Meredith McDonough News

First Light Festival 2009 is a presentation of new works commissioned by the EST/Sloan Project, an initiative designed to stimulate artists to create credible and compelling work exploring the worlds of science and technology and to challenge the existing stereotypes of scientists and engineers in the popular imagination. Now in its eleventh season, The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project (Graeme Gillis, Program Director) program has received proposals now numbering in the hundreds, and EST/Sloan has commissioned some two hundred projects for development with grants ranging from $500 to $10,000. Each season the EST/Sloan Project commissions and develops new works, and presents the results, at various stages from first readings to fully mounted productions, in the FIRST LIGHT Festival.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jon Steingart and Jenny Wiener Steingart, Executive Producers) announces an exciting and eclectic Winter/Spring lineup: two featured presentations; a new Residency Encores series; and the continuation of three successful ongoing series, Out Loud, Tragedy Tomorrow and Uncharted.

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jon Steingart & Jenny Wiener Steingart, Executive Producers) will present Playlist for five performances only January 22nd - 25th. All tickets are only $15 and can be purchased at www.arsnovanyc.com.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents PASSION PLAY by Pulitzer Prize nominee and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient Sarah Ruhl, directed by OBIE Award-winner Mark Wing-Davey at the University Theatre (222 York Street, New Haven), September 19-October 11 only. Opening Night is Thursday, September 25

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents the 4th annual First Look Repertory of New Work.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents the 4th annual First Look Repertory of New Work, featuring three developmental productions of new plays presented in rotation and accompanied by a series of events around the development of new work.

The Exchange (formerly Jean Cocteau Rep) takes on some of the greatest horror stories in history with the Off-Broadway premiere of The Scariest. This evening length collection of new plays by Kristin Newbom, Laura Schellhardt, Mark Schultz, and Gary Sunshine is based on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.W. Jacobs, Hans Christian Anderson, and 'The Book of Revelations.' Opening Night is March 6.

Ars Nova will present The Wikipedia Plays, a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the Wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries. Written by Ars Nova's 2006-2007 Play Group writers, the production run August 3 to August 6 at 7 PM at Ars Nova

The Summer Play Festival has announced casting and schedules for the second week of its fourth annual event at Theatre Row

LAByrinth Theater Company's Seventh Annual Barn Series Festival has announced casting for its upcoming performances.

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced their lineup for The Seventh Annual Barn Series Festival, which will be presented in the 102-seat Shiva Theater at The Public from December 2 to December 20, 2006

The Drama League has announced DirectorFest 2006, its twenty-third festival of one-acts staged by the Fall Directing Fellows of The Drama League Directors Project. DirectorFest 2006 runs from Thursday, December 7th through Sunday, December 10th, 2006 at the Abingdon Theatre Center's June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street).

The Drama League proudly announces DirectorFest 2006, its twenty-third festival of one-acts staged by the Fall Directing Fellows of The Drama League Directors Project.

Creators of the eight NAMT New Works musicals as well as performers and industry professionals turned out for a reception at Marseilles on September 27th