This fall at Hartford Stage, please join translator and dramaurg Elizabeth Williamson and special guests for events and discussions, featuring 'Macbeth, Shakespeare and the Historical Context' and more.
Hartford Stage translator and dramaturg Elizabeth Williamson will host special events for La Dispute, featuring Marivaux & 18thCentury French Comedy, Translating and Adapting the Classics Now, and more.
Single tickets go on sale today, September 13, for Theatre for a New Audience's inaugural production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by multiple Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with original music composed by Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Elliot Goldenthal, at the Theatre's newly-named building, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts, presents Classical Repertory for a New Generation, the theatre's new initiative to produce two classics in repertory each season, featuring a new adaptation of Marivaux's La Dispute, in repertory with Shakespeare's Macbeth, both directed by Tresnjak, the first shows of the Tony Award-winning theatre's 50th Anniversary Season.
Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director, announced that Theatre for a New Audience's first home in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District will be named Polonsky Shakespeare Center in recognition of a $10 million gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
The Coterie, a downtown New York-based music theater company, goes uptown to the Church of the Advent Hope (111 East 87th Street) tonight, September 9th at 8:00pm to present their latest concert of seven world premieres and past favorites celebrating the company's commitment to musical storytelling, from operatic arias and art song to indy rock jams and musical theater numbers.
Producers Joey Parnes and John Arthur Pinckard announced today that Lisa O'Hare, Lauren Worsham, Jane Carr, Pamela Bob, Joanna Glushak, Eddie Korbich, Jeff Kready, Mark Ledbetter, Jennifer Smith, Don Stephenson, Price Waldman, and Catherine Walker will join the previously announced stars, Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham, in Broadway's bloody brilliant new musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Following critically acclaimed, smash-hit runs at Hartford Stage and San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will begin performances on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, and officially open on Sunday, November 17.
Three-time Tony Award-nominated actor Marc Kudisch (Thoroughly Modern Millie, 9 to 5, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) joins Lauren Worsham (Dog Days, Where's Charley?), Joshua Jeremiah (Anna Nicole, La Perichole), Katie Thompson (Giant), Theresa McCarthy (Queen of the Mist, Floyd Collins, Titanic), Eve Gigliotti (Dark Sisters, Die Walkure at the Metropolitan Opera), Amelia Watkins (Sumeida's Song, Song from the Uproar), Jeff Gavett (loadbang), Cree Carrico (New York Philharmonic's Carousel) in singing for 'The Coterie: Downtown/Uptown.'
The Public Theater and Theatre for a New Audience will present three special screenings of Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory's most beloved films, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, Vanya on 42nd Street, and My Dinner With Andre, at Joe's Pub at The Public in August. These three screenings are presented as part of the current retrospective, The Wallace Shawn-Andre Gregory Project, celebrating the 40-year collaboration between these two artists.
Producers Joey Parnes and John Arthur Pinckard announced today that Bryce Pinkham will star in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder when it premieres on Broadway this fall, opposite Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays. Following critically acclaimed, smash-hit runs at Hartford Stage and San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will begin performances on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, and officially open on Sunday, November 17.
Founded in 1979 by its Artistic Director, Jeffrey Horowitz, Theatre for a New Audience's next act is about to begin with the opening of its Center for Shakespeare and Classical Drama in Brooklyn. The inaugural production is Julie Taymor's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare with original music by Elliot Goldenthal. Previews begin October 19 for an opening on November 2.
Theater for a New Audience has announced its 2013-2014 inaugural season, featuring A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, directed by Julie Taymor, KING LEAR, featuring Michael Pennington, and THE KILLER, starring Michael Shannon. Details below!
Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts, today announced the casts and creative team for Classical Repertory for a New Generation, the theatre's new initiative to produce two classics in repertory each season, featuring a new adaptation of Marivaux's La Dispute, in repertory with Shakespeare's Macbeth, both directed by Tresnjak, the first shows of the Tony Award-winning theatre's 50th Anniversary Season.
Single tickets for Hartford Stage's 50th Anniversary Season, are now on sale as of today, July 15, with 'Christmas in July' special offers on tickets purchased through July 31.
The Past Presidents Council of the Board of Hartford Stage invite you to save the dates for its 50th Anniversary celebrations, including a 50 Year Retrospective: A Conversation with all Five Artistic Directors on November 3, 2013; the Hartford Stage 50th Anniversary Celebration on November 4, 2013; and the Party in the Paint Shop: 50th Anniversary Gala on April 26, 2014.
Single tickets for Hartford Stage's 50th Anniversary Season, will go on sale Monday, July 15, with 'Christmas in July' special offers on tickets purchased through July 31.
The Public Theater and Theatre for a New Audience will present three special screenings of Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory's most beloved films, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, Vanya on 42nd Street, and My Dinner With Andre, at Joe's Pub at The Public in August. These three screenings are presented as part of the current retrospective, The Wallace Shawn-Andre Gregory Project, celebrating the 40-year collaboration between these two artists.
Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Jill Adams, Board President, Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director, and Michael Stotts, Managing Director, elected new members to its Board of Directors and elected a new Life Director at its Annual Meeting. Elected as new Board members for an initial two year term are noted community leaders Patti Broad; William P. Herdegen, III; Margaret Marchak; Christopher J. Rixon; Robin L. Smith; Peter L. Tedone; and C. Robert Zelinger. Elected as Life Director is George L. Estes, III.
The education department at Hartford Stage launches a new MainStage MasterClass series for adults beginning in June, featuring two special topic workshops, Clown for Actors and Melodrama, taught by distinguished guest artist, Gregor Paslawsky, appearing on Hartford Stage's MainStage this spring in Twelfth Night.
Hartford Stage's presentation of TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by Darko Tresnjak, is so sumptuous, so pleasing to look at and so cleverly staged that it's possible our appetite for any other setting for William Shakespeare's classic might be slaked.
