Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has announced details for their upcoming 2008-09 season.
Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, and Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will launch 'The Classical Series,' bringing together professional actors to read works by master playwrights. The series premiere will feature Emmy Award winner Jane Curtin, Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason, Obie Award winner Kristine Nielsen and stage, film and television actor Chris Sarandon.
Performance Space 122 and Dublin's Pan Pan Theatre present the New York premiere of Oedipus Loves You, a wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. These performances are part of a highly acclaimed world tour, following the Dublin premiere in 2006 (including to date: the UK - Glasgow and London; Germany - Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin; Canada - Quebec, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Banff; Austria; Switzerland; Finland; and arriving in the US fresh from China - Beijing and Shanghai).
DJM Productions is proud to present the FEVER, a new play by Dave McCracken. FEVER is set on a scorching desert landscape. Under a relentless sun, two great warriors and mortal enemies, Atrox and Bonitas, have momentarily retired to their corners. Atrox enlists a handsome young soldier to his cause, the seduction and capture of Bonitas.
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present the return of its popular First Look Festival - a program of one-night only staged readings of rarely seen classics, performed by notable actors.
WHO: Baltimore Shakespeare Festival WHAT: Antigone WHEN: Through November 11. Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 5PM. WHERE: St. Mary's on Roland Avenue TICKETS AND INFORMATION: www.baltimoreshakespeare.org or 410-366-8596
New Moon Rep and Roust Theatre Company will present the world premiere of I Kreon, a contemporary verse adaptation by Aole T. Miller of the Sophocles classic drama Antigone. Directed by Aole T. Miller, I Kreon will begin performances on November 8, with the official opening scheduled for November 11. Performances will be at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in TriBeCa, and will continue through December 1.
Ars Nova presents, as part of the OUT LOUD series, a free reading of Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat, by Yussef El Guindi, directed by Joanna Settle. Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat on Monday, October 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova
Federico Garcia Lorca's classic play The House of Bernarda Alba, about a household of women repressed by a domineering mother, and William Finn's modern classic musical Falsettoland, about a gay/straight/divorced/married extended family of New Yorkers preparing for a son's bar mitzvah, will be presented by the Obie Award-winning National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) in June 2007 in NYC.
Ensemble Studio Theatre, led by Producing Artistic Director William Carden, will present a week of world premiere short plays written and directed by the company's four Directors-in-Residence.
The OBIE, Drama Desk and Lortel Award-winning Classical Theatre of Harlem is presenting a new version of Sophocles' Electra,
adapted and directed by CTH Artistic Director Alfred Preisser (Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Macbeth, King Lear).
Classic Stage Company will conclude its 2006-07 season with Aquila Theatre Company's new production of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, starring rising young British actor David Oyelowo
The third show of Theatre Erindale's 2006-2007 'Demon of Men' season is the famous contemporary classic about Canadian women surviving World War II. John Murrell's Waiting for the Parade will preview January 18, open January 19, and run to January 27 at the Erindale Studio Theatre.
On the heels of its production of Goethe's Faust, Target Margin Theater, Off Off Broadway's Obie Award-winning company, is going Greek for the upcoming 2006-2007 Season. Artistic Director David Herskovits has announced three new productions that explore our relationship to ancient Greek literature.
