Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Rose Theatre Kingston today announce the full company for Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde adapted for the stage by David Edgar. Joining the previously announced Phil Daniels as Jekyll/Hyde are Rosie Abraham (Lucy/Maid/Singer), Sam Cox (Poole), Polly Frame (Katherine Urquart), Anyebe Godwin (Charles), Ben Jones (Lanyon/Carew), Robin Kingsland (Gabriel John Utterson), Grace Hogg-Robinson (Annie Loder) and Matthew Romain (Enfield/Parson).
The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston's beautiful Back Bay for its 41st year, November 10-12, 2017.
Daily Mail journalist Baz Bamigboye has just announced that lovable former host of 'The Great British Bake Off' Mel Giedroyc will star as Beatrice in the Rose Theatre's upcoming production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston's beautiful Back Bay for its 41st year, November 10-12, 2017.
In honour of Sir Peter Hall's remarkable achievements and his service to theatre, and to recognise his role as Rose Theatre Kingston's Founding Artistic Director and his time as Chancellor of Kingston University, the Rose will launch The Peter Hall Emerging Artists Fellowship (PHEAF) in October 2018 the Rose's tenth year of operation.
Rose Theatre Kingston has just announced full casting for its Christmas show, Alice in Winterland, based on Lewis Carroll's timeless books Alice Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
The Music Hall's Writers in the Loft series welcomes to the stage New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud, today, September 12. She will discuss her latest work, THE BURNING GIRL, most recently heralded in the NY Times magazine (8/13) - a piercing story of adolescence and identity told through a friendship between two girls.
The Music Hall's Writers in the Loft series welcomes to the stage New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud, on Tuesday, September 12. She will discuss her latest work, THE BURNING GIRL, most recently heralded in the NY Times magazine (8/13) - a piercing story of adolescence and identity told through a friendship between two girls.
Production is set to begin this summer onMY BRILLIANT FRIEND, an eight-episode drama series from Saverio Costanzo (“Private,” “The Solitude of Prime Numbers,” “Hungry Hearts”), who directs all eight episodes.
Naples is brought to London, as we track the extraordinary lives of Lila and Lenu in an adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels that overreaches itself.
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From starry Stoppard and Marber revivals to toe-tapping musicals and Elena Ferrante on stage, here are some of this month's most eye-catching openings. Don't forget to check back for BroadwayWorld's reviews…
Rose Theatre Kingston today announces the cast for the world premiere of My Brilliant Friend, a two-part adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet of novels which have become a global literary sensation.
'Naples Little Women,' first critical study of the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante, published by Penington Press.
Elena Ferrante's fiction covers the psychic landscape of women who come of age in post-World War II Italy, who struggle to escape poverty and juggle the demands of career and family. Her narrator's voice is at once ferocious, intimate, and uncensored. Most remarkable for our media-obsessed age is that the author's identity is a mystery as compelling as one of her plots.
This critical study of her seven novels by Professor Mullenneaux integrates Ferrante's own thoughts on her books from La frantumaglia (2003) with their critical reception since 1992. Chapters are dedicated to each novel and to the author's signature themes - mothers and daughters, female friendship, and Naples as a 'city in spite of itself' - to illuminate and extend Ferrante's unique contribution to world literature. This volume is an essential resource for anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of one of Italy's best-loved contemporary writers.
ISBN: 978-0-9704296-4-3. $24.99. Available from Amazon.com
Contact: Penington Press, New York, NY, 212-749-2995
With John Malkovich's acclaimed production of Good Canary entering its final week, Rose Theatre Kingston today announces its new season for 2017. Headlining the season is the world premiere of My Brilliant Friend, a two-part adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet of novels which have become a global literary sensation. The true identity of the author is a mystery, with Elena Ferrante a pseudonym used by the writer, but speculation over the weekend suggested that the author had been unmasked.
Elena Ferrante is a phenomenon. The Italian novelist has used a pen name since the publication of her first novel, The Days of Abandonment; she avers that 'books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.' Speculation about her identity is widespread, driven by the fervor of her fans and adulatory reviews. Her four Neapolitan novels are wildly successful: Book 4, The Story of the Lost Child, debuted at #3 on the New York Timesbestseller list late last month; book 1, My Brilliant Friend, hit the list in 2012. All four books (Book 2,The Story of a New Name; Book 3, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay) are national Indie Bestsellers.
As part of Brazos Bookstore's Ferrante Fever! An Elena Ferrante Release Party, today, September 1, Main Street Theater Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden will read the first chapters of Ferrante's new novel, THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD.
As part of Brazos Bookstore's Ferrante Fever! An Elena Ferrante Release Party, on Tuesday, September 1, Main Street Theater Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden will read the first chapters of Ferrante's new novel, THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD.
The Kennedy Center, in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the National New Play Network (NNPN)-the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays-and with Stanford University's National Center for New Plays, will host more than 50 playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs from July 25 to August 2, 2015 as part of the 10th annual weeklong MFA Playwrights' Workshop featuring new works by MFA students from Columbia University, Northwestern University, Fordham University, Yale School of Drama, the Juilliard School, New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, University of California-San Diego, and the Juilliard School.
