Playwright Christian Missonak's psychological drama The Henry Clyde Canning Murder House will receive its world premiere at the 8th Annual Durango PlayFest, featuring a cast of stage and screen actors directed by Melissa Firlit.
Two-time Tony nominee Lyle Kessler will premiere his historical drama THE GERMAN at the Durango PlayFest, featuring Victor Slezak, Kip Gilman, and Margaret Ladd, directed by Brendan Burke.
Playwright John Farmanesh-Bocca will premiere and direct his absurdist comedy A DEAL PICKED JUST FOR YOU at the Durango PlayFest, featuring a cast that includes Wendie Malick, Marg Helgenberger, and Brenda Strong.
John Farmanesh-Bocca will premiere and direct his absurdist comedy A Deal Picked Just for You at the Durango PlayFest, featuring Wendie Malick, Marg Helgenberger, and Brenda Strong.
Actor Tom Wright, a veteran of stage, television and film, will star in the psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest. Learn more!
Los Angeles-based actor Jodi Long has joined the cast of Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Now in its seventh season, PlayFest has fast become a renowned incubator for well-known and emerging playwrights, actors, and directors to develop new works and test them before audiences.
Denver-based husband-and-wife writing team Lucy Wright and William Missouri Downs will premiere their dramedy, Becky and Her Lung Transplant, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest.
Playwright Andrea Aptecker will premiere her psychological thriller, There Are Monsters, at the 7th Annual Durango PlayFest this month. Learn more about the show here!
The hysterical dark comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace will open at Jacksonville's Alhambra Theatre & Dining on March 23, 2023. Best known through the 1944 film starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra, Arsenic and Old Lace was written in 1939. The play opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941.
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present Dr. Keeling's Curve, written by George Shea, directed by Kirsten Sanderson, and starring Mike Farrell at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Boulevard, Sierra Madre, CA 91024. Performances run April 21- April 23, 2023.
Learn more about all three productions at the upcoming festival. Tickets will be available in early July.
Marc Baylin, a longtime leader in the national performing arts landscape, has been appointed Artistic Advisor and Programming Consultant at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Durango PlayFest, a nonprofit dedicated to the art of playwriting and live theatre, today announced the cancellation of its August 2020 festival in order to keep audiences and communities safe.
Community Little Theatre held auditions for the Philip Barry classic, The Philadelphia Story. This sparkling comedy is a witty, sophisticated romp, a breezy and romantic story which explores family dynamics, class prejudice, and human frailty. The movie starred Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar).
Durango Playfest today announced the four plays that will headline its new works festival, as well as other special events planned for the August 4-10, 2019 program. PlayFest, which debuted last year, brings top-tier playwrights, directors and actors to Durango to incubate new plays, hold workshops for the community, and culminate the week with staged readings.
Award Winning RAIN AND ZOE SAVE THE WORLD by Crystal Skillman has been selected for a reading in the Living Room Series at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. The reading will take place on Monday, March 18th at 8 PM at The Blank's 2nd Stage Theatre at 6500 Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood.
BroadwayWorld has confirmed that the Diane Paulus directed musical, Jagged Little Pill, will come to Broadway this fall following an out of town tryout at Cambridge's American Repertory Theatre and an additional lab in NYC this fall.
In August of 2009, the then-named Alhambra Dinner Theatre was all but shuttered and on the edge of extinction. In came Jacksonville native Craig Smith and his business partners to purchase the nation's longest-running dinner theater and return the community's cultural gem to glory.
THE DRAGON GRISWYND, a new play by Carrie Robbins - the playwright and Tony-nominated costume designer - will be presented at Theatre for the New City (155 First Ave.) in the East Village this summer, with performances scheduled September 6-16 as part of TNC's Dream Up Festival.
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