Neil Wechsler News

The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award, kicks off its holiday season with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Director Ethan McSweeny (Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice) takes a fresh approach to this well-loved play filled with magic and wonder. The production runs at STC's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) from tonight, November 15-December 30, 2012.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company, recipient of the 2012 Regional Theatre Tony Award®, kicks off its holiday season with William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Director Ethan McSweeny (Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice) takes a fresh approach to this well-loved play filled with magic and wonder. The production runs at STC's Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) from November 15-December 30, 2012.

The full Broadway cast has been announced for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff which will open March 22, 2012 (previews begin March 1) at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street).

Final Casting is announced for the Common Tongue Theatre's 1st New York reading of Neil Wechsler's Yale Drama Award Winning play, GRENADINE.

Lila Dupree of The Common Tongue Theatre will present the first New York reading of Neil Wechsler's Yale Drama Award winning play, GRENADINE.

Lila Dupree of The Common Tongue Theatre will present the first New York reading of Neil Wechsler's Yale Drama Award winning play, GRENADINE.

Shannon Murdoch, an Australian playwright, has won the 2011 Yale Drama Series competition for her play New Light Shine, a work about four small-town lives linked through a violent crime and their hopeless attempts to erase the past and build new lives.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced its schedule of public development readings of plays developed in the 2010 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW). 2010's NPW reading series includes readings of new plays by Annette Daniels Taylor, Michael Fanelli, Alex Livingston, Justin Karcher, James Marzo, Shawn McLaughlin, Steve Roylance, Vincent Scarsella, Darryl Schneider, Melody Von Smith, and Neil Wechsler, as well as RLTP Resident Playwright, Literary Director, and NPW Founder and Moderator Jon Elston.

English playwright David Hare has selected blu by Virginia Grise as the 2010 winner of the annual Yale Drama Series competition. The runners-up are Siona MacDuff by Mary Hamilton and Nineteen Kinds of Peril by Tom Lavignino.

Francis Ya-Chu Cowhig's award-winning play LIDLESS about a Guatanamo Bay detainee, will be given a staged reading on Monday, September 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Yale Rep's Iseman Theatre 1156 Chapel St.) in New Haven.

Yale Repertory Theater (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present a reading of the 2009 winner of the Yale Drama Series, LIDLESS by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, directed by Hal Brooks, on Monday, September 21 at 7:30PM at the Iseman Theater.

The award-winning playwright David Hare has announced that Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is the recipient of the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award for Playwriting for her play Lidless. Ms. Cowhig's Yale Drama Series prize includes a $10,000 award from the David C. Horn Foundation, along with a staged reading of the work at Yale Rep in September 2009 (date TBA) and the publication of the play by Yale University Press.

Photos of Edward Albee presenting the Yale Drama Series playwriting award to Neil Wechsler.

Yale Repertory Theater (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present a reading of the 2008 winner of the Yale Drama Series, 'Grenadine' by Neil Wechsler, directed by Yale Rep Resident Director Evan Yionoulis, on Monday, September 15 at 7:30PM at the New Theater, located at 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut. The cast features Brennan Brown, MacIntyre Dixon, Adam LeFevre, David Matranga, Anne O'Sullivan, Michael Rudko, William Youmans, and Marnye Young.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has selected Grenadine by Neil Wechsler as the recipient of the 2008 Yale Drama Series Award, an annual award inaugurated in 2007 that supports emerging playwrights, jointly sponsored by Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre.