Birth Place: SCOTLAND
Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present Jean Genet's The Maids for a strictly limited engagement beginning March 6th at Theater at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues).
The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org.) announces a public play-reading marathon to take place on Saturday, 28 January at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theater (www.spotlighters.org), 817 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, (410) 752-1225.
The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org.) announces a public play-reading marathon to take place on Saturday, 28 January at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theater (www.spotlighters.org), 817 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, (410) 752-1225.
The Mobtown Players will kick off the 2011-2012 season with the classic Renaissance comedy Epicoene, or the Silent Woman.
Did William Shakespeare really write all of those plays? Mere proposition of said query's relative validity is more often than not met with confused looks, pretentious stares and general disdain for even entertaining such edgy ideas. Yet, are the plays not too worldly and wordy for a middle-class man to have composed completely by himself - even an actor who owned his own theater, the Globe; as Shakespeare, the man, most certainly did (any way you tell it)? Does it take anything away from these great works to consider for a moment or two that perhaps there was at least some outside influence on the texts to these plays, many of which are often cited as the finest literary works in the English language - and a legitimate theory given the fact co-authorship was even admitted at the time insofar as PERICLES, TIMON OF ATHENS and others are concerned. The case of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays has been a hot-button topic amongst critics, scholars and many in academe for centuries - and it even reached the Supreme Court in 1987 - and it is only now, with the worldwide release of ANONYMOUS, that these issues are being taken on in a dramatically compelling and filmatic way - played out much like the plays of intrigue and betrayal amongst kings and queens that we have come to love so much from Shakespeare's works. At the end of the day - or, should I say, at the end of the play - does it really matter as long as what you have witnessed onstage or onscreen spoke to you in a special, memorable way? Does knowing the identity of the author really matter as long as the plays enacted have an affect? Such are only a few of the many controversial questions being posed by the filmmakers behind the new film ANONYMOUS, opening in movie theaters nationwide on October 28, foremost among them being the director of the film himself, Roland Emmerich and the screenwriter, John Orloff, who have been trying to get this project off the ground for the better part of a decade. Tales of stolen authorial identity are as old and oft-told as many of the Bard's greatest hits, so it should come as no surprise that ANONYMOUS manages to present the facts as entertainingly as the plays presented within it. After all, the battle of the Oxfordians versus the Stratfordians has a certain royal Shakespearean ring to it, does it not?
RED BULL THEATER presents A STAGED READING OF NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre on Monday September 19th, 7:30pm.
Revelation Readings is an OBIE Award-Winning ongoing series presenting staged readings of new plays and rarely-performed classic texts.
RED BULL THEATER presents A STAGED READING OF NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre on Monday September 19th, 7:30pm.
Suffolk University and Boston Playwrights' Theatre present Robert Brustein's Mortal Terror, directed by Daniela Varon from September 15 through October 2 at the Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, 525 Washington Street, Boston.
The Mobtown Players will kick off the 2011-2012 season with the classic Renaissance comedy Epicoene, or the Silent Woman.
Revelation Readings is an OBIE Award-Winning ongoing series presenting staged readings of new plays and rarely-performed classic texts.
Suffolk University and Boston Playwrights' Theatre present Robert Brustein's Mortal Terror, directed by Daniela Varon from September 15 through October 2 at the Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, 525 Washington Street, Boston.
A British drama about people on the fringes of life trying to survive day by day, and an American tale about an extended family looking for love: Wisdom of Obscurity and Paper Dragon are two very different stories about people on both sides of the Atlantic with a desperate need to be recognized, no matter the risks they take or the people they hurt.
A British drama about people on the fringes of life trying to survive day by day, and an American tale about an extended family looking for love: Wisdom of Obscurity and Paper Dragon are two very different stories about people on both sides of the Atlantic with a desperate need to be recognized, no matter the risks they take or the people they hurt.
Im Rahmen der Nestroy-Gala 2010 in Wien wurden der Regisseur Werner Düggelin und das Schauspielhaus Zürich für die Inszenierung von Ben Jonsons „Volpone“ in der Königsdisziplin „Beste deutschsprachige Aufführung“ mit dem Nestroy 2010 geehrt.
Werner Düggelins „Volpone“-Inszenierung, die in der letzten Spielzeit am Schauspielhaus Zürich aufgeführt wurde, ist am heutigen Donnerstag für den Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2010 nominiert worden.
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is pleased to announce the 2010/11 mainstage 'in repertory' season of Hamlet and As You Like It, a tragedy and a comedy, written within one year of each other by William Shakespeare, and directed by Artistic Director Carmen Khan.
While William Shakespeare may be one of the greatest playwrights of all time, a theatrical diet of nothing but his works can be too much of a good thing. (re:) Directions Theatre Company remedies this by putting the Bard's oft-overlooked contemporaries front and center during The Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival, began May 20th at the 14th Street Theatre, located at 344 East 14th Street, and running through June 6th.
While William Shakespeare may be one of the greatest playwrights of all time, a theatrical diet of nothing but his works can be too much of a good thing. (re:) Directions Theatre Company remedies this by putting the Bard's oft-overlooked contemporaries front and center during The Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival, began May 20th at the 14th Street Theatre, located at 344 East 14th Street, and running through June 6th.
While William Shakespeare may be one of the greatest playwrights of all time, a theatrical diet of nothing but his works can be too much of a good thing. (re:) Directions Theatre Company remedies this by putting the Bard's oft-overlooked contemporaries front and center during The Anybody but Shakespeare Classics Festival, beginning May 20th at the 14th Street Theatre, located at 344 East 14th Street, and running through June 6th.
