Sarah Benson News

Off-Broadway's Soho Rep hosts its 2008 ROOF TERRACE PARTY to celebrate its upcoming season on Tuesday, June 24, beginning at 6:30pm on the roof terrace of 267 Fifth Avenue.

Tania Camargo, who has worked for the past three years as the Management Associate of Roundabout Theater Company, has been named as the new Executive Director of Off-Broadway's Soho Rep, it has been announced today by John Dembrow, Chairman of the Board at Soho Rep.

Soho Rep launches the 10th season of its highly popular WRITER/DIRECTOR LAB READING SERIES, readings of the very newest work by writers and directors at Soho Rep on Monday, April 7 at 7pm with, playwright Mike Daisey's THE MOON IS A DEAD WORLD, directed by Maria Goyanes -- the first of six new plays commissioned for the lab.

Alexandra Conley, who has served as Executive Director of Soho Rep since 1999, is leaving that post, it has been announced by Jon Dembrow, Chairman of the Board at Soho Rep. Ms. Conley leaves Soho Rep to join her husband in Milan, Italy, where he has accepted a new position in the fashion industry.

Soho Rep - the Obie Award-winning theatre company (46 Walker St.) - will expand its main stage productions from two plays to three during the 2007-08 season

The OBIE award-winning HERE Arts Center will host the annual Downtown Arts Poker Tournament, Monday, June 4 at 7:00 PM.

Jenny Schwartz -- an emerging young playwright whose numerous works include the recently-acclaimed God's Ear, along with Cause for Alarm and Escaping the Modern World-- has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Soho Rep Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellow, it was announced last evening by Soho Rep Artistic Director Sarah Benson at the Soho Rep Spring Gala '07 in Manhattan.

The Obie Award-winning theatre company Soho Rep presented its 2007 Spring Gala, hosted by award-winning actor and director Tim Blake Nelson on Monday, May 14 at 101 Riverviews, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep will join previously announced Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Joe Pantoliano, and Lois Smith in performances of excerpts from new plays by a host of artists at Soho Rep's Spring Gala '07

Multi-award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 'The Grey Zone') will host the star-studded Spring Gala '07 for Obie Award-winning Soho Rep on Monday, May 14

Sarah Benson, the theatre director and dramaturg who has been the Associate Artistic Director of Soho Rep for the past two years, will be Soho Rep's new Artistic Director

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and The Graduate Center, CUNY, with The Lucille Lortel Foundation, will present the four-day event 'PRELUDE '06: At the Forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre.'

Chuck Cooper, Gregg Edelman, Douglas Sills, Sally Murphy, Leslie Kritzer, Lee Wilkof and Billy Porter are among the stars who will make the trek to Poughkeepsie, New York for 'New York Stage and Film' at Vassar College from June 23rd through July 30th

New plays and theatre pieces will be featured in the Prelude '05 Festival, which runs from September 28th through October 1st