Noel Craig News

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's new comedy, Life of Riley. Directed by Richard Seer, Life of Riley will run in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, April 30 - June 5. Preview performances run April 30 - May 4. Opening night is Thursday, May 5 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

Asolo Rep is proud to present the fully staged World Premiere production of Steven Drukman's new play The Innocents. Chosen from five plays developed during Asolo Rep's 2010 Unplugged new play festival, The Innocents opens on April 15, 2011 as part of the repertory season and in conjunction with the 2011 Unplugged Festival of New Plays.

The Old Globe announces event listings through June.

Laws of Attraction! Sexual politics and legal brinksmanship collide in this whip-smart romantic comedy making its West Coast Premiere at Diversionary Theatre. Directed by James Vasquez (2010 Craig Noel Award Winner for Best Direction) and featuring Amanda Sitton, Jacque Wilke, Wendy Maples, Wyatt Ellison and Stephen Schmitz, Fair Use will close on March 13.

South Coast Repertory's 14th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will take you through time and across the map, from tornado-tossed Kansas to not-quite-past, not-quite-future London, from a ramshackle trailer in the Colorado desert to the visiting area of a Massachusetts prison.

Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy with music, lyrics and book by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon will close the Winter Season on February 27, 2011. Directed by Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun.

Laws of Attraction! Sexual politics and legal brinksmanship collide in this whip-smart romantic comedy making its West Coast Premiere at Diversionary Theatre. Directed by James Vasquez (2010 Craig Noel Award Winner for Best Direction) and featuring Amanda Sitton, Jacque Wilke, Wendy Maples, Wyatt Ellison and Stephen Schmitz, Fair Use will run from February 24 through March 13. Sy (Amanda Sitton) is in love with her co-counsel Madi (Jacque Wilke), who in turn is involved with Chris (Wyatt Ellison). While in the midst of a high-profile legal case, the love triangle gets complicated by a series of seductive, eloquent love letters, echoing Cyrano de Bergerac.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced principal casting for the Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival, performed in repertory in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

Born in New Milford NJ in June 1982, Robert McClure juggled high school, baking bagels in the wee hours and theater.

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents ACID TEST, based on the true story of Ram Dass, spiritual seeker, as he explores his life from the time of being Richard Alpert, a tenured Harvard psychology professor from a wealthy Jewish family, to meeting Timothy Leary and embarking on 377 LSD trips. He shares his adventures of traveling to India to meet his guru, Maharajji, to becoming an international lecturer on 'enlightenment' to his writing a book on conscious aging and having a stroke that paralyzes his right side. With humor and humility he illuminates his search for inner peace and lasting truth and sheds light on a new understanding of aging and death. Join him as he journeys from 'be here now' to 'still here' to 'be love'.

Four-time Tony-Nominee Tovah Feldshuh will recreate her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in GOLDA'S BALCONY, when the acclaimed William Gibson play comes to PlayhouseSquare's Palace Theatre on January 29th at 7:30 p.m. for one performance only!

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce MEMPHIS, the show that's currently blowing the roof off Broadway, will be wowing Chicago audiences from November 22-December 4, 2011 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.).

Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy, with book, music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon and direction by Tony Award nominee Jeff Calhoun, will run in the Old Globe Theatre Jan. 15 - Feb. 27. Preview performances run Jan. 15 - Jan. 22. Opening night is Jan. 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Laws of Attraction! Sexual politics and legal brinksmanship collide in this whip-smart romantic comedy making its West Coast Premiere at Diversionary Theatre. Directed by James Vasquez (2010 Craig Noel Award Winner for Best Direction) and featuring Amanda Sitton, Jacque Wilke, Wendy Maples, Wyatt Ellison and Stephen Schmitz, Fair Use will run from February 24 through March 13. Sy (Amanda Sitton) is in love with her co-counsel Madi (Jacque Wilke), who in turn is involved with Chris (Wyatt Ellison). While in the midst of a high-profile legal case, the love triangle gets complicated by a series of seductive, eloquent love letters, echoing Cyrano de Bergerac.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy with music, lyrics and book by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon will fill the final slot of the 2010-11 Winter Season.

La Jolla Playhouse's production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize- winning play 'Ruined' earned top honors Monday at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle's 2010 Craig Noel Awards for Theatrical Excellence.

Steven Drukman's The Prince of Atlantis will have a staged reading January 10 at 7:30 p.m. as part of South Coast Repertory's NewSCRipts series. The Prince of Atlantis is the 113th play to receive a staged reading in SCR's venerable play reading program.

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle has announced the nominees for the 2010 Craig Noel Awards, which will be unveiled at a ceremony in La Jolla on Jan. 10, 2011.

Four-time Tony-Nominee Tovah Feldshuh will recreate her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in GOLDA'S BALCONY, when the acclaimed William Gibson play comes to PlayhouseSquare's Palace Theatre on January 29th at 7:30 p.m. for one performance only!

Steven Drukman's The Prince of Atlantis will have a staged reading January 10 at 7:30 p.m. as part of South Coast Repertory's NewSCRipts series. The Prince of Atlantis is the 113th play to receive a staged reading in SCR's venerable play reading program.