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BOUND IN A NUTSHELL is a 90-minute adaptation of 'Hamlet' -- every word of which is Shakespeare's own -- set in a modern-day prison, complete with security cameras, prison guards and torture chambers.

Theatre for a New Audience's Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz has set an ambitious four-play season that opens with the New York premiere of C.I.C.T./Théâtre des Bouffes Du Nord's production of The Grand Inquisitor directed by Peter Brook October 22 through November 23 (co-presented with New York Theatre Workshop).

South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2008-09 Season with the World Premiere of its first commissioned musical: An Italian Straw Hat: A Vaudeville.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full company joining 3-Time Tony Award Winner Frank Langella as 'Sir Thomas More' in a new Broadway production of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, directed by Tony Award Winner Doug Hughes.

Hamlet directed by Gregory Doran opens tonight at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Arena Stage presents the world premiere of Daniel Beaty's Resurrection, a drama with a unique blend of music, poetry and dance. A co-production with Connecticut's Hartford Stage, Resurrection explores the interwoven lives of six African-American men struggling to make a living and to make their lives worth living. Beaty dazzled Arena audiences last summer with sold-out performances of his award-winning solo show Emergency (formerly Emergence-SEE!). He now returns to Arena with his first ensemble production-a talented cast of six actors led by director Oz Scott (director of Broadway's original for colored girls... and the Goodman Theatre's recent premiere The Ballad of Emmett Till). The production harmonizes with an innovative score by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), a Haitian-American composer who blends classical violin with piano and bass. To keep the interplay between text and score dynamic, Roumain's original score will be musically styled live each performance by his collaborator Elan Vytal a.k.a. DJ Scientific. Resurrection runs August 29-October 5, 2008 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. The press opening performance is Thursday, September 4 at 8:00pm.

Gorilla Rep will return to free Shakespeare in the park this August, with Hamlet, to be performed on the lawn at The Cloisters.

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told is by Paul Rudnick who gave us Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet and The New Century. The play originated with Rudnick pondering the anti-gay slogan, 'God Made Adam and Eve… not Adam and Steve.' So he wrote a play supposing that God made Adam and Steve and their lesbian counterparts, Jane and Mabel. Join the foursome as they go through the Garden of Eden, The Flood, and journey with them to present day where they meet Santa Claus and Rabbi Sharon.

Chicago's 500 Clown Theater Company has received $28,000 from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant program. The award will support the partnership between 500 Clown and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland, which commissioned 500 Clown's newest production, '500 Clown and the Elephant Deal,' to premiere December 11-14, 2008.

ACT-A Contemporary Theatre announces a stellar line-up of local talent performing in the remaining three shows of its 2008 season.

The upcoming musical A Tale of Two Cities held a 'meet & greet' of the cast and crew on July 16th, 2008.

BroadwayWorld is pleased to bring you this exclusive BWW TV interview feature with Steve Coogan, Phoebe Strole and Skylar Astin, the stars of the upcoming summer comedy, 'Hamlet 2'. 'The hit, the very palpable hit' of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Hamlet 2 is an irreverent comedy centering on one teacher's overzealous quest to mount a high school musical. The film is directed by Andrew Fleming (Dick, Threesome) from an original screenplay he wrote with Pam Brady (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Team America: World Police).

Rupert Goold will direct Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, opening at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 September 2008, with press night on 7 October 2008.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season of critically acclaimed stage-work with Avant GardARAMA! Like Cutting Ball's 2004 edition of Avant GardARAMA!

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) 2008 Summer Gala honored Public Theater Board Member David Rockwell for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the institution for the past 20 years.

BroadwayWorld is pleased to bring you this exclusive clip from the hilarious comedy, 'Hamlet 2' starring such stage and screen notables as Phoebe Strole, Skylar Astin, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler and Steve Coogan. Click to watch the clip and then see the movie in theaters on August 27th!

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced today that the 2008 Summer Gala will honor Public Theater Board Member David Rockwell for his outstanding leadership and commitment to the institution for the past 20 years. Chaired by Stephen M. Ross and Daniel H. Stern, the Gala will take place on Tuesday, June 17th at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on the opening night of HAMLET, the first production of the Shakespeare in the Park summer season.

The Public Theater will begin performances of 'Hamlet', the first production of the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park summer season, on Tuesday, May 27.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 2008 Season with 'Amadeus' by Peter Shaffer. 'Amadeus' begins performances on May 28th and continues through June 22nd and features Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli in the role of Salieri.

The Public Theater concludes its 2007-2008 downtown season with the U.S. premiere of 'Kicking a Dead Horse', a new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard and featuring Tony Award nominee Stephen Rea.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival announces the first 12 new musicals selected for this year's fifth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, which will run from September 15 through October 5, 2008.

Two pairs of disaffected brothers are at the heart of As You Like It, inspiring director Ellen Geer to reset William Shakespeare's witty adventure in the divided South of the post-Civil War era. Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile, opening The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's 2008 Summer Season on Sunday, June 1. Performances continue every Sunday afternoon at 3 pm through September 28 in the Theatricum's 299-seat outdoor amphitheater carved into the Topanga Canyon hillside.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, will continue its 2007-2008 season on Wednesday, May 7, at 6:00 pm with a pre-performance talk with the award-winning playwright, Paul Rudnick, whose play The New Century, recently opened to critical acclaim at the Mitzi E. Newhouse.

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will open its 2008-09 season with Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin starring in William Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST, to be directed by Kulick. Performances begin Wednesday, September 3. The official press opening is Thursday, September 18.

Spotlighters announces its 2008 - 2009 season of musicals, comedies and dramas - classic and modern!