Edinburgh International Festival News

Nathalie Armin, Paul Bhattacharjee, Simon Chandler, Michael Cochrane, Tariq Jordan, Belinda Lang, Shereen Martin, Daniel Rabin, Simon Rouse, Rick Warden and David Yip comprise the cast for THE BOMB - a partial history.

Belt Up Theatre's runaway success returns to London for a limited three week run at The Goldsmith as part of Southwark Playhouse's 'Out and About' initiative.

The Abu Dhabi Festival, one of the United Arab Emirates' premier arts events, this year reaches its ninth edition, with its largest and most ambitious programme to date, featuring celebrated artists in new commissions and Arab World Premieres.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that the Claire Tow Theater, its newest stage at Lincoln Center and the future home to its programming initiative LCT3, will open in June with the LCT3 world premiere production of SLOWGIRL, a new play by Greg Pierce.

BroadwayWorld.com reported the news exclusively on January 9, 2012 and now the The Public Theater has officially announced the line-up for the 50th Anniversary Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte. Daniel Sullivan, who directed acclaimed productions of All's Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night in the Park, will return to direct AS YOU LIKE IT in June with Lily Rabe as Rosalind. The second show of the 50th Anniversary summer season will be Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved musical INTO THE WOODS, directed by Timothy Sheader with co-direction by Liam Steel. Based on the Olivier Award-winning Regent's Park Open Air Theatre London production in 2010, The Public Theater's INTO THE WOODS will be an all new production with an American cast and designers and will be staged in one of the most beautiful outdoor venues in the world-the Delacorte Theater. INTO THE WOODS will begin performances at the end of July.

Performance Space 122's contemporary performance festival, COIL, returns in an expanded edition for its seventh year.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Patrick Willingham) will present the return of GATZ, the theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this spring for a limited seven-week engagement.

Performance Space 122's contemporary performance festival, COIL, returns in an expanded edition for its seventh year.

Belt Up Theatre's runaway success returns to London for a limited three week run at The Goldsmith as part of Southwark Playhouse's 'Out and About' initiative.

Shen Wei Dance Arts celebrates its 10th Anniversary Season from November 29 - December 4, 2011 at Park Avenue Armory with the World Premiere of Shen Wei's Undivided Divided, an ambitious site-specific work commissioned by the Armory, where the company has been Artists-in-Residence for the past sixteen months. Park Avenue Armory is located at 643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets), New York City. Tickets are $35 and are available by calling the Park Avenue Armory Ticket Hotline at (212) 933-5812 or by visiting www.ArmoryonPark.org.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) has announced a new theatre company, Theatre Royal Brighton Productions, which will present classic drama both on tour and in the West End, under the Artistic Direction of Christopher Luscombe, with Associate Directors Maria Aitken and Philip Franks.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company welcomes Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt to the company's stage in Samuel Beckett's one-man show, Krapp's Last Tape.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) announced today that GATZ, the critically lauded theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, will return to The Public Theater this spring for a limited seven-week engagement. Created by Elevator Repair Service, this award-winning theatrical event, directed by John Collins and featuring Scott Shepherd as Nick, will begin previews on Wednesday, March 14 and run through Sunday, May 6 for 28 performances only in the Newman Theater. Member tickets go on sale on Monday, November 21 with single tickets on sale in early January.

New York's the TEAM Explores the Collapse of American Capitalism in the Contemporary Musical Mission Drift. U.S. premiere to be presented January 8-29 as part of Performance Space 122's 2012 COIL Festival.

Shen Wei Dance Arts celebrates its 10th Anniversary Season from November 29 - December 4, 2011 at Park Avenue Armory with the World Premiere of Shen Wei's Undivided Divided, an ambitious site-specific work commissioned by the Armory, where the company has been Artists-in-Residence for the past sixteen months. Park Avenue Armory is located at 643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets), New York City. Tickets are $35 and are available by calling the Park Avenue Armory Ticket Hotline at (212) 933-5812 or by visiting www.ArmoryonPark.org.

London 2012 today launched the programme for the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK, opening on Midsummer's Day 21 June and running until 9 September 2012.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company welcomes Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt to the company's stage in Samuel Beckett's one-man show, Krapp's Last Tape.

Performance Space 122's 2012 COIL Festival to premiere experimental dance, theater and performance works from around the world, January 5-29.