Edward Albee News

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Little Doc, written by award-winning filmmaker Dan Klores and directed by John Gould Rubin. Opening the company's 16th Season, performances of Little Doc will begin Friday, June 11 at Rattlestick Theatre (224 Waverly Place).

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced that playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis will be the company's American Theatre Master for 2011.

Following a developmental workshop at the Vineyard in the fall of 2009 and a series of concert readings this summer by New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Program at Vassar, the musical ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER - with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Burton Lane, a new book by Peter Parnell based on the original book by Alan Jay Lerner, and reconceived and directed by Michael Mayer - will receive a full production at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) with performances beginning January 2011, it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre Artistic Director Douglas Aibel.

Paula Brancati, Lauren Collins, Wendy Crewson, Cynthia Dale, Andrea Martin, and Louise Pitre are officially set to be the first cast of the Toronto production of LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE. As in the initial New York staging of the play by Nora and Delia Ephron, the production will feature a company of six that rotates in four-week cycles. The next cast will be announced in the next upcoming weeks.

Celebrated playwright Mark St. Germain, currently represented Off-Broadway with FREUD'S LAST SESSION, will be Valerie Smaldone's special guest on her new WOR Radio program 'Valerie's New York' this Tuesday, July 13th at 11:20 a.m.

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today the full August and September casts of Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

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.

Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish announce the final selection for the 2010-2011 Victory Gardens season.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Sunday Symposium on playwright Samuel Beckett with Deirdre Bair, recipient of the National Book Award for 'Samuel Beckett: A Biography,' and Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director, following the Sunday, July 11, 3 p.m. matinee performance of Beckett's 'Happy Days,' directed by Lamos.

To kick-off its run of A PARALLELOGRAM, Steppenwolf is holding a contest. Answer the following question in 200 words or less: 'If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be, and why?' The prize is two tickets to Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, starring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, plus a $100 gift certificate to local restaurant Vinci. The winner will also be displayed in the lobby of our theatre and online. The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, July 10th, 2010 at midnight.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, a new play by Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom), will make its Off-Broadway premiere beginning Friday, July 9th at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th Street (at Central Park West).

BLUEBARN Theatre holds auditions for Eric Bogosian's Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama, TALK RADIO, on Sunday, July 18th at 5:30pm and Monday, July 19th at 6:30pm. Auditions will be held at the Downtown Space, 614 S. 11th St. The producation runs from September 30th to October 16th with performances on Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Please call (402) 345-1576 for more information. The complete 22nd season is also announced.

Celebrity gossip columnist Michael Musto and Scott Adsit, co-star of the hit NBC series '30 Rock' will join THE FIX-UP SHOW as celebrity guests helping New York singles find love in this new weekly match-making comedy show at the Triad (158 West 72nd Street - 2nd Floor, 1/2 block East of Broadway).

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, a new play by Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom), will make its Off-Broadway premiere beginning Friday, July 9th at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th Street (at Central Park West).

Perkins 28 Productions presents 'Veritas' by Stan Richardson at HERE Arts Center Mainstage Theater, 145 6th Avenue (enter on Dominick, 1 blk south of Spring) Inspired by true events, 'Veritas' is the story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fell prey to Harvard's 'Secret Court': a gay witch-hunt conducted by school administration to purge Harvard of all homosexuality.

Celebrity gossip columnist Michael Musto and Scott Adsit, co-star of the hit NBC series '30 Rock' will join THE FIX-UP SHOW as celebrity guests helping New York singles find love in this new weekly match-making comedy show at the Triad (158 West 72nd Street - 2nd Floor, 1/2 block East of Broadway).

Santa Rosa's 6th Street Playhouse announces its 2010-2011 'All-American' season featuring four musicals and eight plays. The twelve-show season offers a wide variety of theater productions, from Aug. 13, 2010 through June 26, 2011, including family musicals, comedies, American classics and two world premieres.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, a new play by Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom), will conclude its record-breaking run at Barrington Stage Company (MA) on July 3rd prior to its Off-Broadway transfer.

To kick-off its run of A PARALLELOGRAM, Steppenwolf is holding a contest. Answer the following question in 200 words or less: 'If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be, and why?' The prize is two tickets to Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, starring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, plus a $100 gift certificate to local restaurant Vinci. The winner will also be displayed in the lobby of our theatre and online. The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, July 10th, 2010 at midnight.