Richard Greenberg News

New York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have announced the full line-up of their 2011 Powerhouse Theater season, now entering its 27th year. The result of a unique collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, the program consists of an eight-week residency on the Vassar campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) during which more than 200 professional artists and some 40 apprentices live and work together to create new theater works. The 2011 Main Stage season kicks off with Patricia Wettig's F2M (June 29 - July 10).

David Hyde Pierce and S. Epatha Merkerson are set to co-host the 56th annual Obie Awards. The ceremony will be held at Webster Hall May 16. Additionally, Nina Arianda, Alec Baldwin, Margaret Colin, Mamie Gummer, Rose Hemingway, John Larroquette, Robert Sean Leonard, Patina Miller, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Arian Moayed, Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, and Andrew Ranells are set to present.

Three Days of Rain, Richard Greenberg's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about two generations of intertwined families, returns to its birthplace with a new production at South Coast Repertory May 13-June 12.

Night and Her Stars, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton and starring Raymond Shoemaker as Herb Stempel and Jay Worthington as Charles Van Doren

The Latino Theater Company, in association with Ken Werther, has announced a limited engagement of The Good Boy at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. This new solo show, written and performed by Michael Bonnabel and directed by Darin Anthony, will play two preview performances on Thursday, April 28 and Friday, April 29. The opening is set for Saturday, April 30 at 8pm, and the engagement will run through Sunday, May 22 only.

The Awards Will Be Presented By: Alec Baldwin, Arian Moayed, Jim Parsons, John Larroquette, Lee Pace, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mamie Gummer, Margaret Colin, Nina Arianda, Patina Miller, Robert Sean Leonard, Rose Hemingway and S. Epatha Merkerson

The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced today that the 56th Annual Obie Awards will take place on Monday, May 16, 2011 at Webster Hall in the East Village (125 East 11th Street). The Awards Will Be Presented By: Alec Baldwin, Arian Moayed, Jim Parsons, John Larroquette, Lee Pace, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mamie Gummer, Margaret Colin, Nina Arianda, Patina Miller, Robert Sean Leonard, Rose Hemingway and S. Epatha Merkerson.

The New School for Drama presents the New Voices Playwrights Festival, a series featuring six original plays performed in repertory March 30-April 2 and April 6-9 at The New School for Drama Theater.

Nutley Little Theatre Presents TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg, directed by Ron Mulligan April 8 - April 23. TAKE ME OUT tells the story of Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires. He is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome, and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he's gay, he assumes the news will be readily accepted by everyone.

It was announced today that Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club, will be honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award recognizes Meadow's extraordinary accomplishments and dedication to producing and directing new work Off-Broadway for over three decades. The Lucille Lortel Award ceremony will be held Sunday, May 1 at the Jack. H Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 Laguardia Place).

Nutley Little Theatre Presents TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg, directed by Ron Mulligan April 8 - April 23. TAKE ME OUT tells the story of Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires. He is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome, and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he's gay, he assumes the news will be readily accepted by everyone.

The New School for Drama presents the New Voices Playwrights Festival, a series featuring six original plays performed in repertory March 30-April 2 and April 6-9 at The New School for Drama Theater.

THE VIOLET HOUR will close Sunday, March 13 at the Lillian Theatre, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood.

HART Theatre will be performing the second production of their Staged Reading Series, Three Days of Rain, by Richard Greenberg. Directed by Devan McCoy, Greenberg's Pulitzer nominated play, opens with Walker and Nan Janeway, siblings trying to reconcile their childhood in the aftermath of their father's passing.

The New School for Drama presents the New Voices Playwrights Festival, a series featuring six original plays performed in repertory March 30-April 2 and April 6-9 at The New School for Drama Theater.

Today we are talking to one of the biggest and youngest sensations of the season, Al Pacino's highly-lauded Portia to his Shylock in the sold-out MERCHANT OF VENICE, as well as a recurring star on THE GOOD WIFE and MEDIUM - following an unforgettable appearance on NIP/TUCK last year - this year's recipient of USA's CHARACTER APPROVED Award for Theatre, Lily Rabe. In this enlivened discussion, Rabe and I dissect her work on stages and screens large and small as well as what the future holds for her on Broadway, in Hollywood and beyond - including starring in a new independent film, LETTERS TO THE BIG MAN, and a revival of A DOLL'S HOUSE co-starring Hamish Linklater at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA's world premiere production of Mlle. God by Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Kazan inaugurates the new Atwater Village Theatre and an adventurous joint season with Circle X Theatre Co. The six-week run closes March 6.

The Globe's revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Pam MacKinnon, will close at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Feb. 27. 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.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) continues its 2010/11 Season with Steven Sater and Serj Tankian's world premiere rock musical Prometheus Bound, directed by Diane Paulus.

Today we are presenting a correlative conversation to our weekend feature interview with Richard Thomas, the star of the Public Theater Shakespeare LAB's new production of William Shakespeare's TIMON OF ATHENS, with the director of that innovative new take on the troublesome tragedy, Barry Edelstein. Having directed the lauded Public productions of JULIUS CAESER starring Jeffrey Wright and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE starring Ron Leibman, in addition to producing this season's smash hit Broadway revival starring Al Pacino and all of his notable work at the Classic Stage Company, Edelstein is one of the foremost American Shakespeare directors in the twenty-first century. Discussing what makes TIMON tick, what makes Shakespeare always relevant to modern audiences and the power of the poetry implicit in each and every Shakespeare play - no matter how obscure - Edelstein was generous enough to impart his vast knowledge and acute understanding of the greatest dramatist the English language has ever known.