Nikolai Gogol News

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) announces a public play-reading marathon to take place on Saturday, February 25th, at Red Branch Theatre, 9130-I Red Branch Road, Columbia, MD 21045, (410) 997-9352, www.redbranchtheatre.com.

Currently midway through the Shakespeare Theatre Company's celebratory 25th Anniversary Season, Artistic Director Michael Kahn announced today the Company's 2012-2013 Season.

Currently midway through the Shakespeare Theatre Company's celebratory 25th Anniversary Season, Artistic Director Michael Kahn announced today the Company's 2012-2013 Season.

Writers' Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, continues its 20th Anniversary Season with Hesperia by Randall Colburn, directed by Associate Artistic Director Stuart Carden.

Writers' Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, continues its 20th Anniversary Season with Hesperia by Randall Colburn, directed by Associate Artistic Director Stuart Carden.

THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY by Thomas Dekker will be presented Monday November 28 at 7:30pm.

Revelation Readings is an OBIE Award-Winning ongoing series presenting staged readings of new plays and rarely-performed classic texts.

Revelation Readings is an OBIE Award-Winning ongoing series presenting staged readings of new plays and rarely-performed classic texts.

Mashing the 1950s with science fiction in their signature Hyper-theatrical style, Rogue Artists Ensemble creates a uniquely theatrical event using puppetry, live actors, original music and video.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents "The Government Inspector," by Nikolai Gogol and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. The production will run from April 20-24 in the Browning Theatre of Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents "The Government Inspector," by Nikolai Gogol and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. The production will run from April 20-24 in the Browning Theatre of Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

There must be something in the water on campus at Nashville's Belmont University - sure, the theatre and musical theatre faculty's skills are virtually unparalleled, but it's the talent, the quality and the devotion to their craft of the students that truly boggles the mind and is worthy of unbridled and enthusiastic acclaim. You'd have to search far and wide for a more impressive group of student actors who, with director James Al-Shamma's staging of The Government Inspector, have once again proven themselves equal to any theatrical challenge.

It is 1100 BC, in the hill country of Manasseh, west of the Jordan River in Biblical Palestine.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents "The Government Inspector," by Nikolai Gogol and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher. The production will run from April 20-24 in the Browning Theatre of Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road.

It is 1100 BC, in the hill country of Manasseh, west of the Jordan River in Biblical Palestine.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce the company's 20th Anniversary Season, which includes The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, directed by Artistic Director Michael Halberstam; Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, directed by Ron OJ Parson; Hesperia by Randall Colburn, directed by Associate Artistic Director Stuart Carden; and A Little Night Music, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, directed by William Brown. Writers' also presents a limited engagement of Robert Hewett's The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, currently available only to Writers' Theatre Subscribers and Members.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) announces the sixth public reading 'Marathon' of their 30th Season, to take place on Saturday, February 26th at The Strand Theater, 1823 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201. Beginning at 11:00 a.m. five one-acts plays will be read, including Top of the Hour by Kitty Felde, The Rapier and the Rose, and The Unfinished Story, both by Steve Prevosto, The Chick Files by Sharon Goldner, and Protest by Adam Meyer. Each reading will be followed by a discussion of the script with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.

One of Australia's most respected theater companies, Belvoir returns to BAM with the US premiere of The Diary of a Madman, featuring Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush and directed by renowned Belvoir co-founder Neil Armfield. See below for a first look of Rush on stage in the production!

Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector will be the third presentation of the Inaugural Series of EARTh (Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre). Featuring some of the finest professional actors in the Greater Kansas City area, this concert-style stage reading will be presented on Monday, February 21, at 7:30PM in the Music & Art Building on the campus of St. Teresa's Academy/KCYA.

One of Australia's most respected theater companies, Belvoir returns to BAM with the US premiere of The Diary of a Madman, featuring Academy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Geoffrey Rush and directed by renowned Belvoir co-founder Neil Armfield.