Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will continue its 40th anniversary season with two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest and Tony Award winner Alan Cumming starring in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, beginning performances Wednesday, February 20 at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street).
The Roundtable Ensemble will present the world premiere of Chris Kipiniak's Save the World, a superhero-adventure play at the American Theatre of Actors. Performances will begin on Thursday, January 17, and the official opening night will be Saturday, January 19 at 8PM. Performances will run for four weeks through February 9.
The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Inc presents Harvest by David Wright Crawford, off-Broadway at The Beckett (Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street). Judson Jones and Benard Cummings will direct. Previews begin on November 30 and the opening will be Tuesday, December 4 at 8PM.
The Attic Studios presents Chekhov Mania: A Russian Vaudeville opening Friday September 21 at 8 PM, playing Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM through October 27 at the Attic Theatre.
The Attic Studios presents Chekhov Mania: A Russian Vaudeville opening Friday September 21st, 2007, and playing Fridays and Saturdays through October 27th, at the Attic Theatre...
Barrington Stage Company presents Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, directed by BSC Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, playing for a three-week run at Barrington Stage (30 Union Street) from August 9 - 26, opening August 12 at 5PM.
Anne Frank meets Anton Chekhov in Days and Nights: page 121, lines 11 and 12, a new play that blends dialogue from The Seagull with the characters and circumstances from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, receiving its world-premiere Friday, August 10 at the Lafayette Street Theatre
Medicine Show Theatre will end its 37th Season with The Theory of Color, a new play by Lella Heins about a worldly female artist whose life begins to unravel when she and her husband move from Manhattan to a remote hamlet in the middle of nowhere.
Bernstein, Laurents and Sondheim, Shaffer and Chekhov headline Barrington Stage Company's 2007 summer MainStage season: West Side Story (June 13 - July 14), Black Comedy (July 19 - August 4) and Uncle Vanya (August 9 - 26) will be presented in the company's fully renovated theatre at 30 Union Street in Pittsfield.
The Royal Court Theatre's recent revival of the Anton Chekhov classic The Seagull, which played the London theatre at the early part of this year, may be bound for Broadway in early 2008
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS SECOND ANNUAL RANDOM ACTS! ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL Featuring works by John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Tennessee Williams, Terrence McNally, and more
Classic Stage Company will present the return of its popular 'First Look Festival' - a program of one-night only staged readings of rarely seen classics, performed by notable actors.
If it's possible to find yourself enjoying a play while simultaneously feeling rather under whelmed by the whole thing, then The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of George Bernard Shaw's dark comedy is perhaps the best example of sorry/grateful to be found on Broadway these days.
The bold and ambitious 2007 Soulpepper season will revisit relationships established with specific playwrights and embrace some new and thrilling challenges and discoveries.