Eric Coble News

On the heels of a successful inaugural year, Southern Rep's signature New Play Development program 4D will begin its second season in March 2018. Applications are now being accepted from local dramatists, directors, and dramaturgs interested in joining this year-long intensive program; the application period closes February 16, 2018.

Mary Kathryn Nagle's daring new work Sovereignty makes its world premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater.

The Kanawha Players invite you to experience Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe, a play by Eric Coble, at the LaBelle Theater in South Charleston, WV.

On Monday, January 29 and Tuesday, January 30, beginning at 1:00 pm DreamWrights Center for Community Arts will hold auditions for The Giver, a play adapted by Eric Coble from Lois Lowry's Newbery Award winning book.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) is proud to continue the professional theatre's 25th Silver Anniversary Season, exclusively sponsored by The Thoresen Foundation. Beginning in early January 2018, the theatre company brings the hit musical Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical to their stage in Roswell.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host a special post-show conversation with Gloria Steinem on Sunday, January 28 following the 7:30 p.m. performance during the run of Mary Kathryn Nagle's world premiere Power Play Sovereignty.

In October of 1978 Will Eisner published 'A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories.' The fictional tale ushered in a new venue, the graphic novel, using the drawing media to tell tales.

Boise Contemporary Theater, celebrating the best-selling season in its 22-year history, opens its doors once again beginning December 6 to grownups and children alike for the second show of the 17 18 Season, Eric Coble's The Storm in the Barn. Based on the popular graphic novel for older kids (8 and up) by Matt Phelan, Storm tells the story of eleven-year-old Jack Clark (played by Chicago-based actor Sarah Cartwright) and his family who are weathering, as best they can, the Dust Bowl of 1937.

The Off-Broadway hit comedy Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus LIVE!, is a one-man fusion of theater and stand-up, and is a light-hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book of the last decade by John Gray. Moving swiftly through a series of vignettes, the show covers everything from dating and marriage to the bedroom. This show returns to Playhouse Square's Hanna Theatre Fri., Feb. 2 at 8 pm & Sat., Feb. 3 at 4 & 8 pm. Tickets go on sale today at 11 am at playhousesquare.org, 216-241-6000 & the Ticket Office, priced at $59.. For more information, visit playhousesquare.org.

Mary Kathryn Nagle's daring new work Sovereignty makes its world premiere at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater.

Florida Repertory Theatre, an Associate Member of the National New Play Network, is seeking submissions for its 2018 PlayLab Festival slated for May 3 6. The fifth annual festival is an intensive weekend of rehearsals, readings, talkbacks, and development that brings professional playwrights, directors, and actors together to hone up to six new plays in a laboratory setting.

The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program opens their 2017-18 season with Shakespeare's timely classic: Macbeth.

Actor, novelist and award-winning playwright Jim Shankman, who recently debuted his newest play, Heartless Bastard, as part of the SubletSeries@HERE, has announced that his new musical, Billy and the Killers, will make its world premiere this November at HERE! Arts Center (located at 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY).

Continuing its cross-country tour, John Strand's critically-acclaimed political drama The Originalist, based on the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, will play at 59E59 Theaters under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith.

On November 16, 2017, Phantom Projects Theatre Group will present the West Coast Premiere of Gathering Blue with a special day-time performance for Southern California schools at 10AM and for the public at 7PM.

Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) is proud to continue the professional theatre's 25th Silver Anniversary Season, exclusively sponsored by The Thoresen Foundation. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Robert J. Farley has chosen five very special productions including three musicals for the season and says, Our 25th Silver Anniversary is going to be one big party all year long. Each show I have selected to celebrate this occasion has been chosen as a tribute to our subscribers, donors, sponsors, and supporters.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. These words will come alive again as Cleveland Play House produces The Diary of Anne Frank, providing an immersive experience for the audience in this adaptation never-before seen on the CPH stage.

Florida Repertory Theatre is proud to announce that award-winning author, Lois Lowry, and Broadway playwright, Eric Coble, will be in residence on November 6 for a performance and post-show discussion of Coble's adaptation of Lowry's acclaimed book, 'The Giver.'

Boise Contemporary Theater has announced its 17|18 Season today, Today, April 19, to coincide with the first preview of The Clean House, the final play in the record-breaking BCT 16|17 Season.

Local theater-goers are familiar with the outstanding performance work of Dorothy Silver, often called 'the first lady of Cleveland theater.' Many are also aware of the creative writings of Jordan Harrison from his script development of the television hit, 'Orange is The New Black.' The two merge in Dobama Theater's masterful 'Marjorie Prime.'