Heinrich von Kleist News

Today, June 27 sees the curtain rise on the 2014 Bard SummerScape Festival, ushering in seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret.

Friday, June 27 sees the curtain rise on the 2014 Bard SummerScape Festival, ushering in seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret.

The Bard SummerScape festival is proud to present the world premiere of Love in the Wars, an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's romantic drama Penthesilea by the Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville. Starring Obie Award-winner Birgit Huppuch and One Life to Live's Chris Stack, Bard's premiere production is by Ken Rus Schmoll, the Obie Award-winning director. Representing a fresh, playful and earthy take on Kleist's original, Love in the Wars will be presented in two previews and eight performances between July 10 and 20 in Theater Two of the Fisher Center - designed byFrank Gehry and celebrated since its opening as a major architectural landmark - on Bard's glorious Hudson Valley campus

Today, Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak announced plans for Talk Is Free Theatre's upcoming season. It will include a wide range of new and forgotten classics from the world repertoire, as well as a visit from an original Canadian musical.

Reviving important but neglected operas is one of the ways the Bard SummerScape festival in New York's Annandale-on-Hudson has established itself, and this year's immersion in "Schubert and His World" - culminating in the 25th-anniversary season of the Bard Music Festival - is no exception. To enrich its exploration of the roots of Austro-German Romanticism, Bard presents Euryanthe (1823) by Schubert's contemporary Carl Maria von Weber, marking the opera's first American revival in 100 years. Headlined by Ellie Dehn, Bard's original staging is by Kevin Newbury, creator of SummerScape's production of Richard Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae. Euryanthe's five performances (July 25, 27 & 30; August 1 & 3) feature the festival's resident American Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of music director Leon Botstein, who also leads semi-staged performances of Schubert's own seldom-heard opera Fierrabras starring Joseph Kaiser, best known for his leading role in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of The Magic Flute, on August 17, and of a double-bill of rarities - Schubert's one-act Singspiel Die Verschworenen and Franz von Suppe's operetta Franz Schubert - on August 10.

The roots of Austro-German Romanticism will be explored at the 2014 annual Bard SummerScape festival, which once again offers a sensational summer of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, keyed to the theme of the 25th anniversary season of the world-renowned Bard Music Festival, Schubert and His World.

Eric Abraham and the Fugard Theatre will present A HUMAN BEING DIED THAT NIGHT, a play by Nicholas Wright, in a tour that opens at the Fugard Studio Theatre in Cape Town, before transferring to the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, after which the show will be performed in a formal London season at the Hampstead Theatre in May 2014.

A transfer of this season's production of Possible Worlds to Munich, Germany, a co-production of the haunting musical Floyd Collins and a new conceptual adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in a retirement home are among the highlights. Today Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak announced details of the upcoming season for Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT), which sees the company producing a wide range of new and re-imagined material in Barrie, Ontario and beyond.

This September, the Getty Museum and CalArts' Center for New Performance (CNP), in association with Trans Arts, will presentPrometheus Bound, the eighth annual outdoor theater production in the Getty Villa's Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. Featuring a newly-translated text by noted poet and essayist Joel Agee, Prometheus Bound will be directed by Travis Preston, artistic director of CNP and dean of the CalArts School of Theater, and include original music by composer Ellen Reid and celebrated jazz multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia (who will also perform live onstage).

This September, the Getty Museum and CalArts' Center for New Performance (CNP), in association with Trans Arts, will presentPrometheus Bound, the eighth annual outdoor theater production in the Getty Villa's Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater. Featuring a newly-translated text by noted poet and essayist Joel Agee, Prometheus Bound will be directed by Travis Preston, artistic director of CNP and dean of the CalArts School of Theater, and include original music by composer Ellen Reid and celebrated jazz multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia (who will also perform live onstage).

Join Archipelago Books and Community Bookstore for a reading of the Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, selected, edited, and translated by Peter Wortsman, and a conversation about fairy tales and their relevance to contemporary life with Peter Wortsman andNew Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella. The reading will take place tonight, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Subway: B/Q at Seventh Ave.

Join Archipelago Books and Community Bookstore for a reading of the Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, selected, edited, and translated by Peter Wortsman, and a conversation about fairy tales and their relevance to contemporary life with Peter Wortsman andNew Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella. The reading will take place on Thursday, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Subway: B/Q at Seventh Ave.

A transfer of this season's production of Possible Worlds to Munich, Germany, a co-production of the haunting musical Floyd Collins and a new conceptual adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in a retirement home are among the highlights. Today Artistic Producer Arkady Spivak announced details of the upcoming season for Talk Is Free Theatre (TIFT), which sees the company producing a wide range of new and re-imagined material in Barrie, Ontario and beyond.

The Abrons Arts Center will present Narcissister and the premiere of Organ Player, a large-scale performance that stretches the limits of spectatorship. While her recent solo exhibition at envoy enterprises, Narcissister is You, placed us in proximity to surfaces and mirrors, Organ Player lures us into a body that threatens to eject its contents. Her mobile hinges cast an eerie humor throughout this episodic performance, which abounds with dance, striptease, music, and vaudevillian trickery.

Renowned nouveau cirque ensemble Compagnie 111 returns to BAM following their BAM debut The Seven Boards of Skill (2008 Next Wave), with the US premiere of the darkly playful Sans Objet, as part of the 30th Next Wave Festival.

Renowned nouveau cirque ensemble Compagnie 111 returns to BAM following their BAM debut The Seven Boards of Skill (2008 Next Wave), with the US premiere of the darkly playful Sans Objet, as part of the 30th Next Wave Festival.

Dixon Place has announced its October 2012 events lineup. See full details below!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, stage and screen star Frank Langella, just penned his first memoir, which includes stories about Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier, William Styron, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and more. Titled: 'Dropped Names,' the book is now available at Amazon.com. Check out what Langella had to say about the book on today's 'The Today Show' below!

Caffeine Theatre has announced its programming for its 8th season, which will feature two Midwest premiere productions.

Caffeine Theatre has announced its programming for its 8th season, which will feature two Midwest premiere productions.