Royal Shakespeare Company News

PapaC Productions is continuing with their policy of reviving outstanding contemporary work by staging key writer Deborah Levy's plays for the first time in 20 years.

The upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble's critically acclaimed play ENRON, directed by Rupert Goold, is proud to welcome actors JORDAN BALLARD (Hairspray), BRANDON J. DIRDEN (Prelude to a Kiss), ANTHONY HOLDS (Spamalot, Pal Joey), TY JONES (Judgment at Nuremberg, Henry IV, Julius Caesar), TOM NELIS (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Aida), JEFF SKOWRON (The Lion King, High Society), LUSIA STRUS (the upcoming untitled Gus Van Sant project), BEN HARTLEY (Swan Lake, The Little Mermaid) and ELLYN MARIE MARSH to the company.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce casting for Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by David Cromer. The cast includes Natasha Lowe (Blanche), Matt Hawkins (Stanley), Danny McCarthy (Mitch), Jenn Engstrom (Eunice), Loren Lazarine (Steve), Esteban Andres Cruz (Pablo), Stacy Stoltz (Stella), Carolyn E. Nelson (Colored Woman/Matron), Derek Hasenstab (Doctor) and Ryan Hallahan (Young Collector).

MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck theatre Box Office Manager, JACK IN A BOX, premieres its 10th episode featuring Guest Star LUSIA STRUS.

'The Wizard of Oz' will play at the King Center for the Performing Arts on March 1, 2010.

The greatest family musical of all time, THE WIZARD OF OZ, is touching down in Jacksonville as NETworks Presentations brings this national treasure to the Times Union Center's Moran Theater February 23 - 28, 2010 for 8 performances only!

American Repertory Theater presents Clifford Odets's drama Paradise Lost directed by Daniel Fish February 27 - March 20, 2010 at the Loeb Drama Center.

The Royal Shakespeare Company and the University of Michigan will work together to develop three new plays, including a reconstruction of a 'lost' play credited to William Shakespeare and his contemporary, John Fletcher.

Anna Mackmin returns to The Old Vic to direct a stellar cast led by Toby Stephens in Tom Stoppard's multi-award winning modern classic, The Real Thing, opening on Wednesday 21 April 2010, with previews from 10 April.

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical will celebrate a year in the West End on 23 March 2010 having completed over 425 performances at the Palace Theatre since its opening last year.

Anna Mackmin returns to The Old Vic to direct a cast led by Toby Stephens in Tom Stoppard's multi-award winning modern classic, The Real Thing , opening on Wednesday 21 April 2010, with previews from 10 April.

The Grosse Pointe Public Library has announced the third program of their Classics Books Lecture Series, 'If We Be Friends: Shakespeare and His Audience,' Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The talk will be presented by Dr. Ralph Williams, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the library of Grosse Pointe South High School , 11 Grosse Pointe Boulevard at Fisher Road in Grosse Pointe Farms . General admission is $10. The lecture is free to members of Friends, students and teachers with identification. For more information call 313-343-2074 ext. 6 or visit www.gpfriends.org.

Ghost Stories- What are you hiding from? Written and directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, Associate Director Sean Holmes A Lyric Hammersmith and Liverpool Everyman Production at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, runs 24 February - 03 April 2010

Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, which has taken New York and Chicago by storm, receives its West Coast premiere in the fall of 2010 at three of the Bay Area's leading companies. The American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, and Marin Theatre Company will each present one of the plays in McCraney's trilogy, BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS.

The greatest family musical of all time, THE WIZARD OF OZ, is touching down in Jacksonville as NETworks Presentations brings this national treasure to the Times Union Center's Moran Theater February 23 - 28, 2010 for 8 performances only!

Following a sell-out run Pizza on the Park last autumn, Harold Sanditen returns with Love Exposed, a show of songs, exploring the edgier sides of love and romance.

The World Premiere of Frank McGuinness' Greta Garbo Came to Donegal will play its final performance on 20 February.

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.

American Repertory Theater presents Clifford Odets's drama Paradise Lost directed by Daniel Fish February 27 - March 20, 2010 at the Loeb Drama Center.

Humor, pathos, romance and suspense fill the rarified Syrian air as Northern Stage presents the first-ever U.S. production of the award-winning Damascus by David Greig, from February 17 through March 7 at the Briggs Opera House in downtown White River Junction, VT, directed by Northern Stage Artistic Director Brooke Ciardelli, featuring Broadway Tony nominee John Herrera.