Studio Theatre News

Florida Studio Theatre announces that subscriptions are now on sale for the 2013-14 Mainstage Season. While most of the productions are still being considered for the season, the opening of the Mainstage will bring Monty Python's Spamalot to life in the Gompertz Theatre. It will open on November 15, 2014 and run through January 5, 2014. Subscriptions for all four shows of the Mainstage Season are available now for as little as $45 and range from $45 - $75 and can be purchased online at FloridaStudioTheatre.org, by phone at (9410) 366-9000 or by visiting the Box Office.

Producer Cedric Yau has announced that Gary Littman & Matt Lutz will step into the roles of Passepartout & Detective Fix (respectively) in Around the World in 80 Days, beginning Tuesday, September 3rd. They will replace John Gregorio & Stephen Guarino, whose last performance will be Sunday, September 1st. Guy LeMonnier heads the cast as the phlegmatic Phileas Fogg, with Shirine Babb & Jimmy Ray Bennett rounding out the ensemble cast. Rachel Klein directs.

Richmond Ballet celebrates its 30th season this year, and with this landmark year comes a spectacular lineup of both contemporary and classic ballets.

Three adaptations by Howard Colyer have been staged at the Jack in the last eighteen months - KAFKA V KAFKA, TROJAN WOMEN and MANDRAKE. Now Ballast Theatre are staging three of his original plays in one show. Love, hope, doubt, betrayal and anguish - three original plays all short and sharp: NEVER HAVE I EVER SEEN MOUNT FUJI, a love affair directed by Sarah Marr. CONFERENCE CALL, a ghost story, directed by Scott Le Crass. NOTHING ELSE EVER, a confession, directed by Sarah Marr.

Toronto's acclaimed Theatre Gargantua proudly presents the world premiere of The Sacrifice Zone, marking the Canadian debut of Australian playwright Suzie Miller of The Uncertainty Principle. Representing the culmination of the company's tenth cycle of work, The Sacrifice Zone is directed by Jacquie Thomas, Artistic Director of Theatre Gargantua, and is a dynamic investigation into the harrowing pursuit of justice after a fatal explosion in an industry town dedicated to resource extraction. The Sacrifice Zone opens November 14 and runs to November 30 (previews November 13) at the Factory Studio Theatre.

"A Young Lady of Property" opens September 11, 2013, with a limited run through September 29 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC. For tickets and additional information, visitwww.repstage.org or call 443-518-1500.

Music, Theatre and Dance at Oakland University is pleased to open the third season of its Arts-After- Work (AAW) series with a Sept. 5 staging of Sophocles' 'Antigone' by students in the Classical Theatre Study in Greece program.

In February of 2011, Tara Beagan (Ntlaka'pamux) stepped in to serve her community as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts (NEPA). After three years of artistic and organizational renewal, Tara will depart from her position in February 2014.

Don't let this summer end without seeing 'America's Favorite Original Boy Band'! Olney Theatre Institute presents a limited return engagement of Forever Plaid today, August 24 through September 15 on Olney Theatre Center's Historic Stage.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces three new At Large Board Members: Mark Bly, Gary Heisserer, and Manny Strauss will join the thirty-two member Board of Directors effective immediately.

The music of legendary Asian rock group, Ming Dynasty, is revived in The Sister Rosettas, presented by terraNOVA Collective September 13th, 20th & 27th at 9:30 at IRT Theater. Featuring Diana Oh.

The Freedom Theatre, an independent cultural center located in the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, announced through its American support group Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, that it would tour four states in September with its production of Athol Fugard's award-winning play The Island. The play explores the lives of two prisoners who share a cell during South Africa's apartheid regime. The show will be performed at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in the Nafe Katter Theatre Sept. 6 at 7 p.m., and Sept. 7 at 2 and 7 p.m.

The Arches, Glasgow has announced its autumn theatre season, including the return of one of their most successful productions ever, the smash hit international touring sensation Bullet Catch. The show, which has seen sell-out success in London, Edinburgh, New York and Brazil, will return to The Arches for a 2 week run in October 2013. Each night, an audience member will be asked to fire a gun live on stage, as Rob Drummond attempts the most infamous stunt of them all, so dangerous Houdini himself refused to perform it.

Hot on the heels of its critically-acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sheffield Theatres and HighTide Festival Theatres' production of Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards comes to the Studio Theatre from Wednesday 11 - Saturday 28 September.

LA Drama Critics Circle Award-winning California Repertory Company and the CSULB Theatre Arts Department are proud to announce our 2013 - 2014 Season, at the Royal Theater aboard the Queen Mary and the CSULB Theatre Arts Building, which runs September 20, 2013 - May 10, 2014.

the Playhouse Studio is staging the hit drama by Peter Shaffer, Equus. The international hit will be directed by Playhouse stalwart Robert Craig, and begins performances on Sept. 5. The cast is a mix of new-comers and old timers at the Playhouse.

When one thinks of Stratford Festival, they might think of the classic productions that are often staged to great acclaim; but it is important that audiences are also aware of the bold new productions that are premiering at the festival. THE THRILL by Judith Thompson is one of these plays and it certainly should not be missed.

The Billie Holiday Theatre's Executive Director Marjorie Moon announces the appointment of director, actor, playwright, and novelist Jackie Alexander as the Theatre's Artistic Director.

On Thursday, September 19, 2013, A DAY FOR GRACE will re-open at Stage Left Studio (214 West 30th Street - between 7th & 8th Avenues - on the Sixth Floor) where it will play for four performances through Sunday, September 22.

Florida Studio Theatre announces their participation in The Art of the Costume 'Reinvented', a costume exhibit through the State College of Florida. The exhibit takes places from September 6, 2013 through October 16, 2013 and is free to the public. This exhibition is a showcase for outrageous, extreme and sometimes unconventional theatrical costumes, created from non-traditional and or recycled materials. An opening reception will be held on Friday, September 6, 2013 from 6pm - 8pm at the Fine Art Gallery at SCF Bradenton, 5840 26th Street West.