David Lindsay-Abaire News

Silver Spring Stage presents Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? directed by Craig Allen Mummey offering with humor and pathos the most unexpected twists and turns of a family and a husband's surprising love. The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? will perform weekends October 30 to November 22.

Crabby but endearing Gustin Novak reflects on the women he has loved over his 88 years in Noah Haidle's latest play, Saturn Returns, which will make its West Coast premiere on South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom Stage Oct. 23 through Nov. 22.

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire directed by Rick Tuman Auditions: Monday, November 2 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 4 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.

SHREK THE MUSICAL®, the Tony Award®-winning production, will play its final performance on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. following 441 performances and 37 previews. SHREK THE MUSICAL® will launch a national tour at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited engagement, July 13 - September 5, 2010.

SHREK THE MUSICAL®, the Tony Award®-winning production, will play its final performance on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. following 441 performances and 37 previews. SHREK THE MUSICAL® will launch a national tour at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited engagement, July 13 - September 5, 2010.

Montblanc presents the 9 th annual THE 24 HOUR PLAYS ON BROADWAY on Monday, November 9 th 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre. Proceeds benefit Urban Arts Partnership, a not-for-profit organization that brings vital arts education programs into New York City public school classrooms.

Orange County, California, 1975. For Walter Wells, it's the happiest place on earth. He has a beautiful wife. Two great kids. A house with a pool. Contentment. Until fate strikes a devastating blow, leaving Walter with no reason to put the pieces of his life back together. He resists attempts to help, especially the unexpected - and unwanted - offer from a Vietnamese refugee named Bao Ngo, who bears his own sadness. Then, across a cultural divide, Walter and Bao find a game to share, a song, a meal and then a way back in this uplifting - and surprisingly funny - new play by a rising star in American theatre.

South Coast Repertory will present the world premiere of The Happy Ones, the story of an Orange County man who must rediscover his optimism in the wake of tragedy, on the Julianne Argyros Stage Sept. 27 - Oct. 18.

SHORTS: DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE will play the VoxBox Theatre beginning tonight through November 7th. The play combines three one act plays by writer David Lindsay-Abaire, best known for the Pullitzer Prize winning Rabbit Hole and as the book writer for SHREK: THE MUSICAL.

In the Chicago Tribune yesterday, theater critic Chris Jones reports that Shrek originals Brian D'Arcy James (Shek), Sutton Foster (Princess Fiona) and Christopher Sieber (Lord Farquaad) are scheduled to attend a preview event later this month surrounding the announcement of the Shrek National Tour, reported to be kicking off at Chicago's Ford Center for the Performing Arts in June 2010.

Beowulf Alley Theatre at 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown Tucson between Broadway and Congress, presents Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. Sara Falconer makes her directorial debut at Beowulf Alley with this powerful production that earned the 2006 Tony Award for Best New Play and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Carmel Community Players kicks off its season of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with its production of Rabbit Hole on Thursday, October 15th. It will be the first production for CCP since moving into the new Carmel Community Playhouse at Clay Terrace.

The prestigious STAGE International Script Competition, which awards a $10,000 prize to the best new play about science and technology, is now accepting scripts for its fourth round. The deadline for entries is December 15, 2009.

Actress Cynthia Nixon today, who travelled down from New York with the group spoke to the assembled masses and we're proud to bring you the video.

RABBIT HOLE, currently playing at the Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, is set to close October 11th. This production marks the Baltimore premiere of the play written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Vincent M. Lancisi.

The Orange Girls Theatre company wraps up its 2009 season with the journey of a seemingly stereotypical housewife as she attempts to rewrite the story of her life in David Lindsay-Abaire's screwball comedy WONDER OF THE WORLD, presented September 25 through October 11 at COCA's Anheuser-Busch Black Box Theater.

South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2009-10 Season with Putting It Together, a compilation of Stephen Sondheim songs, that the composer put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, creating a narrative set at a cocktail party in an elegant Manhattan condo. The non-traditional musical, led by Broadway and television star Harry Groener, has a cast of five (a glamorous but slightly jaded couple, a starry-eyed younger couple and a savvy observer) who sing more than 30 songs that reflect their lives, lifestyles and moods of the moment. Some of the songs will be familiar, some less so, a few were even cut from their original musical scores, but they are all sophisticated, smart and drop-dead droll. All, in other words, Sondheim.

Hudson Stage recently announced that its fall production, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, RABBIT HOLE, by Kimberly Akimbo and 'Shrek' playwright David Lindsay Abaire, will be its fall mainstage production. Today, the theater company has announced the cast will be completed by Susannah Schulman, who will star alongside Tony Carlin as the heartbroken parents the take center stage in the piece.

RABBIT HOLE, currently playing at the Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, is set to close October 11th. This production marks the Baltimore premiere of the play written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Vincent M. Lancisi.

After 17 years, Tony n' Tina are heading on their honeymoon. The Route 66 Theatre Company will present the Chicago premiere of HIGH FIDELITY...THE MUSICAL, in its first major production since its Broadway run in 2006.