Donald Margulies News

As the New Jewish Theatre continues its Bat Mitzvah Season, we take another look at Father-Son relationships with Donald Margulies' brilliant BROOKLYN BOY which opens with a preview performance on Wednesday, December 2 and runs through December 20. For this production, we will once again return to Clayton High School's more intimate Little Theatre.

Actors Theatre of Louisville present an adaptation of 'Crime and Punishment', as three actors play out Dostoevsky's classic tale as a 90-minute psychological drama-feverishly reliving the events leading up to the grisly crime, uncovering a fascinating mind and motive, and exploring the tenuous path toward redemption. The show runs from January 5 to January 31.

Nashville native Lane Wright has long been a mainstay on local stages, performing for virtually every Music City-based theatre company in a wide variety of roles. During this holiday season, he's been entertaining audiences at the Darkhorse Theatre as one of playwright/director Bob O'Connell's cowboys in Christmas on the Pecos, concluding its world premiere run this weekend. Coming fresh off his run as a communist spy in the Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre production of See How They Run, which came right after his performance in Boiler Room Theatre's production of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile - it's clear that he's one Nashville actor who always seems to be working.

The American Theatre Wing is pleased to present its original book, The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays that Influenced Them, now on shelves.

Furious Theatre Company announces three premiere comedies for its seventh season. Season 7 promises 'three shots of theatre adrenaline' from three daring young award-winning playwrights.

The Drama Book Shop is offers free discussion with Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theater Wing and Ben Hodges (editor), followed by a signing of The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays that Influenced Them on Tuesday, December 15 at 5:30 p.m.

The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them

The 2010 New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend will take place January 7 to 10. The Times's signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews between New York Times journalists and celebrated guests from film, media, music, television and theater.

The Drama Book Shop will host a talkback in conjunction with The American Theatre Wing's just released and highly praised new book, The American Theatre Wing presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays that Influenced Them

Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE is currently in its final week. The acclaimed limited engagement, directed by Tony Award winner Joseph Hardy, will play its final performance on Sunday, December 13 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I.

Have you ever wondered what it was like to swim in a giant martini? The SpyAnts Theatre Company presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, 'bobrauschenbergamerica'.  Director Bart DeLorenzo teams up with choreographer Ken Roht to dish up Mee's rollicking collage-montage tribute to Robert Rauschenberg that captures the happy, improvisational quality of the artist's singular vision. 'bobrauschenbergamerica' opens at [Inside] the Ford on January 23, with Pay-What-You-Can previews on January 21 and 22.

The New York Times announced today the ninth annual Arts & Leisure Weekend, Jan. 7 to 10. The Times's signature event is a four-day celebration of the arts featuring TimesTalks interviews between New York Times journalists and celebrated guests from film, media, music, television and theater.

Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE is currently in its final week. The acclaimed limited engagement, directed by Tony Award winner Joseph Hardy, will play its final performance on Sunday, December 13 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I.

In January, South Africa's master dramatist comes back to Berkeley Repertory Theatre with his latest show: Coming Home.

Fasten your seat belt and bring your Dramamine for this rollicking high seas adventure. You'll have to decide for yourself if truth is stranger than fiction, but 'Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Etc.)' lives up to its title.

As the New Jewish Theatre continues its Bat Mitzvah Season, we take another look at Father-Son relationships with Donald Margulies' brilliant BROOKLYN BOY which opens with a preview performance on Wednesday, December 2 and runs through December 20. For this production, we will once again return to Clayton High School's more intimate Little Theatre.

The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Polly Stenham's THAT FACE will be directed by Sarah Benson (Blasted, Artistic Director of Soho Rep) and will feature three-time Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel (Top Girls, 50 Words). THAT FACE will begin previews on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I for a Tuesday, May 18, 2010 opening night.

Producers Angelo Fraboni and Daryl Roth have announced that the New York premiere of Vigil, written by Morris Panych and directed by Stephen DiMenna, will begin performances Sunday, September 20, at 3pm at the DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15 Street, east of Union Square. The opening is scheduled for Tuesday, September 29 at 7pm.

As the New Jewish Theatre continues its Bat Mitzvah Season, we take another look at Father-Son relationships with Donald Margulies' brilliant BROOKLYN BOY which opens with a preview performance on Wednesday, December 2 and runs through December 20. For this production, we will once again return to Clayton High School's more intimate Little Theatre.