Peter Weiss News

Carolina Actor's Studio Theatre's fall slate features late night improv and sketch comedy along with productions of MASTER CLASS and MARAT/SADE

Dario D'Ambrosi, an Italian auteur of theater and film, has created an original genre of live performance to be called 'The Drive-In Stage' and will inaugurate it July 6, 7 and 8 with the world premiere of his hour-long thriller, 'Night Lights.'

Dario D'Ambrosi, an Italian auteur of theater and film, has created an original genre of live performance to be called 'The Drive-In Stage' and will inaugurate it July 6, 7 and 8 with the world premiere of his hour-long thriller, 'Night Lights.'

THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES is set in a rural community in the backwoods of America where escape and fantasy substitute for hope: a tattered bond holds together Veronica, a 13-year-old girl who survives on a dream-life filled with Rosemary Clooney and Veronica Lake, and her mother, who dulls the pain of work at a slaughterhouse with booze and meth. As Veronica develops a dubious crush on a tattooed boy from study hall, and her mother invites a mysterious stranger into their ramshackle home, the cycles of dependency become increasingly dangerous and holding the world at bay may prove impossible.

THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES ? a new play by Colin McKenna ? will debut Off-Broadway with previews beginning Sunday, March 15 prior to its official press opening on Thursday, March 19 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in Manhattan.

THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES is set in a rural community in the backwoods of America where escape and fantasy substitute for hope: a tattered bond holds together Veronica, a 13-year-old girl who survives on a dream-life filled with Rosemary Clooney and Veronica Lake, and her mother, who dulls the pain of work at a slaughterhouse with booze and meth. As Veronica develops a dubious crush on a tattooed boy from study hall, and her mother invites a mysterious stranger into their ramshackle home, the cycles of dependency become increasingly dangerous and holding the world at bay may prove impossible.

THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES ? a new play by Colin McKenna ? will debut Off-Broadway with previews beginning Sunday, March 15 prior to its official press opening on Thursday, March 19 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in Manhattan.

Take a look inside Urwintore theatre company's world-renowned production of Peter Weiss's The Investigation, directed by Dorcy Rugamba, Monday Feb 2 at 6:30 pm. The Investigation is a compelling reconstruction of the Frankfurt war crimes trials concerning the role of German citizens in the atrocities of Auschwitz. Performed in Kinyarwanda (with English subtitles), Weiss's 1965 play about the German Holocaust takes on universal power as it becomes a conceit for the horrifying genocide that destroyed Rwanda in 1994. Presented with the support of Peak Performances@Montclair State University (www.peakperfs.org). Full production at MSU's Alexander Kasser Theater February 5-8, 2009.

Take a look inside Urwintore theatre company's world-renowned production of Peter Weiss's The Investigation, directed by Dorcy Rugamba, Monday Feb 2 at 6:30 pm. The Investigation is a compelling reconstruction of the Frankfurt war crimes trials concerning the role of German citizens in the atrocities of Auschwitz. Performed in Kinyarwanda (with English subtitles), Weiss's 1965 play about the German Holocaust takes on universal power as it becomes a conceit for the horrifying genocide that destroyed Rwanda in 1994. Presented with the support of Peak Performances@Montclair State University (www.peakperfs.org). Full production at MSU's Alexander Kasser Theater February 5-8, 2009.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will hold a panel discussion on Urwintore's presentation of Peter Weiss's The Investigation with writer Stephen Kinzer (A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It), scholar and educator Elliot Lefkovitz (Am Yisrael congregation and Spertus Institute), scholar D. Soyini Madison (Performance Studies at Northwestern University), and writer and Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival Lawrence Weschler.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) recently announced two additions to the 2008/09 World's Stage Series, its international programming initiative.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will hold a panel discussion on Urwintore's presentation of Peter Weiss's The Investigation with writer Stephen Kinzer (A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It), scholar and educator Elliot Lefkovitz (Am Yisrael congregation and Spertus Institute), scholar D. Soyini Madison (Performance Studies at Northwestern University), and writer and Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival Lawrence Weschler.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) international programming initiative, the World's Stage Series, brings to Chicago world-renowned playwright Peter Weiss's The Investigation, based on transcripts of the 1964 Frankfurt World War II crimes trials.

Chicago Shakespeare opens three shows in the month of January reflecting the Theater's diverse programming. Artistic Director Barbara Gaines stages Macbeth in the Courtyard Theater, January 2-March 8, 2009; CST's World's Stage international program initiative, presents a company from Rwanda performing The Investigation in the Theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, January 21-31, 2009; and CST welcomes families to the theater with an abridged production of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream, January 24-March 7, 2009, on Saturdays in the Courtyard Theater.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) international programming initiative, the World's Stage Series, brings to Chicago world-renowned playwright Peter Weiss's The Investigation, based on transcripts of the 1964 Frankfurt World War II crimes trials.

Chicago Shakespeare opens three shows in the month of January reflecting the Theater's diverse programming. Artistic Director Barbara Gaines stages Macbeth in the Courtyard Theater, January 2-March 8, 2009; CST's World's Stage international program initiative, presents a company from Rwanda performing The Investigation in the Theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, January 21-31, 2009; and CST welcomes families to the theater with an abridged production of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream, January 24-March 7, 2009, on Saturdays in the Courtyard Theater.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) recently announced two additions to the 2008/09 World's Stage Series, its international programming initiative.

Dr. Bonnie Maslin and Dr. Yehuda Nir will host a party for The Classical Theatre of Harlem at their East Hampton home on Sunday, August 17.

An excellent acting ensemble is featured in The Classical Theatre of Harlem's thrillingly disturbing environmental production of Peter Weiss' drama.

Curt Dempster, Founding Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre, was found dead at his home in New York City today (January 19, 2007). The cause remains undetermined at this time.