Sponsored in part by 4Culture, the 2015-16 season of Mirror Stage's popular FEED YOUR MIND staged reading series traces a path from Jamestown, Virginia in 1676 to Hampton, Virginia in 1945, with a detour through Hades and Ancient Greece, exploring questions of racial and gender equity.
Five playwrights from across the country have been selected to develop and present their plays as part of the 15th Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. These writers, selected from over 450 open submissions are: Robert Caisley, who will also serve as the 2015 Conference's Featured Playwright with his play The Open Hand, Jennifer Blackmer with her play Unraveled, Bernadine Cockey with her play Relative Madness, J. Joseph Cox with his play Koalas and Sara Jean Accuardi with her play <3.
Sarah Polley, the director the acclaimed films Away From Her, Take This Waltz and Stories We Tell, is to adapt Looking for Alaska, the debut novel from John Green, whose book The Fault in Our Stars has become a international phenomenon.
To celebrate the publication of her latest novel MaddAddam - the final book in her critically acclaimed and best-selling Dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx & Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009) - Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada are extremely proud to present a reading, Q&A and on-stage discussion with celebrated author Margaret Atwood at the Rialto Theatre tonight, December 4th at 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm).
To celebrate the publication of her latest novel MaddAddam - the final book in her critically acclaimed and best-selling Dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx & Crake (2003) and The Year of the Flood (2009) - Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada are extremely proud to present a reading, Q&A and on-stage discussion with celebrated author Margaret Atwood at the Rialto Theatre Wednesday December 4th at 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm).
The West Coast premiere of HOUSE by Daniel MacIvor is extending its run schedule through September 1, 2012, at Rogue Machine. After August 11th, all Friday shows play at 10pm and Saturday shows play at 8pm (August 4th is now at 8pm).
On the heels of their 2011 Best Production Awards sweep (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Garland Awards) for Small Engine Repair, which launched Rogue Machine's "Off The Clock" series last season, HOUSE will take the first late night slot this season tonight, July 6th.
On the heels of their 2011 Best Production Awards sweep (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Garland Awards) for Small Engine Repair, which launched Rogue Machine's "Off The Clock" series last season, HOUSE will take the first late night slot this season on July 6th.
The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2009 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of fiction, non fiction and plays exceptional talent and promise in early career. This years recipient of the Whiting Award for playwriting went to Rajiv Joseph. His productions include Animals out of Paper, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and the forthcoming Gruesome Playground Injuries.
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