Set in the present-day DRC, Ruined is the captivating story of Mama Nadi (Ekulona), the owner of a canteen who serves up everything from a cold beer and a warm meal-to the company of a woman. Through the eyes of this savvy businesswoman who both protects and profits from the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds, Nottage captures the constantly shifting allegiances and tragic absurdity that marks the civil war in the DRC. Ruined, rendered with Nottage's trademark humanity, clarity and surprising humor, gives a glimpse of a country that has suffered immeasurable losses since the beginning of this war that has raged for more than a decade.
school with The Parent Teacher Conference Plays. Three of the brightest lights in American drama - Ann Marie Healy (Have You Seen Steve Steven), Clay McLeod Chapman (rest area, Hostage Song) and Zayd Dohrn (Haymarket)-will take audience members inside actual classrooms for a trip down memory lane... to a time when backpacks, hall passes, and spelling tests ruled the world.
South Coast Repertory will present the Southern California premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl's fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone and finds her life turned upside down. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Dead Man's Cell Phone runs Sept. 21 - Oct. 12 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford,Connecticut, is now accepting submissions for projects to be includedin its June - August 2009 national new works conferences. Applicantsare invited to submit projects for the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference and National Music Theater Conference. National Playwrights Conference submissions will accept submissions from September 15, 2008 through October 17, 2008.
LILLI MARLENE, a new musical featuring the hits of the WWII era starring Linn Maxwell, begins previews tonight, Thursday, September 18th at the Abingdon Theatre (312 West 36 Street - between 8th and 9th Avenue), Produced by by John Osher and Bob Roskam, the show opens on Monday, September 22nd. Directed by Erv Raible, with book by Kathryn Ryan, the show features such songs as 'As Time Goes By,' 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square,' 'It Had to Be You,' 'The White Cliffs of Dover,' ' Mad About the Boy' and 'Lilli Marlene,' which was made famous by the legendary Marlene Dietrich. Paul Trueblood is the musical director.
THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) and EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE are pleased to announce the New York premiere production of HEAVEN IN YOUR POCKET, directed by Alan Souza.
South Coast Repertory will present the Southern California premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl's fantastical new play about a woman who answers a dead man's cell phone and finds her life turned upside down. Directed by Bart DeLorenzo, Dead Man's Cell Phone runs Sept. 21 - Oct. 12 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) and EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE are pleased to announce the New York premiere production of HEAVEN IN YOUR POCKET, directed by Alan Souza.
On Sunday, July 27, 2008, the O'Neill Theater Center will host the McCourt Cup, founded by renowned Irish-American author Frank McCourt and his brother Malachy McCourt.
On Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:30pm the O'Neill Theater Center will host its Summer Gala honoring one of its flagship programs, the National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) and its founding Artistic Director, Paulette Haupt.
The National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has made a change to the summer season. Due to a scheduling conflict, Craig Wright's play MISTAKES WERE MADE will not appear in this summer's 2008 Playwrights Conference.
On Sunday, July 27, 2008, the O'Neill Theater Center will host the McCourt Cup, founded by renowned Irish-American author Frank McCourt and his brother Malachy McCourt.
The National Playwrights Conference continues with two new projects, THUNDER ABOVE, DEEPS BELOW and ITALIAN SOJOURN. National Music Theater Conference continues performances of IRON CURTAIN.
The National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has made a change to the summer season. Due to a scheduling conflict, Craig Wright's play MISTAKES WERE MADE will not appear in this summer's 2008 Playwrights Conference.
On Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:30pm the O'Neill Theater Center will host its Summer Gala honoring one of its flagship programs, the National Music Theater Conference (NMTC) and its founding Artistic Director, Paulette Haupt.
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, and Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference, today announced the Directors of the projects selected for the 2008 Conference.
The application deadline for The Commercial Theater Institute and the O'Neill Theater Center's new joint program, The CTI-O'Neill Summer Workshop, has been extended until Thursday, May 22nd.
