James A. Michener News

PDC Playwright Residency Showcase is set to be held at Plays & Players.

The 2011 Friends and Neighbors Festival: 20 hours with $20 - Starts TODAY! Each performance is only $5 Now playing through June 19, 2011

Baz Bamigboye has revealed in the UK Daily Mail today that Daniel Koek will take the stage as Lt. Cable when South Pacific hits the Barbican Theatre in London this summer. The Bartlett Sher production, which opened at Lincoln Center in 2008 and is currently on tour, will also star original Bloody Mary Loretta Ables Sayre and Paulo Szot as Emile DeBecque. The UK's Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

Tony winner Paulo Szot is set to return to SOUTH PACIF as Emile de Becque in the upcoming London transfer of the 2008 Broadway revival. The production opens at the Barbican Theatre AUgust 15 before beginning a UK tour. Samantha Womack will play Nellie Forbush.

Anchorage Opera will present SOUTH PACIFIC April 1, 2011 - April 10, 2011.

Since its founding in 1911, Plays & Players (P&P) has maintained its mission to support emerging and established local artists practice and perform their crafts.

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announces War Stories MixTix - our third installment of theme-based theatre packages aimed at giving audiences the power of choice.

The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia announces War Stories MixTix - our third installment of theme-based theatre packages aimed at giving audiences the power of choice.

According to a report by Baz Bamigboye for Daily Mail, Samantha Womack is set to star in the UK tour of SOUTH PACIFIC as 'Nellie Forbush'. The production will be directed by Bartlett Sher, who won a Tony Award for directing the Broadway revival. The six week tour will begin on October 3.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced 10 Finalists for its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating it's thirty-third year. The Houston-based Prize received the 2010 Theatre Communications Group's National Funder Award. The annual honor goes to a company, foundation or other entity for 'leadership and sustained national support of theater in America.'

Pennsylvania's First Lady Susan Corbett invites artists throughout the state to apply for an opportunity to showcase their work in Art of the State®: Pennsylvania 2011, a juried art exhibition that is open to state residents.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the world-premiere of 'Emergency Prom,' a brand new theatrical event by third-year James A. Michener Center for Writers fellow and MFA in Playwriting candidate, Steve Moulds and directed by Courtney Sale.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the world-premiere of 'Emergency Prom,' a brand new theatrical event by third-year James A. Michener Center for Writers fellow and MFA in Playwriting candidate, Steve Moulds and directed by Courtney Sale.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the world-premiere of 'Emergency Prom,' a brand new theatrical event by third-year James A. Michener Center for Writers fellow and MFA in Playwriting candidate, Steve Moulds and directed by Courtney Sale.

MTC's New Works Series presents staged readings of works by new and emerging playwrights. Lidless tells the story of Alice, an interrogator at Guantanamo 15 years ago. The beta-blockers she took during her service have left holes in her memories, a fact she welcomes so she can get on with the new life she has created with her husband and daughter. When Bashir, a former detainee dying of liver disease, arrives to confront Alice, she can't remember ever having seen his face. He refuses to let Alice deny her past, demanding shocking payment for the damage she wreaked on his body and soul during their interrogations. Lidless is a story about embracing one's true nature and the quest to re-humanize a world losing sight of its common humanity.

Anchorage Opera will present SOUTH PACIFIC April 1, 2011 - April 10, 2011.

MTC's New Works Series presents staged readings of works by new and emerging playwrights. Lidless tells the story of Alice, an interrogator at Guantanamo 15 years ago. The beta-blockers she took during her service have left holes in her memories, a fact she welcomes so she can get on with the new life she has created with her husband and daughter. When Bashir, a former detainee dying of liver disease, arrives to confront Alice, she can't remember ever having seen his face. He refuses to let Alice deny her past, demanding shocking payment for the damage she wreaked on his body and soul during their interrogations. Lidless is a story about embracing one's true nature and the quest to re-humanize a world losing sight of its common humanity.

Though times certainly have changed from when the Greatest Generation showed true heroism in the battlefields of European and Tropical soil, it's staggering to realize that in 2010, racial issues still feel like a haphazardly patched wound reopened. Prejudice, no matter what the decade, still stings. These themes were boldly explored back in 1949, the year the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC first wowed audiences. In this new, exquisite, magnificent revival, director Bartlett Sher lets loose an oustanding, revitalized production that is now playing for a two-week engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center through October 24. It's a classic beautifully reborn.

The PDC Playwright Residency at Plays & Players aims to provide artistic development for Philadelphia's next generation of professional playwrights. This year's pilot season of the residency will support three local writers who represent the highest potential for further growth and exploration: Joy Cutler, Quinn Eli and Greg Romero.

The Walden Theatre Summer Academy, a bedrock theatre summer program for children ages 8-13, will perform Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on five weekends this summer.