American Playwrights News

Plays inspired by Tennessee Williams to be held at the Sage Theater

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Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III has announced that performances of the official 50th anniversary production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, will begin Friday, March 30 at 8pm at the Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4 Street.

Heather Goldenhersh and Paul Sparks will star in Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons

Theater for the New City will present 'Love 'N Courage,' the 4th annual benefit for Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program.

Cast to feature Peter Weller as Frank Lloyd Wright, Harris Yulin as Louis Sullivan, Chris Henry Coffey, Holley Fain, Mary Beth Fisher, Maggie Siff, Jeremy Strong and Jay Whittaker

The Irish Repertory Theatre has extended its production of Eugene O'Neill's 1922 classic The Hairy Ape

Today at 10 AM, the official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new August Wilson Center, which is the first African American Cultural Center to be found in a central downtown location

The new book In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights features dozens of portraits of great dramatists

The Public Theater has announced the fall line-up for 'New Work Now!,' a nationally recognized festival of free play readings that showcases a new generation of artists for the American Theater

The Irish Repertory Theatre will begin its 19th season with a production of Eugene O'Neill's 1922 classic The Hairy Ape

Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin's new work The Happiness Lecture will be developed by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, which has been awarded a $160,000 grant that will go towards honing the piece

Gloucester Stage honors the memory of playwright Wendy Wasserstein

Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Second Stage's 2006-2007 season will include plays by Eric Bogosian, Terrence McNally and Theresa Rebeck

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).