John Guare News

The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).

Jill Clayburgh will star in the New York premiere of Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg's new comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present the New York Premiere of Noah Haidle's play Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre; 111 West 46th Street).

Rosario Dawson has been cast as Julia in the upcoming Shakespeare in the Park revival of the musical adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, which will run from August 16th through September 11th

New York's Signature Theatre Company, in its 15th anniversary, will offer $15 tickets for its upcoming 20-month program of plays, including ones by John Guare, Horton Foote and August Wilson

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce the New York premiere of Tony Award® winner Richard Greenberg's new comedy A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, directed by Tony Award® winner Doug Hughes at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street).

Productions of As You Like It and The Two Gentlemen of Verona will comprise the Public Theatre's summer season

Guare, Mamet and Foote are among the represented playwrights in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon 2005 27th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays, which runs from May 25th through June 26th

Henry Flamethrowa, a new play by John Belluso, begins performances May 11th at Studio Dante.

John Patrick Shanley has received the Dramatist Guild's 2005 Hull-Warriner Award for his play, DOUBT, now on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will continue its 20th Anniversary season with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, a new musical with book by Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and direction by Bartlett Sher.

MCC THEATER will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a star-studded benefit reading of new, one-act plays written by some of the leading voices in American theater today: Jon Robin Baitz (Ten Unknowns), John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation), Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Neil LaBute (Fat Pig), Tim Blake Nelson (The Grey Zone) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles).

MCC THEATER will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a star-studded benefit reading of new, one-act plays written by some of the leading voices in American theater today.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), one of New York City's leading Off-Broadway theater companies, will present 'ESCAPE: 6 WAYS TO GET AWAY,' a benefit evening of one-act plays written by Jon Robin Baitz (Ten Unknowns), John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation), Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Neil LaBute (The Mercy Seat), Tim Blake Nelson (The Grey Zone) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). 'ESCAPE' will be held on Monday, December 6, 2004, 8pm at Broadway's CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATER (1633 Broadway at West 50th Street, NYC).

America's most prolific major playwright reminisces on the birth of Off-Off-Broadway, the creation of gay theatre, the first completely nude play and how a certain Catwoman welcomed him to Broadway.

Since I live in New York City, I usually don't take a 'theater vacation'-you know, the eight-shows-a-week type of trip to New York or London. Even when I go to London, theater is just one of the activities on my itinerary. But the last three summers, I have found myself in a summer theater destination and have been appreciating more and more the joy of taking my No. 1 pastime on the road.