Forum Theatre's 10th Anniversary Season will begin with Agnes Under The Big Top, from playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil and directed by Forum's Artistic Director, Michael Dove (Holly Down in Heaven, Church, Mad Forest, Scorched, Angels In America: Perestroika) tonight, September 5 - September 28, 2013.
Forum Theatre's 10th Anniversary Season will begin with Agnes Under The Big Top, from playwright Aditi Brennan Kapil and directed by Forum's Artistic Director, Michael Dove (Holly Down in Heaven, Church, Mad Forest, Scorched, Angels In America: Perestroika) September 5 - September 28, 2013.
Forum Theatre's 10th Anniversary Season has begun! The 2013-2014 season will features two world premieres, two regional premieres, and the return of an acclaimed Forum production. For the fifth year in a row, Forum will be in residence at Round House Theatre Silver Spring.
Tazewell Thompson's world premiere drama Mary T. & Lizzy K. throws open the doors to the Lincoln White House at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. As one woman's skilled hands work overtime, creating the most beautiful garments of her career, the other's reality continues to slip ever further from her grasp. Old wounds and new recriminations explode in this riveting drama about loss, love and the importance of promises, both kept and broken. BroadwayWorld has highlights of the production below.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due to popular demand, the world premiere play Mary T. & Lizzy K., written and directed by Tazewell Thompson, will add another six performances to its nearly sold-out run, now extended through May 5, 2013. The additional performances in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle are Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m.; Friday, May 3 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
This is a well-presented and well-acted production of a problematic play.
Mary T. & Lizzy K. stitches together an insider's look at the unique friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her talented dressmaker, the successful freed slave Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Keckly. Written and directed by Thompson, Mary T. & Lizzy K. runs now through April 28, 2013 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Mary T. & Lizzy K. stars D.C.-area actress Kathryn Kelley (Round House Theatre's Next Fall) as Mary Todd Lincoln and Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris (Urban Stage's ReEntry) as Elizabeth Keckly. They are joined by noted local actors Thomas Adrian Simpson (last seen at Arena Stage as Col. Pickering in My Fair Lady) as Abraham Lincoln and Joy Jones (Studio Theatre's Invisible Man) as Ivy.
Mary T. & Lizzy K. stars D.C.-area actress Kathryn Kelley (Round House Theatre's Next Fall) as Mary Todd Lincoln and Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris (Urban Stage's ReEntry) as Elizabeth Keckly. They are joined by noted local actors Thomas Adrian Simpson (last seen at Arena Stage as Col. Pickering in My Fair Lady) as Abraham Lincoln and Joy Jones (Studio Theatre's Invisible Man) as Ivy.
Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel has been called a masterpiece that changed the shape of American literature. Adapted into a play by Oren Jacoby, INVISIBLE MAN is having its New England premiere at Huntington Theatre Company with an epic performance by Teagle F. Bougere, under the direction of Christopher McElroen.
Sixty years after the landmark American novel's publication, the Huntington Theatre Company presents a searing production of Ralph Ellison's epic Invisible Man. The first adaptation in any medium to be authorized by the Ellison Trust, the Jefferson Award-winning script is by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Oren Jacoby. Christopher McElroen, award-winner and co-founder of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, directs. Teagle F. Bougere stars in the iconic title role. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production in the photos below!
Studio (and its co-producer Huntington Theatre Company) deserves every accolade for taking on the challenge of presenting this material. The result is the definition of theatrical brilliance.
The Denver Center Theatre Company presents Lynn Nottage's searing war drama RUINED, a look at the plight of women amidst the bloody conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Producers of The Miracle Worker announced today that the show will close on April 4, 2010 at a complete loss of the show's full $2.6 million capitalization.
Producers of The Miracle Worker announced today that the show will close on April 4, 2010 at a complete loss of the show's full $2.6 million capitalization.
Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Matthew Modine (the film Short Cuts, 'And the Band Played On') and Jennifer Morrison (Fox series 'House'), both now making their Broadway debuts in THE MIRACLE WORKER, sit down with WOR Radio's Joan Hamburg live from Water's Edge Restaurant tomorrow, Friday, March 26 at 12:06p. Tune in to WOR Radio at 710 AM.
Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Matthew Modine (the film Short Cuts, 'And the Band Played On'), now making his Broadway debut in THE MIRACLE WORKER, will visit the WNBC 'LX New York' studio live TODAY, Thursday, March 25 in the 5:00p half hour.
Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), now making her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited FOX 5's 'Good Day New York' live this morning.
Television and film star Jennifer Morrison ('Dr. Allison Cameron' on Fox series 'House,' feature film Star Trek), now making her Broadway debut as Kate Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited host Wendy Williams on the set of her nationally syndicated daytime talk show 'The Wendy Williams Show' last week.
Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), now making her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited ABC's 'The Rachael Ray Show' and NBC's 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' this week.
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