Edge Theater News

Edge Theater Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theater Workshop and Playwrights Horizons are some of the organizations that will take part in the 4th Annual Off-Broadway Blood Drive on June 11th.

The Irish Repertory Theatre will host a New Works Reading Series to support new plays and emerging playwrights.

Playwrights Horizons and Edge Theater are presenting the world premiere of Essential Self-Defense, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Adam Rapp

Heather Goldenhersh and Paul Sparks will star in Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, and Josh Charles have been added to the list of celebrity Bingo callers for Edge Theater's Bingo Night 2007, a benefit for the theater company that will take place Monday, February 12 at 8pm at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street.

Edge Theater artistic director Carolyn Cantor and producer David Korins have announced that Bingo Night 2007, a benefit for the theater company, will take place Monday, February 12 at 8pm at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street. This year's celebrity Bingo callers include Patricia Clarkson and Will Forte.

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce its 2006-07 Season, exciting new productions that will usher in The Public's next 50 years as one of the nation's leading producers of Shakespeare and new work.

Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense will have its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons in spring of 2007

The 51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, Off Broadway's highest honor, were handed out last tonight at the Skirball Center on the campus of New York University in a ceremony hosted by Lili Taylor and Eric Bogosian presented by S. Epatha Merkerson, Christine Ebersole, Edward Hibbert, Douglas Carter Beane, Phylicia Rashad and Oskar Eustis.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director; Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) presents the New York premiere of a provocative new play by Christopher Denham (star of Red Light Winter), directed by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, 'Winter Passing').

Time/Unstuck, an evening by The Gang of Four, EST's young directors' residency, will feature new plays by Neal Bell and Bathsheba Doran, and run from April 20th through 30th

The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.

RED LIGHT WINTER, a new play written and directed by Adam Rapp, will begin rehearsals in New York tomorrow.

On December 30, 2005, the Blue Heron Arts Center closed its doors.

A number of new plays from France will come to off-Broadway's 59E509 Theatres this November as part of the Act French Festival

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).