Gisela Cardenas News

'Men like women with character,' is the sisterly advice a muddied, snarling, grief-stricken and murderously-crazed Elektra gives to pretty little Chrysothemis in Ann Carson's wildly clever adaptation of the ancient Greek story of bloody family doings titled An Oresteia. Growled in all seriousness by the fabulously bitter Annika Boras, the line got a huge laugh the afternoon I caught Classic Stage Company's crackling good premiere production; the swiftest five hours of theatre I've enjoyed in a long, long time.

terraNOVA Collective is thrilled to announce the new members of its Groundbreakers Playwrights Group. Groundbreakers is a six month long program in which playwrights work on a specific project with the intent to create a completed draft.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, April 3, 2009.

Due to the high demand for advanced ticket sales resulting in a number of sold-out shows, the Vortex Theater Company is releasing additional tickets for every performance of its upcoming production, Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical. The Vortex has also created a select number of obstructed view seats for a discounted ticket price of $12.

For the second production in its 2007 season of musicals, the Vortex Theater Company will premiere its radical new vision of Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical, directed by Gisela Cardenas with musical direction by Milica Paranosic

For the second production in its 2007 season of musicals, the Vortex Theater Company (Joshua Randall, Artistic Director) will premiere its new version of Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical, directed by Gisela Cardenas with musical direction by Milica Paranosic

Vortex Theater Company has announced its plans for the company's 24th season - featuring three musicals

The 51st Annual Drama Desk Awards were presented on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM, at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The annual awards honor excellence in theater for Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the season.

Nominations for the 51 st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today at The New York Friars Club by theater notables Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie, who revealed the nominees for the 2005/2006 theater season in front of a crowd of theater professionals at the press conference this morning.

The Vortex Theatre will present In Delirium: after the sorrows of young werther from March 31st through April 23rd off-Broadway