Franz Kafka News

Van Hill Entertainment is proud to announce that the Off-Broadway premiere of ROOMS a rock romance, starring Leslie Kritzer and Doug Kreeger, will begin performances on Friday February 27th at New World Stages/Stage 2 (340 West 50th Street). Opening Night is set for Monday March 16th (7 PM). ROOMS a rock romance has music and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman (Bright Lights Big City) and book by Goodman and Miriam Gordon, and will be directed by Scott Schwartz (Golda's Balcony, Bat Boy: The Musical, tick, tick... BOOM!, Jane Eyre).

Great writers and great works of literature are the thematic thread running through the 2008-09 season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers 'New Visions' series, this year subtitled, 'The Literary Muse.' A work by celebrated English novelist Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for the third presentation of the series. Opening on November 12, The National Theatre of Great Britain's award-winning, multi-media production of Waves will have its U.S. Premiere at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street project.

Great writers and great works of literature are the thematic thread running through the 2008-09 season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers 'New Visions' series, this year subtitled, 'The Literary Muse.' A work by celebrated English novelist Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for the third presentation of the series. Opening on November 12, The National Theatre of Great Britain's award-winning, multi-media production of Waves will have its U.S. Premiere at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street project.

A new season of 'New Visions'-subtitled 'The Literary Muse'-begins on October 20 at the Rose Theater with the New York premiere of Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Musicas, in which Cervantes' picaresque 17th-century tale of Don Quixote comes alive in a glorious evening of music and spoken word conceived by master viola da gambist and early music expert Jordi Savall.

As part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, BAM presents the U.S. debut of Iceland's Vesturport Theatre in a critically-acclaimed production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, this U.S. premiere is directed by rising-star Gísli Örn Gardarsson and is a joint production of Vesturport and The Reykjavik City Theatre. Woyzeck premiered at The Reykjavik City Theatre in 2005 and was presented at London's Barbican Theatre in 2005 as part of their Young Genius series where its sold-out run received critical acclaim. The production returned to the Barbican in 2006, traveled to Spain in 2007, and will tour to South Korea in May 2009.

Playhouse on the Green, a 54-year-old not-for-profit theater company in residence at a beautiful 228-seat jewel-box theater in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, CT, kicks off their 2008-2009 season of plays and musicals with Steve Martin's wacky adaptation of Carl Sternheim's 1911 comedy 'The Underpants.' This hilarious send-up of repressed society and scandalous fashion faux pas runs for 8 performances only September 26-October 5, 2008.

From September 4, 2008 through September 14, 2008, Pangs Theater will perform SONDERKOMMANDO, a modern multidisciplinary performance about the human experience, as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

From September 4, 2008 through September 14, 2008, Pangs Theater will perform SONDERKOMMANDO, a modern multidisciplinary performance about the human experience, as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival.

Theresa Rebeck's scathing new play that mixes comedy with Kafka receives its world premiere in an excellent production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Black Moon Theatre Company will present The Kafka Series-- Rene Migliaccio's world-premiere multi-media adaptation of The Trial and his acclaimed multi-media adaptation of The Metamorphosis, both based on the classic novels of Franz Kafka -- performed in repertory, September 15-October 28

The 2005 New York International Fringe Festival will play host to hundreds of shows; here is an (almost) alphabetical preview of 23 of them

Steve Rosen, who plays multiple roles in Monty Python's Spamalot, will appear in Broadway Spotlight at Ars Nova on June 13th