Playwrights Horizons has announced a two-week extension for A LIFE, the world premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (A Small Fire and The Drunken City at Playwrights, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman (Marjorie Prime, Detroit, Maple and Vine at Playwrights; You Got Older; Belleville; This Wide Night; Smokefall), A LIFE will be the second production of the theater company's 2016/2017 Season.
The Public Theater officially opened the world premiere of WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? on Friday, September 16. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?, play two of THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family, written and directed by Richard Nelson, began previews on Saturday, September 10 and has been extended through October 9. Click below to watch highlights from the production!
With his quartet of dramas concerning the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York now being followed by his trilogy-in-progress concerning their fellow Rhinebeckers, the Gabriels, you might say that Richard Nelson has written more Chekhovian plays than Anton Chekhov.
Just announced, four-time Tony Award Nominee Judy Kuhn (Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, Les Miserables) will join the cast of Fiddler on the Roof as Golde.
Tony-winning writer and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with the next play in his new three-play cycle, THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family. The second play, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?, brings us back to the kitchen of the Gabriel family, with the country now in the midst of the general election for president. In the course of one evening in the house they grew up in, history (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family, art and culture are chopped up and mixed together, while a meal is made around the kitchen table. WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE, will track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year with the final play opening in real time on Election Night, November 8, 2016.
As previously announced, the first of the final two installments in Richard Nelson's acclaimed The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family has been extended an additional week at The Public Theater. Play Two: WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? will now run through Sunday, October 9. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? began performances on Saturday, September 10 with an official press opening tonight, September 16. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
As previously announced, the first of the final two installments in Richard Nelson's acclaimed The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family has been extended an additional week at The Public Theater. Play Two: WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? will now run through Sunday, October 9. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? began performances on Saturday, September 10 with an official press opening on Friday, September 16. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
The Public Theater announced today that THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family will present marathon performances of all three shows in this acclaimed trilogy.
Threshold Stage Company's intimately staged production of Richard Nelson's 'Sorry' at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine, (September 9th - September 18th), invites the audience to pull up a chair at the Apple family's dining room table early in the morning on the day of the 2012 Obama/Romney Presidential election; engrossing the viewer in the intricacies of family relationships and the overarching principles of love, tolerance and belonging that somehow manage to survive despite the ever growing complexity and public outrage of our American Culture.
New Repertory Theatre presents the Boston area premiere of the final component of Richard Nelson's four-play cycle. Weylin Symes, the producing artistic director of Stoneham Theatre, returns to the helm with the stellar six-member cast of Joel Colodner, Laura Latreille, Karen MacDonald, Paul Melendy, Bill Mootos, and Sarah Newhouse. The actors are the strength of the production, providing a master class on working as an ensemble. REGULAR SINGING is a feel good drama, but, at two hours, less would be more.
PREMIERES, the New York based music theater organization whose mission is 'to bring new music theater to light,' has announced the complete cast and creative teams for this season's Inner Voices, the biannual series of solo works featuring new teams of playwrights and composers.
Threshold Stage Company's intimately staged production of Richard Nelson's 'Sorry' at the Star Theatre in Kittery, Maine, (September 9th - September 18th), invites the audience to pull up a chair at the Apple family's dining room table early in the morning on the day of the 2012 Obama/Romney Presidential election; engrossing the viewer in the intricacies of family relationships and the overarching principles of love, tolerance and belonging that somehow manage to survive despite the ever growing complexity and public outrage of our American Culture.
Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for A LIFE, the world premiere of a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (A Small Fire and The Drunken City at Playwrights, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). Directed by two-time Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman (Marjorie Prime, Detroit, Maple and Vine at Playwrights; You Got Older; Belleville; This Wide Night; Smokefall), A LIFE will be the second production of the theater company's 2016/2017 Season.
Previews begin next Friday, August 19 at 8PM for the Playwrights Horizons New York premiere production of AUBERGINE, a new play by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner Julia Cho (BFE at Playwrights, The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Architecture of Loss).
Playwrights Horizons begins accepting entries today, Monday, August 8, for the LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to their New York premiere production of AUBERGINE, a new play by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner Julia Cho (BFE at Playwrights, The Language Archive, The Piano Teacher, Durango, The Architecture of Loss).
The Public Theater announced today that three fall shows have extended due to popular demand, with a new block of tickets going on sale on Thursday, August 8.
New Repertory Theatre presents the Boston-area premiere of Regular Singing by Richard Nelson, September 3-25, 2016 in the Charles Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA.
Weaver will receive a Donostia Award at the gala screening of the film on September 21st in the Kursaal Auditorium. The Festival's most important honorary award acknowledges the career of the North American actress whose name has presided over some of the biggest productions in the last few decades
