Sam Shepard News

The beloved, Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes will be honored at the 2011 LOVE 'N' COURAGE Gala - a benefit for the award-winning Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program - on Monday, February 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan), it has been announced by Crystal Field, co-founder and artistic director of Theater for the New City.

The New Group announces a new official opening night date for its world premiere production of the new play Blood From A Stone by Tommy Nohilly. Directed by Scott Elliott, Blood From A Stone features Gordon Clapp, Ann Dowd, Thomas Guiry, Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne and Daphne Rubin-Vega

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the FIFTH PLAY IN THE CINO NIGHTS SERIES- THE STRAY DOG, a new play by Kristen Palmer / directed by Julie Kline featuring Stephen Brown, Brian Miskell, Laura Ramadei, Jelena Stupljanin, Haynes Thigpen, and David Townsend

The New Group announces that BLOOD FROM A STONE will extend through February 19 (the final performance was previously slated for Feb 5.

According to Telecharge.com, Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman are set to star in a reading of THE ODD COUPLE at Cherry Lane Theatre. The event will benefit PS 3 and will take place on January 9 at 7 PM.

According to Telecharge.com, Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Billy Crudup, Wallace Shawn, Louie CK, Alessandra Nivola, Mario Cantone, Emily Mortimer and Jonathan Marc Sherman are set to star in a reading of THE ODD COUPLE at Cherry Lane Theatre. The event will benefit PS 3 and will take place on January 9 at 7 PM.

PushPush will host a FREE dinner and public reading of the pilot episode for Slow Down Atlanta, our new original series.

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Director) will present Tom Diriwachter's AGE OUT, a play based on Tom's own experiences working as a waiter in Times Square.

PushPush Presents Borderline, a world premiere play by Murray Mednick.

Huntington Theatre Company announces casting for its world premiere production of Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam (columbinus, Speech & Debate), directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois (Becky Shaw at the Almeida Theatre - London, Off Broadway, and the Huntington; Vengeance is the Lord's; Trust). Drama Desk Award winner Santino Fontana (The Importance of Being Earnest, Billy Elliot, Brighton Beach Memoirs) plays Joseph, a former runner now dealing with health issues and the recent death of his father. Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner Joanna Gleason (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joe Egg, Into the Woods) plays Gloria, a formerly successful New York editor who is now Joseph's employer in Nazareth, PA.

PushPush will host a FREE dinner and public reading of the pilot episode for Slow Down Atlanta, our new original series.

On January 20, 2010 Lapham's Quarterly celebrates the release of its Winter 2011 issue 'Celebrity' at Joe's Pub.

The New Group announces a new official opening night date for its world premiere production of the new play Blood From A Stone by Tommy Nohilly. Directed by Scott Elliott, Blood From A Stone features Gordon Clapp, Ann Dowd, Thomas Guiry, Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne and Daphne Rubin-Vega

New Rep On Tour is pleased to announce it has added a winter show, A Christmas Carol adapted and directed by Benjamin Evett, this season.

According to the NY Times, Cherry Lane Theatre's Angelina Fiordellisi, will resign as Artistic Director sometime between March and June of 2011. Additionally, Fiordellisi plans to sell the building, which has been a Greenwich Village staple since 1924, due to ongoing financial struggles.

Peter DuBois will direct the British premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, from 13 January and running until 5 March, with press night on 20 January 2011.

Midwestern Theater Troupe present Santa Claus: A Morality by e. e. cummings

Convergence-continuum, concludes its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the world premiere of APORKALYPSE! - our not-for-the-kiddies holiday show by Cleveland playwright and con-con company member Chris Johnston. Christmas, Marines AWOL from Iraq, a Persian love goddess and corporate American agri-business all collide down at Pawpaw's pig farm. And since it's the holiday season, there's some singing and accordion playing, too. For the three-week run, we've added 7 pm Sunday performances in addition to our usual Thu-Sat 8 pm shows.

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Director) will present Tom Diriwachter's AGE OUT, a play based on Tom's own experiences working as a waiter in Times Square.

Midwestern Theater Troupe present Santa Claus: A Morality by e. e. cummings