Long Wharf Theatre News

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts has announced Collected Stories by 2000 Pulitzer Prize playwright Donald Margulies.

The world premiere of acclaimed actor/writer Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, a bioplay about the passions and conflicts of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, will feature Anna Gunn as the title character.

Playwright Jason Odell Williams will be in residence at the Playhouse throughout the rehearsal and performance process. Two special 'Playwright Talk-backs' will take place after the 8 p.m. performance on November 10th and after the 3pm matinee performances on Sunday, November 13th and 20th. In the 2010-2011 season, three of Jason's plays were produced in New York. He began writing plays in 2007, and since then his work has been developed at Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, New Jersey Rep, The Bleecker Street Theatre, The Jewish Cultural Arts Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rep Stage and The Baltimore Playwrights Festival.

Coming to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, December 13th, 2011 through January 1st, 2012, Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold is making it's way to Saint Paul!

Long Wharf Theatre transforms into a cool Superhero Training School for its 5th Annual Discovery Day, a fun family open house event taking place at 9 am Saturday, Nov. 19 at Long Wharf Theatre, located at 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven. There is a suggested donation of $5 per family or $2 per person. All donations from this event will go towards funding a family friendly March production entirely adapted, produced, designed, and built by the Next Stage residents, early career professionals training in specific fields of theatre.

Ten years ago, when Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein was hired to lead Long Wharf Theatre, he was asked by the New York Times about what draws him to a particular play.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/02 for Hartford

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/02 for Connecticut

Long Wharf Theatre's Education Department will be staging a production of original pieces created by residents of New Haven's Tower One/Tower East, on Long Wharf Theatre's Mainstage on September 25, 2011.

Long Wharf Theatre, under the director of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Interim Managing Director Joshua Borenstein, presents the Tony Award-winning musical Ain't Misbehavin' on the Mainstage from Oct. 26 through Nov. 20.

Rubicon Theatre Company concludes its 2010-2011 Season with the premiere of ROBERT HARLING'S STEEL MAGNOLIAS, the much-loved play that explores the bonds of friendship and community, and the power of laughter to ease the burdens of troubled times.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theatre of color in the country, continues its 46th Anniversary Season, themed Languages of Love, with the Los Angeles premiere of THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE by Julia Cho, directed by Jessica Kubzansky.

Long Wharf Theatre completes its 2011-12 season offerings by adding a classic work by one of the world's great playwrights.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts has announced Collected Stories by 2000 Pulitzer Prize playwright Donald Margulies.

Two-time Tony Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Bobby Cannavale will star as Nick Arnstein opposite Lauren Ambrose, who will star as Fanny Brice, in the first Broadway revival of FUNNY GIRL since the 1964 original production. FUNNY GIRL, which features music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Isobel Lennart, will be directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher.

Bill Norrett/Cyrano Players, Inc will present the World Premiere of Kithless in Paradise, written by Molly Moroney, directed by Niki Flacks at The Lion Theatre (410 West 42nd Street).

Ten years ago, when Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein was hired to lead Long Wharf Theatre, he was asked by the New York Times about what draws him to a particular play.

Adults and middle school students will have the opportunity to bolster their acting and improvisational abilities with Long Wharf Theatre's slate of Fall Studio School classes, beginning September 10.

Long Wharf Theatre's Education Department will be staging a production of original pieces created by residents of New Haven's Tower One/Tower East, on Long Wharf Theatre's Mainstage on September 25, 2011.

The Manhattan Theatre Club has announced full casting for the upcoming world premiere of CLOSE UP SPACE by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Leigh Silverman. Joining the cast is Academy Award & Emmy Award nominee Rosie Perez (Fearless, The Ritz) as famous author 'Vanessa Finn Adams.' Completing the cast are Jessica DiGiovanni (Off-Broadway Debut) and Colby Minifie (The Pillowman, Landscape of the Body) as well as already announced Tony Award and four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce ('Frasier', Curtains) and Obie Award winner Michael Chernus (The Aliens, In The Wake).