Studio Theatre News

No Strings Theatre's production of "Anne of Green Gables: The Musical" is an enjoyable night out at the theatre for families.

Studio Theatre presents Mitchell Jarvis in Richard O'Brien's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - book, music, and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, directed by Keith Alan Baker and Alan Paul, now playing through August 17, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look below!

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's eighth annual First Look Repertory of New Work features three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotating repertory now through August 25, 2013 in the Garage Theatre (1624 N Halsted St). Check out photos from the productions below!

Second Thought Theatre presents the final production in its ninth season, In a Forest, Dark and Deep by Neil LaBute. Director Regan Adair returns to STT for the first time since 2011's critical hit, Red Light Winter. In a Forest, Dark and Deep will run in previews today, August 9 - 10, 2013. Opening and Press Night is Thursday, August 15 at 7:30pm. The show closes August 31.

The Delaware Theatre Company announces the celebrity casting of their first production of the 2013-2014 Season, ANY GIVEN MONDAY by Bruce Graham. Following a momentous 2013/2014 Season in which 47% of the audience was brand new to the Theatre, DTC anticipates strong turnouts at each performance for the chance to see these four cast members.

Miami's City Theatre, now in its 18th year of their renowned Summer Shorts Festival, will spread its wings in a new collaboration with Island City Stage to bring an evening of hilarious and provocative short plays. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Emergent Arts will present the second installment of The UFO Show (Unidentified Funny Objects), an evening of standup storytelling and original songs, tonight, August 8 at 8pm at The Mix Studio Theatre, 8 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Emergent Arts will present the second installment of The UFO Show (Unidentified Funny Objects), an evening of standup storytelling and original songs, tonight, August 8 at 8pm at The Mix Studio Theatre, 8 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Miami's City Theatre, now in its 18th year of their renowned Summer Shorts Festival, will spread its wings in a new collaboration with Island City Stage to bring an evening of hilarious and provocative short plays.

ALBERT PODELL and THE YORK SHAKESPEARE COMPANY are pleased to announce the world premiere production of Alexander Harrington's The Great Society, directed by Seth Duerr. The Great Society will play a four-week limited engagement at the Clurman Theatre (Theatre Row: 410 West 42nd Street, NYC). Performances began Saturday, August 3 and continue through Saturday, August 24. Opening Night is tonight, August 8 (8 p.m.).

No Strings Theatre will be launching its 9th season with Canada's longest running musical, Anne of Green Gables The Musical August 8th-11th, at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts. The performance will feature students ages 12 to 21 from across the GTA.

Organic Theater Pittsburgh presents Lucy Thurber's SCARCITY. Originally produced at The Atlantic Theater Company in 2007, SCARCITY is '...a disturbing yet compelling picture of contemporary American life in the lower depths...' - Curtain Up. In the vein of television shows like Roseanne and Showtime's Shameless, SCARCITY 'has strong, messy, vibrant characters...[whose] motivations remain pleasurably inscrutable.' - The New York Sun. With 'an honesty that is pungently compelling' [American Theatre Web], SCARCITY asks its audience, 'How far are you willing to go to survive?'

Opening the season is Lillian Hellman's brilliant 1934 play, The Children's Hour. Bullying, sexual confusion and suicide provide the basis to this dark piece. A show written 79 years ago, yet so poignant to our current state.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the latest offering from the BroadHollow Theatre Company, proves a very relatable story. The Pulitzer Prize winning play, by Tennessee Williams, has several themes that the cast wonderfully carried out on the intimate stage of Studio theatre in Lindenhurst. Among said themes are social etiquette, greed, superficiality, mendacity, sexual desire, and death. I think it is safe to say that everyone who sees this show could empathize with at least one of the characters and/or story lines.

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 its 38th Rolling World Premiere: Lauren Gunderson's I and You will receive three productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2013/14 season. I and Youwill begin its Rolling World Premiere at Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA, October 10 - November 3, 2013), followed by performances at Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD, February 26 - March 23, 2014) and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN, March 13 - April 14, 2014).

Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Richard Dresser's The Handyman, directed by Joe Cacaci, today, August 7 at 7:30pm at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.).

The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC), one of the most acclaimed new play developmental programs in the country, announces its 16th season with an extraordinary program of playwrights, new play workshops and special performance events from today, August 7 through 11, in Ojai, California.

Celebrating 45 Years as New York City's longest continually running black theatre, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre Inc. [NBT] is proud to announce our appointment of Jonathan McCrory as the Director of Theatre Arts Program. McCrory follows in the footsteps of the late Theatre Arts Director, Tunde Samuels, who held the position for 25 years. McCrory with take the helm of the Theatre Arts Program as the Director in November when the launch National Black Theatre's 45h Season with the New York Premiere of "Last Saint On Sugar Hill" by Keith Josef Adkins directed by Seret Scott.

Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) presents the 1st show of its 21st season THE BELLE OF AMHERST a play based on the life of Emily Dickinson. Directed by Suzan Fete, featuring Jenny Wanasek. Running October 18 - November 10, 2013 at the Studio Theatre, 158 N. Broadway. Tickets can be purchased for $36 (fee & taxes not included) in person at the Broadway Theatre Center Box Office, by telephone at (414) 291-7800, or online at www.r-t-w.com.

McCarter Theatre Center has announced the appointment of Adam Immerwahr as Associate Artistic Director. Immerwahr, a longtime McCarter staff member with a thriving directorial career, will support McCarter's Artistic Director, Emily Mann, in the planning and execution of the theater's artistic programming. His duties will also include directing for McCarter Theater's main stage, cultivating new works and identifying emerging artists, having primary responsibility for the day-to-day artistic oversight of McCarter's dramatic productions, and coordinating the selection and hiring of freelance artistic personnel.