John Tiffany News

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that the new musical Once, based on the Academy Award-winning film, rounds out the theatre's 2011-2012 season.

The musical adaptation of the 2006 film 'Once' will now receive a production at New York Theater Workshop in November, instead of opening on Broadway in the fall as originally hoped, according to the New York Times.

The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training presents its final production of the 2010-11 season - I Speak, Therefore I Am... - created by Brendan Shea and the A.R.T./MXAT Institute Class of 2011, and directed by John Tiffany.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues its celebrated role bringing the world's great theater companies to Chicago audiences with a World's Stage presentation of the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally acclaimed Black Watch March 29-April 10, 2011.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues its celebrated role bringing the world's great theater companies to Chicago audiences with a World's Stage presentation of the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally acclaimed Black Watch March 29-April 10, 2011.

Texas Performing Arts presents the Texas premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Black Watch, February 16-20 at Bass Concert Hall.

Texas Performing Arts presents the Texas premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Black Watch, February 16-20 at Bass Concert Hall.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) brings two of the world's finest theater companies to Chicago audiences this spring with back-to-back productions for the World's Stage Series.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre's eighth annual gala, "A Night in Vienna," raised a record $495,000 for the not-for-profit Theatre.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues its celebrated role bringing the world's great theater companies to Chicago audiences with a World's Stage presentation of the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally acclaimed Black Watch March 29-April 10, 2011.

The National Theatre of Scotland's Presentation Closes Sunday, Feb. 7, 2011.

Texas Performing Arts presents the Texas premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Black Watch, February 16-20 at Bass Concert Hall.

Smuggler Films partners, John N. Hart & Patrick Milling Smith and film and theatre producers, Fred Zollo and Barbara Broccoli & Michael G Wilson have announced the creative team for upcoming stage adaptation of the 2007 Academy Award-winning film ONCE, coming to Broadway in Fall 2011. The musical will feature the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, design by five time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins). Steven Hoggett (American Idiot, Black Watch) will provide musical staging and Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!) is the music director.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces today the addition of two World's Stage productions to its 2010/11 Season: the award-winning, CST-commissioned Funk It Up About Nothin' embarks on a tour of Australia, preceded by a limited return engagement Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare in January 2011; and the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally-acclaimed production Black Watch is added to the CST World Stage Series, presented at Chicago's Broadway Armory from March 29 to April 10, 2011.

As we welcome in a new year of great theatre in the nation's capital, I thought it would be fun to do one of those “Best of 2010' lists as well as preview what's opening in January on DC area stages. So let's raise our glasses and offer a toast to all those theatre companies who gave us great productions in 2010, and to the upcoming 2011 theatre season!

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) brings two of the world's finest theater companies to Chicago audiences this spring with back-to-back productions for the World's Stage Series.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) rings in the New Year with William Shakespeare's As You Like It, staged by CST's Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin.

Independent arts charity IdeasTap continues to support emerging creative talent with the launch of its latest funding opportunity: The Edinburgh Fund.

Two powerful, international hit productions offering perspectives on the current Middle Eastern conflicts are making their way to the U.S. with the Shakespeare Theatre Company as their first stop.

The National Theatre of Scotland has announced a new UK and international tour of Gregory Burke's critically acclaimed play, Black Watch. The tour will begin in September.