Rehearsals begin today for Goodman Theatre's world-premiere production of The Long Red Road by Brett C. Leonard, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, February 13 - March 14, 2010 in the Goodman's Owen Theatre.
Extant Arts Company (Greg Taubman, Artistic Director) opens its season with a revival of Rebecca Gilman's melancholy romance Blue Surge January 21 through February 7, 2010 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street).
MCC Theater will present Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, under the direction of Joe Mantello (Glengarry GLen Ross, Take Me Out) in a limited engagement at the Lucille Lortel Theatre from January 27 through March 20. Opening Night is February 16. The show's stars, Hugh Dancy (Adam, Journey's End), Andrea Riseborough (Happy Go Lucky), Ben Whishaw (Bright Star, Brideshead Revisited), and Adam James(Last Chance Harvey) met the press yesterday as they gear up for the start of productions in a few weeks. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you the shots here!
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for not for profit professional theatre, is pleased to announce that in 2009, twenty-seven Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards were granted to theatres around the country.
To celebrate the brave men and women in the armed forces, Goodman Theatre provides more than 550 free tickets to its closing day performance of A Christmas Carol on Thursday, December 31 at 2pm.
Michael Riedel is reporting in today's New York Post that Brian Dennehy might be headed back to Broadway in a double bill of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape, which is set to run at the Goodman's Albert Theatre in Chicago from January 16 - February 21, 2010.
To celebrate the brave men and women in the armed forces, Goodman Theatre provides more than 550 free tickets to its closing day performance of A Christmas Carol on Thursday, December 31 at 2pm.
Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls, acclaimed Canadian director Jennifer Tarver and celebrated star Brian Dennehy team up again for a Broadway-bound double bill, Hughie/Krapp's Last Tape; January 16- February 21, 2010 in the Goodman's Albert Ivar Theatre. Tickets are $25 - $83 and go on sale Friday, November 13 at GoodmanTheatre.org.
Goodman Theatre is proud to announce the Krapp's Last Tape Artists Talk as part of the new 2010 Series connecting theater audiences with the artists who bring productions to life at the Goodman.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, and The Acting Company Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley have announced that The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, written by Rebecca Gilman, based on the novel by Carson McCullers, directed by Doug Hughes, will begin performances Friday, November 13, 2009, at 7pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.
Brand-new plays from six contemporary, diverse voices of the American theater come together for two weekends in Goodman Theatre's 2009 New Stages Series, December 11 - 20, 2009. The series of script-in-hand staged readings takes place in the Goodman's Owen Theatre and is open to the public.
Annette Bening, who plays the famed feminist in playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy The Female of the Species, will be sharing the Geffen Playhouse stage with a diverse group of acclaimed actors: David Arquette (Scream, Never Been Kissed), Tony Award nominee Mireille Enos (Big Love, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway), Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie), Julian Sands (A Room with a View, Boxing Helena) and Josh Stamberg (Drop Dead Diva). The production is helmed by Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney and begins in previews on February 2 with an official opening night of Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
Goodman Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's The Long Red Road directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, February 13 - March 14, 2010 in the Goodman's 400-seat flexible Owen Bruner Theatre.
Brand-new plays from six contemporary, diverse voices of the American theater come together for two weekends in Goodman Theatre's 2009 New Stages Series, December 11 - 20, 2009. The series of script-in-hand staged readings takes place in the Goodman's Owen Theatre and is open to the public.
The bidding is now open! Goodman Theatre's Women's Board proudly announces the return of Fame Fantasy Food Adventure Auction on February 1, 2010, at The Peninsula Chicago (108 E Superior) beginning at 5:30pm.
Goodman Theatre's program dedicated to shaping theater critics of the future, the 'Cindy Bandle Young Critics' (CBYC) program, named for the Goodman's longtime press director, returns for its third year, engaging 29 11th graders from high schools in Chicago and neighboring Algonquin, Evanston, Hinsdale, Homer Glen, Itasca, Lake Bluff, Northbrook, Oak Lawn, Spring Grove, Westchester and Zion.
The Horizon Theatre will open THE SANTALAND DIARIES for its 11th straight season beginning November 27th. THE SANTALAND DIARIES is written by critically-acclaimed author David Sedaris and runs through January 3rd, 2010.
MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that Adam James (Last Chance Harvey) will join the sexy, young cast of The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell in the multiple roles of ‘The Doctor,' ‘The Man' and ‘Peter,' under the direction of Joe Mantello (Glengarry Glen Ross, Take Me Out).
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, and The Acting Company Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley have announced that there will be a free panel discussion following the matinee performance of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter on Saturday, November 21.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo, and The Acting Company Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley have announced that there will be a free panel discussion following the matinee performance of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter on Saturday, November 21.