Tom Stoppard News

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, directed by Mr. Berger, for a limited engagement beginning February 23rd and continuing through March 14th, at Theater at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues).

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, presents Ira Levin's wickedly funny who'll-do-it Deathtrap, at 565 Camano Avenue, Langley, WA, on Friday, February 12, 2010 (with performances continuing through February 27).

Producers David Richenthal, Eric Falkenstein and Randall Wreghitt have announced that Tobias Segal, Daniel Orsekes, Michael Cummings, Simone Joy Jones, Yvette Ganier and Lance Chantiles-Wertz complete the cast of the first revival of William Gibson's THE MIRACLE WORKER as the Tony Award® winning play celebrates its 50th Anniversary of opening on Broadway.

The Bridge Project's production of AS YOU LIKE IT directed by Sam Mendes will now officially open on Tuesday, January 26.

Season Two of The Bridge Project begins tomorrow, January 12, with a new production of AS YOU LIKE IT at the BAM Harvey Theatre, directed by Sam Mendes. Company members - and husband & wife - Christian Camargo & Juliet Rylance play opposite each other as Orlando & Rosalind.

Whether you're a die-hard Shakespeare lover or you've never understood a word he's written, you'll have a rollicking good time at I Hate Hamlet, the hilarious, action-packed comedy by Paul Rudnick at Northern Stage.

Following a critically acclaimed inaugural year, theatre and Academy Award-winning film director Sam Mendes will again direct a transatlantic company of actors for the second season of The Bridge Project, a unique three-year series of co-productions by The Old Vic, BAM and Neal Street devoted to producing large-scale, classical theatre for international audiences.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 28th season - a season of American stories - with the Tony Award-winning classic All My Sons, Arthur Miller's powerful story of family relationships, personal responsibility, and the quest for the American Dream.

This weekend, beginning Saturday, January 9, L.A. Theatre Works will air Part One of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (Part Two will air next Saturday, January 16.) The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook returns on January 13th for its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song. For 16 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, country, rock, and show tunes, the series will explore the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting.

Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look. With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.

The Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation and The Flea Theater, with the assistance of Culture Ireland, are thrilled to announce the US premiere of the critically-acclaimed production of LITTLE GEM, written by Elaine Murphy, directed by Paul Meade and produced by the multi award winning Irish company, Gúna Nua, in association with Civic Theatre.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is proud to announce the successful completion of The Next Generation Campaign, the theater's historic effort to create an endowment while sustaining artistic excellence and high quality actor training in these challenging economic times.

A new production of Bizet's Carmen, directed by Richard Eyre and starring El?na Garan?a in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José, premieres at a New Year's Eve gala performance. Garan?a makes her Met role debut as the gypsy femme fatale, reuniting with Alagna following their recent success in these parts at London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

In a special feature with the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph, powerhouse producer Sonia Friedman, the force behind the West End's Legally Blonde, talks the record-breaking production, feminism and her upcoming ventures. Included on this impressive list is a January West End transfer of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, one of the season's most successful productions that played the Royal Court, and developing a musical adaptation of the blockbuster Shakespeare in Love. And this after just opening A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury on Broadway and preparing to open the Liev Schreiber/Scarlett Jonhansson-led A View from the Bridge on Broadway in January. In fact, Friedman has no fewer than 56 projects on her 'to-do list.'

A new production of Bizet's Carmen, directed by Richard Eyre and starring El?na Garan?a in the title role and Roberto Alagna as Don José, premieres at a New Year's Eve gala performance. Garan?a makes her Met role debut as the gypsy femme fatale, reuniting with Alagna following their recent success in these parts at London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

David Troughton joins Kevin Spacey to lead the cast in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's explosive courtroom classic Inherit the Wind directed by Trevor Nunn. Inherit the Wind plays at The Old Vic, London 18 September - 20 December 2009, with a Press Night set for Thursday, 1 October 2009.

Friends since college, Carl and Alex are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they're desperately trying to make sense of it all.

Park Square Theatre starts the new decade with a production of Tom Stoppard's ROCK ‘N' ROLL, his deeply personal story spanning two countries and three generations. Centering on rock music's role in the fall of communism, the play touches on a multitude of emotional themes where the music of revolution, protest and liberation 'becomes a symbol of both personal and political freedom and its attendant but exhilarating dangers.' ROCK 'N' ROLL opens Friday, January 22 (previews begin January 15) and runs through February 7.

Park Square Theatre starts the new decade with a production of Tom Stoppard's ROCK ‘N' ROLL, his deeply personal story spanning two countries and three generations.