Nathaniel Hawthorne News

Theatre Calgary's new Artistic Director, Stafford Arima, has announced his first season of plays.

After ten months of renovations to their North Portland theatre, Portland Playhouse joyfully returns home for the third production of their tenth anniversary season, Scarlet. The new musical, based on the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a fitting homecoming production, taking the strong bones of a classic and giving it another look from a fresh angel.

Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; James Houghton, Founder) will host several special events at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues) this winter, the company announced today.

While Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious drama from 2000, f**kING A, enjoys an excellent new production at Signature Theatre, across the lobby of their multi-stage center, her more sensitive 1999 exploration, IN THE BLOOD, also receives a solid remounting.

Signature Theatre is presenting Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' The Red Letter Plays: f**king A & In the Blood. This is the first time these acclaimed plays will be presented together; they will run simultaneously at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). These two plays mark the final productions of Parks' Signature Residency One.

Signature Theatre is presenting Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' The Red Letter Plays: f**king A & In the Blood. This is the first time these acclaimed plays will be presented together; they will run simultaneously at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). These two plays mark the final productions of Parks' Signature Residency One.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' may have served as the initial inspiration for Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious 2000 drama, f**kING A, but, especially in director Jo Bonney's chilling Signature Theatre production, her sardonically abstract portrait of human cruelty may remind playgoers of another writer, Bertolt Brecht.

Signature Theatre is presenting Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' The Red Letter Plays: f**king A & In the Blood. This is the first time these acclaimed plays will be presented together; they will run simultaneously at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). These two plays mark the final productions of Parks' Signature Residency One.

Casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director; James Houghton, Founder) productions of Pulitzer Prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks' The Red Letter Plays: f**king A & In the Blood. This is the first time these acclaimed plays will be presented together; they will run simultaneously at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). These two plays mark the final productions of Parks' Signature Residency One. All tickets for the initial runs of the productions are $30 as part of the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access.

Gloucester Stage Company continues its 38th season of professional theater on Cape Ann with N. Richard Nash's moving American classic The Rainmaker from July 14 through August 5 at 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA. Set in the time of a paralyzing drought in Depression-era America, The Rainmaker tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry, whose father and two brothers are worried as much about her marriage prospects as they are about their dying cattle. Enter Starbuck, the consummate con man, who promises to solve all their problems, for a fee. Directed by Gloucester Stage Artistic Director Robert Walsh, The Rainmaker cast features Brian Homer as Starbuck; Jessica Bates as Lizzie Curry; David DeBeck as H.C. Curry, the patriarch of the Curry family; Joe Short and Sean McCoy as the Curry brothers; Dave Rich as File and longtime Gordon College Professor of Theater Arts Norm Jones as Sheriff Thomas. N. Richard Nash's most celebrated play, The Rainmaker, appeared in all three mediums; on Broadway in 1954, as a motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in 1956, and as a television production in 1982. A musical version of The Rainmaker, entitled 110 Degrees in the Shade, debuted on Broadway in 1963.

The 2017-18 Signature Theatre Season will feature plays by three Pulitzer Prize-winners and the New York premiere of a play by one of its new Residency Five playwrights, the company announced today.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, continues its popular Southern Literary Salon on April 21 with one of the more shocking American voices of the 20th Century - Flannery O'Connor.

Pulitzer Prize- and Obie Award-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) has written a haunting adaptation on Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed novel The Scarlet Letter.

Victimization and bad choices are then so intertwined that to speak of individual moral agency seems almost pointless. And this holds true almost as much for the oppressors as for the oppressed.

Pulitzer Prize- and Obie Award-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog) has written a haunting adaptation on Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed novel The Scarlet Letter.

Casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the world premiere Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director; James Houghton, Founder) production of Wakey, Wakey, written and directed by Lucille Lortel and Obie Award-winner Will Eno. Eno is a Residency Five playwright at Signature.

Debutta in prima nazionale, 25, 26 novembre ore 20.00 e 27 novembre ore 18.00, al Teatro Brancaccino, BARTLEBY, secondo capitolo della trilogia 'Racconti americani' ideato dalla compagnia Muta Imago, co-prodotto con il Festival Notafee (Estonia), con la regia di Claudia Sorace, la drammaturgia sonora e voce narrante di Riccardo Fazi, il video di Maria Elena Fusacchia e la musica originale di V. L. Wildpanner.

Typical this time of year, East Lynne Theater Company's artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth, after plowing through dozens of stories, selects a few to present for the holidays in storytelling fashion.

'In two days it will be Christmas!' said Old Applejoy to himself. 'Can it be that my close-fisted grandson does not intend to celebrate Christmas! I've seen no preparations, heard nothing, smelt nothing. I will go this moment and investigate.'

Debutta in prima nazionale, 25, 26 novembre ore 20.00 e 27 novembre ore 18.00, al Teatro Brancaccino, BARTLEBY, secondo capitolo della trilogia 'Racconti americani' ideato dalla compagnia Muta Imago, co-prodotto con il Festival Notafee (Estonia), con la regia di Claudia Sorace, la drammaturgia sonora e voce narrante di Riccardo Fazi, il video di Maria Elena Fusacchia e la musica originale di V. L. Wildpanner.