John Patrick Shanley News

American Stage Theatre Company has extended the run of its hit production of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT, thru August 23.

South Ark Stage and kef productions will present the World Premiere of Lyric is Waiting by Michael Puzzo, directed by Adam Fitzgerald. This production will begin Thursday, July 30; Opening on Sunday, August 2 and will run through August 22, 2009 and take place at The Irish Repertory Theatre.

If you don't remember the '60s... you were probably there! Rick Sparks directs Guerin Barry, John Bigham, Bruce Katzman, Kelly Lester and Tait Ruppert in a world premiere comedy about lost dreams set in the San Fernando Valley.

The Emelin is proud to announce its upcoming 2009/2010 live Theatre season! The News in Revue $35

The finalists for 2009 HUMANITAS Prize were announced August 17 by John Wells, HUMANITAS Prize President. A total of $95,000 in prize money will be handed out at the annual luncheon on September 17th in the Crystal Ballroom at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

American Stage Theatre Company will produce the Tampa Bay-area premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning hit drama, DOUBT, as the final play of the theatre's 30th anniversary season, playing July 22 thru August 16.

American Stage Theatre Company will produce the Tampa Bay-area premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning hit drama, DOUBT, as the final play of the theatre's 30th anniversary season, playing July 22 through August 16.

Village Players Performing Arts Center announces the hiring of new Artistic Director, Dan Taube, a long-time Chicago theater veteran. Taube is a graduate of the Acting program at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and also holds a MFA in Directing from The Theatre School of DePaul University.

The New School for Drama has announced that the award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz will be the distinguished artist-in-residence for the 2009-2010 academic year. Baitz is a Pulitzer finalist, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. A founding member and former artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theater company, Baitz has written a number of acclaimed plays, including The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, a new version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (produced on Broadway in 2001), and The Paris Letter. Playwrights Horizons, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Second Stage Theatre have produced Baitz's work in New York. His new play, Love and Mercy, will be produced next season on Broadway.

John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is set to be performed by The Michael Chekhov Studio New York. The show is directed by Lenard Petit. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea will be performed on Sunday, August 9th at 5:00pm at the Theater Barn (doors open at 4:00pm). An audience discussion will the August 9th performance.

West Virginia Public Theatre?s Founder and Executive Producer Ron Iannone has announced the line-up for the 2009 summer season, which runs June 23 through August 9, 2009. WVPT will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season and has, once again, lined up another summer filled with ?Broadway?s best? productions.

Choice Theatricals and in association with Vital Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Tony Glazer's new play, In the Daylight, directed by John Gould Rubin. Performances will begin on Tuesday, September 8th; opening on Sunday, September 20th and will run through October 11th, 2009 at the McGinn Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway, 4th floor at 76th Street).

John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is set to be performed by The Michael Chekhov Studio New York. The show is directed by Lenard Petit. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea will be performed on Sunday, August 9th at 5:00pm at the Theater Barn (doors open at 4:00pm). An audience discussion will the August 9th performance.

DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley is powerful entertainment that plucks its tale from the headlines, but sets the action in 1964. Anyone who's been following issues surrounding the Catholic Church and its problems with pedophile priests will find this story riveting. Dramatic License Productions (in association with Vanity Theatre) makes a strong initial foray with this riveting presentation, driven by four terrific performances.

American Stage Theatre Company has extended the run of its hit production of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT, thru August 23.

The B Street Theatre is pleased to announce as the second show of its 2009-2010 Mainstage Season: ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, John Patrick Shanley.

South Ark Stage and kef productions will present the World Premiere of Lyric is Waiting by Michael Puzzo, directed by Adam Fitzgerald. This production will begin Thursday, July 30; Opening on Sunday, August 2 and will run through August 22, 2009 and take place at The Irish Repertory Theatre.

Apple Tree Theatre is proud to announce its 27th season of plays and musicals -- some classics, some new - all with inspiring stories, exceptional directors and designers, and exciting casts of some of Chicago's favorite actors. Our 2009-2010 season features four productions of 'Love and Laughter' that will move your heart and tickle your funny bone.

Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse season will continue through Sunday, August 2, with the Mainstage play Vera Laughed (through 8/2); the Martel Musical Tina Girlstar (7/31 - 8/1); the ever-popular Readings Festival 2 (7/30 - 8/2); and a free concert reading by the Powerhouse Apprentice Company of the new musical Hello! My Baby.

American Stage Theatre Company success at the box office continues, as it's recently closed production of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE broke all attendance records for a single production in the theatre's 30 year history.