Tracy Letts News

Artistic Directors Joe Jahraus and Darrell W. Cox announce Profiles Theatre's 2010-2011 Season. Profiles, one of Chicago's longest-running storefront theatres, is presenting its 22nd season of new and challenging works, beginning with the Midwest Premiere of the acclaimed new play Jailbait by Deirdre O'Connor.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that Jane Austen's Emma - A Musical Romantic Comedy with music, lyrics and book by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon will fill the final slot of the 2010-11 Winter Season.

Tony Award-winning producer Andy Sandberg (Hair, The Last Smoker in America) will present a staged reading of the provocative new play, A Perfect Future, by David Hay (The Maddening Truth) with direction by Tony Award-nominee Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore). Prior developmental readings of the play were presented by Naked Angels Theater Company (Next Fall).

Profiles Theatre announces the final extension of its hit production Killer Joe by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts at Chicago's Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St. After 13 weeks at Profiles Theatre and 8 more weeks at The Royal George Theatre's Cabaret space, the acclaimed production will extend for an additional 6 weeks through July 18, 2010.

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Odeum Theatre Open Auditions for 'Bug,' by Tracy Letts

Tony Award-winning producer Andy Sandberg (Hair, The Last Smoker in America) will present a staged reading of the provocative new play, A Perfect Future, by David Hay (The Maddening Truth) with direction by Tony Award-nominee Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore). Prior developmental readings of the play were presented by Naked Angels Theater Company (Next Fall).

Paula Brancati, Lauren Collins, Wendy Crewson, Cynthia Dale, Andrea Martin, and Louise Pitre are officially set to be the first cast of the Toronto production of LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE. As in the initial New York staging of the play by Nora and Delia Ephron, the production will feature a company of six that rotates in four-week cycles. The next cast will be announced in the next upcoming weeks.

The cast of the historic Human Race Theatre Company/Wright State University Theatre Department collaborative production of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, August: Osage County, is now set. The 13-member ensemble of seven professionals and six WSU students includes two performers who were understudies during the play's five-Tony-winning run on Broadway.

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

August: Osage County, A Tuna Christmas, and more have been announced for the Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre's ninth season.

To kick-off its run of A PARALLELOGRAM, Steppenwolf is holding a contest. Answer the following question in 200 words or less: 'If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be, and why?' The prize is two tickets to Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, starring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, plus a $100 gift certificate to local restaurant Vinci. The winner will also be displayed in the lobby of our theatre and online. The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, July 10th, 2010 at midnight.

To kick-off its run of A PARALLELOGRAM, Steppenwolf is holding a contest. Answer the following question in 200 words or less: 'If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be, and why?' The prize is two tickets to Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, starring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, plus a $100 gift certificate to local restaurant Vinci. The winner will also be displayed in the lobby of our theatre and online. The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, July 10th, 2010 at midnight.

The Fugitive Kind (Michael Page, Artistic Director, Laura Caufield & Susan Molloy, Producers), in association with the Barrow Street Theatre, Burton T. Frey Jr., and Heather Levine, will present a new solo show, Gay Blues, by Matthew Cleaver for three performances only: July 2nd & 3rd at 10:00 p.m. and July 5th at 7:30 p.m. at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street)

The 95th season at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré on Jackson Square in the French Quarter promises an exciting lineup of new and classic Broadway musicals and Tony Award-winning shows on the Main Stage, progressive Off-Broadway hits on the Muriel's Cabaret Stage, educational programming for young actors, new opportunities for young and emerging actors and playwrights, an innovative New Works Festival and the return of the much-loved Children's Corner series.

Following on the heels of their critically acclaimed and wildly popular production of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Amoralists will proudly present three shows as part of their highly anticipated 2010 Off-Broadway theater season.

Academy Award-nominee Michael McKean is currently starring in the role of ‘The Stage Manager' in David Cromer's acclaimed production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, at the Barrow Street Theatre.

CityRep Holds Auditions For AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY 6/19-20

American Theater Company (ATC) celebrated its 25th Anniversary with The Silver Project, a year-long festival of 30 world premiere short plays penned by some of the country's leading playwrights. The Silver Project ends June 20, 2010 at American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St, Chicago.

CityRep Holds Auditions For AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY 6/19-20