The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust today announced that the 4th Annual Steinberg Playwright 'Mimi' Awards will be presented on Monday, November 14, 2011. 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.
Silk Road Theatre Project's celebrated production of David Henry Hwang's Obie award winning Yellow Face will close on July 31, 2011.
Goodman Theatre announces the final addition to its 2011/2012 Subscription Season-New Stages Amplified a series of three never-before-seen works in modestly-scaled developmental productions in the intimate Owen Theatre.
Manhattan Theatre Club has just announced that Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon will return to MTC to star in the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play WIT by Margaret Edson, directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow. The limited engagement of WIT will begin previews Thursday, January 5, 2012 and open Thursday, January 26, 2012 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
According to the Boston Globe, Tony nominee Lily Rabe will star in the New Group premiere of her father, David Rabe's new play- An Early History of Fire. The off-Broadway production will be directed by Jo Bonney and will run in thir 2011-12 season.
The artists and Creative Advisors selected for the second Sundance Institute Theatre Lab on Manda will soon be traveling to the island off the coast of Kenya in East Africa.
Goodman Theatre Artistic Director RoRobert Falls announced today that he will direct bert Falls The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic portrait of hope and disillusionment, running April 22 - June 10, 2012 in the Albert Theatre. Falls' major revival features Tony Award-winning stage and screen stars Nathan Lane Nathan Lane as hardware salesman and pipe dreambuster Theodore 'Hickey' Hickman, and Brian Dennehy Brian Dennehy as one-time syndicalist-anarchist Larry Slade. Hailed by The New York Times as a 'ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power,' The Iceman Cometh marked Falls' and Dennehy's first O'Neill collaboration at the Goodman in 1990-a production which featured Dennehy in the role of Hickey.
Yesterday, July 12, The New York Times awarded Kristoffer Diaz the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for his play 'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,' produced in New York by Second Stage Theatre.
The artists and Creative Advisors selected for the second Sundance Institute Theatre Lab on Manda will soon be traveling to the island off the coast of Kenya in East Africa.
Originally scheduled to close on July 17, 2011, Silk Road Theatre Project's celebrated production of David Henry Hwang's Obie award winning Yellow Face has been extended through July 31, 2011.
Horizon Theatre Company is pleased to announce its 27th season of contemporary theatre. Horizon's 2011 season features four Regional Premieres and the revival of an audience favorite. Horizon's intimate 175 seat theatre can be found in Atlanta's funky Little Five Points business and arts district.
Following a successful run at Georgetown University, GU's Theater and Performance Studies Program and Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater present Tennessee Williams' most autobiographical work The Glass Menagerie in conjunction with The Glass Menagerie Project.
Women's Project, the 34-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, will present its 2011-12 season of new American plays featuring 20 women theater artists, Julie Crosby, Producing Artistic Director announced.
Project Girl Performance Collective (projectgirlperformance collective.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of young women (ages 12- 21) through the performing arts, today performed their show Project Girl: Congo at the White House.
Following a critically acclaimed season which included the World Premiere of Lynn Nottage's hit comedy, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Second Stage Theatre has announced three of the four mainstage productions in the company's upcoming 33rd season.
Kristoffer Diaz is the winner of the 2011 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award for 'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,' his satire of professional wrestling and the ethnic stereotypes and political imagery of that industry, The Times has announced.
Off-Broadway's The New Group proudly announces the productions slated for its 2011-2012 season.
Yellow Face, the nationally-acclaimed play by Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang, makes its Chicago debut at Silk Road Theatre Project (SRTP), produced in association with the Goodman Theatre.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival expands its ongoing commitment to the development and production of new work with five new commissions announced today.
Donna Hanover and Colman Domingo hosted a luncheon yesterday, June 9 at the National Arts Club. A benefit for the Vineyard Theatre's artistic and education programs, playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins was presented with the Vineyard Theatre's 4th annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given each year to a gifted emerging playwright. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.
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