Helen Carey News

As part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, BAM presents the U.S. debut of Iceland's Vesturport Theatre in a critically-acclaimed production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, this U.S. premiere is directed by rising-star Gísli Örn Gardarsson and is a joint production of Vesturport and The Reykjavik City Theatre. Woyzeck premiered at The Reykjavik City Theatre in 2005 and was presented at London's Barbican Theatre in 2005 as part of their Young Genius series where its sold-out run received critical acclaim. The production returned to the Barbican in 2006, traveled to Spain in 2007, and will tour to South Korea in May 2009.

Flemish director Guy Cassiers makes his American debut with Sunken Red-a multimedia theater work created in collaboration with and performed by one of Europe's leading stage actors, Dirk Roofthooft.

The American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' will showcase 'Featured Actors' on CUNY TV on Sunday, January 20 at 5 p.m. The program will repeat on Friday, January 25 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, January 26 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org beginning Wednesday, January 23.

Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement of Pygmalion will play its final performance on Sunday, December 16 at 2PM.

Michael Dale takes at look at the Roundabout's revival of 'Pygmalion' and Charles Busch's 'Die Mommie Die!'

The Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Pygmalion officially opened on Thursday, October 18 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street). This new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is directed by David Grindley and stars Claire Danes in her Broadway debut as 'Eliza Doolittle' with Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as 'Henry Higgins', Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as 'Colonel Pickering' and Jay O. Sanders as 'Alfred Doolittle.' This is a limited engagement through Sunday, December 16.

Roundabout Theatre Company's Pygmalion will begin previews this Friday, September 21 at 8PM. Pygmalion stars Claire Danes, Jefferson Mays, Boyd Gaines and Jay O. Sanders. This new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre.

Interviews with Pygmalion stars Claire Danes and Jefferson Mays will be broadcast on NY1 News throughout the day on Wednesday, September 12.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host its 20th Annual Gala on Sunday, March 4, 2007, at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (1301 Constitution Avenue NW).

Christine Andreas, Elena Shaddow, David Burnham, Steve Kazee, Judith Ivey and Bill Pullman are among the nominees of the 27th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, celebrating achievement in Washington, D.C.-area theatre.

Robert Prosky and Helen Carey will star in Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off, presented by Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage from December 15th through January 28th in the Kreeger Theater