Max Reinhardt News

There will be a post performance discussion on December 6 with company members, and director Dimiter Gotscheff. Moderated by renowned translator and UCLA Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Michael Heim. The exclusive United States production of Berlin's most prominent and revolutionary theatre, The Volksb?hne, will be presented by David Sefton's UCLA Live's Seventh International Theatre Festival in a controversial production of Chekhov's first play, IVANOV, under the direction of Bulgarian born Dimiter Gotscheff. The play will be performed in German with English supertitles.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired the papers of renowned performers and acting teachers Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. The collection consists of thousands of pages of unpublished correspondence, diaries, scripts and manuscripts, photographs, clippings and other documentation relating to the dynamic theatrical careers of both Hagen and Berghof. This collection of professional and personal papers, spanning nearly 100 years of theater history, is being made public for the first time. To celebrate the bequest, the Library is planning a series of eight free public programs featuring many close friends and colleagues of Ms. Hagen and Mr. Berghof's including such figures as Harold Prince, Edward Albee, David Hyde Pierce and Eli Wallach. Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue (between 64th and 65th streets). Admission to all programs is free and first come, first served. For information, please call (212) 642-0142 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms. Programs are curated by Alan Pally, Manager of Public Programs at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Playhouse on the Green, a 54-year-old not-for-profit theater company in residence at a beautiful 228-seat jewel-box theater in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, CT, kicks off their 2008-2009 season of plays and musicals with Steve Martin's wacky adaptation of Carl Sternheim's 1911 comedy 'The Underpants.' This hilarious send-up of repressed society and scandalous fashion faux pas runs for 8 performances only September 26-October 5, 2008.

Pavol Liska and Kelly Cooper, representing the United States for the first time at the Salzburg Festival, won the MONTBLANC YOUNG DIRECTORS PROJECT for best piece of direction for their version of the classic Romeo and Juliet by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.

The Young Directors Project will be presented again this year in Salzburg. The successful theatre project is now in its seventh year and is becoming even more international. As well as German-language productions, there are now for the first time ones from Japan, Norway and the USA in the context of the Young Directors Project.

The Young Directors Project will be presented again this year in Salzburg. The successful theatre project is now in its seventh year and is becoming even more international. As well as German-language productions, there are now for the first time ones from Japan, Norway and the USA in the context of the Young Directors Project.

Five-time Tony Award winner and Honorary Academy Award winning choreographer Michael Kidd passed away on December 23 in Los Angeles from cancer. Kidd was 92, as reported by the New York Times.

Café Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel, Madison Avenue at 76th Street), announces the return engagement of UTE LEMPER, international star of stage and screen (Chicago, Cabaret, Cats) and screen (Pret-A-Porter) for a three-week engagement beginning February 7th.

Despite the best efforts of Jiri Zizka and the Wilma Theater, Ken Ludwig's 'Shakespeare in Hollywood' fizzles under the weight of its own high concept.

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston's presentation of 'Shakespeare in Hollywood' is a delightful romp through a land of enchantment.