Donald Margulies News

The Primary Stages School of Theater (PSST) has announced a newly created Master Class Series that was created to provide students the chance to gain rare insight and experience from some of the finest working professionals in the theater.

Marriage, thy name is compromise. But when a family's core values are hypocrisy, lies, denial and enabling, it's a fair bet that relationships will be strained to the breaking point, as aptly demonstrated in the world premiere of Gene Ruffini's bittersweet drama TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH. Directed by Jessica Zweiman and produced by Theater for the New City, the play will begin performances at the company's Cino Theater at the TNC complex, located at 155 First Avenue, beginning on September 3rd.

Marriage, thy name is compromise. But when a family's core values are hypocrisy, lies, denial and enabling, it's a fair bet that relationships will be strained to the breaking point, as aptly demonstrated in the world premiere of Gene Ruffini's bittersweet drama TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH. Directed by Jessica Zweiman and produced by Theater for the New City, the play will begin performances at the company's Cino Theater at the TNC complex, located at 155 First Avenue, beginning on September 3rd.

The American Theatre Wing has announced that Applause Theatre & Cinema Books will publish its original book, The American Theatre Wing presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays that Influenced Them.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to present its first production of its 2009-2010 season.

Marriage, thy name is compromise. But when a family's core values are hypocrisy, lies, denial and enabling, it's a fair bet that relationships will be strained to the breaking point, as aptly demonstrated in the world premiere of Gene Ruffini's bittersweet drama TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH. Directed by Jessica Zweiman and produced by Theater for the New City, the play will begin performances at the company's Cino Theater at the TNC complex, located at 155 First Avenue, beginning on September 3rd.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the first production of its 2009-2010 season, the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's play OOHRAH!, directed by Evan Cabnet. The production will feature Cassie Beck, Sami Gayle, Darren Goldstein, J.R. Horne, Jennifer Mudge, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Maximilian Osinski.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting for the first production of its 2009-2010 season, the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's play OOHRAH!, directed by Evan Cabnet. The production will feature Cassie Beck, Sami Gayle, Darren Goldstein, J.R. Horne, Jennifer Mudge, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Maximilian Osinski.

Charles Busch and Julie Halston will host this year's Primary Stages 25th Anniversary Gala Benefit to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (109 East 42nd Street) on Monday, November 9, 2009. This year's 'Leading Ladies' Penny Fuller and Isabel Keating are set to perform and will be joined by Elysabeth Kleinhans, and celebrity guests Allison Janney, Marian Seldes and Elizabeth Wilson in helping Primary Stages celebrate their 25th Anniversary Season.

The Samuel J. Friedman box office (261 West 47th Street) opens today for single tickets to Manhattan Theatre Club's 2009-10 Broadway season.

Broadway comes to Ambler, as Act II Playhouse opens its 11th season in September with the Tony Award-winning hit play Boeing-Boeing. Act II Associate Artistic Director Harriet Power directs the post-Broadway world premiere of the smash-hit revival of Marc Camoletti's 1960s effervescent farce.

COYOTE REP Jeanne LaSala (Artistic Director) Glenn Kalison (Producing Director) Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Managing Director) presents The Summer Rising Moon Fundraiser Broadway's stars Andrew Samonsky, Jennifer Ferrin and Chad Goodridge along with Emily Ackerman, Blaire Brooks, Andrea Caban, and David Lee Nelson

Marriage, thy name is compromise. But when a family's core values are hypocrisy, lies, denial and enabling, it's a fair bet that relationships will be strained to the breaking point, as aptly demonstrated in the world premiere of Gene Ruffini's bittersweet drama TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH. Directed by Jessica Zweiman and produced by Theater for the New City, the play will begin performances at the company's Cino Theater at the TNC complex, located at 155 First Avenue, beginning on September 3rd.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the first production of its 2009-2010 season, the world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's play OOHRAH!, directed by Evan Cabnet. The production will feature Cassie Beck, Sami Gayle, Darren Goldstein, J.R. Horne, Jennifer Mudge, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Maximilian Osinski.

COYOTE REP Jeanne LaSala (Artistic Director) Glenn Kalison (Producing Director) Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Managing Director) presents The Summer Rising Moon Fundraiser Broadway's stars Andrew Samonsky, Jennifer Ferrin and Chad Goodridge along with Emily Ackerman, Blaire Brooks, Andrea Caban, and David Lee Nelson

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Tony Award winner Garry Hynes will direct the upcoming production of EQUIVOCATION which is a part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2009-2010 Off-Broadway season at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

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.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will join the cast of the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

Olney Theatre Center?s 72nd season takes audiences from ancient Greece and a childhood home in Dublin to a British country estate and the Big Apple. Subscription Season 2010 offers three professional area premieres among its varied upcoming productions.

The Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis proudly announces the 2009-2010 season, which includes one National New Play Network rolling World Premiere, five Midwest Premieres and two plays that have just ended their Broadway runs, The Most Damaging Wound by Blair Singer and Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute. Another highlight will be contemporary playwright Steven Dietz's Yankee Tavern produced at the Phoenix at the same time IRT will be presenting his play Becky's New Car, so that patrons can see two of Dietz's plays back to back on Indy stages.