Powerful plays and playwrights dominate the Center Theatre Group's 49th season at the Mark Taper Forum. Michael Ritchie, CTG's Artistic Director, announced five important and involving plays, from celebrated new works to definitive productions of classics, for the theatre's 2016 season at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Playwright, Martin McDonagh, introduces a group of very quirky characters in a small isolated community.
Curio Theatre Company has announced its 2015-2016 Season. The company's 11th Season includes new looks at modern classic works of theatre. The season will open with the Philadelphia Premiere of a one-woman staging of The Handmaid's Tale (October 15-November 14). It continues with The Bald Soprano (December 2-December 19). 2016 kicks off with the production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (February 4-March 5). The season concludes with Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan (April 21-May 21).
Atlantic Theater Company has announced the final production of its 30th anniversary season, the world premiere of Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kenneth Lonergan's latest play HOLD ON TO ME DARLING, directed by Atlantic Artistic Director Neil Pepe.
George Street Playhouse has announced that Joe DiPietro's The Second Mrs. Wilson, will occupy the previously to-be-announced slot in the New Brunswick theatre's 2015-16 season.
After a 2014 Broadway revival that saw it scoop six Tony Award nominations, twisted Irish comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan is set for a season at Adelaide's Arts Theatre in what will be The Rep's must-see production for 2015.
Molotov Theatre Group, one of Washington DC's horror- and suspense-based theatre companies, is dubbing its 2015/2016 'The Season of the Storyteller.' The company's three-show season includes 'Lovecraft Nightmare Suite,' 'The Pillowman' and 'Blood, Sweat & Fears: A Grand Guignol Sick Cabaret.' The company's work this season will be featured in an upcoming academic textbook on the Grand Guignol French Theatre of Horror.
Gloucester Stage continues the NeverDark series with a film, talk backs and two play readings scheduled for the run of The New Electric Ballroom.
A fusion of puppetry, physical theatre, shadow play and intense, razor-sharp dialogue, Shock Therapy Productions' dynamic interpretation of acclaimed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's black comedy The Pillowman will have audiences at the Brisbane Powerhouse laughing inappropriately in August.
Wax Wings Productions announces EYES SHUT. DOOR OPEN, a modern day Cain and Abel tale by Cassie M. Seinuk. Set in New York City, the play focuses on the curiosities of human relationships and explores the various dynamics within the vibrant and ever-evolving SoHo art scene. EYES SHUT. DOOR OPEN fits perfectly within the repertoire of Wax Wings Productions as it not only excites and provokes, but calls on the audience to evaluate Human Nature from a deeper, more meaningful perspective. The play will be on stage at The Inner Sanctum Gallery, an artist and creative social center in Roxbury, and will run for two weeks only: August 6-8 and August 13-15, 2015.
Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2015-2016 Atlantic for Kids season including the world premiere musicals The Velveteen Rabbit and The Pirate La Dee Da.
Atlantic Theater Company presents revivals of Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien, two haunting short plays by Atlantic co-founder and Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Ghost Stories: The Shawl and Prairie du Chien began previews on May 27 and officially open tonight, June 16, for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 28 Off Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street).
Atlantic Theater Company welcomes Tony Award nominated actor and director Amy Morton to stage the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph's play Guards at the Taj, starring Tony Award nominated actors Omar Metwally andArian Moayed. Guards at the Taj officially opens tonight, June 11, off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company. Let's see what the critics had to say...
The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Arthur Miller's award-winning American classic All My Sons starring Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf and directed by Stephen Hamilton. The play will run Tuesdays through Sundays, tonight, June 9, through June 28, and is produced by Guild Hall in association with Roy Furman and Ellen Myers.
When it comes to Irish theatre and the Tony Awards, the distance is never great.
I've seen three of Martin McDonagh's plays, and I can honestly say that each has been a genuine corker. They're beyond dark at times, but filled with an offbeat sense of humor that often makes you care more about a character than think you, perhaps, should. It's a part of their charm, at least for the ones I've been privileged to see. McDonagh also brings a real sense of humanity to his creations, and that's especially evident in the Theatre Lab's amazing production of his harrowing, often horrific work, THE PILLOWMAN. Seeing this production offers an intense experience enhanced greatly by the moody compositions of Luke Viertel, and the graphic artistry and illustrations of Aaron Allen. Combined, these elements along with sharp direction and a crackerjack cast, provide a spellbinding evening of theatre.
Explore the depths of the country this summer. Celebrate the 150th anniversary of W.B. Yeats's birth, catch the epic DruidShakespeare, visit festivals in Cork and Galway.
Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre has announced three Atlanta premieres, including Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegria Hudes' 'Water By The Spoonful,' Annie Baker's Obie Award winning comedy 'The Aliens,' and 'A Behanding in Spokane' by Martin McDonagh, a dark comedy in which Christopher Walken received his Tony Award nomination.
Gloucester Stage announces the debut of the NeverDark series. NeverDark is a series of second-stage events that include lectures, talk backs, film screenings, play readings, and other events designed to enhance the knowledge and enjoyment of all Gloucester Stage Mainstage productions. NeverDark events are scheduled to complement a central theme, topic, or issue relating to a Gloucester Stage Mainstage production. All NeverDark events are Pay-What-You-Wish. For information about the NeverDark Series, call the Gloucester Stage Box office at 978-281-4433 or visit www.gloucesterstage.com.
Druid today announced full details of one of the company's most ambitious ever undertakings, DruidShakespeare, a challenging but fitting project to mark the company's fortieth anniversary year.
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