Craig Lucas News

Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Diana Maxine Konopka, Associate Director) and Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) today announced the launch of SuperLab, an innovative new play development program. A series of collaboratively curated play laboratories, SuperLab will support the creation of bold, risk-taking new works by living American playwrights. Supported by funds granted to Clubbed Thumb by Metlife/Theatre Communications Group's A-ha! Program, created to foster creative thinking and action among its member theaters, these two like-minded companies will join forces to produce a six-play development lab. Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons, who share a commitment to advancing distinctive new voices, will bridge a gap between downtown and uptown theater sensibilities, methodologies and artist rosters, expanding the range of experience and opportunity for all.

Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Diana Maxine Konopka, Associate Director) and Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) today announced the launch of SuperLab, an innovative new play development program. A series of collaboratively curated play laboratories, SuperLab will support the creation of bold, risk-taking new works by living American playwrights. Supported by funds granted to Clubbed Thumb by Metlife/Theatre Communications Group's A-ha! Program, created to foster creative thinking and action among its member theaters, these two like- minded companies will join forces to produce a six-play development lab. Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons, who share a commitment to advancing distinctive new voices, will bridge a gap between downtown and uptown theater sensibilities, methodologies and artist rosters, expanding the range of experience and opportunity for all.

Steven Strafford (from the original cast of Spamalot, Las Vegas) brings his one man METHTACULAR! to the Second Stage at the Adrienne for three performances only on November 12th, 13th and 14th all at 10:30 PM. The theater is located at 2030 Sansom St in Philadelphia and tickets are a $5 suggested donation at the door. Reservations can be made by calling 215-665-9720. METHTACULAR! is directed by Adam Fitzgerald (Artistic Director, kef theatrical productions) and is being presented as part of Flashpoint Theatre Company's Late Night Series. Information on the show and about Flashpoint can be found at www.flashpointtheatre.org.

Steven Strafford (from the original cast of Spamalot, Las Vegas) brings his one man METHTACULAR! to the Second Stage at the Adrienne for three performances only on November 12th, 13th and 14th all at 10:30 PM. The theater is located at 2030 Sansom St in Philadelphia and tickets are a $5 suggested donation at the door. Reservations can be made by calling 215-665-9720. METHTACULAR! is directed by Adam Fitzgerald (Artistic Director, kef theatrical productions) and is being presented as part of Flashpoint Theatre Company's Late Night Series. Information on the show and about Flashpoint can be found at www.flashpointtheatre.org.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 29th season with the world premiere of Bob Glaudini's Vengeance is the Lord's, directed by Peter DuBois.

Steven Strafford (from the original cast of Spamalot, Las Vegas) brings his one man METHTACULAR! to the Second Stage at the Adrienne for three performances only on November 12th, 13th and 14th all at 10:30 PM. The theater is located at 2030 Sansom St in Philadelphia and tickets are a $5 suggested donation at the door. Reservations can be made by calling 215-665-9720. METHTACULAR! is directed by Adam Fitzgerald (Artistic Director, kef theatrical productions) and is being presented as part of Flashpoint Theatre Company's Late Night Series. Information on the show and about Flashpoint can be found at www.flashpointtheatre.org.

The toll on Scandinavian soldiers from peacekeeping--and the agony of popular indifference to their sacrifice--will be profound for American audiences to witness in 'Home Sweet Home,' an award-winning psychological drama by Danish playwright Andreas Garfield. The play was prominently recognized in Denmark's equivalent of the Tony Awards in 2007 and will be presented for its English Language and American premieres by Scandinavian American Theater Company (SATC) November 11 to 28 in the 9th Space at PS122. SATC is an emerging professional theater company that will be offering New York audiences daring and innovative works from Scandinavia's burgeoning theater scene. This one will be staged by Christoffer Berdal, who is currently one of Denmark's most sought-after directors.

