Neil Simon News

Way Off Broadway's 2011 Season, its 17th season of live first-class entertainment to Frederick, does not officially open until the theatre's production of the musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone takes its first bow on Friday, January 21st.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). Directed by Trip Cullman (Adam Bock's The Drunken City at PH and Swimming in the Shallows, plus Bachelorette, Some Men, The Last Sunday in June, the recent Edgewise, Adam Rapp's upcoming The Hallway Trilogy) the production will close Sunday, January 23 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Cincinnati Landmark Productions will hold Auditions for Two, 2011 Showboat Majestic shows: LI'L ABNER And GOD'S FAVORITE

The Neil Simon Theatre Box Office, 250 W. 52nd Street, opens on Monday, January 24, 2011 for the new Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.

The Open Fist Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the first production of its 2011 Season.

The Open Fist Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the first production of its 2011 Season.

Frederick will once again be the host for a regional theatrical premiere when The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre opens The Drowsy Chaperone on Friday, January 21st.

As the 2011 Season is fast approaching, The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has announced that it will add yet another regional premiere to its list of theatrical credits. Opening the theater's 17th Anniversary Season will be the over-the-top musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone, opening January 21st.

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 1/20-2/6

Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3 season continues with legendary Playwright Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

For Valentine's Day, Westport Country Playhouse will present a reading of Neil Simon's whimsical and touching romantic comedy, "Chapter Two," part of Westport Country Playhouse's popular Script in Hand Series, on Monday, February 14, 7 p.m.

From March 5 through April 25, 2011, the undeniable glamour and irresistible allure of orchids take center stage at The New York Botanical Garden in a dazzling display created by Tony award-winning set designer Scott Pask, image-maker Drew Hodges, and Botanical Garden curators.

Amicus Productions presents Neil Simon's award-winning play, Barefoot in the Park, at Fairview Library Theatre, running January 27-29, February 2-5 at 8p.m. and January 29 & 30 at 2p.m.

Fall in love again with Shakespeare's timeless story of young passions and feuding families as the star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet are brought to the Whole Backstage in a magnificent, traditional setting.

Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3 season continues with legendary Playwright Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

The Open Fist Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the first production of its 2011 Season.

Playwright Romulus Linney died Saturday of lung cancer at home in Germantown, N.Y. He was 80 years old and also had a home in Manhattan, according to The New York Times.

'Broadway Bound,' Simon's semi-autobiographical play follows the fledgling careers of hopeful ‘professional comedy writers' Stanley and Eugene Jerome as they try to break into the world of show business while trying to cope with their parents' continuing marital strife. When their ‘comedy' material is finally broadcast on the radio for the first time, their family's reaction is anything but laudatory.

The Jewish Theatre San Francisco in association with The Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) presents Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers for a limited engagement at Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, January 6 - 16, 2011.

Happy Medium Theatre, Inc. (HMT) is proud to kick off its second season with, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, directed by Lizette Marie Morris.