Aeschylus News

Gorilla Theatre Productions Presesnts THE PERSIANS 7/10-11

Gastro-politico-rock 'n' roll sass! Writer/actress Donna Jo Thorndale brings an all new, expanded version of ALL CAKE, NO FILE: The Johnny Cash Prison Tribute Comedy Cooking Show/Concert, starring celebrity chef Jewell Rae Jeffers, to The Actors' Gang every Friday and Saturday, June 11 through July 31, at 9 pm.

Rep Stage concludes its 2009-2010 season with a searing production of Edward Albee's THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?

Auditions for Gorilla Theatre's 19th Annual Greek show. This year's production will be Aeschylus' great classic tragedy, The Persians, to be presented outdoors in the South steps of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art July 10th and 11th. The play is based on the Persian war a war of liberty versus despotism.

Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is sponsored by American Express. Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is also made possible by Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc.

The University of Miami's Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2010-2011 Season which kicks off on September 29, 2010 with Urinetown, a Tony award winning musical comedy. Other season highlights include Big Love and Carousel for a total of five plays that highlight the talent of UM's performing students.

Bristol Riverside Theatre announces the 2010-2011 AMERICA RISING series of readings of four new plays. Programs begin at 5PM with a light supper followed by the readings at 6PM. All readings take place at Bristol Riverside Theatre located at 120 Radcliffe Street in Bristol, PA.

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Theresa Rebeck & Friends Introduce the Playwrights in an Hour Series Panel Discussion & Cocktail Reception (FREE)

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Theresa Rebeck & Friends Introduce the Playwrights in an Hour Series Panel Discussion & Cocktail Reception (FREE)

Gastro-politico-rock 'n' roll sass! Writer/actress Donna Jo Thorndale brings an all new, expanded version of ALL CAKE, NO FILE: The Johnny Cash Prison Tribute Comedy Cooking Show/Concert, starring celebrity chef Jewell Rae Jeffers, to The Actors' Gang every Friday and Saturday, June 11 through July 31, at 9 pm.

PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new play development organization, will hold its sixth annual New Play Development Conference on July 19-July 25, 2010 at the Adrienne Theater (2030 Sansom Street) in Philadelphia. The Conference will feature a week of intensive work on six works-in-progress by James J. Christy (LOVE AND COMMUNICATION); Kara Lee Corthron (ETCHED IN SKIN ON A SUNLIT NIGHT); Dan Dietz (CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER NINE); Samuel D. Hunter (THE WHALE); Charlotte Miller (RAISING JO); and Nicholas Wardigo (HUM).

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce its 2010/11 Season.

The new musical PROMETHEUS BOUND based on the play by Aeschylus will have its world premiere at The American Repertory Theatre in March 2011. Directing the production will be A.R.T's artistic director Diane Paulus.

Today, in honor of the DVD release of Rob Marshall's film version of the 1982 Tony-winning Best Musical NINE, Maury Yeston was gracious and generous enough to grant me a few hours in which I could ask him intimate questions about his life, career and the future of theatre itself. Not one to mince words, Yeston is a veritable font of knowledge and it became clear during the interview that he may be as gifted and talented in his educational and mentorship skills as he is as a two-time Tony-winning composer and lyricist. His stage musicals include two Tony-winning Best Musicals, NINE and TITANIC, as well as: IN THE BEGINNING, GRAND HOTEL, PHANTOM, and the forthcoming DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY, as well as a full-length ballet of TOM SAWYER premiering later this year. From the handwritten letter sent by Katharine Hepburn to Frederico Fellini after seeing the workshop of NINE thirty years ago to this very day when NINE hits DVD, we will take a look at this magnanimous maestro's starry career in this inaugural InDepth InterView. Enjoy!

If your world were different, would you be different, too? ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE US shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become.

A highlight of Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 Main Stage Season, Oresteia, features the Company's permanent ensemble of actors, The Residents, in an adaptation based principally on the first two plays (Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers) of Aeschylus' 5th Century BC trilogy, condensed into one incisive drama. Directed by Associate Director Tom Wright, the production is at The Wharf from 1 June, opening 5 June 2010.

If your world were different, would you be different, too? ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE US shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become.

Theatre of the Expendable (Mare Cognitum, Cherry Docs) announces their fifth season, which will include Alan M. Berks' Almost Exactly Like Us and Conor McPherson's St. Nicholas. Both productions will be directed by TotE's Artistic Director, Jesse Edward Rosbrow, and will play at The WorkShop Theater.

Peter Meineck, Artistic Director of the Aquila Theatre Company at NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, today announced that it has received an unprecedented grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Chairman's Special Award (the only one for a theater company), of $800,000.00, one of the two largest grants made, to launch its newest program, ANCIENT GREEKS / MODERN LIVES, whose mission is to bring the classics to 100 veteran, inner city and rural communities. This marks the first-ever theatre and community-based Chairman's Special Award. No other theater company has ever received a grant of this size from the NEH.

If your world were different, would you be different, too? ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE US shows us four people in different realities, from a totalitarian regime to an evangelical college and a post-apocalyptic war zone, and examines how the world around us shapes who we are and who we will become.