Peter Shaffer News

Geva Theatre Center, Rochester's leading professional theatre, has been at the cultural heart of the Genesee Valley for over 35 years. Offering the very best in live theatre, from fresh looks at classics and musicals, to lively comedies and powerful, thought-provoking dramas, Geva has something for everyone. The Geva Theatre Center is located at 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14607.

Redtwist Theater presents EQUUS by Peter Shaffer. The show is extending thru Sept. 5, 2010.

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.

Sell-out crowds and patrons turned away at the door have ordained that the The Production Company's reincarnation of Peter Shaffer's masterpiece AMADEUS must be extended!! Now playing through August 28th, 2010.

Redtwist Theater presents EQUUS by Peter Shaffer. The show is extending thru Sept. 5, 2010.

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.

The last time Sam Underwood appeared on stage he was completely naked. He was playing Alan Strang in the much lauded production of Peter Schaffer's EQUUS at East Hampton (NY)'s John Drew Theatre. Those who are familiar with the play know that it culminates in a 20 minute nude scene for the actor playing the tormented young Strang. How then would the actor be recognized when he walked into a restaurant in New York City fully clothed?

Rover Dramawerks is proud to announce its 11th season, which will feature shows such as SUNDAY IN NEW YORK, MORPHIC RESONANCE, and BLACK COMEDY.

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.

Repertory Philippines, a premier professional theatre company that recently staged Stephen Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' and Mark Saltzman's 'Romeo & Bernadette', ends its current season on a high by restaging its old '70s hit play in Peter Shaffer's riveting psychological drama 'Equus'. Seasoned theatre actor but first-time straight play director Audie Gemora ('Sweeney Todd', 'Man of La Mancha') assembles a powerhouse cast in this incarnation of Shaffer's masterpiece headlined by two young and promising thespians Red Concepcion ('Altar Boyz', 'Romeo & Bernadette') and Marco Mañalac ('Nickelodeon', 'Myx VJ Search') alternating as the deeply disturbed seventeen-year-old Alan Strang.

Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce two singular concert performances of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning play (on which the Oscar winning film was based) Amadeus.

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.

Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce two singular concert performances of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning play (on which the Oscar winning film was based) Amadeus.

Sell-out crowds and patrons turned away at the door have ordained that the The Production Company's reincarnation of Peter Shaffer's masterpiece AMADEUS must be extended!! Now playing through August 28th, 2010.

Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce two singular concert performances of Peter Shaffer's Tony Award winning play (on which the Oscar winning film was based) Amadeus.

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, Alec Baldwin is starring as the psychiatrist Martin Dysart in Peter Shaffer's Equus this summer at Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. The production, which co-stars Sam Underwood and is directed by Tony Walton will run from June 8 - July 13 at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall. This will be Baldwin's first production at Guild Hall, of which he is a board member.

BroadwayWorld Philippines joined first-time straight play director Audie Gemora ('High School Musical On Stage') open Repertory Philippines' 73rd season ender 'Equus' Friday evening, July 9, 2010 at the OnStage Theatre in Greenbelt One, Ayala Malls, Makati City. With seasoned Repertory Philippines actors Miguel Faustmann, who plays middle-aged psychiatrist-narrator Martin Dysart, and Red Concepcion, who portrays seventeen-year-old dangerously atypical Alan Strang, up the marquee, Mr. Gemora has showed his own firm grip of Peter Shaffer's material before his curious audience.

Geva Theatre Center, Rochester's leading professional theatre, has been at the cultural heart of the Genesee Valley for over 35 years. Offering the very best in live theatre, from fresh looks at classics and musicals, to lively comedies and powerful, thought-provoking dramas, Geva has something for everyone. The Geva Theatre Center is located at 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14607.

Repertory Philippines, a premier professional theatre company that recently staged Stephen Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' and Mark Saltzman's 'Romeo & Bernadette', ends its current season on a high by restaging its old '70s hit play in Peter Shaffer's riveting psychological drama 'Equus'. Seasoned theatre actor but first-time straight play director Audie Gemora ('Sweeney Todd', 'Man of La Mancha') assembles a powerhouse cast in this incarnation of Shaffer's masterpiece headlined by two young and promising thespians Red Concepcion ('Altar Boyz', 'Romeo & Bernadette') and Marco Mañalac ('Nickelodeon', 'Myx VJ Search') alternating as the deeply disturbed seventeen-year-old Alan Strang.

Redtwist announces the opening of EQUUS by Peter Shaffer Saturday, June 26, 2010, at 3pm, directed by Redtwist's Artistic Director, Michael Colucci. Featuring Andrew Jessop, current Jeff-nominee for Principal Actor for The Pillowman, and Brian Parry, three-time Jeff-nominee for Principal Actor in a Redtwist production.