The Actors Studio News

Acorn Productions, a non-profit art presented located in the Dana Warp Mill, announces plans for the 2010 Maine Playwrights Festival (MPF), the ninth annual spotlight on brand new plays by local writers, which will take place from April 15 to May 1 at the St.

Playing Cricket is an academic comedy with a twist. Cricket, an aging graduate student ('I have almost not yet turned thirty') toils away in the departmental library while avoiding graduation.

To celebrate one of the most successful shows of its fall season, The Club at La MaMa will re-mount The New Stage Theatre Company production of 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls' from January 29 to February 7, 2010.

Steppenwolf ensemble member and acclaimed actress Joan Allen will be the inaugural honoree at Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts: an annual luncheon forum on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Steppenwolf Artistic Director and ensemble member Martha Lavey will conduct an engaging interview with Ms. Allen, in a format similar to Inside the Actors Studio, at this exciting new fundraising event.

The scarlett theatre/film project, Robert E. Schneider and Jack Thomas/Bulldog Theatrical will present STUCK by Jessica Goldberg at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row from February 11 - 21.

Playing Cricket is an academic comedy with a twist. Cricket, an aging graduate student ('I have almost not yet turned thirty') toils away in the departmental library while avoiding graduation.

Playing Cricket is an academic comedy with a twist. Cricket, an aging graduate student ('I have almost not yet turned thirty') toils away in the departmental library while avoiding graduation.

Rehearsals begin today for Goodman Theatre's world-premiere production of The Long Red Road by Brett C. Leonard, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, February 13 - March 14, 2010 in the Goodman's Owen Theatre.

Steppenwolf ensemble member and acclaimed actress Joan Allen will be the inaugural honoree at Steppenwolf Salutes Women in the Arts: an annual luncheon forum on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 12:00pm at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Introduction-Demonstration in the Eric Morris System and Strategic Planning for the Actor Taught by Anthony Vincent Bova, the exclusive New York instructor and the East Coast authority in the Eric Morris system

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) makes its La MaMa debut December 4 to 13 with a cabaret-style re-imagining of its 2008 production, 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls,' an evening of the music and dance associated with Anita Berber, the iconic actor/dancer/poet who epitomized for many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin.

THE NEW DIXON PLACE PROUDLY PRESENTS WINTER THEATER EVENTS The New Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street (b/w Rivington & Delancey)

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment, has announced, with Broadway In Chicago, casting for the Chicago production of Billy Elliot the Musical, beginning preview performances March 18, 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.). Opening night is Sunday, April 11, 2010. The cast includes John Peter (J.P.) Viernes who joins the previously announced actors Tommy Batchelor, Giuseppe Bausilio and Cesar Corrales in the role of ‘Billy'.

To celebrate one of the most successful shows of its fall season, The Club at La MaMa will re-mount The New Stage Theatre Company production of 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls' from January 29 to February 7, 2010.

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House

When the curtain goes up on Shakespeare's Globe company's performance of Love's Labour's Lost on December 8 at Pace University, it will mark the company's first New York appearance since the sold-out tour of Merry Wives of Windsor in 2005.

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) makes its La MaMa debut December 4 to 13 with a cabaret-style re-imagining of its 2008 production, 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls,' an evening of the music and dance associated with Anita Berber, the iconic actor/dancer/poet who epitomized for many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin.

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) makes its La MaMa debut December 4 to 13 with a cabaret-style re-imagining of its 2008 production, 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls,' an evening of the music and dance associated with Anita Berber, the iconic actor/dancer/poet who epitomized for many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin.

Historically, English adaptations of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' have rendered its ancient Greek poetry into proven English poetic forms. The results have been often good and occasionally brilliant. Yet the original Greek meters provide clues as to how a section of a play was performed (sung, spoken or spoken to musical accompaniment). This has prompted Alexander Harrington, a director known for his mastery of oratorical theater, to attempt something radical: approximating Aeschylus' actual, original poetic meters in a new translation. This intrepid idea has resulted in a script of surprisingly clear stage speech and unusual poetic quality. It will debut November 12 to 29, 2009 in La MaMa's large Annex Theater, performed by The Eleventh Hour Theatre Company.

Historically, English adaptations of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' have rendered its ancient Greek poetry into proven English poetic forms. The results have been often good and occasionally brilliant. Yet the original Greek meters provide clues as to how a section of a play was performed (sung, spoken or spoken to musical accompaniment).