Nathaniel Hawthorne News

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.

The latest offering from The Bay Street Theatre, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, with an original script adapted for the Sag Harbor venue by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo, will leave you unequivocally breathless. The cast is absolutely astounding delivering intense performances taking the audience on a true emotional roller coaster. Based on the classic novel, this thrilling production, part of Bay Street's LITERATURE LIVE! educational program (more about that below), runs through November 26th.

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.

Due to popular demand, the Signature Theatre (Paige Evans, Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director; James Houghton, Founder) production of 'Master Harold' ... and the boys, written and directed by Tony Award winner Athol Fugard, has been extended for a second time.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced the eighth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! presents THE SCARLET LETTER adapted for the stage by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo from the American classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the eighth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! presents THE SCARLET LETTER adapted for the stage by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo from the American classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Malika Oyetimein, third year MFA candidate in Directing at the UW School of Drama, and featured on City Arts' 2016 Future List, will be directing the regional premier of Suzan-Lori Parks' visceral drama, f**king A for her thesis production.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced the eighth year of the Literature Live! program. This year's Literature Live! presents THE SCARLET LETTER adapted for the stage by Scott Eck and Joe Minutillo from the American classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

ArtWeek, an award-winning creative festival, kicked off its fall lineup on September 30 with more than 180 creative events happening now through October 9, including many free and affordable events over Columbus Day weekend. ArtWeek events can be found in more than 50 neighborhoods and towns across Eastern Massachusetts.

The Capitol Center for the Arts' 2016-17 Lincoln Financial School Series debuts November 2 with New Rep's Classic Repertory Company's production of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter. When Hester Prynne commits an act of adultery, she is isolated and shamed by her community. Wrought with guilt that is veiled by piety, can she reconcile her duty with her desire?