James Joyce News

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning play You Can't Take It With You, continuing Northlight's 41st Season. You Can't Take It With You, directed by Devon de Mayo, runs November 6 - December 13, 2015 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie.

This December Brooke Moriber will make her triumphant return to the New York City stage after two West Coast performances earlier this month.

Irish Stage Company's inaugural production brings Marie Jones' multi-award winning worldwide hit STONES IN HIS POCKETS to Toronto's Alumnae Studio Theatre, Nov. 26th - Dec.12th 2015.

The annual fall gathering for booklovers, the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, will return to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston's beautiful Back Bay, November 13-15, 2015.  More than 120 dealers from the United States, Australia, England, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and The Netherlands will exhibit and sell a vast selection of rare, collectible and antiquarian books, illuminated manuscripts, autographs, maps, atlases, modern first editions, photographs, and fine and decorative prints.  

Abrons Arts Center is pleased to announce the extension of 2015 MacArthur Fellow Basil Twist's Sisters' Follies: Between Two Worlds.

Experiments in Opera—the composer-driven collective with an air of mad scientists in the lab—opens its 2015-16 season with the premiere of 11 new commissions for ensemble and voice in The Travel Agency is On Fire: Burroughs Cuts Up the Great Bards, presented tonight, October 16, 2015 at the East Village avant-garde haven The Stone.Two sets take place at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Each set features different songs.

Experiments in Opera -- the composer-driven collective with an air of mad scientists in the lab -- opens its 2015-16 season with the premiere of 11 new commissions for ensemble and voice in The Travel Agency is On Fire: Burroughs Cuts Up the Great Bards, presented Today, October 16, 2015 at the East Village avant-garde haven The Stone. Two sets take place at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Each set features different songs.

Homer Hickam's highly anticipated new book 'Carrying Albert Home,' the long awaited prequel to his award-winning memoir Rocket Boys (which sold over a million copies in the U.S. and was the basis of the hit movie October Sky), has been released by William Morrow Hardcover, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. At its core, 'Carrying Albert Home' is the enchanting story of a classic love triangle. Homer loves Elsie. Elsie loves Albert. Simple. Except there's a difference to this love triangle, a rather large, scaly one. Albert is an alligator.

People's Light presents AUCTIONING THE AINSLEYS, running from October 14 through November 8, 2015. Artistic Director Abigail Adams directs.

BroadwayWorld San Francisco spoke with principal 'Riverdance' dancer Emma Warren about life on the road and her time 'over the rainbow' with BBC's reality show. Read the full interview below, then visit www.shnsf.com for tickets and information. 'Riverdance' plays November 4-8 at the Golden Gate Theatre.

They made history 45 years ago when they starred in LOVE STORY, the most talked about film of its day -- Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal now reunite for LOVE LETTERS, a special theatrical tour that will make its official tour launch at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Feinstein's/54 Below presents Daisy and Jordan: Rejected Bond Girls. From Midtown Manhattan with love, for your eyes only, Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan and her comedy partner Jordan Kai Burnett bring their love of James Bond to Feinstein's/54 Below on November 15th, because nobody does it better.

Mad Cow Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for the poignant musical The Secret Garden, with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, based on the 1911 classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden will open Nov. 20, 2015 in the Harriett Theatre at Mad Cow Theatre in downtown Orlando.

Midtown Direct Rep (MDR), kicks off its 2015-16 season at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) with Theatre in the Loft, a series of staged readings of new plays and musicals. The Impossibility of Now, written by Y York and directed by Will Pomerantz, will be performed for one night only on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 7pm at SOPAC (One Sopac Way, South Orange, NJ, 07079).  The reading is $15 and open to the public. Tickets can be purchased at www.sopacnow.org or by calling 973-313-ARTS (2787).  For direct link to purchase tickets, please CLICK HERE.

The Stella Adler Theatre is thrilled to present the West Coast Premiere of AY, CARMELA!, written by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra, adapted by Nilo Cruz and Catalina Botello, with Scenic Design by noted Architect Frank Gehry (his Los Angeles Intimate Theatre debut!) and directed by Alberto Arvelo. 

They made history 45 years ago when they starred in LOVE STORY, the most talked about film of its day -- Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal now reunite for LOVE LETTERS, a special theatrical tour that will make its official tour launch at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

Good Morning America news anchor and music fan Ron Claiborne will host a gala evening honoring vocalese original Jon Hendricks once dubbed the 'James Joyce of Jazz' by Time magazine, and producer Cobi Narita who founded and led both the Universal Jazz Coalition and New York Women's Jazz Festival for several decades.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired the papers of Isaiah Sheffer, playwright, lyricist, and co-founder and artistic director of New York's renowned cultural institution Symphony Space. 

Turning away from what she calls Oscar Wilde's "Dance of Death" and instead creating a "Dance of Life," internationally acclaimed adaptor-director Yael Farber has reinterpreted the biblical figure known as Salome as an agent of revolution whose mysterious act-demanding the head of John the Baptist-changed the course of history. The world premiere of Salome opens the Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2015-2016 Mainstage Season and marks the Company's entry in the Women's Voices Theater Festival. The production runs October 6-November 8, 2015, at the Lansburgh Theatre (450 7th Street NW).

Prospect Theater Company (under the leadership of Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber), will be presenting a developmental reading of the new musical Marco Polo by Deborah Abramson (music) and Peter Mills (book and lyrics), on Monday, October 5.