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Mutineer Theatre Company is thrilled to announce that their world premiere play, THE WOODPECKER, written by Samuel Brett Williams, directed by Jon Cohn and produced by Stephanie Chang and Taylor Coffman is EXTENDING through Sunday, April 10 at the Studio/Stage Theatre.
The fully-staged, full-length revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a musical based on Betty Smith's iconic American novel of the same name, will close in New York City April 10, 2011.
Four-time Emmy award-winning actress Michael Learned and veteran actor Granville Van Dusen find unexpected love in Kathleen Clark's perceptively witty and poignant play, Southern Comforts, directed by Jules Aaron. The four-week run ends April 10 at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.
Sidney Lumet, who directed modern American film classics such as '12 Angry Men,' 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'The Verdict,' died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan, according to the New York Times. He was 86. His stepdaughter, Leslie Gimbel, cited lymphoma as the cause.
As part of their 25th Anniversary Year, Diversionary Theatre will stage the World Premiere historic drama Dooley as the last show of its 2010-2011 season.
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA (James Bundy, Dean; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean; Paula Vogel, Chair of Playwriting; Ken Prestininzi, Associate Chair) presents the sixth annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 6 to 14 at the Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street, New Haven).
Andrew Upton's adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1926 novel turned play The White Guard, commissioned by London's National Theatre (where it played to five-star reviews last year), is presented in a new production directed by Upton at Sydney Theatre from 7 June to 10 July.
The 2010 Tony Award winning Eugene O?Neill Theater, in Waterford, Connecticut, will host their 20th Anniversary Annual Fishers Island Golf Tournament on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at the Fishers Island Golf Club on Fishers Island, New York.
Musical Mondays Theatre Lab to present a preview of the award winning musical THE FARTISTE, written by Michael Roberts and Charlie Schulman, directed by John Gould Rubin on Thursday, April 14th at 6:30 PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater in the Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street.
Theater Reconstruction Ensemble presents it's inaugural full-length production, a new staging of Ibsen's A Doll's House. Nora's struggle to play the part of her husband's obedient little lark culminates in the door slam heard 'round the world. The ensemble examines the relationships between husband and wife, greed and power, desperation and necessity, and our own relationship to Ibsen's classic play.
UNDER CONSIDERATION is a 90-minute event featuring new one-act plays by members of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group including 2008 playwrights Chris Cragin and Pia Wilson, 2009 playwright Bridget Kelso, and 2011 playwrights Sevan Greene, Sukari Jones, Aaron Levy, Anna Moench, Jerome Parker, and Stella Fawn Ragsdale.
The South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theatre organization located in Camden, New Jersey, concludes its sixth season with a three-week production of 'A Moon for the Misbegotten.'
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present August Strindberg's A Dream Play, adapted and directed by Joseph Jonah Therrien March 24 - April 3, in the Studio Theatre on the Storrs campus.
Metropolitan Playhouse, "theatrical archaeologist extraordinaire" (Back Stage), presents a revival of The Great Divide, the 'Great American Drama' by William Vaughn Moody, premiered in 1906 (as The Sabine Woman) and now receiving the first professional production in the city since 1917 at Metropolitan's home: 220 E 4th Street from March 5th to April 3rd, 2011.
Mutineer Theatre Company is thrilled to present a world premiere play, THE WOODPECKER, written by Samuel Brett Williams, directed by Jon Cohn and produced by Stephanie Chang and Taylor Coffman. Developed by the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, Cherry Lane Theater, Hatchery Arts, and now with Mutineer Theatre Company, THE WOODPECKER will close Sunday, April 3 at the Studio/Stage Theatre, 520 N. Western Blvd. in Los Angeles.
PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new play development organization, will hold its seventh annual New Play Development Conference from July 8 - July 24 at both the Adrienne Theater and the Playground (2030 Sansom Street) in Philadelphia. The Conference will feature two weeks of intensive work on six works-in-progress by Lisa Dillman (American Wee-Pie); Jacqueline Goldfinger (Slip/Shot); Brian Quirk (Nerine); Lauren Yee (A Man, His Wife and His Hat); John Yearley (Another Girl); and Stefanie Zadravec (The Electric Baby).
SiriusXM Radio has announced that the creators of 'South Park,' Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez, will be featured in 'The Book of Mormon Radio,' an exclusive special celebrating their new musical, The Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway last week, receiving rave reviews and quickly becoming a sold out box office smash.