Nicky Silver News

Rising Action Theatre opens its new Season at its new location at the Sunshine Cathedral campus with Fit To Be Tied by Nicky Silver, an off-beat comedy about a fabulously wealthy but desperately lonely man who lives a solitary life for many years. When he meets the great love of his life, Boyd, a young runaway with no family who is working as an angel at Radio City's Christmas Spectacular, Arloc invites him up for a drink. When Boyd readies to leave, Arloc is terrified that his last chance for happiness will slip away, so he ties him up. At that moment, Arloc's mother, Nessa, descends upon him with problems of her own.

Annex Theatre presents a bold new culture-bending play about a future 'right- thinking' America in Her Mother Was Imagination by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, directed by Ellie McKay. Her Mother Was Imagination opens on Friday July 30th, 8pm and runs Fri & Sat through August 28th with PWYC August 6th & 7th and Industry Night (PWYC) August 16th at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & East Pike Street in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military.

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Gina Kim shines a harsh spotlight on a subject all too often kept in the shadows and comes out the other side in one piece in the World Premiere of Miss Kim, a brutally honest work about falling down and learning to get up again, beginning its World Premiere run on August 13th at the Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street. Written by Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil and directed by Matthew Corozine, Miss Kim is part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).

InProximity Theatre Company is proud to announce that Dorothy Lyman will be directing the upcoming production of SIGHT UNSEEN by Donald Margulies (Time Stands Still, Collected Stories, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner With Friends, God of Vengeance, Pitching to the Star, Nocturne, Luna Park, Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic). The show will feature Laurie Schaefer, Jonathan Todd Ross, Brent Vimtrup, and Bryn Boice. Designers include James J. Fenton (scenic), Lisa Soverino (Lighting), Court Watson (Costumes), and Jeremy Lee (sound). The Production Stage Manager is Jasmin Sanchez.

Gina Kim shines a harsh spotlight on a subject all too often kept in the shadows and comes out the other side in one piece in the World Premiere of Miss Kim, a brutally honest work about falling down and learning to get up again, beginning its World Premiere run on August 13th at the Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street. Written by Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil and directed by Matthew Corozine, Miss Kim is part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Annex Theatre presents a bold new culture-bending play about a future 'right- thinking' America in Her Mother Was Imagination by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, directed by Ellie McKay. Her Mother Was Imagination opens on Friday July 30th, 8pm and runs Fri & Sat through August 28th with PWYC August 6th & 7th and Industry Night (PWYC) August 16th at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & East Pike Street in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military.

Nuns with guns are back this summer in a fully-loaded, blasphemous new installment of Annex Theatre's Penguins 3: The Bishop's Bastard written by Scot Augustson and directed by Bret Fetzer.

Gina Kim shines a harsh spotlight on a subject all too often kept in the shadows and comes out the other side in one piece in the World Premiere of Miss Kim, a brutally honest work about falling down and learning to get up again, beginning its World Premiere run on August 13th at the Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street. Written by Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil and directed by Matthew Corozine, Miss Kim is part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).

Annex Theatre presents a bold new culture-bending play about a future 'right- thinking' America in Her Mother Was Imagination by local playwright Elizabeth Heffron, directed by Ellie McKay. Her Mother Was Imagination opens on Friday July 30th, 8pm and runs Fri & Sat through August 28th with PWYC August 6th & 7th and Industry Night (PWYC) August 16th at Annex Theatre, corner of 11th & East Pike Street in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill. $15 General, $5 TPS/Student/Senior/Military.

Emmy(R) Award nominee Maura Tierney ('ER') has joined 'The Whole Truth' as a series regular. The new drama series from Jerry Bruckheimer Television will air Wednesdays from 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET this fall on ABC. With a unique alternative narrative structure that chronicles the way a case is built from the perspectives of both the defense and prosecution, 'The Whole Truth' shows each side equally and keeps its audience guessing, shifting allegiances of guilt or innocence until the very final scene.

New Theatre presents its final production of the 2009-2010 season: Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver, running April 23 through May 16, 2010. This Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominated dark comedy starts with estranged twin siblings who are attending their mother's funeral, after she was killed by her broken, flying shower head. Add in a husband, a ghost, a convicted murderer, a male escort and a therapist and what you get is a whacky, absurdist comedy about serious family values, relationships and self discovery.

Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will hold its annual Spring Gala Benefit on Monday evening, May 3rd at Guastavino's (409 East 59th Street).

New Theatre presents its final production of the 2009-2010 season: Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver, running April 23 through May 16, 2010. This Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominated dark comedy starts with estranged twin siblings who are attending their mother's funeral, after she was killed by her broken, flying shower head. Add in a husband, a ghost, a convicted murderer, a male escort and a therapist and what you get is a whacky, absurdist comedy about serious family values, relationships and self discovery.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, On Monday, April 12, The Actor's Fund will host their annul gala at the Marriott Marquis. The gala will honor three stars of stage, screen and business: three-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening ('Being Julia,' 'American Beauty,' 'The Grifters'), four-time Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum ('Rent,' 'Avenue Q,' 'In the Heights,' 'Private Lives'), and Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels Jonathan Tisch.

New Theatre presents its final production of the 2009-2010 season: Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver, running April 23 through May 16, 2010. This Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominated dark comedy starts with estranged twin siblings who are attending their mother's funeral, after she was killed by her broken, flying shower head. Add in a husband, a ghost, a convicted murderer, a male escort and a therapist and what you get is a whacky, absurdist comedy about serious family values, relationships and self discovery.

Phoenix's Mad Horse Theatre Company presents The Maiden's Prayer by Nicky Silver through April 4th.