Mac Wellman News

During the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons, 33 U.S. opera companies both large and small and from coast to coast will perform works - including nine world premieres - by American composers, announced OPERA America, the national service organization for opera.

Save the date for the opening of Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) next Wednesday, November 3.

Save the date for the opening of Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) next Wednesday, November 3.

The Hive Theatre Company is pleased to present The Hive Exposed Series; staged readings of new and underexposed plays.

The Flea Theater presents the premiere of OFFICE HOURS, by A.R. Gurney, directed by Jim Simpson and featuring The Bats, The Flea's resident company of actors. Previews begin September 18 with opening night slated for Thursday, September 30.

Aporia Theater is proud to announce the limited engagement of FOLLOW ME DOWN, a new play written by Patrick Barrett and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley. Preview is October 22; Opening is October 23.

Aporia Theater is proud to announce the limited engagement of FOLLOW ME DOWN, a new play written by Patrick Barrett and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley. Preview is October 22; Opening is October 23.

The Flea Theater will present the World Premiere of LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS by Steven Banks, head writer of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Partial Comfort Productions follows up its much-acclaimed productions of Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise and Thomas Bradshaw's The Bereaved with the World Premiere of Chad Beckim's A GOOD ENDING.

FLOWER POWER PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the return of OPA! The Musical to Queens after a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Queens Theatre in the Park in 2009.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 29th season with Circle Mirror Transformation, an acclaimed new comedy by Annie Baker.

Aporia Theater is proud to announce the limited engagement of FOLLOW ME DOWN, a new play written by Patrick Barrett and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley. Preview is October 22; Opening is October 23.

Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN - which will receive its World-Premiere at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) with previews beginning October 13, and opening officially on November 3 - is the inaugural recipient of the newly established Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play, it was announced by Mari Marchbanks, Founder and Executive Director of The Horton Foote Prize.

Johanna Day (Vineyard's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, Tony Award nominee for PROOF) and David Garrison (Tony nominee for A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD..., 'Married with Children,' TITANIC) will join the previously announced Linus Roache, Heather Burns, Georgia Engel, and Michael Park in the World-Premiere of Will Eno's play MIDDLETOWN, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director for the Vineyard Theatre, full casting below.

The Flea Theater has announced a two-week extension of its critically acclaimed limited engagement of OFFICE HOURS, by A.R. Gurney, directed by Jim Simpson and featuring The Bats, The Flea's resident company of actors. Originally scheduled to close October 24, performances will now run through November 7, 2010 at The Flea.

Montgomery Park, or Opulence, pairing archival installation with luminous chamber opera, immerses its visitors in the unsettling history of an asylum that provokes the question of where the boundaries between conscious beings lie.

Aporia Theater is proud to announce the limited engagement of FOLLOW ME DOWN, a new play written by Patrick Barrett and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley. Preview is October 22; Opening is October 23.

The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, will hold the fifth in its series of seminars focused on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway.

FLOWER POWER PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce the return of OPA! The Musical to Queens after a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Queens Theatre in the Park in 2009.

Zach Grenier will reprise his Tony Award-nominated role in '33 Variations' at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre, joining two-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda who stars in the compelling new play written and directed by Moisés Kaufman. The West Coast premiere of '33 Variations' will be presented January 30 through March 6, 2011. Opening is set for February 9. Both Grenier and Fonda will perform the roles they played in the 2009 Broadway run of '33 Variations.' The play was nominated for a total of five Tony Awards, including Best Actress for Fonda and Best Featured Actor for Grenier.