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.

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.

Off-Broadway's The New Group proudly presents Burning, written by Thomas Bradshaw and directed by Scott Elliott, kicking off the company's 2011-12 Season. The Official Opening will take place on Monday, November 14 at 7:00 PM. Burning plays a limited engagement through December 17 at The New Group @ Theatre Row (The Acorn Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street).

The final performance of Ping Chong's ANGELS OF SWEDENBORG -- his 1985 dance theatre piece being performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company-- will be live-streamed on Sunday, November 13 starting at 2:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's Artistic Director Mia Yoo.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit is set to host a performance of True West, written by Sam Shepard and featuring Jim Parrack of television's True Blood.

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the 12th play in the CINO NIGHTS SERIES EDIE & ALEXANDER a new play BY MEGAN MOSTYN-BROWN directed by MIA ROVEGNO

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit is set to host a performance of True West, written by Sam Shepard and featuring Jim Parrack of television's True Blood.

The final performance of Ping Chong's ANGELS OF SWEDENBORG -- his 1985 dance theatre piece being performed by La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company-- will be live-streamed on Sunday, November 13 starting at 2:30 p.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's Artistic Director Mia Yoo.

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company of Detroit is set to host a performance of True West, written by Sam Shepard and featuring Jim Parrack of television's True Blood.

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the 12th play in the CINO NIGHTS SERIES EDIE & ALEXANDER a new play BY MEGAN MOSTYN-BROWN directed by MIA ROVEGNO

In its continuing series Dark Nights, The New Group welcomes filmmaker Todd Solondz in conversation with playwright Thomas Bradshaw.

Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (Adlib) has announced a talkback with Leonard Jacobs of the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affiars, and former editor, The Clyde Fitch Report.

SAFE HOUSE is coming to theaters on February 10, 2012 from Universal Pictures. The action thriller is directed by Daniel Espinosa and written by David Guggenheim. The cast includes Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington.

On November 4, Town Players of Newtown will open Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning BURIED CHILD, a family drama surrounding deep, dark secrets on a dying mid-western farm.

This November, Town Players of Newtown will open Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, BURIED CHILD, November 4 - 20, 2011.

Producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel announced that the American premiere of THE ANARCHIST, the new play about politics, money, religion and sex, written and directed by DAVID MAMET. The production will star two-time Tony Award winner PATTI LUPONE, who has previously appeared in Mamet's The Woods, All Men are Whores, The Blue Hour, The Water Engine, Edmond and The Old Neighborhood and three-time Emmy Award winner LAURIE METCALF, who was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for her performance in Mamet's November. THE ANARCHIST, which marks the sixth collaboration between Richards, Frankel and Mamet, will open on Broadway in Fall 2012.

Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (Adlib) has announced a talkback with Leonard Jacobs of the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affiars, and former editor, The Clyde Fitch Report.

The Wilbury Group is set to present the New England premiere of Rajiv Joseph's heartfelt black comedy Gruesome Playground Injuries, closing October 30, at 95 Empire Street, home of the Perishable Theater.

Open Stage of Harrisburg, the capital's processional regional theatre, is set to open its 26th Season with Sam Shepherd's A LIE OF THE MIND