John Guare News

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn M. Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that it would extend August Wilson's KING HEDLEY II one additional week since the originally scheduled run has been sold-out for weeks.

The Public has extended its new production of Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Tony Award-winning James Lapine and starring Tony Award-winner Kevin Kline.

The Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre will present 'Five Story Walkup,' a collection of new plays and monologues about the places we call home by John Guare, Neil LaBute, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Quincy Long, Daniel Frederick Levin, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Daniel Gallant.

Well Urned Productions, in association with C.A.G.E. Theatre Company and Hudson Shakespeare Company, will present Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, and later, Nick Hall's Marriage is Murder

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA PRESENTS SECOND ANNUAL RANDOM ACTS! ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL Featuring works by John Guare, David Lindsay-Abaire, Tennessee Williams, Terrence McNally, and more

Signature Theatre Company announced today that Erika Mallin has been named the company's new Executive Director

T.R. Knight, a respected member of the acting company of Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, and Cynthia Nixon who has graced the stage with her performances since the age of 14, will co-host the 52nd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards in Manhattan on Monday, May 21st at New York University's Skirball Center.

The Vineyard Theatre celebrated its 25th Anniversary with the presentation of the first Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to recipient Tarell Alvin McCraney.

Second Annual Random Acts! One-Act Play Festival at The School For Drama Feb. 15th through April 28th.

Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.

'BFF' premieres at the WET on February 24th.

The new Broadway musical High Fidelity opened on December 7th at the Imperial Theatre after beginning previews on November 20th

Tony Award -winning Best Actress Cherry Jones stars in the National Touring production of the Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize-winning play DOUBT, a 'superb new drama' (The New York Times) by John Patrick Shanley. The production, directed by Tony Award -winner Doug Hughes, will make its Chicago premiere at the LaSalle Bank Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited three-week engagement beginning January 9 - 28, 2007

Jodi Schoenbrun Carter will join Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT, as managing director effective December 10th.

F. Murray Abraham, winner of the Academy Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1984 film Amadeus, will return to the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center on Wednesday, December 6th at 8 PM.

Julie Harris, one of America's most beloved leading ladies, will be honored at Primary Stages 22nd Anniversary Gala Benefit in The Crystal Room at Tavern on the Green on Monday evening, November 6th at 6:30pm

A special edition recording of Doric Wilson's And He Made a Her will coincide with the Drama Book Shop's Best Plays Book Party on November 5

The new book In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights features dozens of portraits of great dramatists