Joan Didion News

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA/YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Dean, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, Managing Director) announce two events in connection with the 2010 YALE DRAMA SERIES, the annual playwriting competition jointly sponsored by Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre and funded with generous support from the David C. Horn Foundation, on Monday, September 20.

Strand's 2010-2011 Season Announced. Kicks off with The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman October 2 - 23, 2010

The Strand Theater proudly presents its third season in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District, featuring a lineup of progressive female playwrights. 'Strong female voices are what have set the Strand apart from other local theaters,' states Artistic Director, Jayme Kilburn. 'In our third season we are celebrating our mission with a slate of plays by women that are rarely produced.'

Carbonell nominee (Speaking Elephant) Angie Radosh has performed at Florida Stage, Caldwell Theatre Company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Gable Stage, Actor's Playhouse, New Theatre, and Key West Theatre Festival, and was part of the award winning City Theatre Summer Shorts ensemble. Her work has earned a Curtain Up award and citations from the New Times. She received the Silver Palm Award for her work in Speaking Elephant and The Glass Menagerie at New Theatre. Television and film work include Disney's 'Johnny and the Sprites' and the award winning film 'Lost Everything.'

Carbonell nominee (Speaking Elephant) Angie Radosh has performed at Florida Stage, Caldwell Theatre Company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Gable Stage, Actor's Playhouse, New Theatre, and Key West Theatre Festival, and was part of the award winning City Theatre Summer Shorts ensemble. Her work has earned a Curtain Up award and citations from the New Times. She received the Silver Palm Award for her work in Speaking Elephant and The Glass Menagerie at New Theatre. Television and film work include Disney's 'Johnny and the Sprites' and the award winning film 'Lost Everything.'

The Year of Magical Thinking is a riveting dramatic adaptation of Joan Didon's award-winning, bestselling memoir (which The New York Times called 'an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage). It transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of Didion's husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful theatrical piece.

Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced today that Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave will return to the New York stage this Fall to star opposite one another in the Broadway Premiere of Alfred Uhry‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. Directed by David Esbjornson (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?), Driving Miss Daisy will begin performances on October 7, 2010, at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), with an official opening on Monday, October 25, 2010.

Icon Entertainment International has begun to sell international distribution rights for Ralph Fiennes' 'Coriolanus,' according to a report by Deadline.com. First buyers include Spain and the BBC for UK television. The BBC is a co-producer of the picture, which stars Tony Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave along with Fiennes as Coriolanus, Gerard Butler as Afidius, and Emmy Award-winner Brian Cox as Menenius.

Carbonell nominee (Speaking Elephant) Angie Radosh has performed at Florida Stage, Caldwell Theatre Company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Gable Stage, Actor's Playhouse, New Theatre, and Key West Theatre Festival, and was part of the award winning City Theatre Summer Shorts ensemble. Her work has earned a Curtain Up award and citations from the New Times. She received the Silver Palm Award for her work in Speaking Elephant and The Glass Menagerie at New Theatre. Television and film work include Disney's 'Johnny and the Sprites' and the award winning film 'Lost Everything.'

The Huntington Theatre Company will end its run of artistic director Peter DuBois' hit 2009 Off Broadway production of Becky Shaw, a wickedly funny black comedy about a blind date gone bad on April 4th.

The filming of the Ralph Fiennes helmed 'Coriolanus' will begin next week in Serbia, according to a number of published reports. Vanessa Redgrave will star alongside Fiennes as Volumnia, Coriolanus' mother. The project has been in a standstill for quite some time until producers were finally gathered and a cast put together. Fiennes will direct as well as play the title role in the adaptation by John Logan.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 28th season - a season of American stories - with artistic director Peter DuBois' hit 2009 Off Broadway production of Becky Shaw, a wickedly funny black comedy about a blind date gone bad.

Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne and Suzanne Vega will unite to perform a one-night-only benefit concert for the Women's Project, the 32-year-old theater company dedicated to producing the work of female theater artists, on International Women's Day, Monday, March 8, at 6:30pm at the Women's Project's home, the 199-seat Julia Miles Theater, 424West 55th Street.

For 40 years, Tarragon Theatre has been producing plays by Canada's established and emerging playwrights. This anniversary season, they continue that tradition with an lineup of new Canadian plays alongside a contemporary American classic.

On February 24 Symphony Space's Selected Shorts Literature in Performance series presents The Sixties.

Tony Award Winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will be awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with the Academy Fellowship at the Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony at London's Royal Opera House. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 21.

Top Chef Lee Anne Wong, 24 Prince's Chef & Top Chef's Nikki Cascone, Iron Chef America's Alexandra Guarnaschelli, Jo's Desert Chef Anne Kim and Back Forty's Shanna Pacific will prepare a gala dinner for Laurie Anderson, Joan Osborne and Suzanne Vega and 196 others to benefit Women's Project, the theater company that has been producing the work of female theater artists for 32 years, on Monday, March 8.

Court Theatre continues its 55th season with the Chicago Premiere of The Year of Magical Thinking written by Joan Didion and directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. The production will close on February 14, 2010 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue.