Octavio Solis News

PlayGround, the incubator for the next generation of Bay Area playwrights, announces its annual Benefit & Awards Night at American Conservatory Theater on Monday, April 6th, 2009, with special guests Octavio Solis and Jasson Minadakis. A tribute to the outstanding playwrights of PlayGround, the evening features an intimate discussion with Solis and Minadakis and the presentation of the 2009 Emerging Playwright Awards, June Anne Baker Prize, and PlayGround Fellowship. Attendees will also be treated to a reception, silent auction, and dinner.

Center Theatre Group's production of 'Lydia' by Octavio Solis opens at the Mark Taper Forum April 15, and continues through May 17, 2009. Previews begin April 2.

PlayGround, San Francisco's incubator for the next generation of playwrights, caps off its 2008-09 season with The Best of PlayGround 13: A Festival of New Writers & New Plays. The festival presents seven 10-minute plays selected from the 36 works developed as part of the season's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Marin Theatre Company is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Lydia by award-winning San Francisco playwright Octavio Solis.

Marin Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of award-winning Bay Area playwright Octavio Solis's new work, Lydia, March 19 through April 12, 2009. The play will be directed by Jasson Minadakis.

Marin Theatre Company is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Lydia by award-winning San Francisco playwright Octavio Solis.

Marin Theatre Company is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Lydia by award-winning San Francisco playwright Octavio Solis.

The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (Stanley Williams, Artistic Director; Quentin Easter, Executive Director) are pleased to announce casting for their co-production of The West Coast Premiere of The Story. 'A riveting drama about race, reporting and the truth'-Associated Press

Lydia by Octavio Solis Directed by Jasson Minadakis Featuring Wilma Bonet, Elias Escobedo, Gloria Garayua, Adriana Gaviria, David Pintado, Luis Saguar & Lakin Valdez March 19 through April 12, 2009 Previews: Thursday, March 19 through Sunday, March 22

The cast is set and rehearsals have begun for Center Theatre Group's production of 'Lydia' by Octavio Solis. This powerful and passionate new play opens at the Mark Taper Forum April 15, and continues through May 17, 2009. Previews begin April 2.

Marin Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of award-winning Bay Area playwright Octavio Solis's new work, Lydia, March 19 through April 12, 2009. The play will be directed by Jasson Minadakis.

Yale Repertory Theatre?s east coast premiere of Octavio Solis?s searing new play, LYDIA, directed by Juliette Carrillo, opened to rave reviews last week and continues through Saturday, February 28.

PlayGround, the incubator for the next generation of Bay Area playwrights, announces its annual Benefit & Awards Night at American Conservatory Theater on Monday, April 6th, 2009, with special guests Octavio Solis and Jasson Minadakis. A tribute to the outstanding playwrights of PlayGround, the evening features an intimate discussion with Solis and Minadakis and the presentation of the 2009 Emerging Playwright Awards, June Anne Baker Prize, and PlayGround Fellowship. Attendees will also be treated to a reception, silent auction, and dinner.

The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 74th year the weekend of February 20-22 and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Elizabethan Stage. In honor of that milestone, OSF is dedicating the 2009 season to principal theatre and scenic designer, Richard L. Hay, acknowledging his creative work that spans more than 50 years at OSF and includes the design of all three theatre spaces, beginning with the current Elizabethan Stage in 1959, half a century ago.

Martin McDonagh?s dark comedy ?The Lieutenant of Inishmore,? originally scheduled as the fourth production of Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum?s 2009 season, will be postponed to the Taper?s 2010 season, it was announced today by CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. There will be no production in the Taper in July and August.

The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (Stanley Williams, Artistic Director; Quentin Easter, Executive Director) are pleased to announce casting for their co-production of The West Coast Premiere of The Story. 'A riveting drama about race, reporting and the truth'-Associated Press

The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 74th year the weekend of February 20-22 and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Elizabethan Stage. In honor of that milestone, OSF is dedicating the 2009 season to principal theatre and scenic designer, Richard L. Hay, acknowledging his creative work that spans more than 50 years at OSF and includes the design of all three theatre spaces, beginning with the current Elizabethan Stage in 1959, half a century ago. 'I am deeply moved as I reflect on the achievement and commitment of our extraordinary theater artist, Richard Hay,' OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch said, 'whose dedication to our artform and to OSF is an inspiration to all of us. The remarkable spaces he designed allow for a connection between actors and audiences that make OSF's theater experience unique and richly satisfying. And he remains an unstoppable creative force, designing scenery for two world premiere adaptations this season: The Servant of Two Masters and Don Quixote.' The 2009 season opens at 8:00 p.m. Friday, February 20, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre on the battlefields of Scotland with William Shakespeare's tragic play, Macbeth, directed by guest artist Gale Edwards. On Saturday, February 21 at 1:30 p.m. in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, theatergoers will have the opportunity to see the rarely produced Death and the King's Horseman,, written by Nigeria's Nobel Laureate playwright Wole Soyinka and directed by Goodman Theatre resident artist Chuck Smith. At 8:00 p.m. that evening, audiences will be treated to Meredith Willson's classic American musical The Music Man, directed by Rauch.

Yale Repertory Theatre?s east coast premiere of Octavio Solis?s searing new play, LYDIA, directed by Juliette Carrillo, opened to rave reviews last week and continues through Saturday, February 28.

Reading of a new adaptation of 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown', written by Dick Scanlan and directed by Kathleen Marshall, featured at the Colorado New Play Summit.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater announces the extension of the company's current production of Mar?a Irene Forn?s's poetic and penetrating MUD. MUD will extend for an additional week of performance, playing now through February 15 at the Cutting Ball Theater in residence at Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor Street in San Francisco. For tickets ($15-30) and more information, the public may visit cuttingball.com or call 800-838-3006. It is 1973 and Mae has just begun to learn how to read; things finally seem to be taking a turn for the better. As she tries to rise above her humble Midwestern origins, Mae must keep the two men in her life, foster brother and former lover Lloyd, and new boyfriend Henry, from dragging her back down. Little does Mae know that the first strong decision she's ever made about her life may be the last decision she will ever make. 'After spending two weeks at the Dialog Festival in Wroclaw, Poland last year, I came back to San Francisco with a new idea about what really good and interesting theater ought to be,' said MUD director Paige Rogers. 'The sense of humanness I experienced, where the audience breathes along with the performance, is such an elemental aspect of theater and something I feel Cutting Ball can give its audience in its new performance space. I am directing Fornes' MUD with this idea, that less is more, and I believe that each audience member will take away something personal and different that will stay with them for a long time.'