Ellen Stewart News

La MaMa ETC will present a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, written and directed by the legendary Ellen Stewart, featuring a cast of 26 from the acclaimed Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa ETC Annex

Peculiar Works Project, producers of the acclaimed site-specific performance, OFF Stage: the West Village Fragments, will present 'BANG! For Your Buck'

La MaMa ETC will present a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, written and directed by the legendary Ellen Stewart, featuring a cast of 26 from the acclaimed Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa ETC Annex

The OBIE Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company, one of the leading theater companies in the U.S. devoted to presenting work about the Asian-American experience, honors Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Loida Nicolas Lewis, a best-selling author and the Asian-American CEO of TLC Beatrice, as part of its Seventh Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner on Monday, April 23

Ellen Stewart and La MaMa Umbria International will present the 8th Annual International Symposium for Directors, July 15 - August 5, 2007 in Spoleto, Italy.

BMI's Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop was presented with a 2006 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre at a gala luncheon held at New York's Tavern on the Green October 24th.

Cynthia Nixon hosted The American Theatre Wing and the League of American Theatres and Producers' presentation of the 2006 Tony Honors for Excellence on October 24th

Cynthia Nixon will host The American Theatre Wing and the League of American Theatres and Producers' presentation of the 2006 Tony Honors for Excellence

The 61st annual Tony Awards will be held on June 10th

The Tony Awards Administration Committee today announced the recipients of the 2006 Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre.

Abandon, a narrative collage play by Matthew Maguire, will open at La MaMa on October 22nd

The IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, has announced its the 2006 Honorary Award Recipients

La MaMa ETC's famed 1983 rock 'n' roll production of Sam Shepard's play with music, The Tooth of Crime, will return to La MaMa ETC Annex in celebration of the theater's 45th anniversary

LaMaMa, one of New York's most famous experimental theatres, will present the rarely-staged Sam Shepard play The Tooth of Crime during its 45th anniversary season

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th

Mythic Greek hero Herakles and seductress Phaedra meet in The Roaring 20's in Ellen Stewart's new adaptation of Herakles Via Phaedra at La MaMa ETC., where it will run from May 18th through June 11th, with an opening set for May 21st

George E. Harris, a pioneer in the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway movement and a theatre, film and TV veteran, passed away on December 29th

Charles Busch will host the 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which celebrates off-off-Broadway theatre achievement, on September 19th

The New York 'IT' Awards (sponsored by Backstage) takes place September 19th at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.