Robert Ross News

Vampire Cowboys, one of the companies completing their residency this year, presents the World Premiere of Six Rounds Of Vengeance, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker, running April 24 - May 16, 2015. Previews begin April 24 for an April 25 opening. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The Archive Residency, a collaboration between New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater (likeminded neighbors in the historic Archive Building in the West Village), is a unique incubator for the country's most promising emerging independent theater companies. This two year residency offers each company that most elusive and invaluable resource, an artistic home, including space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work, culminating in an exciting world premiere.

The final two performances of the Sierra Stages production of the Tony Award winning comedy VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE play on Friday & Saturday March 27 & 28 at 8 PM at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the show below!

MAMMOTH is a poetic and seriously funny new play about love and destruction, invoking the nostalgia of science and the hard data of the human heart. At a moment in time where we can envision our own extinction, this atmospheric new play by Adam R. Burnett will meditate upon why we destroy what we love - from the personal to the universal - and once vanished, what compels us to revive what we've lost.

Sierra Stages opens its 2015 season with the hilarious Broadway comedy VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. Written by Christopher Durang, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE plays at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City from tonight, March 5-28.

In the 2015-16 season, David Mirvish will present 14 shows in Toronto, consisting of seven shows in the Mainstage Subscription Series, three in the Off-Mirvish Subscription Series and four shows off-subscription.

Celebrating talented new voices in screenwriting, the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest officially announced its top award winners. A complete list of the 2014 winners and official finalists can be viewed on the contest's website https://beverlyhillsscreenplaycontest.com

Sierra Stages opens its 2015 season with the hilarious Broadway comedy VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. Written by Christopher Durang, VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE plays at the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City from March 5-28. The play is directed by Jeffrey Mason, with set design by Pamela Hodges, lighting design by Erin Beatie, and costume design by Jill Kelly. The cast includes local Nevada County actors Casey Burke, Susan Mason, Robert Rossman, Karen Leigh Sharp, Rachel Wellman, and Sharon Winegar.

Charlotte, Houston, Stockton, CA and Champaign-Urbana, IL have joined the massive national campaign by African-American business leaders to raise funds for free student admission to the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning film “SELMA,”

Now in its third smash year, Off-Broadway's hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, will play two special added holiday matinees this weekend at Planet Hollywood Times Square, 1540 Broadway (entrance on 45th Street just east of Broadway). The additional performances will be this Saturday 12/27 and Sunday 12/28 at 1:30 PM. HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER is set to end its triumphant run Saturday evening, January 3rd.

Christopher Durang's irresistible comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike", Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan's outrageous musical "The Producers", and William Finn and James Lapine's extraordinary musical "Falsettos" make up the three award winning plays and musicals in Sierra Stages' 7th Season beginning in March 2015. Each of the shows represents the best in contemporary live theatre and each is a Nevada County premiere.

Now in its third smash year, HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, Off-Broadway's comedy hit by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, will end its triumphant run Saturday evening, January 3rd at Planet Hollywood Times Square.

Now in its third smash year, HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, starring Kevin James Doyle and Olivia Petzy, will celebrate its 300th performance today (Saturday) at the 1:30 matinee at Planet Hollywood Times Square.

Now in its third smash year, HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, starring Kevin James Doyle and Olivia Petzy, will celebrate its 300th performance this today, November 29th with a special added 1:30 PM holiday matinee at Planet Hollywood Times Square.

Waterwell, one of the Village Voice's Best Arguments for Devised Theater and creators of GOODBAR and #9, continues its annual series of developmental workshop productions by commissioning a new play from Qui Nguyen (The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, She Kills Monsters) for its senior Drama Class of 2015 at the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS). To be directed by longtime collaborator, Robert Ross Parker (Goodbye Cruel World, co-artistic director of Vampire Cowboys), the piece will premiere at PPAS in April 2015.

Now in its third smash year, HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER, starring Kevin James Doyle and Olivia Petzy, will celebrate its 300th performance this Saturday, November 29th with a special added 1:30 PM holiday matinee at Planet Hollywood Times Square.

On Tuesday, Nov. 18th, two weeks after Remembrance Day, Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox will present one of Canada's greatest ... and rarely seen anti-war movies - Robin Phillips' adaptation of Timothy Findley's The Wars, (a Canadian-West German co-production.) It won the 1978 Governor General's Prize for literature. Findley also wrote the screenplay.

Original cast member, Margaret Copeland, is returning to the long-running Off-Broadway comedy smash HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER this weekend only at Planet Hollywood Times Square. Margaret will be filling in for Olivia Petzy and she'll be performing opposite her co-writer and original cast member, Kevin James Doyle.

Sierra Stages will present the classic Broadway musical YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the comic strip 'Peanuts' by Charles M. Schulz, for four weekends only from today, September 18 through October 12 at the intimate Off Center Stage in Grass Valley.

As Baltimore celebrates the bicentennial of the War of 1812 with its Inner Harbor Sailabration and Baltimore County hosts Star Spangled 200, the Community College of Baltimore County is focusing its commemoration of this historic event on a musical drama based on the 'Battle of North Point.' More than two years in the planning, CCBC has created an original patriotic musical pageant O'er the Ramparts that will premiere at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Sept. 12 and Saturday, Sept. 13 and at 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 14 in the John E. Ravekes Theatre at CCBC Dundalk, 7200 Sollers Point Road.