The toll on Scandinavian soldiers from peacekeeping--and the agony of popular indifference to their sacrifice--will be profound for American audiences to witness in 'Home Sweet Home,' an award-winning psychological drama by Danish playwright Andreas Garfield.

MARRY ME A LITTLE is an interesting little musical that cobbles together cut songs and lesser celebrated numbers composed by Stephen Sondheim. It's a clever idea, and even though some of the numbers don't really seem to fit perfectly with the 'story', they still provide an opportunity to hear a master songwriter at work, with even these castoffs showcasing his catchy, but challenging gift for melodic invention, as well as his considerable lyrical wit. Citilites Theatre is presenting a solid production of this brief, but engaging, work conceived and developed by Craig Lucas and Norman Rene.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's every tongue confess, which opens the new Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, the third theater space in the Mead Center.

Steven Strafford (from the original cast of Spamalot, Las Vegas) brings his one man METHTACULAR! to the Second Stage at the Adrienne for three performances only on November 12th, 13th and 14th all at 10:30 PM. The theater is located at 2030 Sansom St in Philadelphia and tickets are a $5 suggested donation at the door. Reservations can be made by calling 215-665-9720. METHTACULAR! is directed by Adam Fitzgerald (Artistic Director, kef theatrical productions) and is being presented as part of Flashpoint Theatre Company's Late Night Series. Information on the show and about Flashpoint can be found at www.flashpointtheatre.org.

The Athena Theatre Company proudly presents A Staged Reading of Waking Up 'Love is not an inevitability.'by Augusto Federico Amador

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has announced that the 3rd Annual ‘Mimi' Awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held Monday, November 8, 2010 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center Theater (150 West 65th Street).

Multi-award winning writer Cormac McCarthy will have his play THE SUNSET LIMITED presented for the first time in Los Angeles, as part of Rogue Machine's 2010 season. Set in a subway tenement apartment of the ex-con, Black, who has forcibly prevented the college professor, White, from casting himself in the path of an on-rushing subway train. Black keeps White a virtual prisoner while he probes the roots of White's suicide attempt. Black is no stranger to the violence of human nature, but his life has changed drastically since a near death experience.

Steven Strafford (from the original cast of Spamalot, Las Vegas) brings his one man METHTACULAR! to the Second Stage at the Adrienne for three performances only on November 12th, 13th and 14th all at 10:30 PM. The theater is located at 2030 Sansom St in Philadelphia and tickets are a $5 suggested donation at the door. Reservations can be made by calling 215-665-9720. METHTACULAR! is directed by Adam Fitzgerald (Artistic Director, kef theatrical productions) and is being presented as part of Flashpoint Theatre Company's Late Night Series. Information on the show and about Flashpoint can be found at www.flashpointtheatre.org.

American Repertory Theater will present THE BLUE FLOWER by Jim and Ruth Bauer at the Loeb Drama Center December 1, 2010 - January 8, 2011. The production will be directed by Will Pomerantz, with movement by Tom Nelis, and music direction by Mark Rubenstein.

Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced the initial line-up of performers participating in the popular return of its unique benefit event STORIES ON 5 STORIES on Monday evening, November 1.

The Dramatists Guild of America is pleased to announce the recipients of their annual awards, which will be distributed at an awards ceremony Monday, November 1, 2010, at the Hudson Theater in New York.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, has announced the line-up for its 2010-2011 season. Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora announced a 41st season that will include three world premieres (bringing the company's total to 56); three regional premieres including the newest play by the author of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Broadway's quirky hit musical about writers writing a quirky hit musical and a spell-binding mystery about a Japanese-American veteran charged with murder; and two Broadway favorites. The company will once again lead off with an extensive New Works Festival.

Ground UP Productions (Kate Middleton, Producing Artistic Director) announced the cast for the world premiere of Michael I. Walker's Letter from Algeria, which plays at the June Havoc Theatre at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th St., 2nd Floor) October 29 through November 20, 2010.