Aquila Theatre Company News

NEW YORK NEO-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE (STEPHEN STOUT, Artistic Director, BILL GRIFFIN, Managing Director) is pleased to announce its production of 'TWELFTH NIGHT' by William Shakespeare, directed by STEPHEN STOUT.

Performances began November 14th, with opening night November 23rd. This limited engagement continues through December 20th only. All performances are at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, between Bleecker & Hudson Streets). For tickets, visit TicketCentral.com or call 212/279- 4200.

Performances began November 14th, with opening night November 23rd. This limited engagement continues through December 20th only. All performances are at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, between Bleecker & Hudson Streets). For tickets, visit TicketCentral.com or call 212/279- 4200.

NEW YORK NEO-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE (STEPHEN STOUT, Artistic Director, BILL GRIFFIN, Managing Director) is pleased to announce its production of 'TWELFTH NIGHT' by William Shakespeare, directed by STEPHEN STOUT.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce for complete cast for the World Premiere of the stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck: joining the previously announced John Lavelle (The Graduate on Broadway) will be Mark Alhadeff (currently appearing in Bedroom Farce; prior to that, Power of Darkness at the Mint), David Bishins (whose numerous NY credits include A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun with Olympia Dukakis; Sympathetic Magic at Second Stage; Boys in the Band), Chip Brookes (making his Off-Broadway debut), Christina Pumariega (last seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hartford Stage, directed by Lisa Peterson and All Eyes And Ears at INTAR, directed by Eduardo Machado), Craig Wroe (seen in Miss Evers' Boys in the West End and Off Broadway at Barrow Street in An Oak Tree), and Richard Willis (more than a dozen Aquila productions including Julius Caesar, The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet, The Man Who Would Be King, and others).

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey concludes its record breaking 2008 Season with William Shakespeare's mercurial romance The Winter's Tale.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey concludes its record breaking 2008 Season with William Shakespeare's mercurial romance The Winter's Tale.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the complete cast for the World Premiere of the stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that John Lavelle will star as Yossarian in the World Premiere of the stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck. Performances begin November 14th, with opening night scheduled for November 23rd. This limited engagement continues through December 20th.

AQUILA THEATRE COMPANY (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities of $292,585 to launch its newest program, PAGE and STAGE: Theater, Tradition, and Culture in America. No other NY theater company received a grant of this size from the NEH. In fact, this is the largest outright grant to any NY State organization. 'We are thrilled that the NEH is backing this groundbreaking program to combine the performing arts centers and libraries to reach new audiences, ' said Mr. Meineck.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce that the upcoming season will include the World Premiere of the stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck. Performances begin November 14th, with opening night scheduled for November 23rd.

British actor David Oyelowo is gritty and majestic in a production that never matches his performance.

Hartford Stage's upcoming spring 2008 production of the seldom-performed Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore will star Olympia Dukakis.

The non-profit production company, WET continues its third season of the Risk Takers Films Series on March 17th with special guest Olympia Dukakis

Classic Stage Company will conclude its 2006-07 season with Aquila Theatre Company's new production of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, starring rising young British actor David Oyelowo

Among the attractions of Classic Stage Company's next season will be Michael Cumpsty in the title role of Richard II and Zoe Caldwell, Denis O'Hare and Linda Emond in Yasmine Reza's A Spanish Play

Academy Award winner, Olympia Dukakis, has joined the American Conservatory Theater's (ACT) Board of Trustees.

Jessica Boevers, as well as John Lavelle and Craig Wroe, have joined the cast of Much Ado About Nothing, which will be presented by the Aquila Theatre Company at the La Jolla Playhouse from January 17th through February 19th