John Guare News

Anthony Rapp's new band, Albino Kid, will be making their debut on Thursday night, November 10th at R&R.

On November 7th, Primary Stages held its 21st Anniversary Gala honoring Tony Award-winning Choreographer and Director, Susan Stroman at Tavern On The Green. On hand for the festivities were Nathan Lane, Charles Grodin, Karen Ziemba, Boyd Gaines and many more.

Due to a request from the August Wilson Estate, Signature Theatre Company's planned August Wilson celebration has been cancelled

On November 9th, David Rabe, John Guare, Larry Kramer and JoAnne Akalaitis will take part in a discussion called Reliving Incendiary Moments in Public Theater History

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) will present Klonsky & Schwartz, the off-Broadway premiere of a new play by Romulus Linney, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street).

Primary Stages has announced that Tony Award winning Director/Choreographer Susan Stroman is to be honored at Primary Stages 21st Season Anniversary Gala at Tavern on the Green on Monday, November 7 at 6:30pm.

A two-part documentary on The Public Theater will be aired on PBS' WNET station on October 21st and 28th

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) has announced that Tony Award wining Director/Choreographer Susan Stroman is to be honored at Primary Stages 21st Season Anniversary Gala at Tavern on the Green on Monday, November 7 at 6:30pm.

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.

A double feature of one-acts by John Guare, Cop out and the Talking Dog, will be presented off-off-Broadway from October 6th through October 16th

Lois Smith and Hallie Foote have been announced as the stars of A Trip to Bountiful and Sherie Rene Scott and Lili Taylor will headline Landscape of the Body; both plays will run as part of Signature Theatre Company's '05-'06 season

The Songbook Project, Inc. is pleased to announce plans for a late summer benefit, TRUNK SONGS, featuring two treasures of the American Musical Theatre: Craig Carnelia (Sweet Smell of Success, Three Postcards) and Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, john & jen).

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

Starring Gabriel Byrne (Cornelius Melody) with Dearbhla Molloy (Nora Melody), Emily Bergl (Sara Melody), John Horton (Nicholas Gadsby), Byron Jennings (Jamie Cregan), Kathryn Meisle (Deborah), Randall Newsome (Paddy O'Dowd), Ciaran O'Reilly (Dan Roche) and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Mickey Maloy).

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Reno Productions proudly present FEELING ELECTRIC as one of the featured productions of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed by Peter Askin (The Good Body, Trumbo), performances begin on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Barrow Group Theatre (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The Public Theatre's revival of the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona will start performances at the Delacorte Theatre tomorrow, August 16th

Today's New York Post reports that the pair have teamed up to write a musical based on the hit film.

Casting is now set for the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park production of the musical version of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, which will run from August 16th through September 11th

The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).

Jill Clayburgh will star in the New York premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's new comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way.