Ensemble Studio Theatre News

Hartford Stage continues its 2011 SummerStage season with Penumbra Theatre's production of I Wish You Love,written by Dominic Taylor and directed by Lou Bellamy.

Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present a staged reading of Andrew Dolan's 'The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King' directed by Rod Menzies on June 29 at 7:30pm at Bard College at Simon's Rock Daniel Arts Center McConnell Theater (84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, Mass.).

Following a critically acclaimed season which included the World Premiere of Lynn Nottage's hit comedy, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Second Stage Theatre has announced three of the four mainstage productions in the company's upcoming 33rd season.

Producers Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson have announced that Caroline Aaron, Bill Army, Lisa Emery, Ari Graynor, Steve Guttenberg, Danny Hoch, Julie Kavner, Fred Melamed, Grant Shaud and Marlo Thomas will star in the ensemble cast of the world premiere production of RELATIVELY SPEAKING, three one-act comedies by the prolific writing trio of Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen, and directed by John Turturro.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company - one of the country's leading Asian-American theater companies - will present the World Premiere of Carla Ching's THE SUGAR HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS and the Off-Broadway premiere of Qui Nguyen's critically acclaimed play THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G during its 2011-2012 theatre season, it has been announced by Ma-Yi Artistic Director Ralph B. Pena.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the Penumbra Theatre production of I Wish You Love written by Dominic Taylor and directed by Lou Bellamy. Following its world premiere at Penumbra Theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the drama with music runs June 11 to 19, 2011 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. I Wish You Love is produced with the assistance of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. The press opening for I Wish You Love will take place on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The production features Dennis W. Spears as Nat -King? Cole, singing more than 20 of Cole's beloved songs. Additional casting includes Kevin D. West as Oliver Moore, Eric Berryman as Jeffrey Prince, and Michael Tezla as Bill Henry.

SMALL POND ENTERPRISES is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Sarah Ford?s GEORGIA & ME, directed by Zoya Kachadurian.

The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company and Stella Adler Studio of Acting proudly present the world premiere of Sacred Ground, a new play by Christina Gorman and directed by Shelley Butler, opening June 17, 2011.

Leo Rising Productions is pleased to present FINDING ELIZABETH TAYLOR, a multi-media homage to La Liz written and performed by Elizabeth Claire Taylor* as part of the 3rd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

BOMB SHELTER will be presented as part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

'Botanicum Seedlings,' The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's development series for playwrights, announces the recipient of the 2nd annual 'Izzy' award.

InFusion Theatre Company proudly announces the Midwest premiere of Qui Nguyen's Soul Samurai directed by InFusion Theatre Company Artistic Director Mitch Golob, April 25 - June 5, 2011 at Theater Wit, 1229 W Belmont Ave.

BOMB SHELTER will be presented as part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

Cause Celebre is proud to announce that Academy Award® Nominee Danny Aiello will star in what he calls "a role of a lifetime," in the World Premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, directed by Antony Marsellis.

Lifeline Theatre artistic director Dorothy Milne and festival curator, former Live Bait Theater artistic director Sharon Evans, are pleased to announce the 15th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, produced by Lifeline Theatre, July 21-August 7.

The New York based theatrical production company The Indies Lab will present 6 performances of FACE DIVIDED and THE MUTILATION OF SAINT BARBARA, as part of the 2011 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, June 4 - 19, 2011, at the Robert Moss Theatre (440 Lafayette Street) in New York City.

50 of America's top young theatre artists are coming to London as part of The Old Vic's 2011 TS Eliot US/UK Exchange programme and presenting seven new short plays on The Old Vic stage.

Filipino actor and Obie Award winner Arthur Acuña shares the stage with Michael Louis Wells and Charlie Hudson in Ensemble Studio Theatre's (EST) repeat of Qui Nguyen's 2007 one act dark comedy play Bike Wreck. The play is part of EST's "Marathon 2011: The 33rd Festival of 1Act Plays - Series A" running from May 20 to June 18 at the EST Theatre on West 52nd Street.

In the center of the New York City Theater District, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones, in association with LOT-EK® Architects, True Love Productions and Times Square Arts, presents "Theatre for One", a four foot by eight foot portable theater with one performer playing to one audience member.

Magic Futurebox is proud to present the second in the Playwright Spotlight series of works by LARK PONY fellow Tommy Smith, the NYC premiere of DEMON DREAMS: a children's musical (for all audiences) featuring music by Paul D. Miller AKA DJ Spooky.