Sam Shepard News

Claudia Dey's award-winning Canadian play Trout Stanley will have its American premiere off-Broadway from May 19th through June 11th

Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford will make his Broadway debut as director of the new musical, Leap of Faith, to premiere in the 2007-2008 season.

DOUBT and DEFIANCE playwright John Patrick Shanley will be this year's inductee into the Lucille Lortel Theatre's Playwrights' Sidewalk.

The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company's production of Buried Child, presented as part of the Sam Shepard Festival, has been extended through April 15th

The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company's Sam Shepard Festival--featuring all of the playwright's plays through December of 2007--will kick off at the new Big, Little Theatre from March 15th through April 10th

Len Cariou, Neil Patrick Harris and Laurie Metcalf will star in the Geffen Playhouse's production of All My Sons from April 11th through May 21st

SPRING AWAKENING will begin previews Thursday, May 18, 2006, officially open Thursday, June 15, 2006 and play a limited engagement through Sunday, July 9, 2006.

The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York's longest running Off-Broadway theatre, is undergoing extensive renovation

Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, will lead a talkback on Friday, January 6th following the 8pm performance of the play Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House

Signature Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful will be extended for six weeks through February 29th, 2006

Jean-Claude van Itallie's Fear Itself, Secrets of the White House will open on December 11th

New Rep production finds pathos and humor in Sam Shepard's penetrating depiction of sibling rivalry

The Trip to Bountiful, for which tickets are $15, will open on December 4 after beginning previews on November 15th

The Public Theater will present two series of readings--New Work Now! and New Work Then!--in celebration of its history of producing new plays; the two series will be held from September 9th to September 18th and from September 2nd to October 3rd

New York Musical Theatre Festival presents NO BOUNDARIES beginning September 15th at Theatre at St. Clements.

European premieres of David Mamet's Romance and Sam Shepherd's The Late Henry Moss feature in the Almeida's 2005/6 season

Anthony Rapp will host Edge Theater Company's third annual Bingo Night at SHOW (135 West 41st St. between 6th Avenue and Broadway) on Monday, March 7th. Rosario Dawson, Chris Noth, Dallas Roberts, Marylouise Burke, and others will appear to call games of bingo. Steve Salad (the King of France), Peter Salett, The Petersons, Lucas Pappaelias, and Less will perform.

The area is bursting with theater companies--with both classics, and premieres of new works.

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.