Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for the sixth and final production of its 2007/2008 Season, the World Premiere of the new musical SAVED.
Manhattan Theatre Club Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove announced that Jerry Patch will be joining MTC's artistic team as the company's new Director of Artistic Development.
South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will celebrate its 11th annual edition with a lineup composed of seven SCR-commissioned plays from an array of writers. Since its creation in 1998, PPF has grown into one of the most important festivals of new scripts in the United States. This year's Festival will take place during the May 2 through May 4 weekend with a workshop production, four staged readings and two fully-staged World Premieres on South Coast Repertory's two major stages. Tickets to PPF may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.
South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will celebrate its 11th annual edition with a lineup composed of seven SCR-commissioned plays from an array of writers. Since its creation in 1998, PPF has grown into one of the most important festivals of new scripts in the United States. This year's Festival will take place during the May 2 through May 4 weekend with a workshop production, four staged readings and two fully-staged World Premieres on South Coast Repertory's two major stages. Tickets to PPF may be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries for its popular online lottery LIVEforFIVE for $5 tickets to its next production, The Drunken City, a new play by 2007 Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). A total of 40 tickets will be available for the show via the lottery.
Arena Stage will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge in rotating repertory as a salute to one of America's best playwrights, Arthur Miller.
Select performances of Catherine Filloux's Killing The Boss - a new dark comedy about an altruistic woman's unexpected transformation into a vigilante, opening February 12 at The Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) - will be followed by talkbacks.
South Coast Repertory Artistic Directors David Emmes and Martin Benson have been named the recipients of the 2007-08 Margo Jones Medal. The prestigious award honors those who have demonstrated a significant impact, understanding and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theater everywhere. The venerable duo has guided South Coast Repertory from a small touring company into one of the country's leading professional theaters, now approaching its 45th season and known world-wide for its development of new work for the stage. The Ohio State University Libraries and College of the Arts will present the award to Emmes and Benson on May 1 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, kicking off the theater's nationally-renowned Pacific Playwrights Festival.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) presents 'Liberty City,' written by Jessica Blank and April Yvette Thompson, performed by Thompson, and directed by Blank; to begin performances Friday, February 15, at NYTW. Opening night is scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 at 7PM. The production will run through Sunday, March 16.
The Fire Dept will present an expanded and updated version of its acclaimed At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq, an evening of alternately moving, haunting, and funny material by noted and emerging American playwrights, woven together to present a kaleidoscope of views on the war.
With some of the strongest reviews of the season for a new play, the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15 Street) has announced a 2-week extension of Julia Cho's play The Piano Teacher starring Elizabeth Franz, now set to play through December 23.
LAByrinth Theater Company, in its fifth season of residency at The Public Theater, has announced the lineup for two development festivals of free staged-readings!
The Public Theater will continue its fall season with the world premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play The Brothers Size, directed by Tea Alagic, and produced in association with The Foundry Theatre who brought The Brothers Size to The Public's 2007 Under the Radar Festival earlier this year where it was the breakout hit of the festival. It will have a full production at The Public Theater October 23 to December 23 with an official press opening on Tuesday, November 6 at 7 PM.
Opening the Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre's 2007-08 Season will be the Off-Broadway premiere of The Piano Teacher, a new play by Julia Cho, author of Durango, with previews to begin October 30, prior to its official press opening November 18 at The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street). Kate Whoriskey directs.
Playwright Lynn Nottage has received a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Award'. She was one of 24 recipients chosen for their creativity, originality and potential and will receive $100,000 annually for the next five years.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 24 new MacArthur Fellows for 2007. The new Fellows work across a broad spectrum of endeavors. They include a biomedical scientist, a blues musician, a forensic anthropologist, an inventor, a medieval historian, and a spider silk biologist. All were selected for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future. This past week, the recipients learned in a phone call from the Foundation that they will each receive $500,000 in 'no strings attached' support over the next five years.
The Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of John van Druten's comedy Old Acquaintance, starring Margaret Colin as 'Katharine Markham' and Tony Award-winner Harriet Harris as 'Mildred Watson Drake,' opened on Thursday, June 28th
The New York Theatre Barn will present a double bill of concerts showcasing the music of Brian Feinstein and Joe Iconis at the D-Lounge on Monday, June 11th.
