Laura Cole News

Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to kick-off its 2015-16 season with the Midwest premiere of MIRACLE!, the wickedly funny parody of The Miracle Worker as reimagined by Dan Savage, one of the country's leading writers/speakers/podcasters on sex, sexuality and GLBTQ issues, and directed by Derek Van Barham. MIRACLE! will play May 14 - July 10, 2015 at the newly-remodeled Mary's Attic, 5400 N. Clark St. in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood.

Celebrating its 13th year, Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce its 2015-16 season, kicking off this summer with the Midwest premiere of MIRACLE!, the wickedly funny parody of The Miracle Worker as reimagined by Dan Savage, one of the country's leading writers/speakers/podcasters on sex, sexuality and GLBTQ issues, directed by Derek Van Barham.

The Suzi Bass Awards, Inc. announced winners for the 2013-2014 Atlanta professional theatrical season this evening at the awards ceremony at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center. The evening was hosted by Rob Cleveland. Presenters included Deadre Moore, Ingrid Cole and Christy Baggett, Eric and Bethany Mendenhall, Veronika Duerr and Laura Cole, Clifton Guterman and WABE's John Lemley, Tess and Mark Kincaid, and Karen Howell and Chris Ekholm. Scroll down for the full list of winners!

The Suzi Bass Awards, Inc. revealed nominations for the 2013-2014 Atlanta professional theatrical season this evening to theatre patrons and industry artists. The Suzi Nomination Party, which rotates venues, was hosted this year by Actor's Express in the King Plow Arts Center of Atlanta. Guest announcers included performers Christy Baggett, Laura Cole, Danielle Deadwyler, and Tess Malis Kincaid.

Factory Theater presents Hey! Dancin'! Hey! Musical!, written by Kirk Pynchon and Mike Beyer*, with music/lyrics by Laura McKenzie* (with additional lyrics by Kirk Pynchon). Directed by Matthew Gunnels and choreographed by Brigitte Ditmars, the show opens Today, April 25 8pm and continues through May 31, 2014.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Casa Valentina, the play by four-time Tony Award winnerHarvey Fierstein, directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello just opened last night, April 23, 2014 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Check out photos from the star-studded theatre arrivals below!

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company presents Macbeth at The New American Shakespeare Tavern as part of The Shakespeare Evolution Series: The Tragedies. Previews are April 3 and 4. The show will run from April 5 to May 4 (no performance on Easter Sunday, 4/20).

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents The Taming of the Shrew (in repertory with Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing) (Slight cast change: Matt Nitchie is playing Petruchio). The Taming of the Shrew runs today, February 6, 9, 16, 21, 27 and March 2, 8, 14, 20, 23, 29 (in repertory). Directed by Jeff Watkins.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents The Taming of the Shrew (in repertory with Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing) (Slight cast change: Matt Nitchie is playing Petruchio). The Taming of the Shrew runs February 6, 9, 16, 21, 27 and March 2, 8, 14, 20, 23, 29 (in repertory). Directed by Jeff Watkins.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents The Taming of the Shrew (in repertory with Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing), running today, January 4 through March 29, 2014.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents The Taming of the Shrew (in repertory with Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing), running January 4 through March 29, 2014.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents KING LEAR. Tickets: $15. Previews tonight and tomorrow, November 7 & 8. Runs November 9-December 1, 2013. Directed by J. Tony Brown.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents KING LEAR. Tickets: $15. Previews November 7 & 8. Runs November 9-December 1, 2013. Directed by J. Tony Brown.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern announces its 2013-2014 Season. Details below!

In Lee Blessing's cheeky off-beat comedyFortinbras (named as one of Time Magazine's best plays of 1991), the action starts where Hamlet stopped. The oddly chipper Norwegian Prince Fortinbras swoops in to Denmark to find himself in charge of a nation, but with the PR nightmare of having to explain all the deaths at Elsinore. Finding Horatio's account of the murders implausible, Fortinbras decides to make up the truth, much to the ire of the recently dispatched ghosts roaming the corridors, who want the true tale told.

In Lee Blessing's cheeky off-beat comedyFortinbras (named as one of Time Magazine's best plays of 1991), the action starts where Hamlet stopped. The oddly chipper Norwegian Prince Fortinbras swoops in to Denmark to find himself in charge of a nation, but with the PR nightmare of having to explain all the deaths at Elsinore. Finding Horatio's account of the murders implausible, Fortinbras decides to make up the truth, much to the ire of the recently dispatched ghosts roaming the corridors, who want the true tale told.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern announces its 2013-2014 Season. Details below!

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in repertory with Hamlet. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, directed by Jeff McKerley will run tonight, May 25, 26, 31 & June 2, 6, 8, 14, 16, 20, 22, 2013.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Hamlet in repertory with Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Hamlet, directed by Heidi Cline-McKerley, will run tonight, May 4-19 and May 30, June 1, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 23, 2013.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced last week that the Atlanta Shakespeare Company is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The resident company of the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta is recommended for a $30,000 grant to support their Total Access Shakespeare residency programming with local public schools.