Lauren Gunderson News

 Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson will return to light up the Next Stage at Theatre Memphis next month. Learn more about the upcoming performance and how to get tickets here!

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced its new, expanded 2025-2026 season.

Clague Playhouse will present The Half-Life of Marie Curie, written by Lauren Gunderson, from next month. Performances are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8PM and on Sundays at 2PM.

Road Less Traveled Productions has revealed its 2025-2026 Season which will include a co-production with Shakespeare in Delaware Park in celebration of their 50th anniversary. See the full program and learn how to purchase tickets.

New Village Arts has recently opened its production of Lauren Gunderson’s THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE. Inspired by the work of these women, New Village Arts decided to learn more about the women in science and engineering in San Diego. 

The Lucille Lortel Theatre has revealed that four new musicals will receive support through the 121 Project, the Lortel's tailored development program for new musical works. Learn more!

THE AMAZING AVENTURES OF DR. WONDERFUL (And Her Dog!), by Lauren Gunderson and Music by Bree Lowdermilk, is touring schools across Connecticut through Playhouse Theatre Academy's Literature Alive on the Road program.

Capital Arts Theater Guild will present its inaugural installment of their new national musical development program, the National Music Theater Foundry. Taking place on January 24 & 25, 2025, at the Theatre Raleigh Arts Center's TR STUDIO.

New Village Arts has announced our first production of 2025: the San Diego premiere of THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE to be performed on the Ray Charles Stage in the Conrad Prebys Theatre at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.

Cast and production team have been announced for Citadel Theatre’s upcoming production of Lauren Gunderson’s I AND YOU. I AND YOU will open on Friday, February 21, 2025.

Jane Austen and Christmas go hand-in-hand, like ornaments and trees or Santa and Rudolph. Luckily for us, Capital Stage has brought back one of my favorite Austen-inspired works, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. It is the third in a trilogy of plays by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon that focus on the Bennet sisters in the years following Pride and Prejudice.

New Village Arts has announced its first production of 2025: the San Diego premiere of THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE to be performed on the Ray Charles Stage in the Conrad Prebys Theatre at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center

South Coast Repertory will bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Orange County native Sanaz Toossi home with the West Coast premiere of her comedy Wish You Were Here.

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly might be my favorite secular Holiday offering – a shining jewel that follows the Bennet sisters of Jane Austin fame attempt at a cheery Xmas week mired by romantic foibles reminiscent of a good Shakespeare play. Award-winning playwright Lauren Gunderson developed this play, co-authoring the Christmas at Pemberley plays (Miss Bennet, The Wickhams, and Georgiana and Kitty) with Margot Melcon, former director of new play development at Marin Theatre Company. They have become beloved staples at TheatreWorks and this production shines through its stellar casting and excellent creative crew.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has released first look photos of the holiday play Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Bay Area playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon.

BroadwayWorld chats with Bay Area native Sophie Oda about her return to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley after 20 years to appear in 'Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley' playing through December 29th in Palo Alto.

Michael Lluberes, the founding producing artistic director of FIM Flint Repertory Theatre, is leaving the theatre after more than six years of service. Learn more about his plans here!

ActorsNET is visiting the famous Pemberley estate for the third time with Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “GEORGIANA AND KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY,” the final play in the Pemberley trilogy. 

New Mexico Actors Lab 2025 Season features five engaging and compelling plays by award-winning playwrights: Bike America by Mike Lew (May 1-18), the premiere of local playwright Dale Dunn's A Subtle Kind of Murder (June 5-22), Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith (September 11 - 28), Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive (October 16 - November 2), and The Half Life of Marie Curie by Lauren Gunderson (November 20 - December 7).

Welcome back to the Pemberley Estate of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's holiday hit trilogy - CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Capital Stage.