Eve Ensler News

Eve Ensler's sensational hit, The Vagina Monologues, revolutionized society's views of the female body. Enlisting the talents of five female artists -- Elinor Bell, Erin Cote, Michelle Ianiro, Sarah Savage, Claire Zawa -- Boxcar Theatre's Project V offers an updated perspective on the monologues that shook a nation and changed a world.

A ROUND HEELED WOMAN will close at Theater Artaud on February 7, 2010.

Rosario Dawson has agreed to direct a star-studded reading of Eve Ensler's new book, 'I Am an Emotional Creature.' The reading will take place as a benefit for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The cast for the benefit will include ennifer and Peter Buffett, Eve Ensler, Cynthia Nixon, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, and David Stone and V-Board members Rosario Dawson, Beth Dozoretz, Donna Karan, Katherine McFate, Pat Mitchell, Cari Ross, and Kerry Washington.

Looking Glass Theatre proudly announces its exciting Spring 2010 lineup featuring special V-Day New York City 2010 events, a return engagement of its popular children's show Ready, Set, Story! How Katie Saved the Sneaky Spider's Tales, new multimedia show Shriek! and a new family-friendly comedy about the environment, 70 Million Tons.

Salt Lake Community College Health & Wellness Services is presenting V-Day Salt Lake Community College 2010, a benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. The profits for the benefit will go toward raising funds and awareness to end violence against women and girls.

The OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center's annual CULTUREMART festival will close January 31.

Rosario Dawson has agreed to direct a star-studded reading of Eve Ensler's new book, 'I Am an Emotional Creature.' The reading will take place as a benefit for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. The cast for the benefit will include ennifer and Peter Buffett, Eve Ensler, Cynthia Nixon, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, and David Stone and V-Board members Rosario Dawson, Beth Dozoretz, Donna Karan, Katherine McFate, Pat Mitchell, Cari Ross, and Kerry Washington.

The women of American Conservatory Theater perform Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues as part of the national V-Day celebration. All proceeds from the event, which is spearheaded and produced by members of the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program, will go to La Casa de les Madres women's shelter in San Francisco and the V-Day organization. The cast features A.C.T. core acting company member René Augesen, A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff, and A.C.T. Conservatory Director Melissa Smith, joined by a selection of A.C.T. staff members, A.C.T. M.F.A. Program students, and Bay Area actresses.

Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook, whose Mark Twain Tonight! has defined the image and style of the great American author for thousands of theatergoers for over five decades, will perform his much-loved portrait of the great author on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hartford's Lincoln Theater.

The OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center's annual CULTUREMART festival, set for January 11th through January 31st, 2010, will feature 12 works that blur the lines between dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry and visual art. Reflecting a core philosophy that it is not possible for any one art form alone to convey the flood of images, data and sound bytes that inundate the senses in today's world of information and communication overload, CULTUREMART's cross-disciplinary presentations embrace and illuminate our modern experience by integrating many forms of media and content into exciting new works.

Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Rachel Axler will make her off Broadway playwriting debut at the NEA-rejected Women's Project with Smudge, a dark comedy directed by Pam MacKinnon about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake. Smudge features Cassie Beck, Greg Keller and Brian Sgambati.

Publicity photos have been released for Rasaka Theatre Company and Premiere Theatre & Performance's production of 'Yoni Ki Baat.' The show runs thru January 31 at Strawdog Theatre.

'Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne and Suzanne Vega are legends in the music world,' said Julie Crosby, the Producing Artistic Director of Women's Project.

V-Day 2010 Campaign Event to 'stop violence against women and girls' and V-Day New York 'Healing Through Music' announce its second auditions for Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES to be staged at the Philippine Consulate in New York on Fifth Avenue on April 10, 2010, Saturday at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Female actors may show up at the auditions on January 23, 2010, Saturday at 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Champion Studios, 14th floor, 257 West 39th Street, New York City.

Rasaka Theatre Company presents an updated version of their 2009 hit 'Yoni Ki Baat', including new work from Chicago authors performed for the first time in 2010.

Rasaka Theatre Company and Premiere Theatre & Performance PresentYoni Ki Baat: Back for More in 2010!

V-Day Charlotte will kick off V-Day 2010 weekend with the V-Day Charlotte Neighborhood Hop Festival in the atrium of Amélie's French Bakery (2424 N. Davidson Street 28205) on February 11th, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm.

Two-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Rachel Axler will make her off Broadway playwriting debut at the NEA-rejected Women's Project with Smudge, a dark comedy directed by Pam MacKinnon about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake. Smudge features Cassie Beck, Greg Keller and Brian Sgambati.

una obra con un alto contenido humano que posee momentos profundamente emotivos. La trama recorre la sexualidad femenina y su punto de partida fueron cerca de 200 entrevistas realizadas por la autora norteamericana Eve Ensler, quien cuestionó a mujeres de diversas nacionalidades.

Back in the mid-1990s, local singer and actor Deborah Sharn started a talk show about St. Louis theatre on KDHX 88.1 FM, called 'Break a Leg: Theatre in St. Louis and Beyond.'