Carolyn Cantor News

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced the lineup for Spring Boards, its newly-renamed rehearsed reading series. Formerly known as 6@6, the annual series is dedicated to the support and development of innovative new work.

We recently sat down with Adam Rapp and discussed his latest work Essential Self-Defense. We also talked writing routines, directors and the midwest in this revealing interview.

Playwrights Horizons and Edge Theater are presenting the world premiere of Essential Self-Defense, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Adam Rapp

Heather Goldenhersh and Paul Sparks will star in Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons

Second Stage Theatre will continue its acclaimed Second Stage Theatre Uptown Festival this summer with two world premiere comedies: Marisa Wegrzyn's The Butcher of Baraboo, directed by Carolyn Cantor, and Josh Tobiessen's Election Day, directed by Jeremy Dobrish.

Edge Theater artistic director Carolyn Cantor and producer David Korins have announced that Bingo Night 2007, a benefit for the theater company, will take place Monday, February 12 at 8pm at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street. This year's celebrity Bingo callers include Patricia Clarkson and Will Forte.

Last Monday, January 22nd, despite the rush hour, snow flurries and freezing temperatures, supporters of playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith headed to the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT for The Last Journey

Casting complete for Tricia Walsh-Smith's 'The Last Journey.'

THE LAST JOURNEY, a new play by Tricia Walsh-Smith, will be presented on Monday, January 22 at 7 p.m. at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut as part of Westport's New Play Readings series.

The new Off-Broadway musical Striking 12 opened on Sunday, November 12th for an eight-week limited engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre

Marin Hinkle will replace Amy Ryan (A Streetcar Named Desire) for the final week of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which is currently being presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through October 22nd

The Geffen Playhouse will stage the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (starring Amy Ryan, Joyce Van Patten and Tate Donovan), the world premiere of Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will be directed by the playwright

Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense will have its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in spring of 2007

Eric Sanders' Oceanside Parkway and Bekah Brunstetter's Arms will run for four performances from May 12th through 20th as part of the More for Your Money '06 Festival

Time/Unstuck, an evening by The Gang of Four, EST's young directors' residency, will feature new plays by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran, and run from April 20th through 30th

Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of the 1955 play contains sides of his daugher Otto Frank did not want to be made public

Paper Mill Playhouse's production of The Diary of Anne Frank opened on Sunday night, January 22, 2006 and BroadwayWorld was there!

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the second production of the 2005-2006 season: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's timeless classic drama The Diary of Anne Frank adapted by Wendy Kesselman with direction by Carolyn Cantor.

Paper Mill Playhouse announced its line-up for the 2005-2006 season and beginning in October, the new season of classic hits opens with Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella followed by The Dairy of Anne Frank, Carnival, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and closing out the season will be Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!

Photos from the recent reading of Adam Rapp's new black comedy which featured Anthony Rapp.