Stefan Brundage News

Chicago's Raven Theatre Company has announced the cast and production team for the final show of its 41st season, THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER.

Full cast and crew have been announced for Pride Films and Plays' Chicago premiere of I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER, an intergalactic gay extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high-stakes pursuits, and nuns from outer space.

 First Folio Theatre presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as part of its annual outdoor Shakespeare Under the Stars series, which opened Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 8:15 p.m., and runs through August 14, 2016. Shakespeare's magical story about the difficulties of love is directed by Hayley Rice and produced by David Rice, author ofThe Madness of Edgar Allan Poe and composer, adaptor and lyricist of Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale with Music.

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83) presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as part of its annual outdoor Shakespeare Under the Stars series, opening tonight, July 9, 2016 at 8:15 p.m., and running through August 14, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

First Folio Theatre presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as part of its annual outdoor Shakespeare Under the Stars series, opening Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 8:15 p.m., and running through August 14,2016 with previews July 6-8. Pack a picnic and experience the Shakespearean classic that the Chicago Sun-Times raves to be 'ideal for the sylvan backdrop of Oak Brook's Peabody Estate grounds, [A Midsummer Night's] Dream seems to speak directly to the trees and moonlight.' Shakespeare's magical story about the difficulties of love is directed by Jeff Award-nominee Alison C. Vesely and produced by David Rice, author of The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe and composer, adaptor and lyricist of Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale with Music.

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83) presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as part of its annual outdoor Shakespeare Under the Stars series, opening Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 8:15 p.m., and running through August 14, 2016 with previews July 6-8. Pack a picnic and experience the Shakespearean classic that the Chicago Sun-Times raves to be "ideal for the sylvan backdrop of Oak Brook's Peabody Estate grounds, [A Midsummer Night's] Dream seems to speak directly to the trees and moonlight." Shakespeare's magical story about the difficulties of love is directed by Jeff Award-nominee Alison C. Vesely and produced by David Rice, author of The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe and composer, adaptor and lyricist of Shakespeare's Cymbeline: A Folk Tale with Music.

American Repertory Theater of WNY is presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, now through March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, tonight, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with a production of Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Known as an existential comedy, PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE is Steve Martin's tongue-and-cheek poke at the deep philosophical pieces penned by French playwrights like Jean Paul Sartre or Eugene Ionesco. In this Victor Hugo a go-go knee-slapper, Martin creates an alternative universe where famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and famed theoretical romantic and painter Pablo Picasso meet at the Parisian bar Lapin Agile and wax philosophies, ponder existence, and, with help of a time-traveling 'country boy', brave the new 20th century world and the future beyond.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

American Repertory Theater of WNY will be presenting the third show of the 2014-15 season with Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE, March 5th and runs to March 28th at ART in the Box, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.

With the 'first-half' of American Repertory Theater of WNY 2014-15 season in the history books, ART/WNY sets the company sights on a great 'second-half' with the two remaining presentations Steve Martin's PICASSO AT LAPIN AGILE and a showcase featuring local playwrights and their take on the 'other side' of regional history entitled RUST BELT GROTESQUE. In March, PICASSO AT LAPIN AGUILE starts the 2015 'second half' with a great cast and crew featuring Sean Marciniak as Picasso and Matthew Chavez as the famed Albert Einstein, Diane DiBernardo Blenk as the saucy bar-maid, Germain, with her bartender lover, Freddy, played by the versatile David Mitchell, Kaleidoscope Theatre's Keith Wharton joins the company as Picasso's art dealer Sagot, Both Stefan Brundage and Eric Mowery make their ART/WNY debut with Stefan playing the big dreaming/no knowledge inventor Charles Dabernow Schmendiman as Mowery plays a simple country-boy Visitor. ART/WNY alumni Leacel Hillenbrand (THE CRUCIBLE) and Michael Leszczynski (SHINE) fill in as ensemble as Thomas Dooney makes his second appearance as director for this existential funny-bone tickler.

Road Less Traveled Productions today announced a Call for Work for its 5th Annual Buffalo Young Writers (BYW) contest. The professionally run, non-profit theatre company encourages Western New York (WNY) area students (ages 15 through 23, currently enrolled in school) to write and submit a ten-minute play. In the 2014 contest, one grand-prize winner (selected by RLTP) will receive $200 cash, a one-year paid membership to the Dramatists Guild of America, and will see their play produced at the Road Less Traveled Theater. Four runners up also will receive readings of their submissions, as well as complementary tickets to RLTP shows.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present its Fourth Annual Buffalo Young Writers (BYW) Night on Wednesday, May 15th at 7:00 pm at The Road Less Traveled Theater, located at 639 Main Street, in Downtown Buffalo's Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre (MAFAC). The evening will feature winners of the 2013 BYW Contest, recognizing outstanding student playwrights in the Western New York (WNY) area.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today announced it is accepting submissions for its fourth annual Buffalo Young Writers (BYW) contest; RLTP also indicated that, this year, it will be extending a call-for-work to students between the ages of 15 and 23 currently enrolled in Western New York (WNY) schools. (Previously, only WNY students ages 17 to 22 were invited to submit.) As in past years, local students are encouraged to write a ten-minute play; one grand-prize winner (selected by RLTP) will receive $250 and see his or her play produced at the Road Less Traveled Theater. Four runners up will also receive readings of their submissions, as well as complementary tickets to RLTP shows.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today announced it will present its second annual Buffalo Young Writers night on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:00pm at The Road Less Traveled Theater. The event features winners of the 2011 Buffalo Young Writers contest, developed by RLTP to recognize outstanding student playwrights in the WNY area between the ages of 17 and 22.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) today announced it will present its second annual Buffalo Young Writers night on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:00pm at The Road Less Traveled Theater. The event features winners of the 2011 Buffalo Young Writers contest, developed by RLTP to recognize outstanding student playwrights in the WNY area between the ages of 17 and 22.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced its schedule of public development readings of plays developed in the 2010 Emanuel Fried New Play Workshop (NPW). 2010's NPW reading series includes readings of new plays by Annette Daniels Taylor, Michael Fanelli, Alex Livingston, Justin Karcher, James Marzo, Shawn McLaughlin, Steve Roylance, Vincent Scarsella, Darryl Schneider, Melody Von Smith, and Neil Wechsler, as well as RLTP Resident Playwright, Literary Director, and NPW Founder and Moderator Jon Elston.