Mark Ravenhill News

The short list has been announced for King's Head Theatre's inaugural Adrian Pagan Playwright Award. The winner will receive £2000 and be produced professionally by the King's Head at our new writing space The Hope Theatre in a one-month season in May 2014.

Today the Rose Theatre Kingston announced its 2014 Season. 2014 will see the theatre continue to produce Rose Productions as well as embarking on new and exciting partnerships, sharing skills and resources with other theatre companies and venues to create top quality theatre. Visiting companies including Propeller and the Royal Shakespeare Company, touring family productions and one night events complete the season.

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents From White Plains by by Michael Perlman, in Collaboration with Craig Wesley Divino, Karl Gregory, Jimmy King and Aaron Rossinil. Just because it gets better, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

The Actors Touring Company, Young Vic Theatre, Brageteatret & Schauspielhaus Wien will take their co-production, THE EVENTS, written by David Greig, on the road beginning this month. Directed by Ramin Gray, with music by John Browne, the show will play Edinburgh Fringe Fest before launching into a full UK tour. The entire itinerary is below.

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill, a play about the perils of making art and/or making friends.

The first promo for the new ITV comedy VICIOUS starring Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi has finally been released and it garners us a gander into the bawdy and bitchy world of the tailor-made new series.

Theatrical legends Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi team up for the new ITV UK TV series VICIOUS and the first stills from show have finally leaked, also showcasing featured player Frances De La Tour.

GOD STEELING was a super interesting play. Couching this relationship story within the social and political climate of the early 1980s is not something that I frankly see enough. How race, social standing and culture plays into the lives of these union 'brothers' is a bottomless pool of material. Overall, I would like to have seen a bit more subtlety in the performances, but I do have to say that James Fenton's set is worth the price of admission.

Wave Productions in association with Shetler Studios & Theatres will present the World Premiere of Charles Cissel's GOD STEELING, a revealing look at the lives of New York City ironworkers. Directed by Robin A. Paterson, previews began March 8 at Theater 54. Opening is slated for tonight, March 14.

A ferocious satire in which a society dealing with its own form of PTSD adopts out traumatized veterans in a manner somewhere between the ASPCA and the Foster Parents Plan.

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill, a play about the perils of making art and/or making friends.

Ian McDiarmid stars in Mark Ravenhill's new translation of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo, which opened at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on January 31, 2013, and is running through March 30.

According to The Independent, Andrew Lloyd Webber's foundation has donated £150,000 to a traveling theater, the 'Roundabout auditorium', designed by theatre company Paines Plough. It is the first portable theatre-in-the-round and aims to put grassroots theater back on the map.

Wave Productions in association with Shetler Studios & Theatres will present the World Premiere of Charles Cissel's GOD STEELING, a revealing look at the lives of New York City ironworkers. Directed by Robin A. Paterson, previews begin March 8 at Theater 54. Opening is slated for March 14.

The Obie Award-winning The Play Company (INVASION!, ENJOY) will present the U.S. premiere of the play WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY, with previews beginning tonight, January 10, 2013, prior to an official opening night on January 16, at 59E59 Theaters (59 E. 59 St.) in Manhattan.

2013 is the year when some of the big Broadway hits of recent years head to the West End - but there are also lots of plays and new work opening in the UK.

Full casting, including Ian McDiarmid as lead, has been announced for Mark Ravenhill's new translation of Bertolt Brecht's A Life of Galileo. It will play the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from January 31, 2013 through March 30.