Sam Shepard News

Since its world premiere in Ljubljana nearly three years ago, the Mini teater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) / Novo kazalište Zagreb (Croatia) co-production of Heiner Müller's controversial Macbeth after Shakespeare has garnered critical praise and awards all over the world, including such far-flung locales as Seoul and Havana.

New City Stage Company has announced its 6th season, entitled The Terror Within, a body of work that considers the many questions posed as we marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Signature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce initial casting for the world premiere production of Katori Hall's HURT VILLAGE, directed by Patricia McGregor.

Elizabeth Swados' new music theatre work THE LA MAMA CANTATA -- given its world-premiere for two performances in November -- returns by popular demand to the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) for two additional performances during the holiday season on December 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's artistic director Mia Yoo.

Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning, contemporary classic drama examines a family with a secret that is clawing away at the souls of its members. When Vince, the grandson, arrives after an absence of several years, the secret threatens to spill forth and destroy everyone. Layered with postmodernist symbolism and sardonic humor, Buried Child won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for its depiction of the crumbling of the American Dream.

Playwrights Foundation (PF) today announced the second annual SF One-Minute Play Festival (SF OMPF), a two-day event on December 17 & 18, 2011 showcasing the talents of 32 Bay Area playwrights, along with the region's leading directors and actors.

Next up in its continuing series Dark Nights, The New Group presents Hamlet at Home, with readings from Shakespeare's Hamlet featuring Lisa Emery, Mamie Gummer, Josh Hamilton and Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliott.

Buried Child - Veteran character actor Tom Bower and Amy Madigan head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works records Sam Shepard's darkly comic family drama. Probing deep into the disintegration of the American Dream, Buried Child became an instant classic and was the recipient of the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979.

David Gelles (GRACELAND at Lincoln Center), Anney Giobbe (SUBURBIA) and Eric Hoffmann (WEST SIDE STORY) comprise the cast of POST OFFICE, a new play by David Jenkins (MIDDLEMEN) being given its world-premiere by Human Animals.

Human Animals presents the World Premiere of POST OFFICE- A new play by David Jenkins. The cast features Bobby Moreno, Anney Giobbe, Eric Hoffman.

Tickets go on sale today for American Express® Cardmembers for Arthur Miller's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece DEATH OF A SALESMAN, in a new production directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starring Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man), making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman. The strictly limited 16-week engagement opens Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). Previews begin Monday, February 13.

HEINER MÜLLER'S MACBETH AFTER SHAKESPEARE will make its North American premiere at La MaMa.

Buried Child - Tracy Letts and Amy Madigan head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works records Sam Shepard's darkly comic family drama.

David Gelles (GRACELAND at Lincoln Center), Anney Giobbe (SUBURBIA) and Eric Hoffmann (WEST SIDE STORY) comprise the cast of POST OFFICE, a new play by David Jenkins (MIDDLEMEN) being given its world-premiere by Human Animals.

The New Group proudly announces casting for the second show in the company's 2011-2012 Season: Russian Transport, written by Erika Sheffer. Directed by Scott Elliott, the production will feature Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Oreskes, Morgan Spector, Sarah Steele and Raviv Ullman. Performances slated to begin January 17 at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street). Official Opening Night is set for Monday, January 30.

Comedian, film and TV star Janeane Garofalo has just joined the New Group's production of Russian Transport by Erika Sheffer, directed by Scott Elliott. The production's run begins on January 17, 2012 at the Acorn Theater, with tickets on sale December 5th.

Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on Dodge, the aging patriarch of a Midwestern family with a disturbing secret, and the destructive scars this secret has inflicted upon the family. When Vince, Dodge's grandson, returns after an absence of several years, the secret threatens to spill forth and destroy the family. Drawing upon the crumbling of the American dream and the tragedies of ancient Greece, Buried Child is replete with sardonic humor and darkly disturbed characters.

Since its world premiere in Ljubljana nearly three years ago, the Mini teater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) / Novo kazalište Zagreb (Croatia) co-production of Heiner Müller's controversial Macbeth after Shakespeare has garnered critical praise and awards all over the world, including such far-flung locales as Seoul and Havana.

This November, Town Players of Newtown will open Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, BURIED CHILD, thru November 20, 2011.

New City Stage Company has announced its 6th season, entitled The Terror Within, a body of work that considers the many questions posed as we marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11.