Edward Albee News

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater continues its 16th season with the world premiere of There Are No More Big Secrets written by Obie Award-winner Heidi Schreck and directed by Kip Fagan.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 100th performance this Tuesday, October 19th.

Join some of the most talented playwrights of the American theater during the McCarterLab fall festival 2010, October 27 through November 5, to hear their newest plays aloud in this series of unstaged readings and special events.

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark concert venue (123 West 43rd Street), will honor Tony ® and Emmy ® Award winning theatre legend Elaine Stritch, (who is currently starring in A Little Night Music) and Merryl H. Tisch, (Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents) with The Town Hall 'Friend of the Arts' Award on Sunday, October 17th, 2010.

Court Theatre announces the final selection for the company's fifty-sixth season, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, pending final approval from Mr. Albee. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell.

According to Us Magazine, actor Neil Patrick Harris and longtime partner David Burtka have announced that their twins have arrived home. Gideon Scott and Harper Grace were welcomed into the world Tuesday with the help of a surrogate.

Cesear's Forum will present Samuel Beckett's ALL THAT FALL at Kennedy's Down Under, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland, Ohio, in a limited September/October engagement. Mr. Beckett, an Irish 'minimalist' playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in both French and English.

The Fortune Society, one of the nation's most respected non-profit organizations offering services to formerly incarcerated men and women, is honoring Tony Award-nominated producer Eric Krebs at the 2010 Annual Awards and Benefit Gala.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain, will host a special post-performance discussion led by the show's stars, Mark H. Dold (C.S. Lewis) and Martin Rayner (Sigmund Freud), Friday evening, October 15th.

The Almeida is a 325 seat theatre in the heart of Islington, North London.

The Helen Hayes Star Gala - benefitting the audience development and community service programs of The Helen Hayes Awards - will be hosted by stage and screen star Tyne Daly on Friday, October 15, 6:30pm, at The Four Seasons Hotel Washington (2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW).

Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, today announced programming for the BAM 2011 Spring Season, which runs from Jan 7 through Jun 11, 2011. The season comprises eight theater, opera, and dance engagements and features BAMcinématek series, BAMcafé Live weekend music events, artist talks, visual art exhibitions, and literary events.

oming straight off of their recent success with The War Cycle, the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble continues its string of original work with The Good Prisoner, writtenby award-winning playwright Kit Steinkellner.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the new hit play by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 100th performance this Tuesday, October 19th.

Tickets now on sale for the world-premiere of MIDDLETOWN, Will Eno's play having its debut this fall at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15 St.), with previews starting October 13 prior to an official opening night of November 3.

Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN - which will receive its World-Premiere at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) with previews beginning October 13, and opening officially on November 3 - is the inaugural recipient of the newly established Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play, it was announced by Mari Marchbanks, Founder and Executive Director of The Horton Foote Prize.

Johanna Day (Vineyard's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, Tony Award nominee for PROOF) and David Garrison (Tony nominee for A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD..., 'Married with Children,' TITANIC) will join the previously announced Linus Roache, Heather Burns, Georgia Engel, and Michael Park in the World-Premiere of Will Eno's play MIDDLETOWN, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director for the Vineyard Theatre, full casting below.

According to and article by Benjamin Sutton in The L Magazine, the Theatre Communications Group, has revealed which playwrights have the most works to be produced this season in the United States. In the top slot is Patrick Barlow who adapted Hitchcock's hilarious 1935 film, THE 39 STEPS.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA/YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Dean, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, Managing Director) announce A CONVERSATION WITH EDWARD ALBEE on Friday, October 22 at 3:00PM, at the Yale University Art Gallery McNeil Lecture Hall (1111 Chapel Street, at York Street).

The New York Times has confirmed that THE ORPHAN'S HOME CYCLE will aim for a fall 2010 Broadway opening, as opposed to rushing the show in this spring, as we previously speculated. While the show had the opportunity to transfer from its current home Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre into the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway for a spring opening, the producers and director Michael Wilson have opted to take the extra time to better prepare the show for the move.