The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announced today the lineup for its 2007-08 season: seven exciting new productions that will mark the return of three of The Public's most-produced playwrights and introduce several emerging new voices to Public Theater audiences.
An expanded version of Edward Albee's early work The Zoo Story, as well as a musical co-written by High Fidelity's Tom Kitt, will be among the highlights of Second Stage Theater's 2007-2008 season
The Yale School of Drama, under the leadership of James Bundy, Dean, and Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean, will present the Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 11 - 20.
On April 26, 2007, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee will announce the inaugural winner of the Yale Drama Series competition -- a new annual award for emerging playwrights in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland.
On April 26, 2007, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat) will announce the inaugural winner of the Yale Drama Series competition -- a new annual award for emerging playwrights in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland.
Lincoln Center Theater has postponed the first preview of Part Three - Salvage of its current production of the Tom Stoppard trilogy The Coast of Utopia, directed by Jack O'Brien, by one night.
Salvage, the final installment of Tom Stoppard's three-part play, The Coast of Utopia, begins previews on Tuesday, January 30 at 8 pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater
Cast to feature Peter Weller as Frank Lloyd Wright,
Harris Yulin as Louis Sullivan, Chris Henry Coffey, Holley Fain,
Mary Beth Fisher, Maggie Siff, Jeremy Strong and Jay Whittaker
Shipwreck, Part Two of Tom Stoppard's three-part play, The Coast of Utopia, begins previews on Wednesday, December 6 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. This Lincoln Center Theater production, directed by Jack O'Brien, will open on Thursday, December 21
Legendary producer/director Harold Prince--who currently has twenty Tony Awards (including two Special Tony Awards) on his mantle--will add a Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Grey Gardens, which recently concluded its sold out World Premiere production at Playwrights Horizons, will open on Broadway this Fall with performances beginning in October at The Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street).
PS Classics, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of American musical theatre, will release the world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's Dream True on May 23
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).