Jean Doumanian Productions News

59E59 Theaters has unveiled the productions for the Brits Off Broadway 2024 Season, their annual celebration of the U.K.’s most innovative theater. See the productions being featured!

The trailer is now available for the upcoming virtual Broadway musical revival of Amour. Featuring the song “The Street Vendors' Waltz,” you can now get a first look at this innovative streaming production, created entirely remotely.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced casting for the world premiere production of Sunday by Tony Award winner Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and directed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (Dance Nation).

Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, EON Productions today announced they have hired film, television, and theater producer, Patrick Daly, as Overseeing Consultant, in charge of production and development across all theatrical projects. Independent of his work with EON Productions, Daly will continue to run the company he launched last year, Caledonia Productions, in producing and developing its own upcoming slate of stage and screen projects.   

When it debuted, THE EFFECT took London by storm, winning BEST NEW PLAY from the UK Critics' Circle. Now, award-winning director DAVID CROMER (Our Town, Tribes) helms a new American production of this exhilarating play in the first collaboration between THE NATIONAL THEATRE, JEAN DOUMANIAN PRODUCTIONS and BARROW STREET THEATRE.

When it debuted, THE EFFECT took London by storm, winning Best New Play from the UK Critics' Circle. Now, award-winning director David Cromer (Our Town, Tribes) helms a new American production of this exhilarating play in the first collaboration between The National Theatre, Jean Doumanian Productions, and Barrow Street Theatre. This production marks the off-Broadway producing debut for The National Theatre when it premiered on Sunday, March 20th 2016. 

Producers announced today the complete cast and creative team for the North American premiere of playwright Lucy Prebble's award-winning new play The Effect. With direction by David Cromer, the new American production of The Effect will begin previews at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue) on Wednesday, March 2, with an official opening night set for Wednesday, March 16th.

Producers The National Theatre of Great Britain's North American wing (Tim Levy, Producer), Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, and Patrick Daly announced today that tickets are now on sale for the North American premiere of playwright Lucy Prebble's award-winning new play The Effect. With direction by David Cromer, the new American production of The Effect will begin previews at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue) on Wednesday, March 2, with an official opening night set for Wednesday, March 16th.

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, December 6, 2015 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!

Jean Doumanian Productions announced today that the Academy Award® nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines) will star in the upcoming film, Blackbird

Low Spark Films and Jean Doumanian Productions have completed the financing for the upcoming film adaptation of Galveston, written by 'True Detective' creator Nic Pizzolatto. Embankment Films is handling foreign sales, and is currently representing the project in Cannes. Shooting is set to commence in October, 2014.

Jean Doumanian Productions, producers of August Osage County, will produce the upcoming film adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto's acclaimed novel Galveston, featuring a screenplay adapted by Pizzolatto himself. Janus Metz is set to direct. Matthias Schoenaerts, who starred in Bullhead and in Rust and Bone (for which he won the 2012 Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor), will lead the cast as 'Roy.' (The character of 'Rocky,' the female lead, has yet to be cast.) Shooting is planned to commence in Spring, 2014.

Preston Copley, formerly of Disney Theatrical Group, where he served directly under President Thomas Schumacher on the gamut of the commercial producer's Global productions, has joined Jean Doumanian Productions as Director of Creative Development for Theater, working alongside Jean Doumanian, and Vice President, Patrick Daly. In his new position, Copley will be identifying existing work and developing new theatrical content for commercial productions on and off-Broadway, and for audiences abroad.

Now in its sixth year, the FringeNYC Encore Series gives theatre lovers another chance at seeing some of the Festival's favorite shows.

Starry Night Entertainment (White People, Mistakes Were Made) in association with The Bridge Theatre Company presents DualMinds Productions' U.S. Premiere of ANY NIGHT.

Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions launch a summer music series at the Barrow Street Theatre with a concert of new music by acclaimed composer Todd Almond. Todd Almond: Wyoming and Parts of Kansas, is a travelogue-in-song event inspired by the songwriter's journey across the American plains. Special Guest Maria Dizzia (In The Next Room or the vibrator play, Drunken City) and musicians will join Almond in this one-of-a-kind musical story telling event for one-night only on Monday, May 9th at 8:00 p.m. at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street). Running time is 85 minutes.