La Jolla Playhouse is proud to announce its 2010/11 season resident theatre company: San Diego Asian American Repertory Theater (SDAART). This marks the third year of the Playhouse's landmark Resident Theatre Program, and the newly-appointed company will be in residence in the Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre (formerly the Mandell Weiss Forum Studio) in August/September, 2010, during which they will present Julia Cho's heartwarming drama BFE. SDAART will return to the Playhouse again in May/June, 2011, when they will present their second annual Short Play Festival: Innerviews.
The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival will celebrate its 75th anniversary this season, and while patrons will notice celebratory signs and banners as well as opportunities to sit in on historical lectures and talks throughout the season, the primary celebration is onstage. OSF has promised its audiences, to whom it has dedicated this milestone season that it will continue to focus energies on producing great plays this year.
Long Wharf Theatre will present No Child..., written and performed by Nilaja Sun, directed by Hal Brooks, March 17 through April 18, 2010 on Stage II. Peformance times are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3p.m. and 8p.m., and Sundays at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Tickets are $30-$65.
East West Players (EWP), the nation's premier Asian American theatre, was recently recognized as the only recipient to be awarded the CATE Award of Merit for 2010 by the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE). Ceremonies took place during the CATE Annual Convention at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles on February 12, 2010.
Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible: A Play for an Older Actress will have a staged reading March 8 at 7:30 p.m. as part of South Coast Repertory's NewSCRipts series. (Please note that the date has changed since the series was first announced.) Bible is the 111th play to receive a staged reading in SCR's venerable play reading program.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will present post-show discussions following select performances of NEIGHBORS, the second play of the 2009-2010 Public LAB season.
An American architect gets a mysterious assignment from a Middle Eastern dignitary in the latest play from Howard Korder, which will have its world premiere March 7-28 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.
Actors at Play present the world premiere of an original Valentine's Day show titled BEWARE OF CUPID, opening on February 5 and running through February 21 at the Actor's Playpen.
Award-winning stars are aligning for the annual Gala Benefit supporting the Ojai Playwrights Conference on Saturday, January 30, 2010 in Ojai, California.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) continues its 2009/2010 Season with the World Premiere of A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK, a new play by Kia Corthron (Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons/PH, Force Continuum), directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Durango at The Public).
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - the prestigious international award given each year to a woman who has written an outstanding new work for the English-speaking theatre - has announced the 10 finalists for the 32nd annual award.
Award-winning stars are aligning for the annual Gala Benefit supporting the Ojai Playwrights Conference on Saturday, January 30, 2010 in Ojai, California.
Producers David Richenthal, Eric Falkenstein and Randall Wreghitt have announced that Tobias Segal, Daniel Orsekes, Michael Cummings, Simone Joy Jones, Yvette Ganier and Lance Chantiles-Wertz complete the cast of the first revival of William Gibson's THE MIRACLE WORKER as the Tony Award® winning play celebrates its 50th Anniversary of opening on Broadway.
Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Long Wharf Theatre is pleased to announce the full company for Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein with Patch Darragh (Tom Wingfield), two-time Tony® Award winner Judith Ivey (Amanda Wingfield), Keira Keeley (Laura Wingfield), Michael Mosley (Jim O'Connor).
Tony Award-winning actress Karen Ziemba, Long Wharf Theatre favorite John Procaccino, Yale School of Drama graduate Erica Sullivan and Broadway performer Jacob Ming-Trent will be in Long Wharf Theatre's production of Sylvia, by state resident A.R. Gurney, directed by Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting.
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