Quintana News

New Theatre presents its final production of the 2008-2009 Season, Mauritius, making its Southeastern Premiere, by Pulitzer Prize nominated Theresa Rebeck, running April 16 - May 17, 2009.

In one of the most exciting theater events of the current season, The Year of Magical Thinking, the stage adaptation of Joan Didion's bestselling memoir, has its Connecticut premiere at TheaterWorks. One of the true luminaries of American theater, Annalee Jefferies, stars in this recent Broadway hit, which will be directed by Steve Campo. The production runs April 17 through May 24, 2009 at TheaterWorks in downtown Hartford's City Arts on Pearl at 233 Pearl Street. (The play opens to press Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m.)

TheaterWorks presents acclaimed actor Annalee Jefferies in the Connecticut premiere of The Year of Magical Thinking, the stage adaptation of Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of the same name. In this Broadway hit, audiences journey back over the year when Didion abruptly lost her husband, Hartford native John Gregory Dunne, and their beloved daughter Quintana Roo. Applying her fiercely logical brain to a situation that defied logic, Didion's words lead us on a quiet exploration of that 'magical year' when grief came to call and hope was around the corner. The production, featuring area favorite Annalee Jefferies (Hartford Stage's A Streetcar Named Desire and 2003 Connecticut Critics Circle Award winner for The Night of the Iguana), is directed by TheaterWorks' artistic director, Steve Campo.

TheaterWorks Harford is set to premiere The Year of Magical Thinking.The show, based on Joan Didion's memoir is directed by Steve Campo and stars Annalee Jeffries. It will be performed April 17 through May 24, 2009.

New Theatre presents its second classic of the season with Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, running February 26 - March 29, 2009. Tennessee Williams' most lyrical and powerful memory play about the Wingfield family, THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the great masterpieces of American drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play.

The Lyric Stage continues its exciting 2008-2009 season as 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' follows the just closed Boston premiere of 'The Year of Magical Thinking'

New Theatre presents its first World Premiere of the season with Andrew Case's thriller, The Rant making its World debut on October 2, 2008. An investigator assigned to the murder case of a 16 year old African American boy shot and killed by an NYPD police officer must wade through prejudice, deceit, and a volley of anonymous threats to find out where culpability and truth really lies.

Just as everyone deals with the grief of the loss of a loved one in their own personal way, I imagine individual reactions to this stage adaptation of Joan Didion's memoir recounting her own grieving process after the loss of her husband, will be quite varied and, ultimately, personal.

Click in for reviews of The Year of Magical Thinking, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, Will Power: How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days, Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws in The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters, WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination, George Gershwin: His Life and Work, The Great American Mousical, Notebooks, Elizabeth and Kate: The Woman That Was Hepburn.

A theatre, opening dates and a creative team have been set for the upcoming Broadway production of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, starring the previously-announced Vanessa Redgrave

Christina Fragola's new play It Isn't the Moon will have its world premiere on June 14th at Manhattan Source Theatre, where it will run through June 29th

Tony Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave will star in the Broadway-bound stage adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's bestselling memoir of loss, grief and healing

The New York Times reports that the bestseller written by Joan Didion is being adapted by the author for stage, and is expected on Broadway in Spring 2007.