David Hare News

The Company will begin and end their 45th season with world premiere plays

New season subscription packages on sale today for CanStage's 2008/09 season. Doubt, Frost/Nixon and Blackbird, are among the highlights.

Harriet Thorpe is to star as 'Madame Morrible' in the smash hit musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre from Monday April 14, 2008.

Directed by Indhu Rubasingham and performed by Holly Aird, Cavan Clerkin, Brendan Coyle, Amanda Drew, John Marquez and Javone Prince, Chain Play II will be performed for one night only on 29 February 2008 at 7.30pm.

Alex Jennings will make his ENO debut as Doctor Pangloss/Voltaire in Robert Carsen's new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide; opens June 23, 2008 at the London Coliseum for 13 performances only.

After the huge success of the Almeida's fundraising event in March this year, the theatre has invited writers Stephen Adly Guirgis, Richard Bean, Neil LaBute, Abi Morgan, Mike Poulton and Tanya Ronder to write Chain Play II. Performed for one night only on 29 February 2008 at 7:30PM

Straight from London's National Theatre to L.A. Theatre Works, Stacy Keach and Julian Sands star in the American Premiere of David Hare's streamlined version of Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo. LATW opens its 2007-08 season with five performances at the Skirball Cultural Center, October 17-21, each recorded to air on LATW's nationally-syndicated weekly radio theater series, 'The Play's The Thing.'

The 87th edition of 'The Best Plays Theater Yearbook' has been released by Limelight Editions ($49.95, 562 pages).

The Theatre Royal Haymarket has announced a season of shows directed by Jonathan Kent.

The Ogunquit Playhouse has announced that Maxwell Caulfield and James Beaman will star in its production of La Cage aux Folles.

The Public Theater has announced that The Donmar Warehouse in London, in association with producer Arielle Tepper Madover, will present a staged reading of Winter Miller's In Darfur on July 9, the same day that The Public will host a reading of the play at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

The Public Theater has announced the participants for the talkback to follow the free staged reading of Winter Miller's In Darfur in Central Park.

reports that Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce will be among the stars of a new HBO Films project, which will feature a teleplay by award-winning British playwright David Hare.

The Public Theater has announce that casting is complete for A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Daniel Sullivan, the second and final production of Shakespeare in the Park's 'Summer of Love.'

The Public Theater will present free staged reading of Winter Miller's acclaimed play In Darfur at Central Park's Delacorte Theater on July 9th.

HBO might soon be bringing the one-woman play The Year of Magical Thinking, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a Drama Desk Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated performance, to the small screen.

Walt Disney Pictures premiered 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End' May 19 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, with Broadway and Film stars clashing on the high seas...

On Friday, May 11 at 12 AM on Thirteen, 'Theater Talk' will welcome legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave, now starring on Broadway in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.

THE LEAGUE OF OFF-BROADWAY THEATRES AND PRODUCERS today presented THE 22nd ANNUAL LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT OFF-BROADWAY at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

We talk to Steven Tomlinson whose one-man show, 'American Fiesta' is currently playing at the Vineyard Theatre.