Katie Mitchell News

Lincoln Center will present three new productions, all receiving their US premieres. The shows, FOUR QUARTETS, ONE EVENING, and STIFTERS DINGE, will be presented as a part of the 'New Visions' series. The series will feature Tony winner Stephen Dillane and director Katie Mitchell.

This December, Lincoln Center's Great Performers series will present Tony Award-winning actor Stephen Dillane in two unique performances directed by Katie Mitchell that are based on the relationship between music and literature. Just added to the series, Mr. Dillane performs T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, followed by the Miró Quartet's interpretation of Beethoven's late String Quartet in A minor, Op.132, which originally inspired the poet's timeless texts. Four Quartets, which originated at the Donmar Warehouse in London in January 2009, will be performed December 2 and 3 only at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Stifters Dinge, created by the innovative German composer/director Heiner Goebbels, is the latest of his works to stretch the boundaries of live performance. The 70-minute-long sonic performance landscape was inspired by the writings of 19th-century Austrian romantic novelist Adalbert Stifter extended and minutely-detailed descriptions of nature. The title translates as 'Stifters Things.'

Today, John McGrath, Artistic Director of National Theatre Wales announced the company's first year of work at a press briefing in Cardiff that was simultaneously broadcast to the world via the internet.

Whatsonstage.com has revealed that Dr Seuss' ‘The Cat in the Hat,' adapted by Katie Mitchell, will transfer to the Young Vic following its premiere at the Nationals' Cottesloe Theatre. The show, part of the Young Vic's new spring season, will run from January 28 to March 13, 2010.

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) has announced the trio of English actors who will appear in the American premiere production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, directed by Joe Mantello. Hugh Dancy (Adam, Journey's End), Andrea Riseborough (Happy Go Lucky) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Brideshead Revisited) will star in the four person play, with a fourth actor to be announced shortly. The production will mark Ms. Riseborough and Mr. Whishaw's New York stage debuts. Performances begin at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) on January 27 and continue through March 20, 2010. Opening night is set for Tuesday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m.

The 44th season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers opens with the return of conductor Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) with three concerts of Schubert and Mahler in Avery Fisher Hall.

The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper 54th Annual OBIE awards took place on Monday, May 18,2009 at the newly landmarked Webster Hall in the East Village.

Columbia Stages presents THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT, a modern re-examination of MARY SHELLEY's classic novel Frankenstein, newly conceived and directed for the stage by Matt Torney, running May 16th - 21st, 2009, at the Schapiro Theatre (615 W. 115th Street, located west of Broadway).

Columbia Stages presents THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT, a modern re-examination of MARY SHELLEY's classic novel Frankenstein, newly conceived and directed for the stage by Matt Torney, running May 16th - 21st, 2009, at the Schapiro Theatre (615 W. 115th Street, located west of Broadway).

Ingmar Bergman's Saraband will receive its UK première stage production at the Jermyn Street Theatre in central London from Tuesday 28 April to Saturday 16 May 2009. Jeffrey Kaplow, Eileen Nicholas, Philip Rahm and Augustina Seymour comprise the cast, which is directed by regular Time Out Critics' Choice director, Derek Bond.

Ingmar Bergman's Saraband will receive its UK première stage production at the Jermyn Street Theatre in central London from Tuesday 28 April to Saturday 16 May 2009. Jeffrey Kaplow, Eileen Nicholas, Philip Rahm and Augustina Seymour comprise the cast, which is directed by regular Time Out Critics' Choice director, Derek Bond.

Ingmar Bergman's Saraband will receive its UK premiere stage production at the Jermyn Street Theatre in central London from Tuesday 28 April to Saturday 16 May 2009

Various UK press outlets are reporting that Michael Sheen, Katie Mitchell and Robert Plant will be recognized on the Queen's annual New Year's Honours list.

Great writers and great works of literature are the thematic thread running through the 2008-09 season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers 'New Visions' series, this year subtitled, 'The Literary Muse.' A work by celebrated English novelist Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for the third presentation of the series. Opening on November 12, The National Theatre of Great Britain's award-winning, multi-media production of Waves will have its U.S. Premiere at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street project.

Whats On Stage is reporting that London's Evening Standard newspaper has published the list of nominees for the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, the first awards of the UK season.

Great writers and great works of literature are the thematic thread running through the 2008-09 season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers 'New Visions' series, this year subtitled, 'The Literary Muse.' A work by celebrated English novelist Virginia Woolf is the inspiration for the third presentation of the series. Opening on November 12, The National Theatre of Great Britain's award-winning, multi-media production of Waves will have its U.S. Premiere at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street project.

A new season of 'New Visions'-subtitled 'The Literary Muse'-begins on October 20 at the Rose Theater with the New York premiere of Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Musicas, in which Cervantes' picaresque 17th-century tale of Don Quixote comes alive in a glorious evening of music and spoken word conceived by master viola da gambist and early music expert Jordi Savall.

The 92nd Street Y Theater has announced their fall lineup.

The Gate Theatre has announced its upcoming season. Plays include Hedda, a new translation, of Hedda Gabler, State of Emergency by Falk Richter, Unbroken by Alexandra Wood, and I Am Fallingby Jenny Worton.