Lynn Nottage News

Inside this edition: Kids free for Shakespeare in the park! New shows at Spotlighters and Vagabond Players! Acclaimed runs continue at Mobtown and Fell’s Point Corner Theatre! Stage Management Workshop offered! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences!

Here are a baker's dozen of questions for the young actress making her CenterStage debut as Ernstine Crump in Lynn Nottage's Crumbs from the Table of Joy. The show runs through June 11th.

Inside this edition: A contest reminder! Mobtown extends 'Van Gogh'! Readers' reviews and comments! Shakespeare in the park! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences! Plus: What's playing in Charm City!

A weekly theater column for the Baltimore/Washington area

Inside this edition: An exclusive discount for Baltimore BWW readers! A contest announced! News of a local director commuting to Buffalo! A Millie update! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences! Plus: What's playing in Charm City!

This year there will be no award given in the category of Best Performance by an Actor or Actress in a Recreated Role.

The 51st Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, Off Broadway's highest honor, were handed out last tonight at the Skirball Center on the campus of New York University in a ceremony hosted by Lili Taylor and Eric Bogosian presented by S. Epatha Merkerson, Christine Ebersole, Edward Hibbert, Douglas Carter Beane, Phylicia Rashad and Oskar Eustis.

Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).

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WHO: CenterStage WHAT: Lynn Nottage's Crumbs from the Table of Joy WHEN: now through June 11. Tues - Sat, 8PM, Sat & Sun, 2PM, Sun, 7:30PM, Wed 05/24, 1PM HOW MUCH: $10 - $60

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Christine Ebersole, Phylicia Rashad, Oskar Eustis and others will be among the presenters of the Obie Awards on May 15th, with more to be announced

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).

Dozens of stars--among them Harry Connick Jr., Kelli O'Hara, Denis O'Hare and Natasha Richardson--turned out for the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 spring gala on April 3rd

On April 1st, the American Theatre Critics Association presented ACTA Awards to Lee Blessing, Adam Rapp and the late August Wilson at the renowned Humana Festival in Louisville, KY

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Entertaining Mr. Sloane, which began previews on February 17th, opened officially on Thursday, March 16th at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46 Street).