Three con artists, nine gullible Londoners and cash to burn - Ben Jonson's comedy The Alchemist is set to dazzle audiences with its big cast, fast pace and outrageous wit when it opens in Brisbane on 23 February for the first leg of its national tour.
A Queensland Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare co-production, The Alchemist sees a deceitful trio of London's bottom scrapers dexterously swindle lawyers, widows, sex addicts and power hungry preachers.
Victims are hoodwinked with tricks from the magic of alchemy to the art of feng shui - but will these con artists get away with it?
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2009 season ? a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights is now offering tickets to the public.
RED BULL THEATER presents on Monday September 29th 7pm a staged reading THE SILENT WOMAN by Ben Jonson adapted by Michael Kahn featuring F Murray Abraham and Dakin Matthews , Jason Butler Harner, Marcus Dean Fuller, Drew Foster, Stephen Bel Davies, Danny Scheie, John Livingston Rolle, Nicholas Galbraith, Cynthia Mace, Jennifer White, Beth Dixon, Alex Brown, Jason Kravits, Carolyn Seymour
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival announces its 2009 season - a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights.
Red Bull Theater, artistic director Jesse Berger, announced the return of 'Revelation Readings', the Obie Award-winning reading series exploring new and classic plays of heightened language.
Award-winning actor Chris Sullivan returns to the UK with his one man show A Bit of Irish, a theatrical evening of Irish celebration, which features poems, limericks, a multitude of stories and audience participation and opens for a limited week long season at Jermyn Street Theatre in London on St Patrick's Day, Monday 17 March, running to Saturday 22 March 2008.
The Summer Play Festival (SPF), apart from presenting 15 shows at Theatre Row in July, will continue its advanced programming to nurture playwrights and other theatre artist
The 3rd Annual Summer Play Festival (SPF) has announced the directors who will be staging the 15 plays to be showcased at this year's festival, as well as the on sale date (June 5th)
William Shakespeare was born 440 years ago this week. 'He was not of an age, but for all time,' said Ben Jonson. So let's celebrate the man to whom all theater lovers owe a debt.
