Peter Shaffer News

THE PRODUCTION COMPANY is now ready to unveil our beautiful, larger space - The Lex Theatre in Hollywood's Theatre Row - and we are thrilled to announce the first three plays of our 2011 Season!

The Alley Theatre was founded over sixty years ago as Houston's theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works - to provide the inspirational and the provocative - to make our audiences think, feel, dream and be entertained. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, the Alley is committed to moving forward to increase its reach into the community, to further its collaboration with the best theatre artists working today, and to encourage and cultivate the new voices, new work, new artists of the American theatre. For more information call 713-220-5700.

The Repertory East Playhouse will end its 2010 Season with Peter Shaffer's critically acclaimed Amadeus, sponsored by Power Auto Group of Valencia.

Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS, took Broadway by storm and was later adapted for the screen by Shaffer and director Milos Forman. Now, the original play returns to the stage. Within the intimate confines of the Briggs Opera House, audiences will be thrust into the colorful whirlwind of the Viennese court for an exciting evening of intrigue, comedy and some of the world's most beautiful music.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company of the new Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford as 'Lady Bracknell,' at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St.).

Hart House Theatre is proud to present Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning modern masterpiece Equus, running November 12 -27, 2010.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company of the new Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by and starring Brian Bedford as 'Lady Bracknell,' at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St.). The cast will also feature Dana Ivey as 'Miss Prism,' Paxton Whitehead as 'Reverend Chausible,' Santino Fontana as 'Algernon Moncrieff,' David Furr as 'Jack Worthing,' Tim MacDonald as 'Merriman,' Paul O'Brien as 'Lane,' Charlotte Parry as 'Cecily Cardew,' and Sara Topham as 'Gwendolyn.'

Alec Baldwin will be featured as Claudius in the upcoming staged reading of Hamlet to help raise funds for the newly minted Fundamental Theater Project, a new theater company founded by actors Sam Underwood, Artistic Director, and Nicola Murphy, Producing Director.

Tickets for each of the seven remaining shows in Pioneer Theatre Company's 2010-2011 Season will go on sale Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. The season includes a hit adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which runs from October 22 through November 6, 2010; Irving Berlin's White Christmas, based on the 1954 film of the same title, which runs from December 3 through December 24, 2010; the hilarious one act Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer running from January 14 through January 29, 2011; the world premiere of a new drama In by Bess Wohl, the author of last season's Touch(ed), which runs from February 18 through March 5, 2011; The Diary of Anne Frank, a co-production with Indiana Repertory Theatre, which runs from March 18 through April 2, 2011; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning Sunset Boulevard, which runs from April 29 through May 14, 2011; and the regional premiere of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning landmark pop-rock opera Rent by Jonathan Larson, which runs from June 10 through June 25, 2011.

Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS, took Broadway by storm and was later adapted for the screen by Shaffer and director Milos Forman. Now, the original play returns to the stage. Within the intimate confines of the Briggs Opera House, audiences will be thrust into the colorful whirlwind of the Viennese court for an exciting evening of intrigue, comedy and some of the world's most beautiful music.

Geva Theatre Center's 2010/11 Season officially opens tomorrow evening with Amadeus by Peter Shaffer and runs in the Mainstage through October 3.

Geva Theatre Center's 2010/11 Season begins with AMADEUS by Peter Shaffer, which has its first performance on September 7 and runs in the Mainstage through October 3.

Tickets for each of the seven remaining shows in Pioneer Theatre Company's 2010-2011 Season will go on sale Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. The season includes a hit adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which runs from October 22 through November 6, 2010; Irving Berlin's White Christmas, based on the 1954 film of the same title, which runs from December 3 through December 24, 2010; the hilarious one act Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer running from January 14 through January 29, 2011; the world premiere of a new drama In by Bess Wohl, the author of last season's Touch(ed), which runs from February 18 through March 5, 2011; The Diary of Anne Frank, a co-production with Indiana Repertory Theatre, which runs from March 18 through April 2, 2011; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning Sunset Boulevard, which runs from April 29 through May 14, 2011; and the regional premiere of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning landmark pop-rock opera Rent by Jonathan Larson, which runs from June 10 through June 25, 2011.

Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS, took Broadway by storm and was later adapted for the screen by Shaffer and director Milos Forman. Now, the original play returns to the stage. Within the intimate confines of the Briggs Opera House, audiences will be thrust into the colorful whirlwind of the Viennese court for an exciting evening of intrigue, comedy and some of the world's most beautiful music.

Equus, written by the Tony Award winning playwright Peter Shaffer, is the powerful, provocative and utterly jarring story of a psychiatrist who seeks to understand the sexual and religious mystery which leads a boy to blind six horses.

As we OFFICIALLY bid farewell to Summer and welcome the start of the Fall season - we also bid farewell to a number of shows that have recently closed, and welcome several that have started or are about to start their runs here on the California Central Coast.

If you only know about HotCity Theatre because of their dedication to producing new and original works by some of the most talented and unknown playwrights around, then you should also know how adept they are at staging revivals of edgy and provocative modern classics. This season they've chosen Peter Shaffer's taut masterpiece from 1973, EQUUS. And, they've delivered an intense, disturbing and brilliant production that's powered by sharp direction and exceptional performances.

Geva Theatre Center's 2010/11 Season officially opens tomorrow evening with Amadeus by Peter Shaffer and runs in the Mainstage through October 3.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced The Old Globe's 2011 Summer Season. Adrian Noble will return as the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Festival and direct Shakespeare's The Tempest and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Presented in repertory in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, the Festival will also include Much Ado About Nothing directed by Ron Daniels. The season also features Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein in the Old Globe Theatre. Preceding Bernstein is a 10-day limited engagement of Hershey Felder in George Gershwin Alone. The West Coast Premiere of John Morogiello's romantic comedy, Engaging Shaw, in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre will complete the season.

HotCity Theatre, a professional theatre company with a focus on contemporary programming and new play development announces the opening of EQUUS, The 1975 Tony award winning psychological drama by Peter Shaffer. Webster University professor Doug Finlayson will direct this production, the third show in the 2010 HotCity Season.