Erwin Piscator News

Forty-one years after The Living Theatre's now legendary performance of Paradise Now at Yale Repertory Theatre in September 1968, which ended in the arrest of ten performers and audience members for public indecency, co-founder and Artistic Director Judith Malina returns to New Haven for a two-day residency at Yale School of Drama, September 14-15.

The New School for Drama has announced that the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz will be the distinguished artist-in-residence for the 2009-2010 academic year. Baitz is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. A founding member and former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theater company, Baitz has written a number of acclaimed plays, including The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (produced on Broadway in 2001), and The Paris Letter. Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Second Stage Theatre have produced Baitz's work in New York. His new play, Love and Mercy, will be produced next season on Broadway.

The New School for Drama was well represented in the 34th Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, which took place this month at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS FOURTH ANNUAL RANDOM ACTS! ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL WITH WORKS BY JOHN M. SYNGE, THORTON WILDER, AND MANY MORE February 19, through April 25, 2009, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 3:00 p.m. The New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor For five weeks this spring, the Random Acts! One-Act Play Festival invites audiences toexperience the best of The New School for Drama's up-and-coming actors, directors, and playwrights. Free to the public, the festival features the work of 24 actors, 8 directors, and 6new playwrights in 15 presentations of plays drawn from classic and contemporary repertories-including 6 original works by Drama's playwrights featured in the final two weeks! February 19, through April 25, 2009 Thursdays-Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 3:00 p.m. WHERE:The New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street, 3rd FloorWHAT: A full schedule is attached. Please note: productions, performers, and directors are subject to change. TICKET INFO: Free. Reservations recommended for general admission. Call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com. Visit www.drama.newschool.edu. At The New School for Drama, the instinct to create is revered. Through its interrelated, three-year MFA program in acting, directing, or playwriting, the school is forging the next generation of performing artists. A faculty of working professionals brings to the fore students' unique and original voices, and helps them establish a rooted sense of who they are as individuals and as artists. The New School's history in the dramatic arts began in the 1940s, when the Dramatic Workshop, led by founder Erwin Piscator and a faculty including Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, fostered artistic voices as distinctive as Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando. Since 1994, the university has offered an MFA degree in the performing arts. For more information, visit www.drama.newschool.edu.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS FOURTH ANNUAL RANDOM ACTS! ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL WITH WORKS BY JOHN M. SYNGE, THORTON WILDER, AND MANY MORE February 19, through April 25, 2009, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 3:00 p.m. The New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor For five weeks this spring, the Random Acts! One-Act Play Festival invites audiences toexperience the best of The New School for Drama's up-and-coming actors, directors, and playwrights. Free to the public, the festival features the work of 24 actors, 8 directors, and 6new playwrights in 15 presentations of plays drawn from classic and contemporary repertories-including 6 original works by Drama's playwrights featured in the final two weeks! February 19, through April 25, 2009 Thursdays-Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 3:00 p.m. WHERE:The New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street, 3rd FloorWHAT: A full schedule is attached. Please note: productions, performers, and directors are subject to change. TICKET INFO: Free. Reservations recommended for general admission. Call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com. Visit www.drama.newschool.edu. At The New School for Drama, the instinct to create is revered. Through its interrelated, three-year MFA program in acting, directing, or playwriting, the school is forging the next generation of performing artists. A faculty of working professionals brings to the fore students' unique and original voices, and helps them establish a rooted sense of who they are as individuals and as artists. The New School's history in the dramatic arts began in the 1940s, when the Dramatic Workshop, led by founder Erwin Piscator and a faculty including Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, fostered artistic voices as distinctive as Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando. Since 1994, the university has offered an MFA degree in the performing arts. For more information, visit www.drama.newschool.edu.

There will be a post performance discussion on December 6 with company members, and director Dimiter Gotscheff. Moderated by renowned translator and UCLA Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Michael Heim. The exclusive United States production of Berlin's most prominent and revolutionary theatre, The Volksb?hne, will be presented by David Sefton's UCLA Live's Seventh International Theatre Festival in a controversial production of Chekhov's first play, IVANOV, under the direction of Bulgarian born Dimiter Gotscheff. The play will be performed in German with English supertitles.

The New School for Drama has announced that two award-winning artists, playwright Jon Robin Baitz and director Jo Bonney, will be joining the faculty for the Spring 2009 semester. Baitz will be teaching Playwriting and Bonney will be instructing a course on Directing Short Plays. Baitz will be teaching while faculty member Michael Weller is on leave.

There will be a post performance discussion on December 6 with company members, and director Dimiter Gotscheff. Moderated by renowned translator and UCLA Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Michael Heim. The exclusive United States production of Berlin's most prominent and revolutionary theatre, The Volksb?hne, will be presented by David Sefton's UCLA Live's Seventh International Theatre Festival in a controversial production of Chekhov's first play, IVANOV, under the direction of Bulgarian born Dimiter Gotscheff. The play will be performed in German with English supertitles.

The Living Theatre will begin its 2008-2009 season with the limited run of Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov's 'Eureka!', based on an Edgar Allen Poe essay about the origin of the Universe. Previews begin on Saturday, September 27, 2008 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 1. The production is directed by Judith Malina and features an original score by Patrick Grant.

The Living Theatre (21 Clinton St.) will begin its 2008-2009 season with the limited run of Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov's EUREKA!, based on an Edgar Allen Poe essay about the origin of the Universe. Previews begin on Saturday, September 27, 2008 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 1. The production is directed by Judith Malina and features an original score by Patrick Grant.

The New School for Drama is pleased to present FIRST LOOK, a performance series featuring workshop presentations of classical and contemporary works. This year's FIRST LOOK performances will be directed by 3 Drama League Directing Fellows and include The Pillars of Society (October 15-18), written by Henrik Ibsen, Stage Door (November 5-8), written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman and All's Well that End's Well (December 10-13) written by William Shakespeare. All are free and open to the public.

The Living Theatre will begin its 2008-2009 season with the limited run of Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov's 'Eureka!', based on an Edgar Allen Poe essay about the origin of the Universe. Previews begin on Saturday, September 27, 2008 and will officially open on Wednesday, October 1. The production is directed by Judith Malina and features an original score by Patrick Grant.

The New School for Drama has announced that award-winning actor John Turturro will be the distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2008-09 academic year. Turturro is the recipient of a multitude of awards and accolades for his extensive acting work in theater, film and television.

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards (IT Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, is pleased to announce the 2008 Honorary Award Recipients.

The New School for Drama was well represented in the 33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, which featured a selection of 40 plays this past month at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York City.

The Living Theatre (19 Clinton St.) will present Maudie & Jane, written by Luciano Nattino, an adaptation of the Diary of Jane Summers, starring Judith Malina and Pat Russell, in which an old bag lady seduces a high-profile fashion editor into taking care of her. The production begins previews on November 30. Official Opening is on December 7. Hanon Reznikov directs.

This fall Oscar-winning actress, producer, author and director Olympia Dukakis is leading a series of master classes at The New School for Drama.

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS SECOND ANNUAL RANDOM ACTS! ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL Featuring works by John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Tennessee Williams, Terrence McNally, and more

The New School for Drama has announced that award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley will be the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the school starting this fall

John Patrick Shanley--who won the Pulitzer and the Tony, among other awards, for Doubt--has been named as the New School's Distinguished Artist-in-Residenc