Peter Hall News

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Dame Judi Dench has returned to the London stage in a revival of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, which opened at the Haymarket Theatre on April 19th

Sir Peter Hall's production of The Importance of Being Earnest--starring Lynn Redgrave, Miriam Margolyes and more--will come to the Brooklyn Academy of Music from April 18th through May 14th

On March 13th, Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's One-on-One Conversation series featuring directors Doug Huges and Daniel Sullivan

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.

A full program has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival in April

Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 'One-on-One Conversation Series' with Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes (Defiance, Doubt) and Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) with moderator Mandy Greenfield, MTC Director of Artistic Operations, on Monday, March 13 at 6 PM at New York City Center- Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

We Will Rock You closes after four years, Judi Dench's Hay Fever opens with a top price of £60, Evita is officially launched and Caroline or Change plans London run

Dame Judi Dench will headline a London revival of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, which will be directed by Sir Peter Hall and open on April 19th

Chita Rivera, Zoe Caldwell and Susan Stroman will be among the presenters of the Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 30th

On January 15th, Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Ariel Dorfman's The Other Side will end its limited run

THE OTHER SIDE playwright Ariel Dorfman will be featured on WKCRs Composed on the Tongue on Sunday, December 11 from 9 PM 9:30 PM (89.9 FM).

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announce that the World Premiere of MEASURE FOR PLEASURE, a play by David Grimm, will feature Suzanne Bertish, Wayne Knight ('Seinfeld'), Euan Morton (Tony Award-nominee, Taboo), Michael Stuhlbarg (Tony Award-nominee, The Pillowman) and Emily Swallow.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director), by special arrangement with Randall L. Wreghitt, is proud to announce casting for the third production of the Company's 20th Anniversary Season.

On November 10th, the new Ariel Dorfman play The Other Side will being previews at Manhattan Theatre Club

Shakespearean icons such as Laurence Olivier and Judi Dench will be among the actors featured in the RSC's new CD set The Essential Shakespeare--Live

From November 25th through December 31st, the London hit His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley in the Zam Zam Room will run off-Broadway

According to the New York Times, William Forsythe's new dance company will debut with Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' as part of BAM's Spring Season.