The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 2008 Season with 'Amadeus' by Peter Shaffer. 'Amadeus' begins performances on May 28th and continues through June 22nd and features Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli in the role of Salieri.
EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE and PAUL ADAMS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR present ONE MAN TALKING for a one-week only engagement at Roy Arias Theatre Center, Off-Off Broadway Theatre (300 West 43rd St, 5th floor, NYC). The festival is curated by EAT members, William Reinking and Tom Greenman. Performances begin Tuesday, May 20, 2008, and run through Sunday, May 25, 2008.
New York's Premier Latino Theater Festival Returns for 2nd Season TeatroStageFest June 2 -15. Featuring 8 international productions, concerts and comedy, family theater with appearances by John Leguizamo, Chicago star Bianca Marroquín, Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria, Marga Gomez, Graciela Daniele, Lin-Manuel Miranda, LAByrinth Theater Company & much more.
The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) is pleased to announce the San Francisco Premiere of Bug by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Tracy Letts (August: Osage County, Killer Joe) will be directed by Jon Tracy.
T. SCHREIBER STUDIO is pleased to announce their double-bill production of THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE and THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, directed by Peter Jensen. THE ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE and THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND will play a 6-week limited engagement at the Gloria Maddox Theater at T. Schreiber Studio (151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor). Performances begin Thursday, May 8th and continue through Sunday, June 15th. Press are invited starting Friday, May 16th at 8 p.m.
Martin's intriguing exploration of two great minds meeting remains, however, lowbrow humor that begins to wear thin, especially so during a time traveling Elvis character (Cyrus Alexander) plunking into the bar to further play up the contrasts of creativity. There is enough to laugh about in Picasso at the Lapin Agile to keep audiences pleased, and thanks to Martin, also slightly engaged in the argument...
Joseph Ruskin and Jacqueline Schultz star in Israel Horovitz's humorous and poignant pas-de-deux, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard, at International City Theatre. Hope Alexander directs the four-week run at ICT's home in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, May 2 through May 25. Low-priced previews begin April 29.
It was announced today that the Pulitzer Prize Board has awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts' critically-acclaimed American play August: Osage County.
One of America's most widely produced playwright's, Jeffrey Hatcher, blends fiction with fact in the provocative and witty A Picasso. This play is in the fourth show slot and will run January 24-Febuary 22, 2009.
Heavy ticket demand has prompted Urban Stages to extend its hilarious drawing room musical,
27 Rue de Fleurus, for two weeks through Sunday, April 13th. Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein are
delighting audiences with wit and one-up(wo)manship in repartee and song as they confront each other about
love, marriage, jealousy, genius and other delicious topics... Add into the salon Pablo Picasso, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge, Sylvia Beach and the smashing Jean Harlow, and you have a highly memorable and
amusing night of theatre.
Unlike most of the stage works about Gertrude and Alice, 27 RUE DE FLEURUS is told from Alice's point of view
as 'her muse.' When Gertrude becomes embarrassed by Alice's revealing tell-all, she attempts to hijack the
play as only the author of such lines as 'sugar is not a vegetable' can. But Alice has secrets to share with
the audience that silence the famously verbose Gertrude. Quelle surprise!
Critical reviews have praised Frances Hill's 'smart direction,' the 'strong performances' of the cast (New
York Times), as well as 'luscious' costumes by Carrie Robbins (Variety). Curtain Up says, ' Add this small
charmer to this season's cornucopia of off-beat new musicals,' and Theatermania declared, 'Director Frances
Hill's production has a zest that matches the unbridled creativity of the creators, unfolding on a handsome
scenic design from Roman Tatarowicz, who's created a surreal white salon with skewed walls that's backed by a
series of overlapping frames into which Alex Koch's collage-like video is projected. It's the perfect canvas
for this haphazard look into Toklas and Stein's world.' The critically acclaimed cast includes Cheryl Stern as
Alice, Barbara Rosenblat as Gertrude, and Sarah Chalfy, Susan Haefner and Emily Zacharias in various celebrity
parts. John Bell is Musical Director.
