Leigh Silverman News

Culture Project has announced the full cast of the workshop production of Carol Gilligan's adaptation of The Scarlet Letter, which is being presented as part of its currently underway 2007 Women Center Stage festival (WCS), the annual multi-disciplinary event featuring women artists whose work calls attention to human struggles globally

The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, an intensive summer boot camp for actors, is now underway, featuring authentic audition workshops, backstage tours, and discussions with renowned Broadway performers, industry VIPs and 2007 Tony Award® nominees. Participants include Liev Schreiber, Marian Seldes, Martha Plimpton, Jonathan Groff, Michael Arden, Jerry Mitchell, John Rando, Leigh Silverman, and Jeff Blumenkrantz, among others.

Culture Project has announced the schedule for its upcoming 2007 Women Center Stage Festival festival (WCS), the annual multi-disciplinary event featuring women artists whose work calls attention to human struggles globally, running June 25 through­ July 17, 2007

Yellow Face often blurs the lines between fact and fiction, with many of Hwang's personal travails making their way into the play, yet never fully emphasizing what is truth. Even with such ambiguities, the play is a scathing rebuke of minority critics, especially journalists, which get their fair share of ridicule throughout the work...

Sunday's world premiere of David Henry Hwang's latest play, Yellow Face, attracted prominent members of the Asian artistic community at the Mark Taper Forum...

Primary Stages has announced the final play selection for its 2007-2008 season: the world premiere of Hunting and Gathering by Brooke Berman

The eagerly anticipated Summer Play Festival has announced the 16 plays to be part of its 4th anniversary season.

Lisa Kron's delightful autobiographical comedy about mothers, daughters, and the special ties that bind combines the theatricality of life and the dynamics of theater to explore health, wellness, and the ways in which we deal with both

Three world premieres are among the six new plays presented in the 2007-8 season of the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

The American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, an intensive summer boot camp for actors, is now seeking applications for the 2007 summer program, (June 4 to 15), limited to 35 participants. For the first time, the American Theatre Wing will award multiple scholarships to accepted students in need.

Lisa Kron will star in the Huntington Theatre Company's upcoming production of her play Well, which will run from March 9-April 8 at the Boston University Theatre.

Stanford University and The Public Theater today announced a long-term, three-tiered partnership that will create new theatrical works, support emerging and established artists, cultivate new audiences, and foster innovation and diversity in the arts at Stanford and in the American theater industry.

'BFF' premieres at the WET on February 24th.

Ensemble Studio Theatre will present Project 35, a festival celebrating the Ensemble Studio Theatre's 35th Anniversary season

Tanya Barfield's fascinating study of culture, history, and family is running at Playwrights Horizons.

Tanya Barfield's drama Blue Door, in its New York premiere, began performances at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on September 28th;

The Impact Festival opened on Tuesday, September 12, with the world premiere of The Treatment, a new play by Eve Ensler starring Dylan McDermott

Eve Ensler's gripping and provocative two-character play deals with the psychological aftermath of performing cruel acts in the service of one's country

The Culture Project will launch its most ambitious project to date tonight with the kickoff of Impact Festival 2006, a 5-week city-wide arts festival focusing on human rights, social justice, and political action.

Michael Cerveris, Lisa Kron, Olympia Dukakis, as well as Anna Deveare Smith herself, will read from Smith's Letters to a Young Artist on September 25th