Martin McDonagh News

The New Yorker has featured an article on A Behanding In Spokane's Christopher Walken. The article titled 'Home Again' is written by Peter Stevenson.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting, dates and a director for the American premiere of Olivier Award nominee Moira Buffini's award-winning play GABRIEL, which will mark the final main stage production of Atlantic's 2009-2010 season.

Stage and screen stars Brian F. O'Byrne, Evan Rachel Wood, and Mare Winningham are set to join Kate Winslet in the upcoming HBO Miniseries, 'Mildred Pierce.' The show will center around Winslet as Mildred Pierce Beragon as she worked as a waitress to support her family, consisting of her husband Bert, played by O'Byrne, and her daughter Veda, played by Wood, in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh extends again through May 14, 2010. Performances are every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm.

Stage and screen star Christopher Walken, currently performing in Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, was honored with a Sardi's portrait at the famed restaurant yesterday evening, April 6, 2010. Cast members Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan were on hand to celebrate, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the unveiling.

Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, will be honored with a caricature at Sardi's on Tuesday, April 6.

Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein follows up his triumphant re-examination of The Glass Menagerie and his exploration of the new works of Athol Fugard with his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, running on the Mainstage from April 28 through May 23.

Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, starring Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan plays on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). The production, directed by John Crowley, opened on March 4 and will play a strict 16-week engagement, through June 6 only.

Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, will be a guest on WNYC Radio's 'Studio 360' this Saturday, April 3 at 4pm on 93.9fm, Sunday, April 4 at 11am on 93.9fm, and at 2pm on 820am. 'Studio 360' is also on-line at www.wnyc.org .

Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, will be a guest on WNYC Radio's 'Studio 360' this Saturday, April 3 at 4pm on 93.9fm, Sunday, April 4 at 11am on 93.9fm, and at 2pm on 820am. 'Studio 360' is also on-line at www.wnyc.org .

West Palm Beach's only resident professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks will kick off its 11th Anniversary season with George Bernard Shaw's play 'Candida' on Wednesday, October 6th (8PM) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard). The season will continue with a distinguished roster of plays including the southeast premiere of 'Freud's Last Session' by Mark St. Germain, 'Dinner With Friends' by Donald Margulies and 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' by Martin McDonagh.

Albuquerque Theatre Guild releases their April 2010 Performance Calendar. More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size.

Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, will be a guest on WNYC Radio's 'Studio 360' this Saturday, April 3 at 4pm on 93.9fm, Sunday, April 4 at 11am on 93.9fm, and at 2pm on 820am. 'Studio 360' is also on-line at www.wnyc.org .

Tune in to see Anthony Mackie, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' this Thursday, April 1. The show airs in the New York area on WNBC-TV Channel 4 at 12:35am. Check local listings for times outside the New York area.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting, dates and a director for the American premiere of Olivier Award nominee Moira Buffini's award-winning play GABRIEL, which will mark the final main stage production of Atlantic's 2009-2010 season.

Ireland mustn't be such a bad place, so - but it certainly isn't devoid of faults or wickedness. This is made entirely clear in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Martin McDonagh's darkly comic and touching work about a physically challenged young man's dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. The spritely production currently being mounted by the Irish Players of Rochester, a subset of Rochester Community Players, gives its audience just the right balance of sentimentality and harsh absurdity. Under Jean Gordon Ryon's direction, McDonagh's comical drama about the nature of lies, gossip, and identity makes for a night of quality entertainment.

McCarter Theatre will continue its 2009-2010 season with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of David Mamet's American Buffalo. The production is directed by Tony Award-nominaTed August: Osage County actress Amy Morton and starring August: Osage County's Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts, runs through March 28.

This year's 31 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University have lived throughout the world (six countries, 19 states and two Caribbean islands). They've played professional tennis, recited slam poetry, and pirouetted in a tutu, as well as acted classically, comedically and experimentally. But all have chosen to spend the last three years in New York City, two express subway stops from Broadway, following their dream and refining their craft as actors, directors or playwrights in the only Masters' theater program endorsed by the renowned Actors Studio.

Listen to Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, star of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, on WNYC Radio's 'Leonard Lopate Show.'

London's Young Vic Theatre will revive Martin McDonagh's first play, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENAN, which will run from July 15 through August 21.