Lee Blessing News

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announces complete casting for SEVEN GUITARS, the first play of its 2006-2007 three-play tribute to the works of August Wilson.

A weekly theater column for the Baltimore/Washington area

A Weekly Theater Column for the Baltimore/Washington Area.

A weekly theater column for the Baltimore/Washington area.

Langley and Homer Collyer - renowned for their New York brownstone packed with 136 tons of collectibles, including 14 pianos, an X-ray machine, chandeliers, a horse-drawn carriage and a labyrinth of newspapers -- bring their bravado, intrigue and clutter to Barrington Stage Company.

Black Henna Productions will present Lee Blessing's Down the Road from May 18th-27th at Altered Stages

A weekly column on theater for the Baltimore/Washington area.

Although Landscape of the Body, starring Lili Taylor and Sherie Rene Scott opens at Signature Theatre Company on April 16th, an early opening night party was held on April 13th

Everyman Theatre is a professional Equity theatre company with a resident ensemble of artists from the Baltimore/Washington area dedicated to presenting high quality plays that are affordable and accessible to everyone.

On April 1st, the American Theatre Critics Association presented ACTA Awards to Lee Blessing, Adam Rapp and the late August Wilson at the renowned Humana Festival in Louisville, KY

Grant James Vargas' play 33 to Nothing will run in New York from March 2nd through April 8th

Maxwell Caulfield and Amelia Campbell will star in Tryst, A New Play by Karoline Leach Opening April 6th at Off-B'way's Promenade Theatre Previews Begin March 21st

The highly anticipated Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz will premiere at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse this fall, and the new musical Zhivago as well as a new Aaron Sorkin play will also be a part of the line-up

The highly anticipated revival of The Wiz will bow at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego this spring; Zhivago and a new Aaron Sorkin play will also be part of the season line-up

Sandy Duncan will star in Lee Blessing's A Body of Water at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre from February 11th through March 19th

Signature Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will be extended for six weeks through February 29th, 2006

The Trip to Bountiful, for which tickets are $15, will open on December 4 after beginning previews on November 15th

Suzanne Bradbeer's play The Roof runs off-Broadway through October 1st in its New York premiere

Red Bull Theater, Artistic Director Jesse Berger, the company that brought us the critical smash hit of Shakespeare's Pericles in 2003, announces their fall season with the return of Revelation Readings, a popular reading series exploring new plays of heightened language and neglected Jacobean plays.