Jenny Mannis News

Playwrights Horizons has announced full casting of the New York City Premiere of The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock. Directed by Trip Cullman The Drunken City will begin previews on Thursday, March 13 with an official opening on Wednesday, March 26 at 7PM. Performances will continue through Sunday, April 20 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater

Transport Group's heart-tugging musical 'Crossing Brooklyn' deals with post 9/11 stress while MCC's 'Spain' is a whimsical tale of a modern day woman and a Spanish conquistador

Annabella Sciorra will lead as Barbara in the coming MCC Theatre production of Jim Knable's romantic comedy 'Spain'

Frederic Weller has replaced film star Jason Patric in MCC's world premiere production of Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House

There are many ways to describe my feelings after the close of the Huntington Theatre Company's Persephone, but one word sums it up best-empty.

Ron Livingston and Jason Patric have been signed to star in the World Premiere of Playwright Neil LaBute's play, In a Dark Dark House at MCC Theater

Lucy Thurber's new play 'Stay' opens at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater March 19th.

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

Next month, The New School for Drama will present playwright Keith Reddin's award-winning Black Snow, a dramatization of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

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

Sheila Callaghan's play Dead City will run Off-Broadway from May 26th through June 24th

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

Charles Grodin's play The Right Kind of People will end its limited run on March 5th

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