Jeffrey Hatcher News

This week, Dramatists Play Service's social media channel, a?oeDPS On Air,a?? features DPS playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (a?oeCompleat Female Stage Beautya??) reading from his play a?oeMurderersa??.

Barrington Stage Company will be changing two of the season's productions in order to better meet social distancing protocols that are necessary at this time.

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As theatres in Minnesota and around the country face an ongoing a?oeintermission,a?? Park Square Theatre continues to create projects that keep audiences and artists connected.

Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater, announced that, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, the three productions originally scheduled for fall 2020 are being canceled.

Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19: Jeffrey Hatcher's The Government Inspector.

Red Bull Theater is presenting a livestreamed reading of The Government Inspector, starring Michael Urie, as part of its RBT Live series.

Red Bull Theater today announced the postponement of the next scheduled event of its special FREE programming: The Revenger's Tragedy a new version by Jesse Berger, freely adapted from the original text by Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourneur, or Anonymous.

Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19: The Revenger's Tragedy a new version by Jesse Berger.

The Playwrights' Center is continuing its commitment to developing playwrights and new work through their Core Writers program. Seven of the country's most thrilling playwrights are joining the program. The 2020-2023 Core Writers are Sharon Bridgforth, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Andrew Rosendorf, Riti Sachdeva, Charly Evon Simpson, Crystal Skillman, and Jonathan Spector.

The McKnight Foundation and Playwrights' Center are continuing to invest in the future of theater by supporting some of today's most promising playwrights through the McKnight National Residency and Commission and McKnight Fellowships in Playwriting. The awards are all the more pertinent as many theater-makers face unprecedented challenges during this moment of crisis.

The Old Globe today announced that it is moving the productions in its 2020 Summer Season to the summer of 2021, although exact dates have not been settled upon. The season's titles include a classic American musical, a new adaptation of a 20th century thriller, and two of Shakespeare's masterworks on the Globe's outdoor stage.

By popular demand, Experience Theatre Project is once again meeting the COVID-19 crisis with innovation by presenting a live stream of the classic gothic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 5PM PT/8pm ET. The stream, creatively designed, implemented, and executed for online presentation, will be viewable online at the ETP website. The show is free to the public. A $10 per person donation is encouraged. All proceeds benefit the performers, crew, and designers of this show.

Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19: a special two-part celebration of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19: Thomas Dekker, John Ford & William Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton.

Experience Theatre Project, a Beaverton-based immersive performing arts company, is meeting the COVID-19 crisis with innovation by presenting a full-length live stream of The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher on Friday, May 1, 2020 at 7:30PM PST. The stream, creatively designed, implemented, and executed for the medium, will be viewable online at the ETP website and simulcast to YouTube and Facebook. The show is free to the public. A $5 per person donation is encouraged. 

Carlisle Floyd's Prince of Players, the latest world-premiere recording by the Florentine Opera, will be released on the Reference Recordings label for worldwide distribution on April 24, 2020. This compelling, masterful new work of American opera will be released in a 2 CD set and all forms of digital download and streaming.

Experience Theatre Project is meeting this crisis with innovation by presenting a full-length live stream of The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher on Friday, May 1, 2020 at 7:30PM PST. The stream, creatively designed, implemented, and executed for a live stream audience, will be viewable online at the ETP website and simulcast to YouTube and Facebook. The show is free to the public. Donations encouraged. 

Westport Country Playhouse announces scheduling changes in its 2020 Script in Hand Playreading Series, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The series of four remaining playreadings is now scheduled to resume in late June and run through mid-December.