Arena Stage Features Albee, RUINED et al. in 2010 - 2011
by Jessica Lewis - Feb 17, 2010
Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith announces the D.C.-based pioneering theater company's 60th season filled with award-winning artists and projects to celebrate the grand opening of Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. The 2010/11 inaugural season includes eight full productions, seven presentations from the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program and public readings from all 30 of Edward Albee's works, totaling at least 45 projects produced and presented by Arena Stage in the inaugural year at the Mead Center. With the opening next fall, Arena Stage will fully become a national center for production, presentation, development and study of American theater.
INTIMATE APPAREL Opens 2/8 at The Canadian Stage Company
by BWW News Desk - Feb 8, 2010
Heralding Black History Month, The Canadian Stage Company presents the revival of Obsidian Theatre's acclaimed production of Intimate Apparel by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.
Florida Studio Theatre Presents RUINED 2/3-4/3
by BWW News Desk - Feb 3, 2010
Florida Studio Theatre continues its Winter Mainstage Season with Lynn Nottage's 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama Ruined. This 'Riveting' (Variety Magazine) new drama opens at the Keating Theatre February 3rd and will continue through April 3, 2010.
Florida Studio Theatre Presents RUINED 2/3-4/3
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 2, 2010
Florida Studio Theatre continues its Winter Mainstage Season with Lynn Nottage's 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama Ruined. This 'Riveting' (Variety Magazine) new drama opens at the Keating Theatre February 3rd and will continue through April 3, 2010.
Huntington Theatre Co. Announces 2010-2011 Productions
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 1, 2010
The Huntington Theatre Company will open its 29th season with the great American stage comedy, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's You Can't Take It With You, pending the conclusion of negotiations for a transfer to Broadway.
FST Extends THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
by BWW News Desk - Jan 29, 2010
The competition continues another week in Sarasota due to popular demand! After a successful ten week run, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Music and lyrics by William Finn; Book by Rachel Sheinkin; Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional material by Jay Reiss) will extend for an eleventh week at Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Theatre, January 26 to January 29, 2010.
MTC Opens Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL, 1/28
by BWW News Desk - Jan 28, 2010
Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will join the cast of the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
La Jolla Playhouse Announces 2010/11 Season
by BWW News Desk - Jan 24, 2010
La Jolla Playhouse announced today five of six productions in its 2010/11 subscription season, including the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, running June/July in the Mandell Weiss Forum; William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and featuring an on-stage orchestra playing the music of Mendelssohn, running July/Aug in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre; the world-premiere musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, starring Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays, running Sept/Oct in the Mandell Weiss Theatre; a new adaptation of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, adapted by Robert Woodruff and Bill Camp, directed by Robert Woodruff, running late Sept/Oct in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre; and Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, running Nov/Dec in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The final production of the 2010/11 season - a musical - will be announced shortly.
Playwrights Horizons Announces Casting for A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK
by BWW News Desk - Jan 21, 2010
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) continues its 2009/2010 Season with the World Premiere of A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK, a new play by Kia Corthron (Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons/PH, Force Continuum), directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Durango at The Public).
Bernstine, Gayle Join Cast Of MCC Theater's FAMILY WEEK
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 13, 2010
MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced complete casting for the company's third and final production of their 2009-2010 season, Beth Henley's Family Week, directed by Jonathan Demme.
Segal, Orsekes, Cummings et al. Complete Cast for Broadway's THE MIRACLE WORKER
by Aimee Savoth - Jan 13, 2010
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.
FST Extends THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 13, 2010
The competition continues another week in Sarasota due to popular demand! After a successful ten week run, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Music and lyrics by William Finn; Book by Rachel Sheinkin; Conceived by Rebecca Feldman; Additional material by Jay Reiss) will extend for an eleventh week at Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Theatre, January 26 to January 29, 2010.
Entertainment Weekly's TOP 10 SHOWS of the Year by Thom Geier
by BWW News Desk - Dec 20, 2009
With 'Best of' lists customary as the year winds down, Entertainment Weekly gets in on the act by dedicating its current print issue to the Best and Worst of 2009. The magazine edition includes lists of Top 10 movies, TV, songs, books and much more.