Matthew Wilson News

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts presents Dracula, October 17 - November 10, 2013, by John L. Balderston, Hamilton Deane & Bram Stoker.

On Labor Day, September 2 at 7:30pm, the 12th Annual Kennedy Center Page-To-Stage Festival will host force/collision for a reading of Joe Calarco's new play Separate Rooms. The cast includes Tracy Olivera (Broadway's Ragtime, Ford's Theatre's Hello, Dolly!),Jenna Sokolowski (Woolly Mammoth's Mr. Burns, a post-electric play and Signature's Title of show), Thomas Keegan (Signature's Dying City),Vanessa Lock (Signature's God of Carnage), Tonya Beckman Ross (Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lady Windermere's Fan), Chris Stezin(Theatre J's The Religion Thing), Matthew Wilson (Faction of Fools), Joseph Carlson (Synetic's Home of the Solider) and Harlan Work(Theatre J's Our Class). The reading will be directed by force/collision Founding Director John Moletress and be followed by a talkback with playwright Joe Calarco, cast and director.

Robots taking over the world, a critic reviewing difficult life experiences, social networking, a closed-captioner gone wild, a music group trying to get discovered online and reviving a public affairs show from the 80's. These are just a few of the creative concepts coming out of COMEDY CENTRAL's 2011-2012 development slate announced today by Kent Alterman, Head of Original Programming and Production, COMEDY CENTRAL.

Porchlight Music Theatre will present the exhilarating live stage production of Miracle on 34th Street, based on the holiday film classic at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont. The production will run from November 19 through January 2, 2011. The Press Opening is Sunday, November 21 at 2:30 p.m. Porchlight Music Theatre Artistic Associate Christopher Pazdernik will direct.

COLUMBIA STAGES, the award-winning producing arm of Columbia University's MFA Theatre Arts Program, announces its 2010-2011 season beginning October 20th at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

Don't miss the toe tappin' musical hit Pump Boys and Dinettes, Running September 4th - 12th

Don't miss the toe tappin' musical hit Pump Boys and Dinettes, Running September 4th - 12th

Don't miss the toe tappin' musical hit Pump Boys and Dinettes, Running September 4th - 12th

Under new Artistic Director Jim Stump, New Edgecliff Theatre will produce a local premiere and bring back The CincinnatiDirectors Competition in its appropriately-named 2010-2011 'Contenders' season. As Stump says, 'This season focuseson one of the strongest human instincts - to compete, whether against others or ourselves.'

Actor Jeremy Irons will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this spring to lead the cast of a new play, THE GODS WEEP. The world premiere, by Dennis Kelly, plays at the Hampstead theatre from March 12 thru April 3.

Golden Girl and former Broadway star Rue McClanahan, has sadly suffered a stroke while recovering from bypass surgery that she received in November. As previously reported, the actress underwent the surgery to treat an acute cardiac illness.

Actor Jeremy Irons will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company this spring to lead the cast of a new play, THE GODS WEEP. The world premiere, by Dennis Kelly, plays at the Hampstead theatre from March 12 thru April 3.

Porchlight Music Theatre will debut a live stage production of Miracle on 34th Street based on the holiday film classic at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont. The show plays from November 20, 2009 through January 3, 2010.

Now on the boards at Theatre Building Chicago is the first edition of Porchlight Music Theatre's hoped-for holiday tradition, 'Miracle on 34th Street,' an adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1947 film (and its Valentine Davies source novel) by Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder, Will Severin and John Vreeke. Porchlight has added musical arrangements by Chicago composer Jon Steinhagen to the script,....

Following The Ruckus Theater's wildy successful, soldout inaugural Chicago production-the world premiere of Heist Play by Mitch Vermeersch, directed by Allison Shoemaker-The Ruckus descends on The Side Project Theatre with a world premiere theatrical mixtape, Tell It & Speak It & Think It & Breathe It.