The Public Theater concludes its 2007-2008 downtown season with the U.S. premiere of 'Kicking a Dead Horse', a new play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard and featuring Tony Award nominee Stephen Rea.
Aidan Quinn will complete the cast of Richard Nelson's new history play Conversations in Tusculum at the Public Theater. Directed by Nelson, Quinn will play Brutus alongside the previously announced Brian Dennehy as Cicero, Joe Grifasi as Syrus, Gloria Reuben as Porcia, David Strathairn as Cassius, and Maria Tucci as Servilia.
The play will open Off Broadway at The Minetta Lane Theatre on
Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 7pm for 48 performances only, through Sunday, November 19, 2006.
Grendel--a new opera directed and co-written by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor based on the fantastical epic poem Beowulf--will have its Los Angeles Opera premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on June 1st rather than the previously-announced May 27th
Grendel--a new opera directed and co-written by by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor based on the fantastical epic poem--will have its L.A. Opera premiere at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on May 27th