Joe Orton News

On 7th September Peter Gill OBE, Founder Director of Riverside Studios celebrates his 70th Birthday. This will be the first Peter Gill script to be performed at Riverside Studios since 1980.

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Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of these two extraordinary men.

Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears

Matt Lucas is to play Kenneth Halliwell alongside Chris New as playwright Joe Orton in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of these two extraordinary men.

Gwen Taylor joins Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of PRICK UP YOUR EARS, a new play by Simon Bent.

On 7th September Peter Gill OBE, Founder Director of Riverside Studios celebrates his 70th Birthday. This will be the first Peter Gill script to be performed at Riverside Studios since 1980.

An assortment of wild and wacky characters along with some tried and true characters will be gracing the main stage in 2010 at the Newnan Community Theatre Company. The theatre company has recently announced its next season of plays, along with lowering ticket prices.

Michael Sheen returns to the West End, Chess In Concert to be screened in cinemas and the King's Head Theatre's new productions announced, Laura Holmes reports.

PRICK UP YOUR EARS will run at the Comedy Theatre from 17 September until 6 December (including Sunday performances at 4pm) with press night on 30 September

The Masquers Playhouse presents LOOT, a black comedy by Joe Orton and directed by Jessica Holt, from August 21 to September 26.

Theater at Lime Kiln today announced auditions for Dracula, or How's Your Blood Counts, Saturday, August 15th at 10am in the Kiln at 601 Borden Road.

Emmy Award nominee Kevin Bacon will sit down for a live chat with the Los Angeles Times' TheEnvelope.com. The actor will participate in the chat today, August 14 at 3 p.m. PDT / 6 p.m. EDT.

Theater at Lime Kiln today announced auditions for Dracula, or How's Your Blood Counts, Saturday, August 15th at 10am in the Kiln at 601 Borden Road.

On 7th September Peter Gill OBE, Founder Director of Riverside Studios celebrates his 70th Birthday. This will be the first Peter Gill script to be performed at Riverside Studios since 1980.

The Masquers Playhouse presents LOOT, a black comedy by Joe Orton and directed by Jessica Holt, from August 21 to September 26.

Gwen Taylor is to join Matt Lucas and Chris New in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of these two extraordinary men.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new comedy The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis with Tony Award winner Julie White as 'Roxanne'.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, proudly announces the sixth and final production of its upcoming 2009/2010 Season, as well as additional casting. Presented at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street, the new production will be: A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK - the World Premiere of a new play by Playwrights Horizons alumna Kia Corthron (Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons, Force Continuum), directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Durango at The Public). A co-production with The Play Company (Kate Loewald, Founding Producer) and Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director).

Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced Joe Orton's scandalously macabre black comedy, Loot, as the company's next production this season, running June 5 to August 1 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.