Lincoln Center Festival News

According to the NY Times, Sam Troughton, who plays Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Romeo and Juliet at the Park Avenue Armory, sustained a knee injury during a performance today, July 12. After the audience was led out of the theatre, understudy Dyfan Dwyfor took over. It remains unknown whether Troughton will peform in tonight's benefit.

Continuing its mission to offer groundbreaking in-theater events of all types, NCM Fathom presents GISELLE IN 3D, the world's first 3-D ballet to be shown with RealDTM 3D technology on Tuesday, July 12 at Noon followed by a second performance at 7:30 p.m.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival presents Children of GOD, The Musical, a modern musical mash-up of inspiration for the next generation written by Charles B. Murray, IV.

Lincoln Center and Park Avenue Armory announced today a $25 rush ticket program - RSC Rush - to give budget-minded theater-goers a chance to see the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in New York this summer.

Following recent international success with The Cripple of Inishmaan and Penelope, Druid returns to the writing of John B. Keane with a new production of Big Maggie this autumn.

Lincoln Center's 23rd season of Midsummer Night Swing enters Week Two on July 5 with the incomparable Gilberto Santa Rosa, an international star known as "El Caballero de la Salsa" - the Gentleman of Salsa.

A Magic Flute, Peter Brook's production with the acclaimed Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, was awarded France's esteemed Moliere Award for best musical theater at a ceremony on Sunday, April 17 in Paris.

For the first time in its history of visiting the United States, the Royal Shakespeare Company will perform five of Shakespeare's plays in repertory, for a total of 45 performances this summer. The company is presented by Lincoln Center Festival, and Park Avenue Armory, in association with The Ohio State University.

This July and August, Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory, in association with The Ohio State University, will bring the acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company to New York for an unprecedented six-week residency. For the first time in its history of visiting the United States, the RSC will perform five of Shakespeare's plays-As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter's Tale-in repertory for 44 performances with a cast whose members will have worked together for three intense years with RSC Artistic Director Michael Boyd by the time they arrive in New York.