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Emmy nominee David Schwimmer will direct workshop of Stephen Belber's Fault Lines as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, August 2-3

Emmy nominee David Schwimmer will direct workshop of Stephen Belber's Fault Lines as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, August 2-3

A combined Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, two Pulitzer finalists, the team whose musical just about swept the 2007 Tonys, the creator of the iconic Vagina Monologues, and an award-winning comedy writer will all debut new theater works this summer on the Vassar College campus.

National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) will hold its Annual Chairman's Awards Gala and benefit on Monday, April 14 at New York's Cipriani's Pegasus (30 Rockefeller Plaza).

The 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Judith Thompson for her critically acclaimed play Palace of the End, marking the first time a Canadian writer has received the prestigious playwriting award's highest honor. Thompson received $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning at a special 30th Anniversary ceremony on Monday, March 10th at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas where Ms. Blackburn first became involved in theatre.

The Fire Dept will present an expanded and updated version of its acclaimed At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq, an evening of alternately moving, haunting, and funny material by noted and emerging American playwrights, woven together to present a kaleidoscope of views on the war.

The Public Theater is pleased to announce the provocative line up for 'Under the Radar' 2008, a twelve-day festival tracking new theater from across the U.S. and around the world. $15 single tickets to UTR shows at The Public will go on-sale on Friday, December 7.

The 2007 LA Stage Alliance Ovation nominees have been announced. Celebrating excellence in Los Angeles Theatre, the awards will be presented on November 12 at 7:30PM at The Orpheum Theatre (842 S. Broadway, Downtown LA).

Wynn Handman, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre was toasted by a gathering of theater and film luminaries at a reception in his honor

Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.

Eight acclaimed playwrights have been chosen by the Lucille Lortel Foundation as the recipients of eight $50,000 fellowships

New Theatre Company Opening in NYC In October

The new theatre company, The Fire Dept, founded by Neil LaBute, Kathleen Chalfant, Janeane Garafalo and more, will launch with the new collaborative play SpeakEasy

The League of Professional Theatre Women, in association with the theater department of Marymount Manhattan College, will present Women at the Barricades: Playwrights Political Vision, a panel bringing together seven award-winning dramatists to talk about their political plays and the political issues that stir them to create

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2005. The 37th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place Monday, March 13 at the El Portal Theatre, located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood.

On October 24th, dozens of stars such as Adam Pascal, Rosie Perez, Cady Huffman, Amanda Peet, as well as a number of prominent writers and directors will take part in the 24 Hour Plays at the American Airlines Theatre

The Arden Theatre Company's production of Sweeney Todd received the most Barrymore Awards, with Elegies: A Song Cycle, Take Me Out, Chasing Nicolette, The Lives of Bosie and more as other winners of the Philadelphia-area awards

Rosie Perez, Lili Taylor, Amanda Peet, Ben Shenkman and others will be some of the stars and David Lindsay-Abaire and Warren Leight some of the playwrights to take part in The 24 Hour Plays on October 24th

The Arden Theatre Company's staging of Sweeney Todd earned the most Barrymore nominations this season; Bill Irwin and Bronson Pinchot are also nominees

Two-time Tony Award winner John Cullum will star opposite Tony Award-winner Rosemary Harris in the theatre's American premiere production of The Other Side.