Kaye Voyce News

Spoleto Festival USA announced today its complete 2009 program that will see 120 performing arts performances take place in Charleston during the 17-day season, May 22 - June 7. Tickets for the 2009 Spoleto Festival USA are on sale now.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced additional casting and complete details for the World Premiere of INKED BABY, a new play by 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn nominee Christina Anderson in her Off-Broadway playwriting debut. Directed by Kate Whoriskey (Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons, the current Ruined at MTC), the production will begin previews on Thursday, March 5, 2009 with an Opening Night set for Monday, March 23 at 7PM. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, April 5 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Spoleto Festival USA announced today its complete 2009 program that will see 120 performing arts performances take place in Charleston during the 17-day season, May 22 - June 7. Tickets for the 2009 Spoleto Festival USA are on sale now.

A new production of a freshly revised version of composer Anthony Davis's epic work Amistad will headline the 2008 Spoleto Festival USA. Directed by Sam Helfrich with costumes by Kaye Voyce and an imaginative set by Caleb Wertenbaker, this highly anticipated new production will inaugurate the reopening of Memminger Auditorium, an historic theater in downtown Charleston that has just undergone extensive rehabilitation.

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director), in association with True Love Productions, begins the final week of performances of PARADISE PARK Tuesday, April 1st at 7PM

Signature Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Paradise Park by 2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee, which officially opened on Sunday, March 2.

Signature Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Paradise Park by 2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee; officially opening Sunday March 2.

The first preview of Paradise Park - February 12 - has been canceled due to the complex technical requirements involved in producing this world premiere play. The first preview will now be Thursday, February 14 with an invited dress rehearsal scheduled for Wednesday, February 13.

Shining City, the celebrated contemporary drama by young Irish playwright Conor McPherson, is now playing its Chicago premiere in a stunning and fascinating production at the Goodman Theatre

Signature Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Paradise Park by 2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee. Directed by Daniel Fish and with choreography by Peter Pucci, Paradise Park begins performances on Tuesday, February 12 at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space, located at 555 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues). Opening Night is Sunday, March 2.

New York Theatre Workshop announces that the opening night for Beckett Shorts, an evening of four one-act plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will now be Tuesday, December 18.

James Bundy, Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, has announced a major change in the performance schedule for the theater's next production, Moliere's Tartuffe, or the Imposter. Originally scheduled to begin performances on November 26, the production will now begin on Monday, December 3.

New York Theatre Workshop announced that Beckett Shorts, an evening of four one-act plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will begin performances Wednesday, December 5 at 8PM at New York Theatre Workshop. Opening night is scheduled for Sunday, December 16 at 7PM.

John Fugelsang's hilarious solo piece is filled with sharp observations about American morals and the way some may interpret the Bible for their own benefit.

Power. Lust. Greed. Betrayal. Murder. They key ingredients for any good drama are alive and well in Britannicus, Jean Racine's seventeenth century play of corruption and deception in the Julio-Claudian Dynasty...

The Williamstown Theatre Festival is about to launch Anything Goes, its first Main Stage production of the season; erformances are Wednesday, July 5 through Sunday, July 16

Conor McPherson's Shining City, starring Brian F. O'Bryne, will open on Broadway May 9th

A dark story needs more light

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) have announced that the American premiere of Conor McPherson's Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) will open Tuesday, May 9 at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Previews for Shining City will begin Thursday, April 20.