John Guare News

Golden Globe Award winner and Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason and Drama Desk Award winner and Tony Award nominee Paxton Whitehead will head the cast of Westport Country Playhouse's scintillating comedy of manners, "The Circle," written by W. Somerset Maugham and directed by Nicholas Martin, playing June 7 - 25.

Six Degrees of Separation, written by John Guare and directed by Steve Goldklang, opens April 15 and runs through May 15 at the Vagabond Players.

Six Degrees of Separation, written by John Guare and directed by Steve Goldklang runs through May 15 at the Vagabond Players.

Six Degrees of Separation, written by John Guare and directed by Steve Goldklang, runs through May 15 at the Vagabond Players.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) concludes its 25th Anniversary season with a celebration of its history with 10x25, an all-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by twenty five of the extraordinary playwrights who have been produced there since 1985. 10x25 will unite and reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, and frequent guest actors and directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles and conte

Continental chanteuse Yanna Avis makes her Metropolitan Room debut in the premiere of the eponymously titled show, "Yanna Avis."

The world premiere of a funny, touching and thought-provoking new comedy about art by Stephen Sachs is next up at the multiple award-winning Fountain Theatre.

The Araca Group announces the return of AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings celebrating new work for the theatre.

The Araca Group announces the return of AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings celebrating new work for the theatre.

'All of us at E.S.T. are proud to be honoring John Guare as a distinguished member of our company,' said William Carden, Artistic Director of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. 'John has had an important impact on theatre in this country and inspired so many of us along the way.

Douglas Sills, a Tony Award nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Sara Gettelfinger, last seen on Broadway in A Free Man of Color and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, will star as Gomez and Morticia in the upcoming national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. As previously announced, the production will begin performances September 15 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts in New Orleans and will continue on to over 30 additional major markets across North America.

Six Degrees of Separation, written by John Guare and directed by Steve Goldklang, runs through May 15 at the Vagabond Players.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

The Araca Group announces the return of AracaWorks, a week-long series of play readings celebrating new work for the theatre.

Marin Ireland, Eric Bogosian, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and John Guare join the previously announced Blythe Danner, Ted Danson, Parker Posey, Peter Dinklage, Lili Taylor, Michael Stuhlbarg at the Soho Rep SPRING GALA 2011 honoring Marian Seldes. Co-hosted by Mr. Bogosian and Tim Blake Nelson the evening will also feature musical performances by Jomama Jones & The Lisps. The stage performance will feature scenes and songs from past and upcoming Soho Rep shows. Special musical guest will be Jomama Jones - who had a critically acclaimed run at Soho Rep earlier this season - in addition to The Lisps, performing a song from their new musical FUTURITY. Doors open on Monday, May 2nd at 6:30pm at the Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street) in Manhattan; for tickets please visit the Soho Rep website - www.SohoRep.org or call 212-647-1828.

Whether you've been living under a rock for the past week, or you're just in the mood for a recap of everything theatre, BroadwayWorld's new feature, 'This Week in Pictures' is here to satisfy your end of the week fix. Take a look below to catch up on the latest happenings from the Great White Way to the West End (and everywhere in between) with coverage of press events, rehearsals, opening nights and more!

A.C.T. Conservatory Director Melissa Smith announced today that honorary master of fine arts degrees will be conferred on longtime A.C.T. artistic family member Marco Barricelli and Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.

Europe's Most Controversial Play Makes U.S. Premiere La MaMa Presents a Ronald Rand Production "WE COULDN'T CALL IT WHAT WE WANTED TO CALL IT, SO WE CALLED IT HOLY CRAP !!" ** starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan ** April 28 - May 15 at La MaMa

Europe's Most Controversial Play Makes U.S. Premiere La MaMa Presents a Ronald Rand Production "WE COULDN'T CALL IT WHAT WE WANTED TO CALL IT, SO WE CALLED IT HOLY CRAP !!" ** starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan ** April 28 - May 15 at La MaMa

Christopher Weekes, whose Jim Henson biopic spec screenplay Muppet Man topped 2009's Black List, has been tapped by producers Jean Doumanian (August: Osage County, All The Real Girls) and Michael Shulman and Craig Saavedra, (principals of Starry Night Entertainment - Sherman's Way, White People) to adapt Mitchell Zuckoff's acclaimed biography Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend for the big screen.