Joel de la Fuente News

Presented by the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) and Midtown Direct Rep, RATED P makes its long-awaited premiere from Friday, May 5th to Sunday, May 8th at SOPAC.

The OBIE Award-winning National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) - now in its 21st season - presents A NUMBER, OBIE Award-winner and 2010 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee Caryl Churchill's acclaimed play about human cloning and identity, starring James Saito and Joel de la Fuente, with previews set to begin March 12 prior to it official press opening March 17 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Christoph Hahner is co-producer. Maureen Payne-Hahner directs.

Presented by the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) and Midtown Direct Rep, RATED P makes its long-awaited premiere from Friday, May 5th to Sunday, May 8th at SOPAC.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second staged reading in the First Throws Play Reading Series, Cesi Davidson's All Dressed Up, directed by Mary Hodges and featuring Lorna Haughton and Sadrina Renee, with stage directions read by Florence Kildare, on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is FREE and reservations are not required.

Join us for the first developmental reading of Working Theater's 25th Anniversary Season: PROGRESS IN FLYING a staged reading with music by LYNN ROSEN, directed by DANIELLA TOPOL, music by MARY KELLY, with HEIDI SCHRECK (Circle Mirror Transformation), KEIRA KEELEY (Roundabout's upcoming The Glass Menagerie opposite Judith Ivey) and JOEL DE LA FUENTE (Law & Order: SVU)

THE HIROSHIMA PROJECT runs May 8-30 at The Ohio Theater (66 Wooster Street): I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR runs Wednesdays through Sundays at 7:30pm, with additional performances Saturday, May 9 at 2:30pm and Saturday, May 30 at 2:30pm. Tickets are $18, students and seniors $15. Admission is free to MONDAY NIGHT READING SERIES: VOICES FROM HIROSHIMA on Mondays, May 11, 18 and 25 at 7:30. Admission is also free to WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN screenings on Saturday May 16 and Sunday, May 17 at 2:30pm.

THE HIROSHIMA PROJECT -- a 4-week cultural event featuring the premieres of American and Japanese plays, an award-winning film documentary, and open forums about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima 60 years later -- will be presented May 8 through 30 at The Ohio Theater (66 Wooster Street) in Manhattan, it has been announced by the co-producers of this world-premiere event, the Off-Broadway theater companies Voice & Vision and Crossing Jamaica Avenue.

Voice & Vision and Crossing Jamaica Avenue present a special 4-week event re-examing 1945 atomic attacks and aftermath THE HIROSHIMA PROJECT Featuring the world premiere of I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, a new American play by Chiori Miyagawa ('America Dreaming'), about finding love amid the ravages of war, directed by Jean Wagner starring Joel de la Fuente ('Law & Order: SVU'), Obie-winner Juliana Francis-Kelly and Sue Jean Kim May 8-30 at The Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster Street)

THE HIROSHIMA PROJECT -- a 4-week cultural event featuring the premieres of American and Japanese plays, an award-winning film documentary, and open forums about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima 60 years later -- will be presented May 8 through 30 at The Ohio Theater (66 Wooster Street) in Manhattan, it has been announced by the co-producers of this world-premiere event, the Off-Broadway theater companies Voice & Vision and Crossing Jamaica Avenue.

Voice & Vision and Crossing Jamaica Avenue present a special 4-week event re-examing 1945 atomic attacks and aftermath THE HIROSHIMA PROJECT Featuring the world premiere of I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, a new American play by Chiori Miyagawa ('America Dreaming'), about finding love amid the ravages of war, directed by Jean Wagner starring Joel de la Fuente ('Law & Order: SVU'), Obie-winner Juliana Francis-Kelly and Sue Jean Kim May 8-30 at The Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster Street)

According to IMDB, the documentary 'Showing Up' by director/producer Riad Galayini will be aiming for a 2010 release.

Second Stage Theatre has announced initial casting for its 'New Works Festival' on Friday, June 13

Second Generation, the nation's preeminent Asian American theater company devoted to developing the next generation of APA theater artists, presents SIX, a series of world premiere one-act plays by Asian American playwrights.

The Mint Theater will present the National Asian American Theater Company's production of Chekhov's Ivanov from August 2nd to September 5th