Michelle Beck News

Following a critically acclaimed inaugural year, theater and Academy Award-winning film director Sam Mendes will again direct a transatlantic company of actors for the second season of The Bridge Project, a unique three-year series of co-productions by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions devoted to producing large-scale, classical theater for international audiences.

The National Playwrights Conference (NPC) at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center continues its 45th year with staged readings of House of Gold by Gregory Moss on July 16 at 8:15 pm and July 17 at 3:15 pm and Spoon Lake Blues by Josh Tobiessen on July 18 at 8:15 pm and July 19 at 3:15 pm.

Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night staged by London?s Bush Theatre Artistic Director Josie Rourke. Set off the coast of Illyria, shipwrecked twins put this tale of mistaken identity and unlikely love into relentless motion. Alone in the world, Viola disguises herself as a boy and falls hopelessly in love with the Duke she serves, while he is enamored of the Countess Olivia?whose adoring gaze lands instead upon the Duke?s new page.

Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night staged by London?s Bush Theatre Artistic Director Josie Rourke. Set off the coast of Illyria, shipwrecked twins put this tale of mistaken identity and unlikely love into relentless motion. Alone in the world, Viola disguises herself as a boy and falls hopelessly in love with the Duke she serves, while he is enamored of the Countess Olivia?whose adoring gaze lands instead upon the Duke?s new page.

With a tip of the hat to the Works Progress Administration, The WPA (Williamsburg Performance Alliance) returns with its annual festival.

Patrick Page, currently starring as Shakespearean actor-manager Jefffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (based on MGM's The Bandwagon) at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, will join the cast of Michael Kahn's staging of Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC this Spring. The production will play ten free performances at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park, May 22-June 1.

James Bundy, Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, has announced a major change in the performance schedule for the theater's next production, Moliere's Tartuffe, or the Imposter. Originally scheduled to begin performances on November 26, the production will now begin on Monday, December 3.

The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C. is currently presenting a new staging of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Hamlet, directed by Michael Kahn.