ARTSHOW. During the run of the show, photographs and other artworks from the Gertrude and Alice collection of
San Francisco collector Hans Gallas are on display in the theater lobby. Gallas coordinated events around the
world last year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the meeting of Gertrude and Alice on Alice's first day
in Paris. Works exhibited include original Carl Van Vechten photographs, wood-block prints, caricatures, and
mixed media pieces created by artists from around the world. Gertrude and Alice have been the subjects of
visual artists from the beginning of the 20th century and continue to inspire artists in all media.
Urban Stages produces new plays with themes that reflect our diverse society. Their most recent productions
were the critically acclaimed Oxford Roof Climbers Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte, Marion Bridge by Daniel
MacIvor, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Bulrusher by Eisa Davis and Apostasy by Gino DiIorio.
Since 1983, director Frances Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings and workshops, plus over 75
productions of new work for the stage. Recent directing credits include Jim Lehrer's Chili Queen (Urban Stages
and The Kennedy Center), John C. Picardi's Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (Urban Stages and Capital
Rep), Comfort Women by Chungmi Kim and last season's Apostasy by Gino DiIorio. As Artistic Director of Urban
Stages, she has moved two plays to commercial off-Broadway runs: Minor Demons and Men on the Verge of a
His-Panic Breakdown, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award.
SCHEDULE for 27 RUE DE FLEURUS: Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8PM, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at
3PM. Tickets are $40.00; all Wednesday performances are specially priced at $25. Tickets may be purchased by
calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at www.urbanstages.org. There will be talkbacks every Wednesday
and Saturday night, check www.urbanstages.org for schedule of speakers.
27 RUE DE FLEURUS
A New Musical; Book and lyrics by Ted Sod, music and lyrics by Lisa Koch; Directed by Frances Hill
At Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street (between 7th and 8th avenues)
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8PM, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3PM.
TICKETS: $40; College and High School Students, $15; Half-Price Wednesdays: All seats $25.00
EXTENDED! NOW THROUGH APRIL 13th
Call 212-868-4444, or order online at www.urbanstages.org
The newest edition of the American Theatre Wing's 'Working in the Theatre' will feature 'Steppenwolf: From Chicago to Osage County' on CUNY TV on Sunday, March 23 at 5 p.m. The segment will repeat on Friday, March 28 at 9 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 29 at 11 a.m. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast from www.americantheatrewing.org, as well as iTunes, beginning Wednesday afternoon, March 26.
Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage the delicious comedy Time of My Life by Alan Ayckbourn, reuniting author, director and cast members from one of last season's biggest hits, Relatively Speaking.
Urban Stages is pleased to announce the final production of their 2007/2008 season: 27 Rue de Fleurus, a new musical derived from the imagination of Alice B. Toklas. Alice tries to set the record straight about being Gertrude Stein's 'wife' for nearly 40 years. 27 Rue de Fleurus will be directed by Urban Stages Artistic Director Frances Hill. Performances will be at 259 West 30th Street (between 7th and 8th). Previews will begin on Saturday, March 1st with the opening date scheduled for Thursday, March 6th and will run through Sunday, April 6th.
The Night of the Iguana will play a 6-week limited engagement at the Gloria Maddox Theater at T. Schreiber Studio (151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor). Performances begin Thursday, February 21 and continue through Sunday, March 30.
Barrington Stage Company presents the Berkshire Area premiere of Trumbo from February 14 through 24. Starring Thom Christopher and Brian Hutchison, with direction by Julianne Boyd, this stirring drama about the famous blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo will have a press opening on Saturday, February 16 at 8PM.
The original concept album cast recording of the new musical The New Picasso is now available for purchase online at CDBaby.com and BlackForestProductions.com. The cast recording is selling as 2 albums ('Act One' and 'Act Two') for $14.98 each and shipping worldwide. Both concept albums are also currently available for digital download at CDBaby and Amazon with further availability online.
