The Getty Villa Theatre Lab Series has announced its lineup for the coming season, which will include a staging of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Sophocles' Elektran, directed by Carey Perloff.
Playwright Nell Leyshon's work 'Bedlam' will mark the first ever staging of a female playwright in the 400-year history of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare's Globe confirms further details of the 2010 Kings and Rogues theatre season, following a record-breaking 2009 which achieved the highest attendance figures ever in its 13 year history, as well as seeing the Globe reach new audiences all over the UK, Europe and the US through touring, and having its productions filmed for the first time.
The Albuquerque Theatre guild is an umbrella organization of live theatre companies, theater practitioners, and theater lovers dedicated to making the Albuquerque area's rich live-theatre scene better known to both residents and visitors alike.
In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theater (Mark Plesent, Producing Director) will present award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance. The final performance is slated for February 14. Conceived, researched and written by Mr. De Shields, Mine Eyes is directed by Alfred Preisser, former Artistic Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem, where Mr. De Shields has frequently performed.
FRIGID NEW YORK presents No.11 Productions' Medea. The play is written by Euripides and translated by Paul Roche. What do you do when your hopes are turned to lies? Medea, suddenly abandoned by her husband Jason, plots her bloody revenge. Witness a beautiful and heartbreaking staging of Euripides' 2400-year-old play about love, passion, violence and broken expectations.
The Nightingale Theater has a number of upcoming shows in their current season, including WONT FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST, DEAR NUBULON, and THE DRINKING GAME.
Sideshow Theatre Company concludes its 2009-2010 season this March, with a brand new edition and a Chicago premiere of Pulitzer Prize nominee Janet Burroway's Medea With Child, directed by Artistic Director Jonathan L. Green.
In seiner ALKESTIS führt Euripides - schwankend zwischen Tragödie und Komödie - den menschlichen Traum von der Kontrolle über den Tod ad absurdum. Das früheste der Euripideischen Dramen (uraufgeführt 438 v. Chr.) wird ab dem 6. Februar in einer Inszenierung von Karin Henkel im
Pfauen zu sehen sein.
In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theatre (Mark Plesent, Producing Director), is presenting award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress, 'Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance,' created and performed by André De Shields and directed by Alfred Preisser. The performances run from Thursday, February 4th through Sunday, February 14th at the Abingdon Theater. BroadwayWorld was on hand to take in the opening performance and capture the after party celebration.
In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theater (Mark Plesent, Producing Director) will present award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance for 12 performances only from Thursday, February 4 through Sunday February 14 at the Abingdon Theater. Conceived, researched and written by Mr. De Shields, Mine Eyes is directed by Alfred Preisser, former Artistic Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem, where Mr. De Shields has frequently performed.
In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theater Mark Plesent, Producing Director, will present award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance for 12 performances only from Thursday, February 4 through Sunday February 14 at the Abingdon Theater, 312 West 36 Street. Conceived, researched and written by Mr. De Shields, Mine Eyes is directed by Alfred Preisser.
The Working Theater (25th Anniversary Season), Mark Plesent Producing Director, is pleased to announce a special addition to the Friday, February 12 performance of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: from Douglass to Deliverance, created and performed by Andre De Shields. In honor of the 201st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the Working Theater is honored to exhibit important original historic documents penned by Abraham Lincoln and the great emancipator Frederick Douglass (portrayed by De Shields).
San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater presents the third installation in this season's Hidden Classics Reading Series, the Greek and Roman versions of MEDEA.
The Ballad of Sucio's Frog - from a story by James Wood. Sucio Calzon, a viejo campesino eager to save his famous crop from thieves, creates Big Science...but sometimes Big Science is just too BIG!
Senior students at University of Toronto's Erindale Campus Theatre program tackle Richard Wilbur's translation of Jean Racine's 17th Century play and come up with a powerful production.
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In seiner ALKESTIS führt Euripides - schwankend zwischen Tragödie und Komödie - den menschlichen Traum von der Kontrolle über den Tod ad absurdum. Das früheste der Euripideischen Dramen (uraufgeführt 438 v. Chr.) wird ab dem 6. Februar in einer Inszenierung von Karin Henkel im
Pfauen zu sehen sein.