Due to rights issues, Flux Theatre Ensemble will not be producing Archibald MacLeish's play, J.B. as previously planned. In its place, Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB'S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B. Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux's planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.
The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE) announces publication of Plays and Playwrights 2010. This is the eleventh volume in NYTE's annual series of anthologies of new plays by never-before-published playwrights.
Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer of Spring Awakening Fame Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.
As Taproot Theatre Company celebrates the successful opening of Brooklyn Boy in its Greenwood playhouse, it looks back at a year of successes, trials and records in 2009. From its work on the Mainstage and Acting Studio to the shows it took on the road to schools across the Pacific Northwest, the year marked a memorable time in Taproot Theatre's history, and one packed with thanksgiving. Though the year drew near to a close with an arson next door that caused extensive damage to the theatre, Taproot exhibited grace in difficulty and moved forward without missing a beat. Here are some of the highlights of 2009.
It was announced Thursday evening that The Jungle Fun Room, Brian Hampton's comedy about struggling actors working children's parties at the zoo will open Studio Player's 2010-2011 season in Lexington, Kentucky September 16 - October 10.
Making its Midwest premiere in the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. and Dr. Bob is an inspirational, gripping and timely story about the men and their wives whose relationships pioneered the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous and the creation of Al-Anon.
Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter and composer of Spring Awakening Fame Duncan Sheik returns with his new album WHISPER HOUSE, from Sony Music. WHISPER HOUSE marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of Spring Awakening. WHISPER HOUSE, which will have its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in January 2010, is a collaboration with up-and-coming young playwright Kyle Jarrow, already an Obie winner for A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant.
Crossing cultures and performance styles, Central Square Theater unveils its third and most dynamic season yet, featuring a World Premiere musical, a Haitian folktale by Derek Walcott, a beautiful trilogy about the Israel-Palestine conflict, and a classic by Eugene O'Neill.
'The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour' invites you to BRING A FRIEND OF A DIFFERENT RACE & GET IN 2FOR1!!! The show is written and performed by W. Kamau Bell and directed by Paul Stein.
Zig thought he could talk his way out of anything. That is, until he met Rose. Now he finds himself locked away, playing a very dangerous game. Welcome to The Tender Mercies, where the only difference between wordplay and a war game is a weapon.
AND SHE SAID, HE SAID, I SAID YES, which premiered to sold out houses at HERE Arts Center last summer in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, returns to the stage re-imagined and revised for a special one-night only performance at Joe's Pub on Monday, April 19th at 10pm.
Dan Butler (best known as Bulldog on 'Frasier'), Roderick Hill (Butley on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane), Scott Jaeck ('Charmed'), Brian Leahy ('The Junior League of Superheroes'), and Austin Peck ('Days of Our Lives') star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Martin Casella's acclaimed comedy THE IRISH CURSE at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street (between Avenue of the Americas & Varick Street), opening Sunday, March 28th. Matt Lenz directs.
Dan Butler (best known as Bulldog on 'Frasier'), Roderick Hill (Butley on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane), Scott Jaeck ('Charmed'), Brian Leahy ('The Junior League of Superheroes'), and Austin Peck ('Days of Our Lives') star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Martin Casella's acclaimed comedy THE IRISH CURSE at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street (between Avenue of the Americas & Varick Street), opening Sunday, March 28th. Matt Lenz directs.
After a successful premiere aboard the Manhattan-docked Steamship Lilac, THE REPORT OF MY DEATH sets out to follow the equator, re-creating Twain's international lecture tour from over a century ago.
ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's exploratory play reading series, in which contemporary playwrights are asked to riff on the themes connected to the mainstage production.
Due to rights issues, Flux Theatre Ensemble will not be producing Archibald MacLeish's play, J.B. as previously planned. In its place, Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB'S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B. Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux's planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.
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