Cusi Cram News

The Echo Theater Company is proud to announce its fourth annual ECHO ONE ACT FESTIVAL featuring original commissioned one-acts by some of the nation's top playwrights. THE ECHO ONE ACTS 2009 will open on Friday, January 16 at 8:00pm and run Fri-Sun for five weeks closing Sunday, February 15 at Stage 52, 5299 W. Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90016.

The Denver Center Theatre Company's fourth annual Colorado New Play Summit continues its climb to the top tier of American new play festivals with the announcement of four readings of new American plays and a musical that will join the world premieres of Inana by Michele Lowe and Dusty and the Big Bad World by Cusi Cram at the February 2009 event.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) opens its fall season with the first of two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 23 - November 15, 2008). Ethan Hawke joins the previously announced roster of performers that includes LAB members Eric Bogosian, Elizabeth Canavan, Max Casella, John Doman, Kevin Geer, Didi O'Connell, John Ortiz, Portia, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Stuhlbarg, Yul Vazquez, and David Zayas, among others.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that their heretofore private PlayLab new play readings by members of the company's Playwrights' Coalition are going public.

The Denver Center Theatre Company's fourth Colorado New Play Summit is continuing to receive heightened national attention due to the success of new plays premiered at last season's event.

LAByrinth Theater Company's developmental production of Pretty Chin Up, a new play written by Andrea Ciannavei, will begin performances tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15th at 6:30pm.

LAByrinth Theater Company announced today a schedule change for their developmental production of Pretty Chin Up, a new play written by Andrea Ciannavei with direction by Michele Chivu.

Primary Stages will present the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and Fresk Ink Reading Series

Tatum O'Neal, Vanessa Aspillaga, and over two dozen more stars have signed on to LAByrinth Theater Company's Live Nude Plays, a free marathon festival of staged readings of six new works on Monday, April 16th.

Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 6th for LAByrinth Theater Company's (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, Executive Director Steve Asher) developmental production of Pretty Chin Up, a new play written by Andrea Ciannavei and directed by Michele Chivu.

LAByrinth Theater Company's Seventh Annual Barn Series Festival has announced casting for its upcoming performances.

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced their lineup for The Seventh Annual Barn Series Festival, which will be presented in the 102-seat Shiva Theater at The Public from December 2 to December 20, 2006

The Williamstown Theatre Festival will present two world premieres next week--of Cusi Cram's Lucy and the Conquest as well as of the hip hop musical Demon Dreams

Emmy Rossum and Sharon Lawrence will respectively play Juliet and Anything Goes' Reno Sweeney at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, running from July 6th through August 27th

Malcolm Gets, Matt Cavenaugh, Beth Fowler, Kerry Butler, and Kristine Nielsen--as well as Kathleen Turner in her theatrical directing debut--will be among the participating stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in MA, running from July 6th through August 27th

Five new plays will be presented as part of Primary Stage's Dorothy Strelsin Fresh Ink Readings series from May 16th through 20th

The Douglas J. Cohen musical The Opposite of Sex--previously seen in San Francisco--will be one of the shows presented as part of this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) presents the second developmental production of the 2005-06 season, ALL THE BAD THINGS by Cusi Cram, directed by Paula Pizzi. ALL THE BAD THINGS will begin performances tomorrow, Wednesday, February 15th at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) for 15 performances only through Sunday, March 5th.

Love, a one-night only benefit performance that will feature readings of short plays about love by some of today's hottest young women playwrights, will be presented on February 13th

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) presents the second developmental production of the 2005-06 season, ALL THE BAD THINGS by Cusi Cram, directed by Paula Pizzi. ALL THE BAD THINGS will begin performances on Wednesday, February 15th at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) for 15 performances only through Sunday, March 5th.