Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa News

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) kicks off this summer's Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series with the New York premiere of Year Zero, written by Michael Golamco (Cowboy versus Samurai).

In South Coast Repertory's truly excellent World Premiere play DOCTOR CERBERUS (with performances continuing through May 2), playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa takes us back to the mid-1980's to witness the witty coming-of-age tale of one young awkward teen who is just a tad smarter than his years will allow. This, like in all misfits, causes him to be quite anguished by the very nature of his uniqueness in the world. Factor in a standard-issue dysfunctional family that can't quite understand him, and you have the makings of a winning narrative that has plenty of laughs, pathos and enough poignant moments that has us rooting for our hero to make it through to the end unscathed. Growing up different is scary. More broadly, life itself is scary.

Stage and screen star Patrick Cassidy joins the cast of Dallas Theater Center's productionof It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman as the Man of Steel's arch nemesis Max Mencken, the role originated by his father, Jack Cassidy, in the 1966 original Broadway production.

South Coast Repertory has lined up a slate of talented actors and directors to bring to life the five staged readings in this year's 13th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF), which takes place April 23-25.

South Coast Repertory's 13th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF) will shine the spotlight on seven new plays written by America's finest writers, including five who will be familiar to SCR audiences and two who are making their SCR debuts. This year's festival, which takes place April 23-25, will feature fully-produced world premieres by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Julia Cho and staged readings of brand-new works by Amy Freed, Itamar Moses, Bathsheba Doran, Sofia Alvarez and David West Read.

LA Theatre Works' production of THE CONSTANT WIFE by W. Somerset Maugham will end its run on April 18th. Stephen Collins will join Kate Burton, who will reprise her Tony-nominated role as the title character.

South Coast Repertory Theatre Presents a last chance to see two shows, THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE through April 25 and the world premiere of DOCTOR CERBERUS through May 2.

Goblins, ghouls and ghosts of the 1980s haunt SCR's latest world premiere, Doctor Cerberus, which makes its debut April 11 - May 2 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce the lineup for this spring's Ernst C. Stiefel '7@7' Reading Series. The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation has supported Manhattan Theatre Club's reading series since 2006.

South Coast Repertory has lined up a slate of talented actors and directors to bring to life the five staged readings in this year's 13th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival (PPF), which takes place April 23-25.

Further casting has been announced for LA Theatre Works' production of THE CONSTANT WIFE by W. Somerset Maugham. Stephen Collins will join Kate Burton, who will reprise her Tony-nominated role as the title character.

Working Theatre Presents a Benefit Reading of HOLD, PLEASE on Monday April 12, 2010 at 7pm at the Abringdon Theatre Arts Complex, Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, located at 312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Ave.

South Coast Repertory's Artistic Directors David Emmes and Martin Benson have announced that Doctor Cerberus, a new play by HBO's 'Big Love' and Marvel Comics' 'Spiderman' writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, will receive its World Premiere during the 2009-10 Season

Working Theatre Presents a Benefit Reading of HOLD, PLEASE on Monday April 12, 2010 at 7pm at the Abringdon Theatre Arts Complex, Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, located at 312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Ave.

Broadway star Matt Cavenaugh will star as the iconic Clark Kent in Dallas Theater Center's production of the musical It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman, June 18 - July 25, at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Matt Cavenaugh will play Superman this summer when an updated version of IT'S ABIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN takes to the Dallas Theater Center stage.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced the two plays which will be presented as part of the company's eighth annual Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series this summer: the New York premiere of Michael Golamco's Year Zero, directed by Will Frears, and the world premiere of Leslye Headland's Bachelorette, directed by Trip Cullman.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, is proud to announce four additional productions for its 2010/2011 40th Anniversary Season. The three World Premieres and one New York premiere join the previously-announced New York premiere of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I.

Dan Butler (best known as Bulldog on 'Frasier'), Roderick Hill (Butley on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane), Scott Jaeck ('Charmed'), Brian Leahy ('The Junior League of Superheroes'), and Austin Peck ('Days of Our Lives') star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Martin Casella's acclaimed comedy THE IRISH CURSE at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street (between Avenue of the Americas & Varick Street), opening Sunday, March 28th. Matt Lenz directs.

Further casting has been announced for LA Theatre Works' production of THE CONSTANT WIFE by W. Somerset Maugham. Stephen Collins will join Kate Burton, who will reprise her Tony-nominated role as the title character.