Eve Ensler News

Women's Project-the nation's number one theater producing plays written and directed by women-will be honored Tuesday (10/20) by the nation's leading club of the arts, the historic Players Club on Gramercy Park, when The Players Foundation gives its inaugural Off-Broadway Excellence Award to Women's Project at ceremonies Tuesday, October 20, at 5:30pm at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. This is the first time The Players has granted this award.

Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN. Written by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner with Alan Stevens Hewitt and directed by Tim Maner, this production will play Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 17 at The Living Theatre.

Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN.

Women's Project-the nation's number one theater producing plays written and directed by women-will be honored Tuesday (10/20) by the nation's leading club of the arts, the historic Players Club on Gramercy Park, when The Players Foundation gives its inaugural Off-Broadway Excellence Award to Women's Project at ceremonies Tuesday, October 20, at 5:30pm at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. This is the first time The Players has granted this award.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) announces complete casting and the creative team for the world premiere of POP!, a new musical with book and lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs, directed by Mark Brokaw. POP! will play for 22 performances only, November 27-December 19. Opening Night is Thursday, December 3.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie, after a 48 year absence, as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Mass Street Productions and Ryan J. Davis have welcomed Bay Bridge Productions, Chris Bensinger, and Deborah Taylor to the Street Lights team of producers. Street Lights is a contemporary musical drama by Joe Drymala featuring a groundbreaking score that uses modern hip hop, R&B, and pop to tell a story in the musical language of today's youth, while creating a bridge to earlier generations by incorporating samples of old civil rights anthems within the modern songs and beats.

Boxcar Theatre will continue its fourth season Monday, October 12th with the opening of MEET THE SAMSAS. The show, inspired by Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, is directed by Sarah Beth Parks.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Sunday, October 11, 2009.

If you take a whiff of air somewhere in the vicinity of the Schoenfeld Theatre these days and sense a slight essence of Mickey Spillane, it's undoubtedly due to the presence of Keith Huff's hardboiled police melodrama, A Steady Rain. A crackling good story told with potent language and a couple of terrific performances, this is a hearty plateful of good old fashioned meat and potatoes theatre.

After a 48 year absence, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

Women's Project will present the world premiere production of Liz Duffy Adams's restoration-style comedy Or, directed by Wendy McClellan and featuring Kelly Hutchinson, Andy Paris and Maggie Siff.

Boxcar Theatre will continue its fourth season Monday, October 12th with the opening of MEET THE SAMSAS. The show, inspired by Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, is directed by Sarah Beth Parks.

Kelly Hutchinson, Andy Paris and Maggie Siff began rehearsals today (09/29) for Women's Project's world premiere production of Liz Duffy Adams's restoration-style comedy Or, directed by Wendy McClellan.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) kicks off its 2009/2010 Season with the World Premiere of THE RETRIBUTIONISTS, a new play by Daniel Goldfarb (Modern Orthodox, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie). The production will begin previews on Friday, August 21 with an Opening Night set for Tuesday, September 15 at 7PM. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, September 27 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks... it's not your parents Shakespeare. On September 14th, San Francisco's most innovative and daring ensemble, Boxcar Theatre (www.boxcartheatre.org), opens its much-anticipated 2009 / 2010 season with Romeo & Julien, a new bent on the Bard in with a transgender male in the role of the female ingénue.

Women's Project, truly on a roll in its 32nd year (and not looking a day over 29!) of producing plays written and directed by women, has signed Maggie Siff, one of the acclaimed ensemble of actors in the hit, third-season TV series 'Mad Men,' to play Aphra Behn in Liz Duffy Adams's three-hander Or, directed by Wendy McClellan.

After a 48 year absence, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the first new Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie as the inaugural production of the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street) beginning Thursday, September 10th, 2009 with an official opening on Thursday, October 15th, 2009. This will be a limited engagement through January 10th, 2010.

Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN. Written by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner with Alan Stevens Hewitt and directed by Tim Maner, this production will play Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 17 at The Living Theatre.

Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN.