Jan Leslie Harding News

The Denver Center Theatre Company completes the 2009/2010 season with Mama Hated Diesels - a Denver Center World Premiere musical by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, an intimate setting of William Shakespeare's Othello and the winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award - Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías.

The Denver Center Theatre Company completes the 2009/2010 season with Mama Hated Diesels - a Denver Center World Premiere musical by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, an intimate setting of William Shakespeare's Othello and the winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award - Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has granted The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center $40,000 to go toward the development of new plays at its 2010 and 2011 National Playwrights Conferences that take place every summer in at the theater in Waterford, Connecticut.

The Group Theatre Too's recent production of David Rimmer's 'Album' culminated with a star-studded opening and a 'talk back' after the performance. Alan Ruck, who performed 'Album' in Chicago, and Sam Robards who replaced the original Cherry Lane cast in 1981, joined David Rimmer, director Justin Boccitto and the cast of the 2009 revival at the Hudson Guild Theater as they answered questions and spoke about the history of 'Album' over the last twenty five years.

Not seen in New York City since the 9-time Tony Award nominated Broadway production, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble presents Indiscretions, Jeremy Sams? translation of Jean Cocteau?s Les Parents Terribles. Directed by Drama Desk nominee Jonathan Silverstein (The Dining Room), Indiscretions opens on February 21st and will run through March 14th.

The cast and creative team have been assembled for the gritty, provocative 1930s drama Tobacco Road, which ran on Broadway from December 4, 1933 to May 31,1941, the longest Broadway run ever at the time. Today, 75 years since it opened, it remains the second-longest running drama in Broadway history, second only to Life with Father. It plays September 30 through October 26, 2008 in the Mandell Weiss Forum at La Jolla Playhouse.

The cast and creative team have been assembled for the gritty, provocative 1930s drama Tobacco Road, which ran on Broadway from December 4, 1933 to May 31,1941, the longest Broadway run ever at the time. Today, 75 years since it opened, it remains the second-longest running drama in Broadway history, second only to Life with Father. It plays September 30 through October 26, 2008 in the Mandell Weiss Forum at La Jolla Playhouse.

The 2nd Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) Awards were held Friday, September 5, 2008 at the Bleecker Street Theatre, located at 45 Bleecker Street, winners were announced in 33 separate categories.

On Friday, September 5, at 8pm the Midtown International Theater Festival Awards will take place. The MITF Awards will honor the best shows and performances from the recently completed Ninth Annual Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival, which took place from July 14-August 10 of this year.

In the last week of its ninth annual successful smash season, the Midtown International Theatre Festival extends you one last invitation to see its Commercial Division shows with an eye on transferring to a life elsewhere after their MITF runs end on August 10!

With the coming of its ninth annual summer program of varied and eclectic works, the Midtown International Theatre Festival is proud to unveil the MITF Commercial Division, featuring shows staged with a specific eye toward a future existence, be it on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre or touring worldwide.

DOUBLE PLAY CONNECTIONS, LLC & WILD BIRD PRODUCTIONS, INC. are pleased to announce the world premiere workshop production of the musical OPA!, directed by Spiro Veloudos.

Double Play Connections and Meredith Lucio are pleased to announce that the world premiere production of Take Me America, by Bill Nabel (book and lyrics) and Bob Christianson (music), garnered 3 awards from the Midtown International Theater Festival's 1st ever Best of Fest Awards!

Double Play Connections and Meredith Lucio will present the world premiere production of a new musical, Take Me America, directed by Gregg Wiggans, with musical direction by Nate Patton, about asylum in America, inspired by the P.O.V. documentary Well-Founded Fear.