Rick Lombardo News

New Repertory Theatre's New England Premiere of Ahrens and Flaherty musical is powerful, passionate storytelling with a tour de force performance by Uzo Aduba in the title role

New Rep will replace Rock 'n' Roll with the New England Premiere of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl.

New Repertory Theatre in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts announces the World Premiere of According to Tip, a play with music by Dick Flavin, starring Tony and Emmy award-winner Ken Howard. Just in time for election season, According to Tip will open for the press on Friday, June 27, 2008 and will play through Sunday, July 13, 2008. 'Just in time for election season, New Rep brings you the World Premiere of According to Tip. Featuring Broadway and TV star Ken Howard, this play traces the colorful and historically memorable career of Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, former Speaker of the House. Tip will escort you back in time from Barry's Corner in Cambridge to the White House. Get the inside scoop on politics during the Red Scare, Watergate, and Vietnam in this touching played filled with humor, music, and beguiling Irish wit,' press notes state. New Repertory Theatre presents provocative and intelligent works of both established and emerging playwrights in an intimate setting that involves and engages the audience. New Rep has earned a reputation for dynamic productions that honor the writers and feature talented professional actors from the New England theatre community as well as guest artists from around the U.S. New Rep has received Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for outstanding acting, scenic design, direction, and production. Programming at New Repertory Theatre is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Lead Sponsor for According to Tip, Bank of America. The Artists Rick Lombardo (Director) is now in his twelfth season as New Rep's Producing Artistic Director. Earlier this year: A Streetcar Named Desire, A Pinter Duet: The Lover & Ashes to Ashes, The Clean House, and Dessa Rose. Last season: The Pillowman, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (which he also adapted), Silence, and The Wild Party, as well as Hamlet for Actors' Shakespeare Project. Other New Rep Credits: Ragtime (IRNE Awards-Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical); Bill W. and Dr. Bob (which he also directed Off-Broadway in the spring of 2007 at New World Stages in NY); Romeo and Juliet; Into the Woods (multiple IRNE Awards); Quills; Approaching Moomtaj; The Threepenny Opera; A Girl's War; his new musical adaptation of Moliere's Scapin; Waiting for Godot (IRNE Award, Best Drama); Sweeney Todd (2004 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, IRNE Award for Best Director, and Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Production); The Weir (IRNE Award, Best Drama); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Director); The Scarlet Letter; American Buffalo; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Twelfth Night; Beast on the Moon; Das Barbecu; Tartuffe; and The Real Thing; among others. Additional credits include the world premiere of Moby Dick: An American Opera, for which he received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre by Northern Ohio Live. He is honored to be a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award from the Boston Theatre Critics Association for Outstanding Director. Ken Howard (Tip) Ken Howard launched his acting career in 1968 when he won a role in the original Broadway production of Promises, Promises, for which he won both a Tony and an Emmy. He originated the role of Thomas Jefferson in 1776 for which he won a Theatre World Award. He returned to the role for the 1972 film version. He won a Tony for his work in Child's Play in 1970. From 1976 - 1981, he starred in as the title character in the TV series The White Shadow. He earned an Emmy in 1980 for his narration of The Body Human: Facts for Boys. Other film and television includes: The Thron Birds, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Crossing Jordan, Rambo, Cane, Smother and Michael Clayton. Upcoming work includes: Conrad in Still Waters, Sheriff Sedgewick in Two: Thirteen, Officer Ford in The Beacon, and Phelan Beale in the film adaptation of Grey Gardens. Dick Flavin (Playwright) is a nationally known writer and speaker. He has made thousands of speaking appearances all across America, chiefly addressing groups on the subject of how to use humor as a strategy in business and in life. His television commentaries have appeared on NBC-TV, CNN and WBZ-TV in Boston. He is the winner of seven New England regional Emmy Awards for writing and commentary. He was the narrator of The Teammates, an ESPN documentary that was nominated for three national Emmy Awards. Known as the 'Poet Laureate of the Boston Red Sox,' he has written countless poems and song parodies about the team and its history, some of which are being compiled into a compact disc and DVD. The most well-known of them, Teddy at the Bat, a salute to Red Sox legend Ted Williams that is based on Ernest Lawrence Thayer's immortal Casey at the Bat, has been performed by Mr. Flavin at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, at Fenway Park and in cities and towns across the country. He was the co-host of and contributing writer to Red Sox Stories, a weekly television series that ran during the 2007 baseball season. He has also written and performed special material for the Boston Pops and Symphony orchestras. In addition to According the Tip, his play on the life and times of the late Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill, Mr. Flavin has also written I Feel a Song Comin' On, a soon to be produced musical about the lyricist Dorothy Fields.

Their Voices Will Be Heard: 'My Name Is Rachel Corrie' and 'Pieces' - two compelling stories share the Downstage at New Rep space and shed light on the Israeli/Palestinian situation

New Repertory Theatre production of Sarah Ruhl's play is both inspired and inspiring. It can't do your laundry, but it will make you laugh and just might cleanse your soul.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, announces the 2008-2009 season.

New Repertory Theatre is excited to present The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, opening on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 8PM and plays through March 23, 2008 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.

For its final Downstage @ New Rep production this season, New Repertory Theatre is excited to present two plays running in rotating repertory, each expressing a unique view of the Middle East situation. Called 'Their Voices Will Be Heard,' the series of events features My Name is Rachel Corrie and Pieces, two solo plays, each about a young woman whose coming of age took place within the context of the Israeli/ Palestinian situation. Pieces opens on Sunday, March 8, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. My Name is Rachel Corrie opens on Sunday, March 8, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. Both shows play through March 30, 2008 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown.

Rachel Harker and Stephen Russell are fine-tuned instruments under the direction of Rick Lombardo in Pinter Duet at New Rep Downstage

In one night, New Repertory Theatre is offering two dangerously seductive Harold Pinter one-acts at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. These plays, written in Pinter's signature style, offer two views about infidelity and its ability to arouse desires and enrage jealousies. A Pinter Duet: The Lover & Ashes to Ashes, opens Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. and plays through February 10, 2008.

Whether you like your theatrical holiday fare to wax nostalgic or break with traditional sentiment, you're bound to find something in the Boston area to brighten your days now that the Winter Solstice is upon us.

The time is 1990 and the place is New York City. The story has been told many times before, but not quite like this. A struggling artist strives to follow his dream and fulfill his promise to write the great American musical with a self-imposed deadline of age 30. Talk about your biological clocks!

Tennessee Williams' masterpiece is the ideal choice to open the season of works exploring the theme of isolation and connection

New Repertory Theatre sashays onto the summer scene with a delectable side dish

Bill W. and Dr. Bob - a new play about Alcoholics Anonymous founders Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith - will celebrate its 100th performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages on June 1st

Bill W. and Dr. Bob will conclude its 18-week Off-Broadway engagement at New World Stages (Stage 2 at 340 West 50th Street) on Sunday, June 10 following the 3pm matinee, it has been announced by the play's producers.

Lippa's 'The Wild Party' raises the roof at New Rep while North Shore Music Theatre embraces Gershwin with 'Crazy for You'

Bill W. and Dr. Bob - a new play about Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith - will begin a series of post-show Talk-Backs, featuring guest appearances by notable figures in the addiction and recovery communities, starting May 1, 2007 when Dr. Patrick Carnes, a leading physician in the field of sexual addiction and recovery and noted author, takes the stage following that evening's performance of the play

Bill W. and Dr. Bob - a new play about Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith - will begin a series of post-show Talk-Backs, featuring guest appearances by notable figures in the addiction and recovery communities

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards for 2006 took place on Monday March 19, 2007, at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA).