Harold Pinter News

Stage Door Records will release of the 1980 Original London Cast Recording of the musical COLETTE by John Dankworth on February 22nd. The release will be the first time the recording has been available on CD. The musical starred Cleo Laine in the title role. The show originally opened at The Stables Theatre, Wavendon in 1979 and transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London in September 1980.

The Attic Theatre company, an emerging ensemble in their fourth season, proudly presents Dark Rapture by Eric Overmyer. Directed by Laura Braza (Company Manager, Keen Company; Director/Teacher at Pius XI Theater Lab), Eric Overmyer's noir thriller returns to New York City for a limited engagement January 22 - February 6, 2010.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has announced its 2010 Season which will begin in June and continue through early January.

The Lost Studio presents the American premiere of 'Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn, opening Friday, January 15, 2010.

A matchless quintet of interlinked plays by Britain's best-loved comic playwright, illustrates the hilarious consequences of not listening to one another.  Ayckbourn's overlapping characters are alternately naturalistic and farcical - quirky, neurotic, self-important, and hysterical.  Whether the comedy concerns marital conflict, infidelity, motherhood, or manhood; is set on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters reveal a LOL timeless familiarity in their desperation to make contact with one another. Ayckbourn's American premiere of 'Confusions' will be staged by the Lost Studio from January 15 - March 7, 2010 in Los Angeles.

Shadow and Light Theatre Company, will be performing Harold Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and Ashes to Ashes at the Bullitt Cabaret at ACT Theatre in Seattle. Performances are from Jan. 22 to Feb. 7 (preview performance Jan. 21).

A Contemporary Theatre packs theatre, music ,and dance into a short month with Central Heating Lab events, including the conclusion of Two by Pinter from Shadow & Light Theatre Company and Project 3 from Seattle Dance Project, a musical revue of 80s movies and music in The Soft Rock Kid, and the debut of a new play from David Wiener at the ACT New Play Award.

The Attic Theatre company, an emerging ensemble in their fourth season, proudly presents Dark Rapture by Eric Overmyer. Directed by Laura Braza (Company Manager, Keen Company; Director/Teacher at Pius XI Theater Lab), Eric Overmyer's noir thriller returns to New York City for a limited engagement January 22 - February 6, 2010.

Today, the Lucille Lortel Awards Administration Committee and the Lucille Lortel Foundation announce the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award: Daryl Roth. This honor is conferred to a theatre professional known for their dedication to Off-Broadway. On May 2, 2010, Daryl Roth will join the recipients in the 18 other Lortel Award categories on stage for the 25th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards starting at 8 PM EST at Terminal 5 in New York City.

Jonathan Pryce is set to star in the first West End Pinter production, The Caretaker, since Harold Pinter's death in December last year. The Caretaker runs at Trafalgar Studios from January 12 - April 17, 2010.

The Lost Studio presents the American premiere of 'Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn, opening Friday, January 15, 2010.

The Northwest Playwright Alliance's Third International Tour Opens in Seattle January 9 with a one-night only date at New City Theater prior to a tour of the Northwest, NYC, England and Japan.

The Northwest Playwright Alliance's Third International Tour Opens in Seattle January 9 with a one-night only date at New City Theater prior to a tour of the Northwest, NYC, England and Japan.

Introduction-Demonstration in the Eric Morris System and Strategic Planning for the Actor Taught by Anthony Vincent Bova, the exclusive New York instructor and the East Coast authority in the Eric Morris system

This year, we had the pleasure of making the following conversations and performances available to our viewers

In a special feature with the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph, powerhouse producer Sonia Friedman, the force behind the West End's Legally Blonde, talks the record-breaking production, feminism and her upcoming ventures. Included on this impressive list is a January West End transfer of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, one of the season's most successful productions that played the Royal Court, and developing a musical adaptation of the blockbuster Shakespeare in Love. And this after just opening A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury on Broadway and preparing to open the Liev Schreiber/Scarlett Jonhansson-led A View from the Bridge on Broadway in January. In fact, Friedman has no fewer than 56 projects on her 'to-do list.'

14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival January 8-16, 2010 Tickets: $20 or $40 All-Fest Pass or included with ACT Basic Membership *Town Hall and ACT: Short Stories Live at Town Hall

Martin Sheen will return to the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that brought him a Tony Award nomination in 1964, and join with Frances Conroy and Brian Geraghty in 'The Subject Was Roses' by Frank D. Gilroy, it was announced today by Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. 'The Subject Was Roses' replaces the previously announced 'Speed-the-Plow' by David Mamet as the first production in the Taper's 2010 season at the Los Angeles Music Center, February 10 through March 21, 2010. Opening is set for February 21.

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program congratulates the alumni who have taken the American stage and screen by storm this month.

On Wednesday, December 16, TheatreWorks New Milford will present a free staged reading of THE SERVANT by Robin Maugham, at 8:00 pm, at the Theatre, 5 Brookside Ave, in New Milford. The reading will be followed by a wine and cheese reception.