Beth Cole News

Zeitgeist Stage Company begins its 17th season with the East Coast premiere of Selina Fillinger's FACELESS, a play with a storyline that sits smack in the middle of the national zeitgeist. It pits a sheltered 18-year old white girl against a Harvard Law School graduate and practicing Muslim in a taut courtroom drama that is about much more than the charges being litigated. Terrorism and ISIS are on trial, but the face of a young American woman is symbolic of how the enemy is expanding its reach into our homeland via social media, and the attorney in the hijab is the unlikely government crusader chosen to fight back.

Zeitgeist Stage Company introduces new faces that meld into an impressive ensemble to convey the unusual and flawed characters from the mind of Williams and the pens of half a dozen eclectic playwrights in DESIRE: AN EVENING OF PLAYS BASED ON SIX SHORT STORIES BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. A self-admitted aficionado of Williams, Director David J. Miller mixes and matches his cast to meet the challenge of portraying diverse personalities.

Zeitgeist Stage Company joins the ranks of prescient Boston theater companies with Ike Holter's EXIT STRATEGY, a play about the impending closing of a failing inner-city Chicago school, how it impacts the faculty and students, and the measures they take to fight back.

This fall, the Roxy Regional Theatre delves into these questions with the company's 32nd annual foray into the works attributed to William Shakespeare.  An exploration into the nature of leadership and its relationship to morality, HENRY V opens Friday, November 4, at 8:00pm, for a limited run.

Lyric Opera of Chicago celebrated its glorious history and future Saturday, November 1, with a star-studded 60th Anniversary Concert at the Civic Opera House beginning at 6:30pm - sixty years to the day after the company officially launched its very first season.

A Chicago Premiere* - Jack Goes Boating by Bob Glaudini will be directed by Laley Lippard and opens tonight, October 19, at 3pm at Redtwist Theatre.

Helpmann Award winner Henri Szeps (Mother and Son) arrives in Melbourne to perform the hilariously dark comedy It's My Party (And I'll Die If I Want To) alongside Green Room Award winner Robyn Arthur (The Boy from Oz) and a fantastic ensemble cast. The show plays 5-6 July, 8pm at Athenaeum Theatre.

Michael Cyril Creighton's award winning online sitcom 'JACK IN A BOX' about a frustrated theatre box office manager, currently in its third season, celebrates its 2 Year Anniversary and releases the 23rd episode of the series, entitled 'The Date.' After 2 years of watching Jack be a sort of snarky, hapless sad sack, it's possible this little dough boy has found love. Or will he ruin it, just like he ruined that audition to play an Adult Baby on Law & Order: SVU? The episode features downtown theatre favorites Paul Thureen (The Debate Society) and Becky Yamamoto (Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Flying Dragon to Heaven).

Michael Cyril Creighton's award winning online sitcom "JACK IN A BOX", currently in its third season, turns 20. The series' 20th episode welcomes a trio of Broadway stars: Alison Fraser, Julie Halston and Mary Testa

Michael Cyril Creighton's award winning online sitcom "JACK IN A BOX" premieres its Third Season on February 28th, 2011

MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck theatre Box Office Manager, "JACK IN A BOX" was awarded Best Web Series at the Sixth Annual New York Television Festival. The awards ceremony took place on September 26, 2010 at the SVA Theatre.

MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck theatre Box Office Manager, 'JACK IN A BOX', premieres Episode 15: The Buzz. In this episode, Jack is bombarded with phone calls, goes to a terrible audition and then has a 'physical' altercation with his agent, Gloria (played by Lusia Strus of Enron, The NY Neo-Futurists, Gus Van Sant's Restless). There are too many women in his life. The episode also features Hannah Bos (Founding Member of The Debate Society), Desiree Burch (The NY Neo-Futurists/The Soup Show), Livia Scott ('Live & Let Livia') and Mary Testa (Xanadu, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, On The Town). The episode is shot & edited by Jim Turner.

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War - the Battle of Wanat - and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of 'Dateline: A Father's Mission' on June 27 (7:00-8:00 PM/ET).

RANDY HARRISON & NAT DEWOLF GUEST STAR ON CREIGHTON'S WEB SITCOM 'JACK IN A BOX' MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck (former) theatre Box Office Manager, JACK IN A BOX, premieres its 14th episode and welcomes special guest stars NAT DEWOLF and RANDY HARRISON.

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War - the Battle of Wanat - and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of 'Dateline: A Father's Mission' on June 27 (7:00-8:00 PM/ET).

MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck theatre Box Office Manager, JACK IN A BOX, premieres its 10th episode featuring Guest Star LUSIA STRUS.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell & Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors and Marieke Gaboury Producing Director) continues its fall season with two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 6 - October 30, 2009) and Live Nude Plays (October 31 - November 3) the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) and is pleased to announce award-winning stage veterans David Morse and Martha Plimpton will appear onstage in readings in October.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell & Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors; Marieke Gaboury Producing Director) continues its fall season with two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 6 - October 30, 2009) and Live Nude Plays (October 31 - November 3) at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street).

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) continues its 30th Anniversary Season with the New York premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's play, BECKY SHAW, directed by Peter DuBois.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will continue its 30th Anniversary Season with the New York premiere of Gina Gionfriddo's play, BECKY SHAW, directed by Peter DuBois.