The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Poole this autumn with Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, which runs at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts from Tuesday November 10.
Westport Country Playhouse will present 'A Conversation with Playwright David Hare,' whose works include the plays 'Plenty' and 'Stuff Happens,' and the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film 'The Reader,' on Friday, October 16, following the 8 p.m. performance of his play, 'The Breath of Life.' Directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, 'The Breath of Life' features Jane Alexander and Stockard Channing.
The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Poole this autumn with Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, which runs at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts from Tuesday November 10.
Westport Country Playhouse will present 'A Conversation with Playwright David Hare,' whose works include the plays 'Plenty' and 'Stuff Happens,' and the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film 'The Reader,' on Friday, October 16, following the 8 p.m. performance of his play, 'The Breath of Life.' Directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, 'The Breath of Life' features Jane Alexander and Stockard Channing.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'The Personal Is Political: The Work of David Hare,' following the Sunday, October 4, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'The Breath of Life,' written by Hare and directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director. Guest speaker will be Susan Balée, who teaches at Temple University.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'The Personal Is Political: The Work of David Hare,' following the Sunday, October 4, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'The Breath of Life,' written by Hare and directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director. Guest speaker will be Susan Balée, who teaches at Temple University.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will tour Roy Williams' acclaimed and blisteringly topical play, Days of Significance, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxford, Coventry, Poole, Cardiff and Salford in October and November 2009.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, '?That Championship Season': Rediscovering an American Classic,' following the Sunday, August 30, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'That Championship Season.' Guest speaker will be Bernard Gersten, executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater and former associate producer of The Public Theater in New York (1960 - 1978), in which capacity he was the associate producer of the original production of 'That Championship Season.'
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, '?That Championship Season': Rediscovering an American Classic,' following the Sunday, August 30, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'That Championship Season.' Guest speaker will be Bernard Gersten, executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater and former associate producer of The Public Theater in New York (1960 - 1978), in which capacity he was the associate producer of the original production of 'That Championship Season.'
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'A Conversation About the Work of Alan Ayckbourn,' following the Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Ayckbourn's classic comedy 'How The Other Half Loves.' Guest speaker will be Howard Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing. The symposium will be a free-ranging discussion about the playwright, his influences and his impact on the modern theatre.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'A Conversation About the Work of Alan Ayckbourn,' following the Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Ayckbourn's classic comedy 'How The Other Half Loves.' Guest speaker will be Howard Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing. The symposium will be a free-ranging discussion about the playwright, his influences and his impact on the modern theatre.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'A Conversation About the Work of Alan Ayckbourn,' following the Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Ayckbourn's classic comedy 'How The Other Half Loves.' Guest speaker will be Howard Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing. The symposium will be a free-ranging discussion about the playwright, his influences and his impact on the modern theatre.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium titled, 'A Conversation About the Work of Alan Ayckbourn,' following the Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Ayckbourn's classic comedy 'How The Other Half Loves.' Guest speaker will be Howard Sherman, executive director of the American Theatre Wing. The symposium will be a free-ranging discussion about the playwright, his influences and his impact on the modern theatre.
Mark Lamos will direct 'That Championship Season' at Westport Country Playhouse, his first production since being named artistic director in February 2009 at the historic theater in Westport, Connecticut. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 'That Championship Season' by Jason Miller will be the fifth production in the Playhouse's six-play 2009 season. It will run August 25 through September 12.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium, 'A Conversation with Director Scott Schwartz,' following the Sunday, June 28, 3 p.m. matinee performance of the musical, 'tick, tick...BOOM!, which Schwartz directs. He also helmed the original off-Broadway production of 'tick, tick... BOOM!,' winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium, 'A Conversation with A. R. Gurney,' following the Sunday, May 31, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Gurney's vital and insightful family drama, 'Children.'
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium, 'A Conversation with Mark Brown,' following the Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'Around the World in 80 Days,' written by Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.
Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium, 'A Conversation with Mark Brown,' following the Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m. matinee performance of 'Around the World in 80 Days,' written by Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.