Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa News

Tyne Daly will host the Manhattan Theatre Club's Annual Spring Gala on May 15th

His interesting career begins by day as the writer of the monthly adventures of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics and then by night, he is a playwright. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is the author of such plays as The Muckle Man, The Mystery Plays, Rough Magic, and The Velvet Sky. His comedies Golden Age and Say You Love Satan were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. Now, Aguirre-Sacasa decided to use his own life as a basis for his newest production, Based on a Totally True Story.

DREAD AWAKENING, the hit collection of four new horror-influenced plays by some of theatre's most exciting up-and-coming playwrights, will have to close its doors following the Sunday, April 23rd performance at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street).

The Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere production of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story, currently in previews at New York City Center - Stage II, will open tomorrow, Tuesday, April 11th

The musical The Girl in the Frame will be among the works presented as part of MTC's 6@7 readings series on April 10th

After 'whacking himself' on the season opener of the hit HBO series The Sopranos, Robert Funaro now returns to the stage in DREAD AWAKENING.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Based on a Totally True Story will begin previews on March 23rd

Casting has been announced for Dread Awakening, a new work of four world premiere horror one-acts that will be headlined by 'The Sopranos' star Robert Funaro

Beginning on April 6th, the new show Dread Awakening will feature four scary plays

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the upcoming the world premiere production of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY. Directed by Michael Bush, the production begins previews on March 23 and opens on April 11 at New York City Center - Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

Kristine Nielsen will star alongside Carson Elrod, Erik Heger and Michael Tucker in MTC's Based on a Totally True Story, which opens on April 11th

Beauty of the Father, a new play by Nilo Cruz starring Priscilla Lopez, opened at MTC on January 10th

Kristine Nielsen and Michael Tucker will co-star in MTC's upcoming Based on a Totally True Story

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

Daniel Gerroll, T. Scott Cunningham, Dan McCabe and Susan Pourfar will appear in Dan O'Brien's new play The Dear Boy, which will open on August 1st as the second part of Second Stage Theatre Uptown

Patrick Marber's riff on the Strindberg classic, After Miss Julie, has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club's '05-'06 season line-up, and another new piece by Ariel Dorfman has also been scheduled

Evidently, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa loves pulp.