Olympia Dukakis News

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company of the new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney' and Tony and Academy Award winner Joel Grey as 'Moonface Martin.'

VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students interested in careers in theater for the VSA Apprenticeship at the renowned Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.

On December 6, 2010 (on what would have been Lynn Fontanne's 123rd birthday), Ten Chimneys Foundation announced that ten of the top stage actors in America have been selected as the 2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows. These ten distinguished actors (see list below) were nominated by the nation's premier regional theatres to participate in the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, a widely acclaimed national program to serve the future of American theatre. Next summer (July 24-31, 2011), the newly selected Lunt-Fontanne Fellows will join Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis for an intensive weeklong master class and immersion experience at Ten Chimneys, the National Historic Landmark estate of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin (just outside of Milwaukee).

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed repertory theatre company, launches 2010-11 season, its 19th, with Shakespeare's stirring classic Measure for Measure directed by Michael Murray, which opens Saturday, September 25 and closes Sunday, December 5, 2010 (previews begin Saturday, September 18).

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Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre at Kean University, is excited to kick off the 2010/2011 Premiere Artists Series with a panel featuring New York Commercial Producers Pat Addiss, Larry Hirschhorn, and Carol Ostrow. The event will take place on Monday, November 29th at 3:15pm in the University Center Little Theatre, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ. Premiere Stages invites the public to attend this candid conversation about producing as a profession, the state of commercial theatre and the challenges of producing during a recession.

According to TV Guide, Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis has been cast as an attorney on the series 'Law & Order: SVU.' Dukakis won the Oscar in 1987 for her role in 'Moonstruck.'

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce that Tigers Be Still, a new play by Kim Rosenstock directed by Sam Gold, has completely sold out its extended limited run through Sunday, November 28th!

One clever actor, James Leaming, plays over 30 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini and Zuzu, in THIS WONDERFUL LIFE, an enchanting and witty one-man stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. Directed by Peter Amster, THIS WONDERFUL LIFE begins in the Drury Theatre at Cleveland Play House on Friday, November 26 and runs through Sunday, December 19, 2010. Tickets are available at Cleveland Play House box office by calling 216.795.7000 ext 4 or online at www.clevelandplayhouse.com. This Wonderful Life is presented with support from Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital, Premier Printing Corp, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and the Ohio Arts Council. Media sponsors of This Wonderful Life are WEWS NewsChannel 5 and Yelp.com.

Canamac Productions presents the world premiere courtroom drama Defamation, in a limited run at three Evanston houses of worship. Race, class, and religion collide when a Southside Chicago African American businesswoman sues a Jewish North shore real estate developer. At the production's end, the audience becomes the jury. The show will run about 90 minutes without intermission, and is for ages 14 and up.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Michael Wilson. The cast will include Curtis Billings (Giulio), Elisa Bocanegra (Simonetta), Olympia Dukakis (Flora Goforth), Edward Hibbert (Witch of Capri), Maggie Lacey (Frances Black), Darren Pettie (Christopher Flanders).

Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre at Kean University, is excited to kick off the 2010/2011 Premiere Artists Series with a panel featuring New York Commercial Producers Pat Addiss, Larry Hirschhorn, and Carol Ostrow. The event will take place on Monday, November 29th at 3:15pm in the University Center Little Theatre, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ. Premiere Stages invites the public to attend this candid conversation about producing as a profession, the state of commercial theatre and the challenges of producing during a recession.

Victory Gardens proudly announces casting for the World Premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Boys Room directed by Associate Artistic Director Sandy Shinner and for the Chicago Premiere of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation directed by Dexter Bullard.

Tune in to WOR's 'Joan Hamburg Show' on Tuesday, November 9th from 12:00-2:00PM (710 AM) to listen as Joan celebrates Roundabout Theatre Company's 2010 - 2011 Season.

Tune in to WOR's 'Joan Hamburg Show' on Tuesday, November 9th from 12:00-2:00PM (710 AM) to listen as Joan celebrates Roundabout Theatre Company's 2010 - 2011 Season.

Canamac Productions presents the world premiere courtroom drama Defamation, in a limited run at three Evanston houses of worship. Race, class, and religion collide when a Southside Chicago African American businesswoman sues a Jewish North shore real estate developer. At the production's end, the audience becomes the jury. The show will run about 90 minutes without intermission, and is for ages 14 and up.

Canamac Productions presents the world premiere courtroom drama Defamation, in a limited run at three Evanston houses of worship. Race, class, and religion collide when a Southside Chicago African American businesswoman sues a Jewish North shore real estate developer. At the production's end, the audience becomes the jury. The show will run about 90 minutes without intermission, and is for ages 14 and up.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Tracy Aron, announced that two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy will star in the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

Canamac Productions presents the world premiere courtroom drama Defamation, in a limited run at three Evanston houses of worship. Race, class, and religion collide when a Southside Chicago African American businesswoman sues a Jewish North shore real estate developer. At the production's end, the audience becomes the jury. The show will run about 90 minutes without intermission, and is for ages 14 and up.

Canamac Productions presents the world premiere courtroom drama Defamation, in a limited run at three Evanston houses of worship. Race, class, and religion collide when a Southside Chicago African American businesswoman sues a Jewish North shore real estate developer. At the production's end, the audience becomes the jury. The show will run about 90 minutes without intermission, and is for ages 14 and up.