Edge Theater News

What happens when you love your family too much?

Public Theater has announced the line-up today for The Public's 2012-2013 Season, beginning in the fall with an October rededication of The Public's historic downtown building. The season continues the theater's nearly 60 year tradition of developing new theatrical voices and presenting Shakespeare to the entire New York community.

Japan Society proudly presents Kabuki Dance, led by master dancer Bando Kotoji, as part of the Society's Performing Arts Season spanning Fall 2011 through Spring 2012. This extraordinary traditional program plays three performances only Thursday, March 29 - Saturday, March 31 at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) as part of a five city East Coast Tour organized by Japan Society and funded by The Japan Foundation in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees to Washington, DC and New York City.

Unexpected loss leads to an unlikely love story.

LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y, (344 E. 14th St., NYC) and the Jewish Plays Project are proud to announce the new program OPEN, which is seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. The residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques. The Residency runs from June 11 - July 1, 2012. Proposals are due by March 15th, 2012 at 6 pm. The announcement of the artists selected will be made on April 16th, 2012.

Japan Society proudly presents Kabuki Dance, led by master dancer Bando Kotoji, as part of the Society's Performing Arts Season spanning Fall 2011 through Spring 2012. This extraordinary traditional program plays three performances only Thursday, March 29 - Saturday, March 31 at Japan Society (333 East 47th Street) as part of a five city East Coast Tour organized by Japan Society and funded by The Japan Foundation in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees to Washington, DC and New York City.

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced full casting for the upcoming world premiere of REGRETS by Matt Charman, directed by Carolyn Cantor.

LABA: The National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y, (344 E. 14th St., NYC) and the Jewish Plays Project are proud to announce the new program OPEN, which is seeking five collaborative teams of theater artists for a three-week pilot residency program. The residency is designed to give selected artists time, space and support to create vibrant new work that extends the Jewish conversation through cutting-edge theater forms and techniques. The Residency runs from June 11 - July 1, 2012. Proposals are due by March 15th, 2012 at 6 pm. The announcement of the artists selected will be made on April 16th, 2012.

Rosette C. Lamont, a renowned theater critic, eminent author, distinguished teacher and leading authority on the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, died on January 5, 2012 in Falmouth, Massachusetts after a lengthy illness.

Japan Society will present a staged reading of Our Planet by Japan's celebrated young writer Yukio Shiba, directed by OBIE award winner Alec Duffy. As part of Japan Society's Performing Arts Season spanning Fall 2011 through Spring 2012, Our Planet is a presentation of the Society's annual Play Reading Series of contemporary Japanese plays in English translation.

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox will return to MTC this spring in REGRETS, the new play by Matt Charman. This world premiere production will be directed by Carolyn Cantor (After The Revolution, for which she recently received the Callaway award, and Pumpgirl). REGRETS will now begin previews Thursday, March 8, 2012 and open Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I.

A biting view of love, betrayal and the search for redemption.

Japan Society presents the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea as the launch to its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season.

Japan Society presents the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea as the launch to its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season.

The Lark Play Development Center announced the 2011-12 Playwriting Fellows receiving residencies in its eleven-year-old Playwrights' Workshop program.

Japan Society's Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season kicks off in September with the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea and continues with two not-to-be-missed music events: J-Music Ride featuring Cibo Matto & Yu Sakai (October), and Turntable Duo: Otomo Yoshihide + Christian Marclay (November) which is part of Performa 11.

Japan Society presents the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea as the launch to its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season.

Japan Society presents the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) production of Medea as the launch to its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season.

Japan Society has announced its Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Performing Arts Season, presenting works by visionary artists in the disciplines of theater, music and dance.

The Charlestown Working Theater Presents the Final Production of Its International Contemporary Performance Series: The Natasha Plays by Russian Playwright Yaroslava Pulinovich. Directed by Stephen Nunns, Translated by John Freedman. Presented with Towson University's School of Theatre Arts. Charlestown, MA: The Charlestown Working Theater presents The Natasha Plays, a triptych of monologues by one of Russia's freshest new theatrical voices, 23-year-old Yaroslava Pulinovich. Natasha's Dream, tells the story of a 16-year-old orphan, Natasha Banina (Julia M. Smith), who finds herself experiencing the first rustlings of love-with dire consequences. The second monologue, I Won, chronicles the upward mobility of another teenager, Natasha Vernikova (Sarah Lloyd), who is a middle-class overachiever who lets nothing get in the way of her personal and professional success. Finally, there is Epilogue, a short piece in which yet another Natasha (Shannon McPhee) offers up a love letter to her favorite pop star, Dima Bilan.