Kathryn Walat News

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, recently awarded the 2010 Regional Theater Tony Award, has announced cast members for this summer's National Playwrights Conference.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce details of Opera Conference 2010: New Realities | New Strategies, to be held in Los Angeles, California from June 9 to 12. Co-hosted by LA Opera, this largest gathering of opera professionals in North America will convene at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, across from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce details of Opera Conference 2010: New Realities | New Strategies, to be held in Los Angeles, California from June 9 to 12. Co-hosted by LA Opera, this largest gathering of opera professionals in North America will convene at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, across from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, today announced the seven directors for plays previously selected for its 46th season.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce details of Opera Conference 2010: New Realities | New Strategies, to be held in Los Angeles, California from June 9 to 12. Co-hosted by LA Opera, this largest gathering of opera professionals in North America will convene at the Omni Hotel at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, across from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today that seven plays will be developed at the 2010 National Playwrights Conference under the leadership of artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg. The selected playwrights will spend the month of July at the O'Neill's Waterford, Connecticut campus developing and presenting staged readings of their work during the NPC's 46th season. Box office and online ticket sales open Wednesday, June 9; advance ticket sales will be available to O'Neill Members beginning Monday, May 17.

New Georges has announced that the company has received a three-year, $90,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supports the creation of an artistic director's discretionary fund. This grant is intended to help New Georges maintain financial stability during these volatile economic times, and thereby continue to do excellent artistic work, take risks, commit to new plays/artistic projects, and invest in artists over time.

To celebrate and complement the Brooklyn Academy of Music's inaugural Opera Festival, American Opera Projects teams with the Manhattan School of Music to present a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case by composer Gregory Spears.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

To celebrate and complement the Brooklyn Academy of Music's inaugural Opera Festival, American Opera Projects teams with the Manhattan School of Music to present a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case by composer Gregory Spears.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

To celebrate and complement BAM's Opera Festival, Fort Greene's American Opera Projects, in association with the Manhattan School of Music, presents a staged workshop of Act Two of Paul's Case, the opera-in-progress by Gregory Spears, based on the story by Willa Cather.

Over the past few years the music of composer Gregory Spears has become more prevalent around the new music and dance circuits. The Romantic and minimalist styles that define the Spears sound has hit critical mass this season with music by the young composer featured at Zankel Hall (American Composers Orchestra), Le Poisson Rouge (MATA Festival), Dance Theatre Workshop, and American Opera Projects (AOP); the latter will present a concert preview of Mr. Spears's upcoming first opera Paul's Case, based on a story by American literary icon Willa Cather.

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) 'a valuable company [that] offers a chance to look in on operas in progress by talented composers.' (The New Yorker) will present evenings of concert readings from two operas-in-development: Paul's Case, by Gregory Spears, who 'fashioned a dreamy suspense' (The New York Times) with his instrumental work 'Finishing' at Zankel Hall in November, and Sharon's Grave by Richard Wargo, hailed by Opera News as 'a born opera composer.'

AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) will present a concert reading of scenes from Paul's Case, the first opera by rising, young composer Gregory Spears, on Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, 8pm at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Over the past few years the music of composer Gregory Spears has become more prevalent around the new music and dance circuits. The Romantic and minimalist styles that define the Spears sound has hit critical mass this season with music by the young composer featured at Zankel Hall (American Composers Orchestra), Le Poisson Rouge (MATA Festival), Dance Theatre Workshop, and American Opera Projects (AOP); the latter will present a concert preview of Mr. Spears's upcoming first opera Paul's Case, based on a story by American literary icon Willa Cather.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced the line-up for their spring 2009 PlayLab play readings of new plays by members of the company's Playwrights' Coalition.

La Jolla Playhouse presents Pop Tour 2009, Miss Electricity. A new play for young audiences by Kathryn Walat and directed by Melissa Kievman.