Lincoln Center Theater News

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) announces complete casting for the New York premiere of MAPLE AND VINE, a new play by Jordan Harrison (Doris to Darlene at Playwrights Horizons, Amazons and Their Men, Kid-Simple).

Two River Theater Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Dias and Managing Director Michael Hurst, continues its season with the world premiere of Madeleine George's Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust today announced that Lisa D'Amour and Melissa James Gibson will each be presented with the Steinberg Playwright Award at the 4th Annual Steinberg Playwright 'Mimi' Awards. The Mimi Awards promote theater as a vital part of our culture by nurturing American playwrights and encouraging the development and production of new American plays.

Producer Steve Margetis and Ethos Performing Arts are set to present the New York Premiere of The Family Room, a dramedy written by Emmy Award nominee Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Gwenyth Reitz.

Variety is what distinguishes the mix of styles and stories in the 2011-12 series of HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC.

Broadway In Boston and 'Cell Phones For Soldiers' invite patrons attending performances of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC at the Boston Opera House today - October 2 to help support our troops by donating their used cell phones. For every donated cell phone, a 60-minute phone card will be provided to a military member stationed overseas so they can call home for free.

NETworks Presentations presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, which launches its national tour at the Boston Opera House for one week only, today through October 2, 2011.

Tom X. Chao and Kim Katzberg, two of downtown's most unclassifiable playwrights and performers will present CHEERFUL INSANITY: CHAO AND KATZBERG IN REPERTORY, two daring and dark comedies, beginning today through October 16, 2011 at HERE, 145 6th Avenue. http://here.org/shows.

Final Casting is announced for the Common Tongue Theatre's 1st New York reading of Neil Wechsler's Yale Drama Award Winning play, GRENADINE.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will feature the world's leading singers, conductors, and stage directors in seven new productions, including a world premiere, a Met premiere, and the first complete performances of a new Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage.

Lila Dupree of The Common Tongue Theatre will present the first New York reading of Neil Wechsler's Yale Drama Award winning play, GRENADINE.

The Hartt School, the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford, will welcome soprano Maureen O'Flynn, bass-baritone Claude Corbeil, and historical dance specialist Thomas Baird to the faculty of the Vocal Studies Division.

On Saturday, September 24 at 8:00pm in the Venetian Theater, Kelli O'Hara makes her Caramoor debut as part of the 2011 Fall Festival.

Tom X. Chao and Kim Katzberg, two of downtown's most unclassifiable playwrights and performers will present CHEERFUL INSANITY: CHAO AND KATZBERG IN REPERTORY, two daring and dark comedies, September 27 through October 16, 2011 at HERE, 145 6th Avenue.

According to a report by Baz Bamigboye for Daily Mail, the Barbican production of SOUTH PACIFIC, which runs through October 1, might be making a West End transfer following the UK tour. Additional details have not yet been announced.

Broadway In Boston and 'Cell Phones For Soldiers' invite patrons attending performances of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC at the Boston Opera House September 27 - October 2 to help support our troops by donating their used cell phones. For every donated cell phone, a 60-minute phone card will be provided to a military member stationed overseas so they can call home for free.