Geoffrey Chaucer News

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The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern announces its 2009-2010 Season, Celebrating 20 Years of Performing Shakespeare on Peachtree Street!

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The theatre offers $12 General Admission Previews March 5 & 6.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The theatre offers $12 General Admission Previews March 5 & 6.

The Columbia University School of the Arts presents the 2009 M.F.A. Acting class in a Columbia Stages production of Geoffrey Chaucer's THE CANTERBURY TALES, a new adaptation by Ken Kaissar, directed by Yuriy Kordonskiy, running November 13 - 22 at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

COLUMBIA STAGES, the award-winning producing arm of Columbia University's Graduate Theatre Program, announces its 2008-2009 season. The highly political season will include Baal and The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht; Euripides' Medea; Big Love by Charles L. Mee; The Woman by Edward Bond; a co-production with Origin Theatre Company; a new adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 5th annual New Voices New Play Festival. The 2008-2009 season begins October 22nd at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

Professionalism. It is a word that is bandied about with frequency in theater circles. When it is applied to a gaggle of pint-sized vagabonds who are rehearsing a middle school production of Oliver!, it becomes laughable. However, when its observed first-hand on one of New York's stages, it is truly appreciated. Such is the case at The Player's Theater on MacDougal Street. It is there that television actor John Driscoll has taken over two key roles in Matt Morillo's comedy Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans with High-Class Issues.