Paula Vogel News

Soho Rep announces staged readings of four new plays by contemporary Black-British Playwrights to run in conjunction with the U.S. Premiere of debbie tucker green's BORN BAD, set to open at Soho Rep on April 7, 2011.

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO performs Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., with matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street) on Broadway. Here's a first look at photos from the production!

Mark Blum, Michael Stahl-David, Donna Hanover, Tom Lipinski and Liz Stauber comprise the cast of Christopher Shinn's play PICKED -- being given its world-premiere production by the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.), with previews starting April 6 prior to its official opening night on April 20. Michael Wilson directs. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the meet and greet and brings you photo coverage below!

Single Carrot Theatre presents The Long Christmas Ride Home by Pulitzer Prize winner and Maryland native Paula Vogel. Told in part through puppetry and set on the outskirts of Washington D.C. (inside the Beltway) we follow the journey of a family on their annual Christmas trek and explores the age-old question Why does my family suck so much?

A cast of Broadway veterans will converge on a small Kansas town April 13 to perform a new musical comedy by Sheldon Harnick, co-creator of "Fiddler on the Roof."

Three seasons after staging THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, Single Carrot Theatre returns to the memory-world of Paula Vogel in a haunting production of THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER.

The first preview of Tony Kushner's THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL'S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES has been postponed a day to provide the cast and crew with an additional dress rehearsal. The production will now begin performances on Wednesday, March 23 at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street). The production is presented by The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) and Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) in association with the Guthrie Theater (Joe Dowling, Director). Michael Greif, who directed the world premiere at the Guthrie in April 2009, directs the New York premiere, which opens on Thursday, May 5 and runs through June 12.

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO has just annouced their general rush policies for the Broadway run. Effective immediately, 21 orchestra seats for $27 will be available by lottery for every performance of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.).

Single Carrot Theatre presents The Long Christmas Ride Home by Pulitzer Prize winner and Maryland native Paula Vogel. Told in part through puppetry and set on the outskirts of Washington D.C. (inside the Beltway) we follow the journey of a family on their annual Christmas trek and explores the age-old question Why does my family suck so much?

Single Carrot Theatre presents The Long Christmas Ride Home by Pulitzer Prize winner and Maryland native Paula Vogel.

To create discourse about sex and age, Brava Theater presents The Oldest Profession, written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive, Baltimore Waltz). Directed by Brava Company Member Evren Odcikin and musical arrangements by Angela Dwyer, this production recognizes the awareness of women playwrights and the men that support them. Vogel's commentary on aging and sex will come to life during Women's History Month and in correlation with Support Women Arts Now (SWAN) DAY on March 26th. The Oldest Profession runs March 12th through April 9th (press opening, Monday, March 14th) at Brava Theater in San Francisco's historic Mission District (2781 24th Street at York). For tickets ($10-25) and information, the public can call the Brava Theater Box Office at 415-647-2822 or visit www.brava.org.

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, featuring the talents of Robin Williams, begins previews tonight, March 11, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.). The show officially opens on March 31.

South Coast Repertory's 14th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will take you through time and across the map, from tornado-tossed Kansas to not-quite-past, not-quite-future London, from a ramshackle trailer in the Colorado desert to the visiting area of a Massachusetts prison.

Muddy Waters Theatre opens their season devoted to playwright Paula Vogel with her OBIE award-winning work, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, a play best described as a kind of farcical fever dream that satirizes AIDS hysteria. It was apparently written as a sort of literary 'AIDS quilt' that allowed Vogel to deal with the loss of someone close to her. Any play that can somehow corral together a slide show of downtown Baltimore, a shout out to John Waters, and a urine drinking scene is certainly interesting entertainment in my book.

Mark Blum, Michael Stahl-David, Donna Hanover, Tom Lipinski and Liz Stauber will comprise the cast of Christopher Shinn's play PICKED -- being given its world-premiere production by the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.), with previews starting April 6 prior to its official opening night on April 20 -- it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, the Vineyard's artistic director. Michael Wilson will direct.

This production of THE BALTIMORE WALTZ features Kate Frisina as Anna who contracts Acquired Toilet Disease (ATD) - a non-contagious but fatal disease - as she romps through Europe on an imaginary 'sexcapade' with her brother Carl, played by Stephen Peirick. Along the way they encounter the mysterious Third Man, played by DJ Sanders, who also manages in his first St. Louis stage appearance in 15 years to transform into a doctor and a number of other characters. The Obie Award-winning play, described by Vogel as about relationships, is a comic, melancholic and loving tribute to her own brother Carl. Jerry McAdams directs.

This production of THE BALTIMORE WALTZ features Kate Frisina as Anna who contracts Acquired Toilet Disease (ATD) - a non-contagious but fatal disease - as she romps through Europe on an imaginary 'sexcapade' with her brother Carl, played by Stephen Peirick. Along the way they encounter the mysterious Third Man, played by DJ Sanders, who also manages in his first St. Louis stage appearance in 15 years to transform into a doctor and a number of other characters. The Obie Award-winning play, described by Vogel as about relationships, is a comic, melancholic and loving tribute to her own brother Carl. Jerry McAdams directs.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced Katori Hall as the winner of its prestigious playwriting award, now celebrating its thirty-third year. The Houston-based Prize received the 2010 Theatre Communications Group's National Funder Award. The annual honor goes to a company, foundation or other entity for 'leadership and sustained national support of theater in America.

The Kennedy Center's national tour of Barrio Grrrl! will make a stop at Children's Theatre Company, between March 2 and March 27, 2011. Written by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights), Barrio Grrrl! is the story of Ana and her tenacious sidekick Amazing Voice. A pop musical bursting with color and energy, Barrio Grrrl! celebrates Latino culture and music through the eyes of a spunky nine year-old girl and her alter ego, Barrio Grrrl!

Audiences and critics on both coasts embraced Eurydice and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), two shows steeped in longing from playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters. Now this talented team turns its attention to a fresh translation of a masterpiece: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Ruhl enlivens this classic with the same elegant understanding of intimacy that infused those earlier collaborations, while Waters and a cast of 14 deliver another sumptuous production. This West Coast premiere begins previews on Berkeley Rep's intimate Thrust Stage on April 8, opens April 13, and runs through May 22. Three Sisters is a co-production between Berkeley Rep, where Waters serves as associate artistic director, and Yale Repertory Theatre.