Calvin Trillin

DOUBT: A PARABLE Closes Kansas City Actors Theatre Anniversary Season
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 14, 2025

Kansas City Actors Theatre (KCAT) wraps up their 20th Anniversary Season with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt: A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley.

Del Hughes Awards Honorees for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management, The Founders Award & Special Recognition Award Revealed
by Stephi Wild - Jun 20, 2024

The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) has announced its annual Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management.

André DeShields to be Honored at The Moth's Annual Gala
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 17, 2024

The Moth has unveiled the details for their annual fundraising gala, Making Waves: The 2024 Moth Ball. Learn about the event and see how to purchase tickets!

Review: ABOUT ALICE at KC Actors Theatre
by Kelly Luck - Aug 21, 2022

KC native humorist's play a touching and often funny memorial to an extraordinary woman

Kansas City Actors Theatre Presents ABOUT ALICE From KC Native Calvin Trillin August 17 - 28 at City Stage
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 21, 2022

Kansas City favorites David Fritts and Jen Mays star in the stage adaptation of “About  Alice” from the celebrated writer and humorist Calvin Trillin. This beautiful portrait of Trillin’s  late wife starts August 17th at the City Stage in Union Station running for two weeks only.

A VICIOUS CIRCLE Will Have an Industry Reading Next Week
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2022

A new play about the decades-long, tempestuous friendship between Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley will receive an industry reading on Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

Kansas City Actors Theatre Announces Lineup For 18th Season
by Gigi Gervais - Nov 27, 2021

Warm, poignant, witty, whip-smart, and heartfelt – all words that describe the works included in Kansas City Actors Theatre lineup of plays selected for 2022-2023. This is KCAT’s 18th Season of productions, showcasing the leading professional theater talent in Kansas City.

Kansas City Actors Theatre Announces 2022/2023 Season 18
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 26, 2021

Warm, poignant, witty, whip-smart, and heartfelt – all words that describe the works included in Kansas City Actors Theatre lineup of plays selected for 2022-2023. This is KCAT’s 18th Season of productions, showcasing the leading professional theater talent in Kansas City.

Wynn Handman, Producer and Acting Teacher, Has Passed Away at 97
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 14, 2020

Wynn Handman, the famed New York acting teacher and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, died at home April 11, 2020 of Covid-19 related pneumonia. He was 97.

FIDDLER Doc Coming This Summer with Sheldon Harnick, Hal Prince, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Cast Members
by Tori Hartshorn - Mar 20, 2019

Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have co-acquired worldwide rights to Max Lewkowicz's FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES. The documentary tells the story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof and its creative roots in early 1960s New York. The film includes interviews with the show's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, legendary producer Hal Prince, original cast members, such as Austin Pendleton, as well as rare archival footage of renowned choreographer Jerome Robbins. Further insights into the play's legacy and enduring influence come from new interviews with Broadway luminaries and cultural influencers including Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chaim Topol, Harvey Fierstein as well as famed authors Fran Lebowitz, Calvin Trillin and Nathan Englander. Roadside and Goldwyn will release FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES in theatres this summer.

FAIRVIEW Returns To New York City
by Julie Musbach - Feb 4, 2019

Jeffrey Horowitz announces that TFANA will extend its current four-play season to five plays and present Soho Rep.'s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview, staged by Sarah Benson. Fairview will play June 2-30, 2019, on the Samuel H. Scripps Mainstage at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, TFANA's state-of-the-art home in the Brooklyn Cultural District. The return engagement marks the first opportunity for New York audiences to experience this bold, innovative work since its sold-out, thrice-extended world premiere at Soho Rep. Fairview is currently only on sale as part of TFANA's two-play subscription package of Fairview and Julius Caesar.

TFANA's ABOUT ALICE Begins Jan 8
by BWW News Desk - Jan 8, 2019

Theatre for a New Audience presents About Alice, the world premiere of a new play by Calvin Trillin, inspired by his 2007 memoir of the same name. The production, directed by Leonard Foglia, plays January 8-February 3, 2019 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn). 

TFANA's ABOUT ALICE Begins Jan 8
by Julie Musbach - Dec 18, 2018

Theatre for a New Audience presents About Alice, the world premiere of a new play by Calvin Trillin, inspired by his 2007 memoir of the same name. The production, directed by Leonard Foglia, plays January 8-February 3, 2019 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn).