Robert Kaplowitz News

Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce complete casting for the American premiere production of Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen. Previews begin November 8 for a December 4 opening at New York City Center - Stage II.

Neil LaBute's new play is a neat little bloodless Grand Guignol for the imagination featuring a terrific performance by Frederick Weller.

Gotham Stage Company is re-teaming with playwright Randall David Cook (Gotham's Sake with the Haiku Geisha, BBC's Sushi and Scones) to present his most recent work, Fate's Imagination, at The Player's Theatre (115 MacDougal Street).

The 52nd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards were presented this evening at a ceremony hosted by Cynthia Nixon and T.R. Knight at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of New York University

Gotham Stage Company is re-teaming with playwright Randall David Cook (Gotham's Sake with the Haiku Geisha, BBC's Sushi and Scones) to present his newest work, Fate's Imagination, at The Player's Theatre (115 MacDougal Street). Fate's Imagination is scheduled to run May 25 - June 17, with opening night set for Thursday, May 31 at 8PM.

New Musical 'Saving Aimee' a HIT!!!

An array of acclaimed stars, playwrights and directors will attend a cocktail party for the 22nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers today announced the nominations for the 22nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway, which will be presented on Monday, May 7th at New World Stages

Confessing one's sins certainly takes an act of bravery, but imagine doing so in front of a packed theatre night after night, let alone revealing your dark past and divulging family tidbits to absolute strangers...

New York's Nerve Ensemble will present spam.show, a one night only modern junk mail spectacular, on Wednesday, November 15th at the Zipper Theater.

NYC Theater stars will create art out of spam in a performance to benefit NYC's Nerve Ensemble on November 15 at 8:30.

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce that the U.S. premiere of WRECKS, written and directed by Neil LaBute and featuring Ed Harris, has sold out for its run and will be extended for three additional weeks with performances running through November 19th. Previews began on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 in the Anspacher Theater. The press opening is Tuesday, October 10, 2006.

Full casting has been announced for Anne Washburn's The Internationalist, starring previously announced 'Law & Order' star Annie Parisse and Zak Orth

Academy Award-nominee Ed Harris will star in the US premiere of Wrecks, a new play written and directed by Neil LaBute that will begin previews at the Public Theater on September 26th for an October 10th opening

The Williamstown Theatre Festival will present two world premieres next week--of Cusi Cram's Lucy and the Conquest as well as of the hip hop musical Demon Dreams

New Georges, the OBIE-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, has announced an extension through June 30th of its world premiere production of Sheila Callaghan's Dead City, directed by Daniella Topol

Neil Labute's very funny and smart new comedy features one terribly clueless groom-to-be arranging reunions with the women he left behind

Sheila Callaghan's play Dead City will run Off-Broadway from May 26th through June 24th

Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy cross-country ride