Anne Kauffman News

La Jolla Playhouse Artistic Director Des McAnuff has announced the cast of his upcoming Page To Stage Workshop Production of The Farnsworth Invention, written by Aaron Sorkin. Headlining the cast are Jimmi Simpson as Philo T. Farnsworth and Stephen Lang as David Sarnoff.

East West Players will present the first show of its 41st Anniversary Season, SIDES: The Fear is Real... in association with Mr. Miyagi's Theatre Company of New York City

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and The Graduate Center, CUNY, with The Lucille Lortel Foundation, will present the four-day event 'PRELUDE '06: At the Forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre.'

The 30th anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, featuring the work of 16 emerging and established playwrights, is slated for March 7 - April 8

Anthony Rapp will make two guest appearances in the off-Broadway comedy Sides: The Fear is Real on September 30th

The Public Theater will present two series of readings--New Work Now! and New Work Then!--in celebration of its history of producing new plays; the two series will be held from September 9th to September 18th and from September 2nd to October 3rd

A new play by Anne Washburn about the wives of famous dictators is at Dixon Place.