Sam Shepard News

Producers Philip Morgaman, Anne Caruso/Vincent Caruso, Frankie J. Grande, and James P. MacGilvray have announced that casting is complete for the upcoming Broadway production of Born Yesterday, a comedy by Garson Kanin, directed by Doug Hughes. The production stars Jim Belushi, Robert Sean Leonard, and Nina Arianda and will play Broadway's Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street, beginning previews Thursday, March 31, and opening Sunday, April 24.

The beloved, Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes will be honored at the 2011 LOVE 'N' COURAGE Gala - a benefit for the award-winning Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program - on Monday, February 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan), it has been announced by Crystal Field, co-founder and artistic director of Theater for the New City.

The Mosaic Theatre will present a free staged reading of Mark Della Ventura's SMALL MEMBERSHIP, 'a story about a big boy with a small problem.'

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the seventh PLAY IN THE CINO NIGHTS SERIES named a new play by lucy thurber / directed by jenna worsham featuring Lila Dupree, Ronete Levenson, Katie Meister, and Sarah Tolan-Mee

I Was Drunk That Day is an exploratory (staged) reading of several early crime and suspense stories by Anton Chekhov including 'Conversation of a Drunken Man with a Sober Devil', 'Evildoer', and 'The Wallet'. Assembled, adapted and directed by Darrell Larson, most of the featured stories translated into English for the first time - just last year.

Artistic Director Rich Ferraioli of Variations Theatre Group decided to stage the gut wrenching 90 minute play FOOL FOR LOVE after realizing that Off-Off-Broadway Theatre 'needed a bit of an awakening'. The Sam Shepard classic, with its argumentative, ping pong style of dialogue and sexual tension so thick it makes you squirm, is the perfect choice for a cast and crew of talented, independent artists who are ready to prove they measure above typical Off-Off-Broadway standards. 'This play is to be performed relentlessly without a break', Shepard wrote. With a tight knit cast and dedicated crew, that is exactly what audience members will get.

Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) is pleased to announce a fourth extension for the first New York revival of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, directed by Michael Greif.

Artistic Director Rich Ferraioli of Variations Theatre Group decided to stage the gut wrenching 90 minute play FOOL FOR LOVE after realizing that Off-Off-Broadway Theatre 'needed a bit of an awakening'. The Sam Shepard classic, with its argumentative, ping pong style of dialogue and sexual tension so thick it makes you squirm, is the perfect choice for a cast and crew of talented, independent artists who are ready to prove they measure above typical Off-Off-Broadway standards. 'This play is to be performed relentlessly without a break', Shepard wrote. With a tight knit cast and dedicated crew, that is exactly what audience members will get.

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the seventh PLAY IN THE CINO NIGHTS SERIES named a new play by lucy thurber / directed by jenna worsham featuring Lila Dupree, Ronete Levenson, Katie Meister, and Sarah Tolan-Mee

Mad Horse Theatre Company is proud to present the Maine Premier of Sam Shepard's THE LATE HENRY MOSS. The play opens on March 10 and runs Thursday to Sunday through March 27.

The Theatre School at DePaul University presents Hedda Gabler, written by Henrik Ibsen, adapted Christopher Shinn and directed by Azar Kazemi, as the second installment of the 2010-2011 New Directors Series.

McCarter Theatre has announced the complete casting for its new production of Beth Henley's modern American classic Crimes of the Heart.

The New Group proudly presents the first major New York revival of Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce in a limited Off-Broadway engagement March 14 - May 7.

The Firehouse Theatre Project announces the final show of its 2010-11 season, Bruce Graham's Something Intangible, running March 24 - April 16, 2011. The Firehouse production is directed by Bill Patton and stars Frank Creasy, Lauren Leinhass-Cook, Billy Christopher Maupin, Adrian Reider and Jay Welch.

Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds at its first five Cino Nights presentations (ofGary Sunshine's BEST SEX EVER, Mando Alvarado's (O)N THE 5:31,Courtney Baron's HERE I LIE,Florencia Lozano's BUSTED, andKristen Palmer's THE STRAY DOG), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series on February 13th at 7 p.m. with Emily DeVoti's THE UPSTART. The play features 'a Brooklyn butcher, a young writer looking for a place of her own, and Brigid Hitler. Of Long Island.' And asks, 'How do we become who we are? A series of little, tiny choices.'

Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds at its first five Cino Nights presentations (of Gary Sunshine's BEST SEX EVER, Mando Alvarado's (O)N THE 5:31, Courtney Baron's HERE I LIE, Florencia Lozano's BUSTED, and Kristen Palmer's THE STRAY DOG), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series on February 13th at 7 p.m. with Emily DeVoti's THE UPSTART.

The Theatre School at DePaul University presents Hedda Gabler, written by Henrik Ibsen, adapted Christopher Shinn and directed by Azar Kazemi, as the second installment of the 2010-2011 New Directors Series.

Nightingale Theater presents Back Bog Beast Bait by Sam Shepard Thursday, February 10 through Saturday, February 12

Artistic Director Rich Ferraioli of Variations Theatre Group decided to stage the gut wrenching 90 minute play Fool for Love after realizing that Off-Off-Broadway Theatre "needed a bit of an awakening".

HotCity Theatre continues to provide St. Louis with a mix of new plays and modern classics, and actor/playwright Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST is their latest foray in these areas. Considered to be one of Shepard's more accessible works, TRUE WEST is a fascinating look at sibling rivalry, and it also takes some entertaining jabs at the Hollywood blockbuster mentality, which has only grown worse since this play premiered in 1980. HotCity's production is distinguished by an excellent cast and sparkling direction that consistently engages.