Mark Twain News

Play Dead, the new Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins announces a new performance scheudle effective immediately.

Creators of theater for young people in the Netherlands are recognized worldwide for being particularly daring, artistic and challenging. To introduce New York audiences to some of the Dutch companies creating this acclaimed work, The New Victory Theater will kick off the second half of its 2011-12 Season with Zoem! New Dutch Theater. The program, which includes four U.S. premieres all performed in English, will run from January 6 through January 29, 2012.

'I sometimes think women'll go so far that the great battle of the future will be between the sexes for supremacy!' exclaims Dr. Remington in Rachel Crothers' 1920 Broadway hit "He and She."

Since 1998, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor has been awarded to some of the biggest names in entertainment: Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and George Carlin, to name a few. This year, the Kennedy Center will present the 14th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Will Ferrell on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 7 p.m. The award, named to honor one of America's-and the world's-greatest humorists, will feature a lineup of the biggest names in comedy.

Next season the Geffen Playhouse is introducing Angelenos to acclaimed new works - including the previously announced Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins featuring Kathleen Turner, Pulitzer Prize nominee The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz and Tony Award nominee Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts - as well as introducing the theater community at large to three world premieres - including a stage adaptation of The Exorcist by Edgar Award winner John Pielmeier (Agnes of God), The Jacksonian, a new work by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley, and Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, the playwriting debut of actor Alan Alda. In addition to the acclaimed playwrights represented this season, the Geffen Playhouse is welcoming internationally lauded directors to helm these works including Tony Award winners John Doyle and Robert Falls.

Travel down the mighty Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn and company in BIG RIVER at the Roxy Regional Theatre, beginning Friday, May 20, at 6pm.

Eric Rosen has announced his selections for Kansas City Repertory Theatre's 2011-12 season, his fourth as the theatre's artistic director.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center regretfully announces that it will not reschedule a performance of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight as previously stated.

Play Dead, the new Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins will play its 200th performance on Wednesday, May 4.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins will speak at 7:30 p.m. May 4 at McDaniel College's Alumni Hall in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the annual B. Christopher Bothe Poetry Lecture.

An Evening with Bill Cosby held at MORRISON CENTER October 8, 2011 - 5 & 8 pm with IMAG Screen

Playhouse on Park is proud to present stop/time dance theater in a new production, titled 'Swing Set.'

It was announced today that Play Dead, the new Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins, is the recipient of a 2011 Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience.

Hal Holbrook, legendary actor and star of the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight has postponed his Saturday evening performance at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center due to an allergy that caused him to temporarily lose his voice.

Join the Windham Theatre Guild on April 29 & 30 at the Burton Leavitt Theatre for a delightful evening of Broadway music. ‘‘Oh, What A Night' is a great name and an apt description of the 2011 Windham Theatre Guild Broadway Chorus show that we have planned for you. We have chosen our music from 4 terrific shows, all which have won the ‘Best Musical of the Year' Tony Award, to create a truly outstanding musical experience that spans 45 years of Broadway excellence.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is proud to announce the national awardees of the 43rd annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 18-23, 2011. Through their success at regional festivals in January and February 2011, students from universities and colleges across the United States secured their places at last week's national festival and the opportunity to earn awards and scholarships.

THE 16th ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE (LES) FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS brings together under one roof in just three days over 100 performing arts organizations, local and international celebrities, independent artists, poets, playwrights, musicians, puppeteers, film makers and many others - all of whom reside, work or have their roots in the culturally diverse, willfully anarchistic Lower East Side - for New York City's most diverse FREE 3-day festival, from Friday, May 27 through Sunday, May 29, at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between E. 9th and 10th Sts.) in Manhattan. OBIE Award-winning actress Crystal Field is co-founder and Artistic Director of Theater for the New City.

Playhouse on Park is proud to present stop/time dance theater in a new production, titled 'Swing Set.'

Playhouse on Park is proud to present stop/time dance theater in a new production, titled 'Swing Set.'

Winner of seven Tony Awards on Broadway, including Best Musical of the Year, BIG RIVER is the tale of the adventurous Huckleberry Finn, an incorrigible teenager growing up in the pre-Civil War South, who befriends a runaway slave and risks his own safety helping him escape to freedom, and in doing so, learns for himself the real meaning, and value, of friendship.