Tracy Letts News

Arden Theatre Company proudly announces the seven productions, featuring three world premieres, that comprise its 2010/11 season

More than 600 guests attended Steppenwolf's Theatre Company's GALA 2010 on Saturday, May 8, 2010 - raising over $1 million for Steppenwolf's artistic and community programming.

Riding high from their last two wildly successful productions of Happy In The Poorhouse and The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Amoralists presents the Off-Broadway Premiere of Amerissiah, written and directed by Derek Ahonen. Amerissiah runs from June 3 to 28, 2010 in a limited engagement at Theatre 80 St. Marks, located at 80 St. Marks Place between 1st and 2nd Avenues in NYC. Previews begin June 3 for a June 5 opening.

Estelle Parsons recreates her acclaimed Broadway role as dysfunctional family matriarch to lead a sparkling touring cast in Tracy Letts' scathingly funny award winning drama

In a lighthearted piece by NY Magazine, Sarah Paulson provides insight into her NY lifestyle.

Steppenwolf celebrates its 34th season with GALA 2010: Choose to Believe on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at Steppenwolf Theatre Company (1650 N. Halsted St.) and this year's spacious new reception venue: Structured Development's TruServe Building, 1460 N. Halsted St.

John Douglas Thompson will be starring in the Hartford Stage production of Antony and Cleopatra, which will run October 7 through November 7. Thompson will be joining Kate Mulgrew who has been previously confirmed for the female lead. Thompson received a Drama Desk nomination for his performance in The Emperor Jones and an Obie Award for Othello. His stage credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac and Julius Caesar on Broadway.

New Century Theatre Company (NCTC), under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Hans Altwies and Paul Morgan Stetler, with Executive Director Michael Patten, launches its second season with company playwright Stephanie Timm's world premiere play On the Nature of Dust, directed by Kathleen Collins.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is coming to Boston's Colonial Theatre May 4 - 16 for two weeks only.

The national tour of August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston Family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, will come to an at Boston's Colonial Theatre from May 5th through May 16th.

Estelle Parsons, star of the national tour of the Tony Award winning AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, recently sat down with the Boston Globe to discuss her career and her work as Violet in the tour.

Fells Point Corner Theatre will end its run of Stage 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo' by Christopher Durang, directed by Barry Feinstein, on May 2, 2010.

The Midwest premiere of Bill W. and Dr. Bob is an inspirational, gripping and timely story about the men and their wives whose relationships pioneered the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous and the creation of Al-Anon. The production will close May 2nd.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma will end its Philadelphia premiere at the Forrest Theatre on May 2, part of the Broadway Series, a cooperative effort between the Kimmel Center and the Shubert Organization.

Kate Mulgrew, who starred as Katherine Hepburn in Tea at Five, one of Hartford Stage's most successful productions of all time, will return to the Tony Award-winning theatre (Michael Wilson, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Managing Director) in William Shakespeare's classic play, Antony and Cleopatra. Tina Landau will direct the production, which will run at Hartford Stage October 7 - November 7. Antony and Cleopatra will be the first production in Hartford Stage's renovated and expanded Church Street facility. Construction on the renovation project will take place this summer.

Next Theatre Company and Artistic Director Jason Southerland are thrilled to announce the 30th anniversary season, a year dedicated to plays that explore the myths that men and women create about their lives. The season opens in the fall with a world premiere presented at the National New Play Network's annual showcase. It continues with the regional premiere of a play Southerland first read when he met with Israeli playwright Motti Lerner (Pangs of the Messiah) in Tel Aviv earlier this year. The season comes to its climactic end with a pair of plays by Phyllis Nagy (pronounced 'Naij') who has captured wide acclaim in the United Kingdom but has been rarely produced in the U.S.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma will make its Philadelphia premiere at the Forrest Theatre on April 27 through May 2, part of the Broadway Series, a cooperative effort between the Kimmel Center and the Shubert Organization.

New York's OBIE Award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble (Zak Berkman, Melissa Friedman, Ron Russell, Founding Executive Directors) today announced the cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play (In The Next Room… or the vibrator play) and directed by Mark Wing-Davey (The Singing Forest). The cast will include Brendan Averett, Polly Noonan, Daniel Pearce, Alex Podulke, Keith Reddin, Godfrey L. Simmons Jr., T. Ryder Smith, Felix Solis Jr., Kate Turnbull and Nicole Wiesner.

The Amoralists will close the run of their current Off-Broadway production of Happy In The Poorhouse on April 26th. The World Premiere of Happy In The Poorhouse began performances on March 11 with an original closing date set for April 5.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is coming to CLEVELAND from APRIL 13 - 25 for 16 performances only.