Royal Court Theatre News

Two River Theater Company welcomes high school students from around the state to audition for two upcoming programs: PlayBack and its Metro Scholar program.

Stage Door Records will release of the 1980 Original London Cast Recording of the musical COLETTE by John Dankworth on February 22nd. The release will be the first time the recording has been available on CD. The musical starred Cleo Laine in the title role. The show originally opened at The Stables Theatre, Wavendon in 1979 and transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London in September 1980.

THE WEIR will end its run at San Jose Rep on February 21st.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's The Seafarer will close on Feb. 21, 2010 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.

Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for the World Premiere of CLYBOURNE PARK, a new play by Bruce Norris (The Pain and the Itch at Playwrights Horizons/PH 2006-2007 Season).

The upcoming reality television show, 'Over the Rainbow,' which will feature a competition to earn the role as of Dorothy in the upcoming West End production of The Wizard of Oz, will feature a judging panel consisting of Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Partridge, Charlotte Church, and Sheila Hancock. The show will be hosted by British star Graham Norton.

Noel Coward's dazzling comic masterpiece comes to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for a ten week season from 24 February 2010, following a two week run at the Theatre Royal Bath (10 - 20 February).

The upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON, directed by Rupert Goold, has announced that Noah Weisberg, Rightor Doyle, Ian Kahn, Mary Stewart Sullivan, Madisyn Shipman and January LaVoy have joined the company.

Main Street Theater presents an evening of two plays by groundbreaking women playwrights: an adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's impassioned play, Machinal followed by Caryl Churchill's chilling one-act, A Number.

59E59 Theaters will welcome Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater with the NY premiere of CONVICTION, by Oren Neeman, adapted by Ami Dayan and Mark Williams and directed by Jeremy Cole. CONVICTION begins performances on Tuesday, February 16 for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 21. Press opening is Tuesday, February 23 at 7:15 PM.

Main Street Theater presents an evening of two plays by groundbreaking women playwrights: an adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's impassioned play, Machinal followed by Caryl Churchill's chilling one-act, A Number.

The Trap Door Theatre's American premiere of 'Minna' will close on February 13.

The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, general managers, venue owners, press agents and marketing personnel, will hold the first in a series of planned seminars focusing on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway theater.

Two River Theater Company welcomes high school students from around the state to audition for two upcoming programs: PlayBack and its Metro Scholar program.

Noel Coward's dazzling comic masterpiece comes to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for a ten week season from 24 February 2010, following a two week run at the Theatre Royal Bath (10 - 20 February). Starring Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen, and directed by Richard Eyre, Private Lives remains one of Coward's most sophisticated comedy of manners. BroadwayWorld brings you the first promotion shots!

Yesterday, 23 November 2009, Ian Rickson's Royal Court Theatre production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play, and Mark Rylance collected the Best Actor Award for his universally celebrated performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron.

Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominee Stephen Kunken, best known for his celebrated portrayal of James Reston in Frost/Nixon on Broadway, will assume the mantle of a particularly less honorable historical figure when he takes on the role of disgraced ENRON Chief Financial Officer Andy Fastow in Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON.

Playwright Neil LaBute returns for the third time in as many years to the Geffen Playhouse's intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis theater, and this time he's bringing along Obie and Golden Globe winner, four-time Oscar and Tony nominee Ed Harris.

Tom Stoppard's ROCK ‘N' ROLL will close on February 7 at Park Square Theatre.

Rehearsals begin this week for Goodman Theatre's world premiere of A True History of the Johnstown Flood by Rebecca Gilman, whose work was most recently included in Time magazine's 'Best Theatre Productions of the Decade.' Commissioned by the Goodman and directed by Robert Falls, A True History of the Johnstown Flood runs March 13 - April 18, 2010 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre. Tickets start at $25 and go on sale this Friday, February 5 at GoodmanTheatre.org.