Gordon Edelstein News

Though idiots like the academic assortment of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad, his 1989 satire of Yankee cultural self-loathing, may be high on Gilbert and Sullivan's Lord High Executioner's little list of those whose loss would be a distinct gain to society at large, this verbose crew would undoubtedly escape the axman's blade. After all, they have tenure. And just like, as one character argues, a life sentence with no chance of execution gives a convict the freedom to kill a prison guard without fear of harsher punishment, tenure is the desired life sentence that defends these plastic-souled elitists against the consequences of their own ignorance.

Emmy nominee David Schwimmer will direct workshop of Stephen Belber's Fault Lines as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, August 2-3

Due to an abbreviated rehearsal period with the show's full company, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will move the opening night of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad to Thursday, July 24, to allow for a longer preview period.

Second Stage Theatre's production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, held its opening on Tuesday, July 15 at Second Stage Theatre.

Second Stage Theatre's production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, held its opening on Tuesday, July 15 at Second Stage Theatre.

Second Stage Theatre's already announced production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, will officially open on Tuesday, July 15 at 6:30pm at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue.

Emmy nominee David Schwimmer will direct workshop of Stephen Belber's Fault Lines as part of Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, August 2-3

A combined Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, two Pulitzer finalists, the team whose musical just about swept the 2007 Tonys, the creator of the iconic Vagina Monologues, and an award-winning comedy writer will all debut new theater works this summer on the Vassar College campus.

Judith Ivey will play Amanda in Tennessee Williams' 'The Glass Menagerie' at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater.

Due to an abbreviated rehearsal period with the show's full company, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will move the opening night of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad to Thursday, July 24, to allow for a longer preview period.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will conclude its current mainstage season with Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein.

Second Stage Theatre has announced that Tony-nominated director MICHAEL GREIF, who recently staged the company's musical Next to Normal, will direct this fall's 20th Anniversary production of Howard Korder's comedy BOYS' LIFE.

Second Stage Theatre's already announced production of Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein, will officially open on Tuesday, July 15 at 6:30pm at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will conclude its current mainstage season with Richard Nelson's comedy, SOME AMERICANS ABROAD, directed by Gordon Edelstein.

The 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Judith Thompson for her critically acclaimed play Palace of the End, marking the first time a Canadian writer has received the prestigious playwriting award's highest honor. Thompson received $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning at a special 30th Anniversary ceremony on Monday, March 10th at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas where Ms. Blackburn first became involved in theatre.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced ten finalists for the prestigious playwriting award which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. The awards are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.

Intiman Theatre, recipient of the 2006 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, continues its 35th season with the world premiere of Prayer for My Enemy, written by Craig Lucas and directed by Artistic Director Bartlett Sher

An expanded version of Edward Albee's early work The Zoo Story, as well as a musical co-written by High Fidelity's Tom Kitt, will be among the highlights of Second Stage Theater's 2007-2008 season

The Connecticut Critics Circle Awards - selected by Connecticut-based theatre critics - have been announced. A ceremony will be held at East Haddam's Goodspeed on Monday, June 4th

The eagerly anticipated Summer Play Festival has announced the 16 plays to be part of its 4th anniversary season.