Martin Zimmerman News

Heiress Productions has completed casting for the World Premiere of THIRDS by Jacob M. Appel, adapted by Kevin Brewer.

The new Washinton D.C.-based arts collective force/collision has announced two upcoming shows, THE NAUTICAL YARDS from April 26-29 and SHAPE Septemeber 20 to October 6 in D.C. and then in New York at La Mama ETC November 10-18.

Heiress Productions presents THIRDS. The show previews March 2 at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row.

Heiress Productions has completed casting for the World Premiere of THIRDS by Jacob M. Appel, adapted by Kevin Brewer.

Heiress Productions presents THIRDS. The show previews March 2 at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, announces the Spring 2012 Season at both DCA Theater venues-the DCA Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph Street, and the DCA Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street.

The Theatre @ Boston Court announces PLAY/ground, the annual New Play Festival December 10-11, 2011 at Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. Literary Managers Aaron Henne and Emilie Beck, in concert with Artistic Directors Jessica Kubzansky and Michael Michetti, have selected five plays to be presented as staged readings in the Marjorie Branson Performance Space.

Heiress Productions announce its Fall Gala celebrating its 5th birthday on Tuesday, November 15th, from 6:30-8:30pm at the Soho Photo Gallery (15 White Street, NYC).

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, announces the Spring 2012 Season at both DCA Theater venues-the DCA Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph Street, and the DCA Studio Theater in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street.

Teatro Vista welcomes nationally acclaimed Latino writer Cándido Tirado as the company's newest resident playwright by kicking off its 2011-2012 season with an updated version of Tirado's Momma's Boyz, a humorous, dark, but ultimately uplifting look at what happens when a young man turns back the hands of time to save the life of his friend from the violence of dealing drugs.

Heiress Productions, a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to raising awareness and funds for cancer organizations through live performance, is pleased to announce their Playwriting Competition finalists: The Treachery of Images by Andrew Bliss; Loss: A Play About a Violin by Elena Hartwell; and Thirds by Jacob M. Appel.

Heiress Productions (www.heiressproductions.org), a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to raising awareness and funds for cancer organizations through live performance, is pleased to announce that on March 19th, 2011 proceeds from the company's recent run of Critical Mass by Joanne Sydney Lessner were presented to The Lustgarten Foundation, the nation's largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research based in Bethpage, New York.

The Gift Theatre opens its New Play Reading Series with a reading of Laura Jacqmin's Holiday Girl.

The Gift Theatre opens its New Play Reading Series with a reading of Laura Jacqmin's Holiday Girl.

Bruce Mason Centre announces their February/March calendar listings.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, is accepting submissions for the fifth annual Smith Prize. Funded by a gift from writer Timothy Jay Smith and a group of socially conscious donors, The Smith Prize is awarded to a full-length, non-musical political play that illuminates issues that can only be dealt with at the national or global level, even if the story is told from an individual perspective.

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents the world-premiere of 'Emergency Prom,' a brand new theatrical event by third-year James A. Michener Center for Writers fellow and MFA in Playwriting candidate, Steve Moulds and directed by Courtney Sale.