David Mitchell News

The special program broadcast from the Royal Shakespeare Company is part of a variety of BBC shows commemorating the 400th anniversary of The Bard's passing.

New Musicals at 54 is a series presented by Feinstein's/ 54 Below Programming Director Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Some of the 10 new and diverse musicals by a selection of today's most talented writers have had out-of-town productions, some have had workshops... now's your chance to be first to see them in NYC! Join us at New Musicals at 54 for one-night-only concerts celebrating each new show with songs, behind-the-scenes stories, and all-star casts!

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces three projects that have been selected for the 2015/16 Kogod Cradle Series as part of the American Voices New Play Institute. Focused on the development of new plays and devised work by artists from the Greater Washington, D.C. area and around the country, this series of readings and workshops invites artists and audiences to actively explore the new work development process.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present the WNY-Premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' comedy-drama Appropriate, opening tonight October 30th and running through Sunday November 22nd. Appropriate, winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play is a 'bilously funny' (Washington Post) and 'exceptionally brilliant piece of writing' (Time Out Chicago), and has garnered high critical praise for the skillfully crafted 'spectacle of flamboyant family dysfunction' (LA Times).

Road Less Traveled Productions will present Appropriate, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, from October 30 to November 22. 

Glen Street Theatre is excited to announce their 2016 season of entertainment at the beautiful Belrose venue. A diverse programme of drama, music, satire and comedy plus a series of kids shows promises something for everyone.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present the WNY-Premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' comedy-drama Appropriate, opening Friday October 30th and running through Sunday November 22nd. Appropriate, winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play is a "bilously funny" (Washington Post) and "exceptionally brilliant piece of writing" (Time Out Chicago), and has garnered high critical praise for the skillfully crafted "spectacle of flamboyant family dysfunction" (LA Times).

Atlantic Theater Company just announced the lineup for its 2015-16 Amplified Reading Series.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announces casting for First Look 2015, a program dedicated to new play development, today, August 11, through August 16, 2015 in the Upstairs Theatre (1650 N Halsted St). First Look 2015 features six staged readings, providing an early look at works-in-progress from some of the most dynamic playwrights in the field. The mission of First Look is to develop new plays for future production at Steppenwolf and other theaters across the country.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announces casting for First Look 2015, a program dedicated to new play development, August 11 - 16, 2015 in the Upstairs Theatre (1650 N Halsted St). First Look 2015 features six staged readings, providing an early look at works-in-progress from some of the most dynamic playwrights in the field. The mission of First Look is to develop new plays for future production at Steppenwolf and other theaters across the country.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is proud to announce the lineup for the 10th annual First Look, a program dedicated to new play development, August 11 - 16, 2015 in the Upstairs Theatre (1650 N Halsted St). Providing an early look at works-in-progress from some of the most dynamic playwrights in the field, First Look develops new plays for future production at Steppenwolf and other theaters across the country. Since its inception in 2005, First Look has developed 14 plays that have received subsequent world premiere productions at other theatres, as well as Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason, which premiered on the Steppenwolf stage.

American Repertory Theater of WNY is presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, now through March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, tonight, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Known as an existential comedy, PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE is Steve Martin's tongue-and-cheek poke at the deep philosophical pieces penned by French playwrights like Jean Paul Sartre or Eugene Ionesco. In this Victor Hugo a go-go knee-slapper, Martin creates an alternative universe where famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and famed theoretical romantic and painter Pablo Picasso meet at the Parisian bar Lapin Agile and wax philosophies, ponder existence, and, with help of a time-traveling 'country boy', brave the new 20th century world and the future beyond.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.

COMEDIAN Robert Webb leads the cast of Jeeves And Wooster In Perfect Nonsense at The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month.

With the 'first-half' of American Repertory Theater of WNY 2014-15 season in the history books, ART/WNY sets the company sights on a great 'second-half' with the two remaining presentations Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE and a showcase featuring local playwrights and their take on the 'other side' of regional history entitled RUST BELT GROTESQUE. In March, PICASSO AT LAPIN AGUILE starts the 2015 'second half' with a great cast and crew featuring Sean Marciniak as Picasso and Matthew Chavez as the famed Albert Einstein, Diane DiBernardo Blenk as the saucy bar-maid, Germain, with her bartender lover, Freddy, played by the versatile David Mitchell, Kaleidoscope Theatre's Keith Wharton joins the company as Picasso's art dealer Sagot, Both Stefan Brundage and Eric Mowery make their ART/WNY debut with Stefan playing the big dreaming/no knowledge inventor Charles Dabernow Schmendiman as Mowery plays a simple country-boy Visitor. ART/WNY alumni Leacel Hillenbrand (THE CRUCIBLE) and Michael Leszczynski (SHINE) fill in as ensemble as Thomas Dooney makes his second appearance as director for this existential funny-bone tickler.

Today we are celebrating one of the most popular musicals of the modern age in honor of the new film version opening today, ANNIE!

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, will produce six new plays in staged reading format at its National Showcase of New Plays, hosted this weekend, November 21-23 in Sarasota, FL by Florida Studio Theatre. A committee of artistic, managing and literary leaders from across the country selected plays by Kevin Artigue, Hilary Bettis, Kristiana Colon, Mfoniso Udofia, and Steve Yockey for the twelfth installment of the Showcase.