Frances News

Frances Rae Key and NY Summerfest are pleased to announce the New York premiere production of Aussie Song! The production will be directed by Ellie Handel (The Wives of Henry the Eighth) and will play three performances only at the Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th St, New York, NY 10001) as a part of the New York Theatre Festival/Summerfest.

Variety reports that Sarah Michelle Gellar will lead a new dramedy on Fox: 'Other People's Houses,' created by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder. 

Kieran Brown, in association with Chris Matanlé and Union Theatre today announce the 2nd season of Sunday Night Socials.

Paper Mill Playhouse recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award, recently announced that tickets for individual shows for the 2019-2020 season will be available to the public this coming Monday, August 19, 2019. Season subscriptions are on sale now and subscribers can already purchase additional show tickets.  Tickets and subscriptions may be purchased by calling 973.376.4343, or at the Paper Mill Playhouse Box Office at 22 Brookside Drive in Millburn, or online at www.papermill.org. 

The original Broadway creative team of The Secret Garden will reunite for the Australian production, which is heading down under with Joel Grey's Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish in 2020!

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Pepper, Finn Jones, Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Shamier Anderson, Lucius Hoyos and Gil Bellows round out the cast of Netflix's sci-fi thriller Awake starring Gina Rodriguez.

Theater of War Productions today announced its 2019 fall/winter program of all-free events to be presented at diverse venues in all five boroughs of New York City and around the country.

Paper Mill Playhouse presents the New Jersey premiere of Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz. Meet the cast in the photos!

Day is a busy actor who's in and out of town on her days off from FLOYD'S so this time we get six questions and no plug but I recommend checking this quick interview out, and then call the box office and get over to see her on stage at the Guthrie before Aug. 31.

After unanimous critical praise and audience demand, prison drama A WHITE MAN'S GUIDE TO RIKERS ISLAND will extend through September 29 at The Producer's Club, where it began on July 18.

Fulfilling their mission to showcase the best Spanish and Latin American plays in London, the Cervantes Theatre is delighted to announce the Autumn Season thanks to the support of Acción Cultural Española and Arts Council England. This new season showcases a full range of plays, all of them written by women.

The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University announced the appointment of Kate Kraczon as curator.

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers delves into its permanent collections to explore pivotal developments and trends in art with the exhibitions Women Artists on the Leading Edge: Celebrating Douglass College at 100 and Recent Acquisitions in Photography, which open on September 3.

Man and Superman with Don Juan in Hell begins its limited 17 performance run at The Shaw's Festival Theatre beginning August 17. Directed by the Festival's Intern Artistic Director Kimberley Rampersad, The Shaw's production presents all four stimulating, life-affirming acts a?" including Don Juan in Hell, the often separately staged dream-act. Part romantic comedy, part social-philosophical debate and part fantastical fable, Man and Superman with Don Juan in Hell ponders life's essential questions with classic Shaw repartee and wit. 

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced that tickets for individual shows for the 2019-2020 season will be available to the public on Monday, August 19, 2019. Season subscriptions are on sale now and subscribers can already purchase additional show tickets. Tickets and subscriptions may be purchased by calling 973.376.4343, or at the Paper Mill Playhouse Box Office at 22 Brookside Drive in Millburn, or online at www.papermill.org. With three premieres and a total of five musicals, Paper Mill continues to fulfill its mission to enrich, entertain, and inspire audiences and students as the nation's premier musical theater. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2019-2020 season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank. Paper Mill Playhouse education and outreach programs are proudly sponsored by The Goren Family and the Harmony Helper App.

Theatr na n?"g's latest sell-out production champions the importance of bio-diversity and conservation by presenting their story of Alfred Russel Wallace.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is set to receive the Portrait of a Nation Prize from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

The Secret Garden - the Tony Award-winning musical by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, based upon the timeless children's novel by Knoxville's own Frances Hodgson Burnett - premieres at the Center for the Arts on Friday, August 23, continuing through Sunday, September 8, in a sumptuous production directed by longtime theater journalist Jeffrey Ellis.

It's just ten days until Amnesty International UK and comedy star Deborah Frances-White (host of hit podcast The Guilty Feminist) bring the brand new Secret Policeman's Tour to the prestigious Edinburgh Playhouse on Saturday 24th August and they are delighted to announce the final line up for this must-see event of the final weekend of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Gauguin's epigram serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both at a certain age, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understands. Madeline Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on Britains Isle of Wight. One day Frances Beale comes to her door, a woman she has met only once, who is now enjoying sudden success, late in life, as a popular novelist. The result is both surprising and profound when you watch what can emerge when a man's wife and mistress finally confront each other. Of the central theme of the play, playwright David Hare wrote 'You can no longer call it middle age, and you certainly can't call it old age. It's something in between... I wanted to describe two women at exactly that moment; a long past behind them, but the expectation of a considerable future in front of them.a??