Rachel Corrie News

New Repertory Theatre and arsenalARTS join forces to present A Christmas Story. A Christmas Story is adapted/written by Philip Grecian and will be directed by Diego Arciniegas.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/16 for Los Angeles

Film and television star Jerry O'Connell, now in rehearsals to make his Broadway debut in the World Premiere of Alan Rickman starring in the new comedy SEMINAR by Theresa Rebeck, will co-host 'Live! with Regis and Kelly' this Thursday morning, October 13.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 10/02 for Los Angeles

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way. Melora Marshall and Chad Jason Scheppner alternate as the thrilling schemer audiences love to hate in William Shakespeare's Richard III, closing October 2 at the outdoor Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.

The Farm marks Walt McGough's first production at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. A graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Boston University, Walt's plays have been performed at Boston's Orfeo Group, the Sideshow Theatre Company of Chicago, Chicago Dramatists, Nu Sass Productions in Washington, DC, and Chicago's Second City.

Producers Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith and Roy Furman have announced the on-sale Ticketing schedule for two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman (Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise) making his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Peabody Award winner Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy, Omnium Gatherum, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, NBC's upcoming 'Smash'). Directed by acclaimed Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Tigers Be Still, Kin, The Coward) in his Broadway debut, the production will also star Tony Award nominee Lily Rabe (The Merchant of Venice, Steel Magnolias, this summer's lauded A Doll's House at Williamstown) and Obie Award winner Hamish Linklater (The School for Lies, Twelfth Night, 'The New Adventures of Old Christine'). SEMINAR will begin previews on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at The Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street) with an Opening Night set for Sunday, November 20 at 6:30 PM.

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum inaugurates its second performance space with a controversial one-woman play that has become a flashpoint for opposing viewpoints about Israel's presence in the Gaza strip.

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum inaugurates its second performance space with a controversial one-woman play that has become a flashpoint for opposing viewpoints about Israel's presence in the Gaza strip.

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way.

Producers Jeffrey Finn and Jill Furman announced today that two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman (Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise) will make his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, a new play by Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy, Omnium Gatherum, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, NBC's upcoming 'Smash'). Directed by acclaimed Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Tigers Be Still, Kin, The Coward) in his Broadway debut, the production will open at a Shubert Theatre to be announced this Fall 2011.

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will conclude its 2010/2011 'Wait Til You See This!' Second Stage Season with Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner's My Name Is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the diary of the young American activist.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. Theatricum Botanicum's 2011 Summer Repertory Season treats us to the most notorious characters everyone loves to hate.

The Green Room Awards took place at The Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne last night, and global favorite MARY POPPINS led the night with a total of nine awards out of its twelve nominations. Yana Alana and the Paranas in Concert, a cabaret production, was a close second for total awards with six out of eight cabaret awards.

Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre has announced the artistic team behind the upcoming world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly), which begins performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011. And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year.

As we move beyond the beginning of Daylight Savings Time and the Ides of March, I trust that you will be wanting to avail yourself of some of the wonderful productions that are currently playing (or soon will be) at the numerous theatre and live performance venues that we have here on the beautiful California Central Coast!