Max Stafford-Clark News

Storrs: Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, February 25 - March 7 in the Nafe Katter Theatre on the Storrs campus.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, February 25 - March 7 in the Nafe Katter Theatre on the Storrs campus.

Sydney Theatre Company's TOT MOM will close on February 7, 2010.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - the prestigious international award given each year to a woman who has written an outstanding new work for the English-speaking theatre - has announced the 10 finalists for the 32nd annual award.

Andersen's English by Sebastian Barry and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, Touring 11 February -3 April then Hampstead Theatre, 7 April - 3 May (press night Thursday 8 April)

In a special feature with the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph, powerhouse producer Sonia Friedman, the force behind the West End's Legally Blonde, talks the record-breaking production, feminism and her upcoming ventures. Included on this impressive list is a January West End transfer of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, one of the season's most successful productions that played the Royal Court, and developing a musical adaptation of the blockbuster Shakespeare in Love. And this after just opening A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury on Broadway and preparing to open the Liev Schreiber/Scarlett Jonhansson-led A View from the Bridge on Broadway in January. In fact, Friedman has no fewer than 56 projects on her 'to-do list.'

Sydney Theatre Company presents TOT MOM, Created by Steven Soderbergh Friday 18 December 2009 to Sunday 7 February 2010 - SEASON EXTENDED. Opens 23 December 2009 at 8pm

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents the West Australian premiere of POOL (NO WATER) by Mark Ravenhill from 11-27 September 2009 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) is hosting a NEW WORKS READING SERIES to support new plays and emerging playwrights. As part of its mission statement, The Irish Repertory Theatre 'encourages the development of new works focusing on the Irish and Irish American experience, as well as a range of other cultures.'

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced Jean Racine's passionate play Phedre as one of its productions for the 2009-10 season in a first-time coproduction with Canada's prestigious Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the Traverse Theatre Company (Edinburgh, Scotland) to Brits Off Broadway with the NYC premiere of David Greig's DAMASCUS, directed by Philip Howard and starring Ewen Bremner. DAMASCUS, which plays in Theater A, begins performances on Tuesday, May 6 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 1.

Roundabout Theatre Company will present the American premiere of The Overwhelming, written by J.T. Rogers