Studio Theatre News

Vintage Theatre presents RFK - A Portrait of Robert Kennedy by Jack Holmes, starring James O'Hagan Murphy and directed by Terry Dodd, May 31 - June 23 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre.

Something's just not right at A.B. Stoker Preparatory Academy: the children are unusually mean, there are strange noises everywhere, and the statues in the hallway seem to move when no one's looking. It's up to the first-year students to get to the bottom of things...before it's too late!

California Repertory Company presents its annual Design Expo, an afternoon of presentations of the work of MFA Lighting, Scenic, and Costume Designers, at 4pm on Tuesday, May 7 in the Studio Theatre at CSULB. This season, graduate student designers at Cal Rep have created designs for nine main stage Cal Rep and University Players productions, including three new works developed at CSULB, which will be on display for fellow students, faculty, and members of the Long Beach theater community.

Plan B Theatre has announced its 2013-2014 season, featuring four world premieres by Utah playwright Eric Samuelsen. Full details below!

Casting has been announced for Playhouse on Park's upcoming production of 'Cabaret'.

Origin Theatre Company, artistic director George C. Heslin, presents the US premiere of "Stop the Tempo" by Romanian playwright Gianina Carbinariu, in a theatrically explosive site-specific staging at Arlene's Grocery, 95 Stanton Street, beginning Sunday May 26 at 4pm. Directed by Matt Torney, whose New York credits include shows at HERE, and at 59E59, "Stop the Tempo" plays a limited 4-week engagement through Tuesday June 18. The opening is set for Sunday June 2 at 7pm.

Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne, comes to the Studio Theatre from Thursday 12 September - Saturday 28 September, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour to the Watford Palace Theatre.

Downtown artist Tommy Smith's WHITE HOT had its New York Premiere at The Flea Theater in April. Now, The Vagrancy is honored to bring you the raw, intimate and emotionally-invasive Los Angeles Premiere helmed by Director Caitlin Hart at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013. This dark, psychological thriller is encased in a tight love triangle between a troubled woman, her sexy sister and opportunistic husband. The play opens at Theatre Asylum Lab and plays June 7th-June 28th.

Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne, comes to the Studio Theatre from Thursday 12 September - Saturday 28 September, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour to the Watford Palace Theatre.

Moonbox Productions has announced its 2013-2014 Season - Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, to be performed at the BCA Plaza Theatre from November 22 - December 14, and Stephen Sondheim's Company, to be performed at the Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion from February 7 - March 1, 2014.

Another Pulitzer Prize winning play in Baltimore will help fill the seats at the new Everyman Theatre space.

Partly Cloudy People has announced its production of Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still, directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh. Tigers Be Still will play a three-week limited engagement at the DRILLING COMPANY THEATER (236 West 78 Street, Floor 3). Performances begin Thursday, May 9 and continue through Saturday, May 25. Opening night is May 9 (8 pm).

Mine Entertainment Group announces the World Premiere of the one act play, 'Love Me RICHIE!' written and performed by Maryam Myika Day at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Performances begin June 10th, 19th & 25th at the Open Fist Theatre - 6:30 pm and final performance at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre June 28th - 8:30 pm in Hollywood.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents the epic musical LES MISERABLES. Due to popular demand, the production's run has been extended by two weeks. Performances take place tonight, May 3 through June 1, 2013.

Gather round we've got a story to tell! Skylight Music Theatre presents the final Studio Theatre show of the season, Sing Me a Story, running tonight, May 3 through May 19. Featuring Kay Stiefel and Jack Forbes Wilson, Milwaukee's favorite cabaret couple performs together in the Studio Theatre for the first time at the Broadway Theatre Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI).

W.S. Merwin a two-time Pulitzer winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, known for his prolific work and penetrating themes has been granted the International Herbert Award. This award is an honor to Poets across the globe. Merwin will be a special guest at FST and BookStore1 Poetry Life Weekend, taking place today, May 3rd and the 4th.

Running on the fuel of last year's successful event, The Favorite Poem Project, this spring's arrival brings 2013's Poetry Life Weekend. Taking place today, May 3 and the 4th, the weekend will provide memorable opportunities for students, educators and any others who love poetry to listen to and celebrate poetry from individuals in the Sarasota community and from notable guest poets. BookStore1 and the Gulf Coast Community Foundation have made it possible to host this life-affirming event with Florida Studio Theatre.

The Joyce Theater (Linda Shelton, Executive Director), the United States' foremost dance venue, announced today programming for its 2013-2014 Fall & Winter Season featuring extraordinary companies, both international and local - several making their Joyce debuts - and loaded with highly anticipated premieres, including The Royal Ballet's production of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, choreographed by Arthur Pita especially for Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson.