Russell James News

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, continues its 44th season with DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, adapted for the 18th Century stage by Lewis Theobald, and directed by Kulick.

NOMAD TWO WORLDS, to be held at Pier 59 Studios West (2415 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica at Bergamot Station), is a sweeping, multi-media collaborative art project conceived by acclaimed fashion photographer and director Russell James. Incorporating James' incredible photography of Australia's most breathtaking landscapes, some of the world's most beautiful women and interesting people, and the cultural backdrop of Australia and America's ancient, Indigenous music and art scenes, the NOMAD TWO WORLDS exhibition takes us on a modern day journey of political importance as the embodiment of an emerging, positive message of Reconciliation that is currently unfolding from the ashes of a tragic collision of cultures.

Following her sell-out production of J.M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows at the Finborough Theatre in July this year, director Louise Hill returns to the Finborough Theatre with another rediscovery of a classic comedy by J.M. Barrie to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth - his magical 1901 play Quality Street, opening on 30 November 2010 (Press Night: Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 7.30pm) as part of the Finborough Theatre's 30th anniversary year.

Following her sell-out production of J.M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows at the Finborough Theatre in July this year, director Louise Hill returns to the Finborough Theatre with another rediscovery of a classic comedy by J.M. Barrie to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth - his magical 1901 play Quality Street, opening on 30 November 2010 (Press Night: Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 7.30pm) as part of the Finborough Theatre's 30th anniversary year.

Osip Theatre Presents MISS LILLY GETS BONED Beginning 22 June

Threads Theater Company and International Arts Movement present the world premiere of BABETTE'S FEAST, a timeless tale of food and love by Rose Courtney, directed by Quin Gordon, which will run from June 16th-June 26th at Space 38/39 at International Arts Movement.

Osip Theatre Presents MISS LILLY GETS BONED Beginning 22 June

Les Waters, the associate artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, heads east again this week to open the world premiere of Cardenio in Cambridge.

Seventeen different stage productions were honored at the third annual Kevin Kline Awards ceremony. Ten St. Louis area theater companies - double the number of last year's recipients - were recognized with awards. Four of those ten theaters were multiple award winners.

Twenty-four theater companies in the St. Louis area received 118 nominations in 22 different categories. Forty-five different productions received nominations; twenty-five productions receive multiple nominations the Awards Ceremony will be held on March 31 at the Loretto-Hilton Center

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to present the final week of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays, beginning November 5, 2007 at www.steppenwolf.org.

Whatsonstage.com reports that The Menier Chocolate Factory is premiering a new play by Jonathan Lewis and Miranda Foster. The husband/wife writing team's last play, Our Boys, was a hit at the Donmar Warehouse in 1995.

On November 21, The Metropolitan Opera Guild honored Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a benefit at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.