Alan Smyth News

Experience the gripping one-man psychological thriller, SHARD, by Irish playwright Stewart Roche during Los Angeles' Ireland Week. Starring Neill Fleming, this full-scale theatrical premiere explores the high price of escape from modern life's hypocrisies.

InHouse Theatre Company, in association with CIACLA, presents A Night In November by Marie Jones, a live immersive storytelling experience, staged in various Irish pubs throughout Los Angeles.

BESPOKE PLAYS - a bicoastal industry reading series - announces that Brittany Curran (The Magicians) will be joined by Dileep Rao (Inception, Avatar), Daniel Mills, Caroline Morahan, Marie Semla, And Stephanie Sheh in the first public presentations of 45 BENNINGTON by Ryan McCurdy (Whiterock Cliff, The Currents).

BESPOKE PLAYS announced today that BRITTANY CURRAN (The Magicians) will be joined by DILEEP RAO (Inception, Avatar), DANIEL MILLS, CAROLINE MORAHAN, MARIE SEMLA, and STEPHANIE SHEH in the first public presentations of 45 BENNINGTON by RYAN McCURDY (Whiterock Cliff, The Currents) on March 26th and 27th at 7p at The Pico, Los Angeles.

Bespoke Plays is partnering with The 24 Hour Plays this Memorial Day weekend for a round of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, featuring brand-new monologues written, rehearsed and recorded in 24 hours by 14 pairs of actors and playwrights.

Christine Boylan (THE PUNISHER, LEVERAGE), Ellie Pyle (SOURCES, BEGINNINGS), and Ryan McCurdy (ONCE, PIP'S ISLAND) have announced the official addition of a New York chapter to Bespoke Plays, which will make it the only bicoastal production company dedicated to industry readings of new plays. Boylan and Pyle will continue to co-produce Los Angeles with McCurdy as the New York associate.

Mary Chieffo (STAR TREK DISCOVERY) and Alan Smyth (BETTER THINGS, ZEALOT at South Coast Rep) star in Analogue, a new play by Christine Boylan (THE PUNISHER, CLOAK & DAGGER). Mike Rozycki will direct the readings October 6 @ 8pm in The Broadwater Blackbox (6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038) and October 7 @ 8pm in The Broadwater Theatre (1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, California 90038).

BESPOKE PLAYS - a play reading series - announces RUTH CONNELL (SUPERNATURAL) will lead the first public reading of HERETICS by playwright ELLIE PYLE (Sources), on September 25 at 8pm on The Broadwater Mainstage (1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, California 90038) and September 28 at 8pm in the Broadwater Blackbox (6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038).

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival kicks off its 2019 edition in one week on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

The NY Indie Theatre Film Festival is excited to announce it will open its 2019 edition on February 8 with the New York festival premiere of Poor Behavior, the film directorial debut by Theresa Rebeck, based on her play of the same name.

Fresh off his New York Innovative Theater Award for best actor, Ryan McCurdy (Greencard Wedding) will make his Los Angeles debut alongside Ellie Pyle, in her play SOURCES, under the direction of Alan Smyth on October 26 at 8 p.m. and October 28 at 6:30 p.m. at The Pico (10508 Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064).

In the world premiere production of playwright (and creator of NBC's Smash) Theresa Rebeck's ZEALOT---now performing at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through November 16---Mecca, Saudi Arabia serves as the setting for a volatile tug-of-war that erupts at the start of the 'Hajj,' the holy city's annual Islamic pilgrimage. Here a young woman's act of civil disobedience incites riots, prompting a carefully-considered, if endlessly circling debate on the merits of whether to comply and honor a host country's 'traditional' rules, or to allow Western ideologies to triumph in order to best serve the needs of a fellow human---a fellow global citizen---in dire need of care and protection. While Rebeck's play, helmed by SCR's own artistic director Marc Masterson, is generally insightful, the play feels pretty unfinished, as if there's plenty more to unearth in the narrative that didn't quite make it to the page (and, consequently, the stage). Regrettably, it doesn't quite reach the point of heightened urgency you would come to expect in a drama with such a politically-charged storyline.

South Coast Repertory will produce a new work by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Peabody Award-winning writer Theresa Rebeck. Her play Zealot is on SCR's Segerstrom Stage tonight, Oct. 17-Nov. 16, directed by Artistic Director Marc Masterson.

South Coast Repertory will produce a new work by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Peabody Award-winning writer Theresa Rebeck. Her play Zealot is on SCR's Segerstrom Stage Oct. 17-Nov. 16, directed by Artistic Director Marc Masterson.

Today, South Coast Repertory announced the actors cast for four new-play readings as part of SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival, which runs April 25-27. Single and packaged tickets are available online at www.scr.org.

British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's amusing 1972 comedy ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR--which celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year--is currently eliciting chuckles through October 7 at South Coat Repertory in Costa Mesa. Though very much a product of its era, the three-act play directed by SCR co-founding Artistic Director David Emmes still succeeds in mining genuine laughs thanks to its mixed bag of sharp one-liners, humorous (if clichéd) visual gags, and a stupendously gifted cast.

This year marks the 40th anniversary for Alan Ayckbourn's first big hit, Absurd Person Singular.