Sueño, an adaptation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's play Life's a Dream by Obie-winner Jose Rivera (Marisol, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, film The Motorcycle Diaries), will see its Chicago premiere at the Athenaeum Theater.
Armed and Naked in America, a project by non-profit theater organization Naked Angels, will present two politically conscious programs featuring both established playwrights and promising new voices in the theatre world.
Curt Dempster, Founding Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre, was found dead at his home in New York City today (January 19, 2007). The cause remains undetermined at this time.
The new theatre company, The Fire Dept, founded by Neil LaBute, Kathleen Chalfant, Janeane Garafalo and more, will launch with the new collaborative play SpeakEasy
Playwright Mark Schultz is the recipient of The National Arts Club's 2006 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting. The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to a playwright of exceptional promise.
Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.
THE INTERART DEVELOPMENT SERIES, in collaboration with ZENA GROUP THEATER, present a workshop production of a new play by Josh Liveright entitled ILLUMINATION ROUNDS. The play will receive nine performances - Thursdays through Saturdays for three weeks beginning THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 and closing on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 at 8:00PM at the INTERART ANNEX (500 West 52nd Street at the corner of 52nd Street and 10th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen).
