Theresa Rebeck News

'Mauritius' by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Lynne Bolton plays Fridays and Saturdays February 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 8:00 PM

San Jose Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director Rick Lombardo today announced the Rep's highly anticipated 2011-2012 Season, with seven productions starting September 2011 through July 2012. This season includes two major Broadway hits, a World Premiere and several Bay Area Premieres. The shows will appeal to an especially wide range of audiences, with drama, alternative rock, comedy and challenging themes.

Samuel French Inc will celebrate the release of the OFF OFF BROADWAY FESTIVAL PLAYS, 35TH SERIES, Thursday, February 10th at The Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street) at 6pm. This new publication consists of the six winning plays from the acclaimed 2010 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. All winning playwrights will be present for the launch celebration, which will include readings from each play with a book signing and reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public, no reservations required. For more info visit www.DramaBookShop.com

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Manhattan Theatre Club's lineup for the Ernst C. Stiefel "7@7" Reading Series. The readings kick off Monday, February 28 and will be held on consecutive Mondays through April 11.

'Mauritius' by Theresa Rebeck and directed by Lynne Bolton plays Fridays and Saturdays February 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 8:00 PM

Megan Hilty has nabbed the coveted lead role in Steven Spielberg's new NBC pilot Smash, an ambitious drama about the mounting of a Broadway musical alongside Debra Messing. The pilot, produced by DreamWorks TV and UMS, follows a cross section of characters who come together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway. TV writer/playwright Theresa Rebeck wrote the script for Smash and is executive producing with Spielberg, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of DreamWorks TV, Hairspray producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron and Grammy and Tony-winning songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman who will pen original songs for the show. Michael Mayer (American Idiot) is directing. This has been a passion project for new NBC chief Bob Greenblatt who first developed it at Showtime.

Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish announce the 2011-2012 Victory Gardens season.

David Kennedy, Westport Country Playhouse associate artistic director, has been named to direct the 2011 season opening production, "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang, announced Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director.

Continuing their mission of developing new works and cultivating the next generation of playwrights, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Artistic Director) will present a reading of David Koteles' The Cook's Tour, directed by Chris Henry. The reading will take place on Tuesday, February 8 at 6PM.The free reading will take place at Urban Stages Theatre (259 West 30 Street) reservations can be made by calling 212 421-1380.

Aorta in association with the Old Red Lion Theatre presents WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST- UK premiere of 7 short plays by award-winning playwright and Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck TUESDAY 8TH FEBRUARY - THURSDAY 3RD MARCH 2011

TVLine is reporting that Will & Grace star Debra Messing has just been cast to co-star in the upcoming NBC pilot SMASH, in which she'll 'play Julia, the musical's good-natured cowriter who is slow to embrace the commercially-iffy subject matter.'

Tony Award winning actress Katie Finneran gave birth child Ty Michael Goldstein on February 3, 2011.

Continuing their mission of developing new works and cultivating the next generation of playwrights, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Artistic Director) will present a reading of David Koteles' The Cook's Tour, directed by Chris Henry. The reading will take place on Tuesday, February 8 at 6PM.The free reading will take place at Urban Stages Theatre (259 West 30 Street) reservations can be made by calling 212 421-1380.

The new play THE LUCK OF THE IRISH by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge Bossa Nova will be read Thursday, February 3 at 7pm as part of the Huntington Theatre Company's Breaking Ground reading series. Obie Award winner Melia Bensussen Circle Mirror Transformation directs. The reading, located at the Huntington Rehearsal Hall, is free and open to the public, though reservations are required as seating is limited.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, is proud to present the West Coast Premiere of Theresa Rebeck' s The Understudy at WICA, 565 Camano Avenue, Langley, WA February 11 -26, 2011.

Magic Theatre presents the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against February 2nd through March 6, 2011.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) is pleased to present a special engagement of A Night at the Fights with professional fight masters Normand Beauregard (Gamm resident fight master) and Jim Beauregard.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is pleased to announce DollHouse, a drama by playwright Theresa Rebeck, based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

Aorta in association with the Old Red Lion Theatre presents WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST- UK premiere of 7 short plays by award-winning playwright and Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck TUESDAY 8TH FEBRUARY - THURSDAY 3RD MARCH 2011

Contrast that with the loving attention to the stamps. Playwright Rebeck tells us all about the stamps, educates us, in fact, as the play goes on. And the pinnacle of the play, as a dramatic experience, is the moment Sterling gets to see them, after an enormous buildup. The payoff is worth it. Sterling gasps, staggers, a tough man momentarily reduced to helpless wonderment. To like effect is the moment shortly afterwards where the suitcase full of money intended to buy the stamps is unzipped; the bundles of cash literally glow, and Jackie hovers above them, almost inhaling the smell of the money. These objects, then, are presented with so much elaboration that the chiaroscuro handling of the characters is all the more puzzling.