Avenue Q's Jordan Gelber will star in the Katharsis Theater Company's World Premiere production of The Polish Play: A Conflation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, devised and directed by 2004 Drama Desk-nominee Henry Wishcamper
The Williamstown Theatre Festival's new production of Shakespeare's Romeo ad Juliet, starring Emmy Rossum and Austin Lysy and directed by Will Frears, runs August 2-13
New Georges, the OBIE-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, has announced an extension through June 30th of its world premiere production of Sheila Callaghan's Dead City, directed by Daniella Topol
Due to the illness of The Right Kind of People's lead actor, playwright Charles Grodin will step in for tonight's and tomorrow's performances. The show will play its last performance on Sunday, March 5th at 3 PM
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced complete details for the fifth production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of PEN, a new play by David Marshall Grant.
Off-Broadway¹s Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer - Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director Elliot Fox, Managing Director) and Bloomingdale¹s have formed a corporate partnership in celebration of the New York Premiere of Charles Grodin¹s new play, The Right Kind of People, which begins performances at Primary Stages, the resident company at 59E59 Theaters, Tuesday, January 24, 2006, and is slated to run until Sunday, March 5, 2006.
Les Freres Corbusier, creators of last Spring's sold-out off-Broadway hit Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses and the Obie Award-winning A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, will present Heddatron, written by Elizabeth Meriwether, directed by Alex Timbers, and produced by Aaron Lemon-Strauss.
Primary Stages in association with Julian Schlossberg presents the New York premiere of the new play The Right Kind of People by Charles Grodin at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59 Street between Park & Madison Avenues).
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, starring young performers Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eliza Dushku, America Ferrera and others, will open off-Broadway on December 15th
Casting is now complete for Sarah Schulman's play Manic Flight Reaction, which will open on October 23rd at Playwrights Horizon and play a limited run through November 6th
Casting has been announced for the Atlantic Theater Company's first production of this season, Rolin Jones' comedy The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, which wil open on September 19th
Edge Theater Company (Carolyn Cantor, Artistic Director) will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Craig Wright's new play Orange Flower Water, at The Theater for the New City. Performances for Orange Flower Water will begin March 26th and continue through May 8th.