

Roadworks Productions NY will present the world premiere of Ethan Lipton's new play Goodbye April, Hello May. Patrick McNulty will stage the production set to open on the mainstage of HERE Arts Center beginning June 28, 2007

The Laurie Beechman Theatre continues The After Party, which runs every Friday from 10:30PM till 2AM, with a visit by Matt Castle

Casting for Goodbye April, Hello May has been announced

David Gurland and the Laurie Beechman Theatre are presenting Gurland Does Garland, an evening of songs made famous by Judy Garland. The show will take place Sunday, June 17th at 7PM, at the West Bank Cafe's Laurie Beechman Theatre, as part of the DGUR Concert series, and in celebration of Gay Pride Week in New York.

David Gurland and the Laurie Beechman Theatre are presenting Gurland Does Garland, an evening of songs made famous by Judy Garland.

God's Ear, a full-length play written by Jenny Schwartz (Cause for Alarm) and directed by Anne Kauffman (Soho Rep's The Thugs), will see its world premiere Off Broadway at the East 13th Street Theater, 136 East 13th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues).

A forgotten play by Sarah Bernhardt, The Confession, will be given its United States premiere by the Xoregos Performing Company at Wings Theatre in an eleven performance two week run between April 12-21, 2007.

Downtown theater stalwart Jean Cocteau Repertory has shed its longtime home at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre, expanded its mission, and has been rechristened The Exchange.

After over thirty-five years in the theatre business, leading Off-Broadway company the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater has closed. The owners of the Bouwerie Lane Theater, home of the Jean Cocteau since 1974, had recently doubled the theater's rent. There is no word yet on who will be the next tenant to occupy the space.

With Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the national headlines on a daily basis, the critically-acclaimed Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble production of Wounded returns to The Powerhouse Theatre on April 13 following its sold-out, limited engagement last spring.

David Gurland, the multi award winning and out gay vocalist, will present his most ambitious performance series to date, 'The DGUR Concerts,' on the third Sunday of each month, starting January 21st.

The Oakland Opera Theater returns with Philip Glass' rarely performed, provocative, and haunting dance opera 'Les Enfants Terribles,' October 6 through 22.

Crazy for the Dog - a new dark comedy written by Christopher Boal and directed by Eric Parness - will be given a 7-week commercial Off-Broadway extension by Rachel Reiner Productions LLC in association with Jean Cocteau Repertory with performances resuming July 11 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre (330 Bowery) in Manhattan

Crazy for the Dog - a new dark comedy written by Christopher Boal and directed by Eric Parness - will be given a 7-week commercial Off-Broadway extension by Rachel Reiner Productions LLC in association with Jean Cocteau Repertory with performances resuming July 11 and running through August 26 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre

Sixty-three U.S. theatres have been announced as recipients of the Actors' Equity Foundation's 2005-2006 Theater Grants

The Jean Cocteau Rep will present a reading of Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio on January 23rd

The American Theatre Wing has announced the 49 not-for-profit theatre to which it will award grants

Jean Cocteau Repertory (Ernest Johns, Artistic Director) announces the creation of the Off Off Bowery Festival, a new festival designed to offer support for emerging Off Off Broadway theatre companies by offering selected organizations free space at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre during its summer hiatus.

The Lucille Lortel Foundation, in its continuing effort to respond to the needs of small to midsize not-for-profit theatre companies, has accelerated the timing of its 2005 General Operating Support grant program.