McCarter Theatre Center News

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/08 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 5/01 for New Jersey

McCarter Theatre is proud to announce complete casting and creative team for Sleeping Beauty Wakes, a new musical featuring a book by Rachel Sheinkin (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and a score by composer Brendan Milburn and lyricist Valerie Vigoda, both of the acclaimed trio GrooveLily. The production, which runs from April 29 through June 5, will be directed by Rebecca Taichman, who delighted McCarter audiences with her 2009 production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Opening Night is set for Friday, May 6. Following the McCarter run, the production will move to La Jolla Playhouse.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 4/24 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 4/17 for New Jersey

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce casting for Tony Kushner's THE ILLUSION. The production will be directed by Michael Mayer.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/30 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/23 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/16 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/09 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 12/19 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 12/05 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/17 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 6/27 for New Jersey

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 6/22 for New Jersey

McCarter Theatre has announced the complete casting and creative team for the American premiere of Take Flight, a new musical by Richard Maltby Jr, David Shire and John Weidman that blends fact and fiction to tell the interweaving stories of three pioneers of aeronautics: the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.

McCarter Theatre has announced the complete casting and creative team for the American premiere of Take Flight, a new musical by Richard Maltby Jr, David Shire and John Weidman that blends fact and fiction to tell the interweaving stories of three pioneers of aeronautics: the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2009-2010 season, an exploration of the theme of belief, with The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau from January 21 - May 23, 2010 in Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.

The Wilma Theater will close the curtain on the World Premiere production of Language Rooms, a black comedy that exposes the divided loyalties among today's immigrants, discovering the rising cost of the American Dream, on April 4th. The play, from rising Arab-American playwright Yussef El Guindi, is directed by the Wilma's co-Artistic Director Blanka Zizka.

Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) is pleased to announce the final production for their 20th Anniversary 2010-2011 Season, celebrating the work of Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner.