Samuel Beckett News

Hamm & Clov Stage Company will present a new production Irish Playwright Jimmy Kerr's exceedingly acclaimed and extremely hilarious Irish smash hit comedy 'ARDNAGLASS ON THE AIR' as part of the third annual 1st Irish Festival.

Cape May Stage, South Jersey's premier professional Equity theatre, is pleased to announce a new production of a classic of postmodern existentialist theatre: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. Starring Lynn (Sex and the City, Munich) and Ron Cohen, Happy Days will open Thursday, August 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse on Bank and Lafayette Streets.

Cape May Stage, Cape May's premier professional Equity theatre, with the generous support of PNC Arts Alive, is proud to announce a spectacular evening of live theatre on Saturday, September 11. Theatrical interpreters for the Deaf Celeste Herse and Anne Maselli will interpret the Stage's 8:00 PM. performance of Samuel Beckett's postmodern, award-winning play Happy Days.

2010/2011 Theatre Season Announced! Please visit www.emelin.org/theatre.html for more information, tickets, videos and more.

Grammy Award winners Bill Whelan (Riverdance) and Susan McKeown, actress and TONY nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Man Booker nominee Emma Donoghue, are among the featured artists this Fall at the Irish Arts Center.

Today New York City Opera released full casting, creative team, and production details for the company's 2010-2011 season.

Today New York City Opera released full casting, creative team, and production details for the company's 2010-2011 season. The season spotlights American composers and 20th-century works, world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season also will feature the launch of a new concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers whose operas will be presented on the mainstage.

The 14th annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival is just two weeks away. The 16-day Festival, running September 3 - 18, 2010, kicks off opening week with 8 World and U.S. premieres and 3 Philadelphia premieres, at venues throughout the city.

Some of Broadway's best and brightest talents will perform in a one-night-only salute to theater and film composer Stephen Schwartz at Westport Country Playhouse's 2010 Annual Gala on Monday, September 13.

Westport Country Playhouse announces that due to ticket demand for 'I Do! I Do!,' the charming and touching musical about marriage, three extra performances have been added, Thursday through Saturday, September 2 - 4, evenings at 8 p.m.

Cape May Stage, South Jersey's premier professional Equity theatre, is pleased to announce a new production of a classic of postmodern existentialist theatre: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. Starring Lynn (Sex and the City, Munich) and Ron Cohen, Happy Days will open Thursday, August 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse on Bank and Lafayette Streets.

Westport Country Playhouse's Young Professionals Network and Norwalk's Triangle Community Center will present the first-ever 'LGBT Night Out at the Playhouse,' for members of the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender communities and allies, on Thursday, August 12.

Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre honors one of the most important playwrights of the late 20th century with Hearing Noise in the Silence: A Celebration of the Life and Theatre of Harold Pinter.

The Irish Repertory Theatre announces the extension of its hit revival THE IRISH...AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt ('Angela's Ashes') Directed by Charlotte Moore, who helmed the recent Broadway concert version of BRIGADOON.

In conjunction with Westport Country Playhouse's upcoming production of 'I Do! I Do!,' the joyful and touching musical about marriage, the theater is hosting 'The Perfect Proposal Contest.' Participants are requested to write, in 300 words or less, how they were asked, or asked someone else, to say, 'I Do!' Photos are welcomed, but not required. Deadline for entries is Tuesday, August 10, noon.

The Alchemical Theatre, the resident theater company at Theaterlab, will present THREE SISTERS COME AND GO, a piece conceived and directed by Orietta Crispino, September 29 through October 10, 2010 at Theaterlab.

Queensland Theatre Company proudly announces its Education Production of The 7 Stages of Grieving - a landmark play by new Artistic Director Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman. The State Theatre Company of South Australia production stars Lisa Flanagan and opens at Bille Brown Studio from 27 July.

Critically acclaimed novelist Francine Prose, writer of the recently published Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, will present an author talk and book signing, on Sunday, September 19, 3 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse. Prose will speak about her book, followed by an interview with David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director, and a Q&A with the audience.

Michael Gambon will return to the West End stage to star in 'KRAPP'S LAST TAPE' by Samuel Beckett, which will open at the Duchess Theatre on 15 September for a limited season, finishing on 20 November.

Tickets are now on sale for the 14th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 3 - 18.