Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director Tim Sanford, Managing Director Leslie Marcus) today announces that its 2019 Spring Gala will honor the beloved and prolific actress Lois Smith, a two-time Tony Award nominee whose six-decade career in theater, film, and television has included memorable performances in numerous Playwrights Horizons productions. The event will convene Playwrights Horizons' diverse community of writers, artists, and supporters on Monday, May 6 at 583 Park Avenue.
Clubbed Thumb held their gala earlier this week, honoring playwrights Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me), Jaclyn Backhaus (Men on Boats), and Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves) and their feminist disruption of the American theatre. Special guests for the evening included Tatiana Maslany, Lila Neugebauer, Grace Gummer, Pam MacKinnon and Anne Kauffman, among others.
The Theater, Dance & Media Concentration at Harvard University launches its spring production with Maria Irene Fornes' THE DANUBE, directed by Morgan Green.
Jennifer Lawrence has set her next film role, an untitled film for IAC FILMS and A24 that will be directed by Lila Neugebauer, the director of 'The Waverly Gallery,' according to Variety.
The Playwrights Realm announces the 10th Anniversary INK'D Festival of New Plays (April 2019), the annual showcase of new works by The Realm's Writing Fellows. Over the past decade, the festival has introduced audiences to a diversity of fresh perspectives on theater's ability to address the world around it-and has proven to be an indispensible launching pad for the voices driving the future of playwriting.
The Lakewood Playhouse Celebrates Its 81st Anniversary Season with Five Premier Shows - 2 of Them South Sound Premiers! All of next season's shows continue to embrace some of our established past productions as we evolve into a Playhouse that produces moderns works fresh off of Broadway and Off-Broadway! Season Ticket Renewals are currently underway and will be open to Sales for New Season Ticket Buyers on May 28th, 2019!
From the lobby of its home at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company announced its 45th Anniversary Season last night. Producing Artistic Director Paige Price and Managing Director Emily Zeck announced PTC's slate for 2019-2020, their second producing season at the helm of the theatre. The duo has assembled a line-up of plays that continue the theatre's commitment to seek stories that center around women.
Like a winning goal made in the final seconds of the World Cup, Dallas Theater Center has delivered an explosively exciting production of THE WOLVES, one of the most explosively exciting American plays of the last several years.
Fierce. Funny. Intense. The Echo Theater Company opens its 2019 season with theLos Angeles premiere of The Wolves, the debut play by "playwright to watch" Sarah DeLappe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alana Dietze (Dry Land) directs for aMarch 16 opening at Atwater Village Theatre. Pay-what-you-want previews begin March 13, and performances continue through April 22.
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Young Conservatory Director Jill MacLean announced the cast for the upcoming production of Sarah DeLappe's 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play, The Wolves, performing at The Rueff at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater (1127 Market St., San Francisco) from Wednesday, April 17 through Saturday, April 20, 2019. The performance schedule is as follows: Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 18 at 7 p.m., Friday, April 19 at 7 p.m., and Saturday, April 20 at 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets for The Wolves ($25) are available online at www.act-sf.org/csvshows or by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415-749-2228.
City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh's home for contemporary plays, has announced the details of the theatre's 45th season of new works. This line-up of plays is the first curated by Artistic Director Marc Masterson upon his return to City Theatre in 2018.
Syracuse Stage announced the shows that will make up the 2019/2020 season: six plays and musicals on subscription plus a special world premiere directed by TV, stage and film actor Taye Diggs.
A 2017 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sarah Delappe's critically acclaimed new play, The Wolves, takes the stage February 27 in Northwest Arkansas. A "smart, hilarious, delightful meditation on society, sex and soccer" (The Village Voice), The Wolves is "an incandescent portrait" of nine American teens (NY Times-Critics' Pick). Performances are scheduled February 27-March 2, and tickets are on sale now from $17-$48 at (479) 443-5600 or theatre2.org.
Actors Theatre of Louisville announces the 2019-2020 Season, beginning in September, with exciting work from Idris Goodwin, Fiasco Theater, Sarah DeLappe and Tazewell Thompson. Season ticket packages are now on sale and available at ActorsTheatre.org.
Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist, comes to Open Stage on the heels of its ground-breaking success on stages across the country. After a sold-out New York run in 2017, The Wolves is set to return to off-Broadway for a limited run at Lincoln Center Theatre. Under the direction of Rachel Landon, Open Stage is proud to present this poignant, energetic play that has been flooring audiences with its realism, humor, and heartbreaking honestly.
San Francisco Playhouse announced casting for their first Sandbox Series production of 2019 - the world premiere of A White Girl's Guide to International Terrorism, written by Chelsea Marcantel. Morgan Green will direct. The play was commissioned by San Francisco Playhouse.
