Stella Adler News

The Midtown International Theatre Festival presents Dad Doesn't Dance, a new solo noir in one act written and performed by Nora Brown*.

BOMB SHELTER will be presented as part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

The ReGroup Theatre, in conjunction with the playwrights' families, proudly announces the publication of The 'Lost' Group Theatre Plays: Volume One, featuring 1931- by Claire and Paul Sifton and Success Story and Gentlewoman both by John Howard Lawson.

BOMB SHELTER will be presented as part of the 2nd Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

The Hangar Theatre hits one out of the park with the opening of its first show of the season, Richard Dresser's baseball comedy Rounding Third. Performances begin on June 3, 2011.

The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble & I'm Right Here Productions are proud to present three encore performances of the musical Group during this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival at the prestigious Stella Adler Theatre.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today that Lemon Andersen will teach a spoken word intensive class at the Studio from May 31- June 10, 2011.

Jerry O'Connell (The Defenders, Crossing Jordan), Jennifer Stone (Wizards of Waverly Place, Harriet the Spy), Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie), Ariel Winter (Modern Family), Michael J. Willett (United States of Tara), Scott Lowell (Queer as Folk), and Larry Poindexter (The Hard Times of RJ Berger on MTV) will join soap opera stars Billy Miller and Greg Rikaart (The Young and The Restless), and Megan Ward (General Hospital) in The Blank Theatre Company's 19th Annual Young Playwrights Festival.

The ReGroup Theatre, in conjunction with the playwrights' families, proudly announces the publication of The 'Lost' Group Theatre Plays: Volume One, featuring 1931- by Claire and Paul Sifton and Success Story and Gentlewoman both by John Howard Lawson.

In the center of the New York City Theater District, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones, in association with LOT-EK® Architects, True Love Productions and Times Square Arts, presents "Theatre for One", a four foot by eight foot portable theater with one performer playing to one audience member.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today that Lemon Andersen will teach a spoken word intensive class at the Studio from May 31- June 10, 2011.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Outreach Division will perform William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' tonight. The cast are members of the Outreach Division's Adler Youth Group, a free year-long after-school program. The students chosen for the program learn the same acting technique that helped cultivate the talents of Stella Adler alumni like Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando. This performance serves as a milestone project of the program, which has helped students gain confidence, avoid common urban influences like gangs and drugs, and provide a sense of community that will continue long after the program.

A unique masterpiece, Pygmalion is one of Bernard Shaw's most popular plays.

The Blank Theatre Company's 19th Annual Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival has chosen 12 plays by teenaged playwrights, aged 14 -19, from six different states.

Sam's Romance is an edgy comedy about connections. People who make the wrong connection. People who don't connect no matter how they try. And, people who never connect but go on living with great expectations of connecting.

As recently announced, Robert De Niro will act as the President of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival jury. This year's event will take place May 11-22.

Janozak Productions will present Sam's Romance, the new romantic comedy by Paul Manuel Kane, having its Off-Broadway premiere at the Actors Temple Theater (339 West 47th Street), beginning May 11th for an open-ended run.

With uncanny precision and unforgettable pizzazz, John Epperson - also known as Lypsinka - pays homage to ultimate screen-queen Joan Crawford. Using the actress' own words, The Passion of the Crawford is a fantasia on the persona of this 20th Century cultural icon. Washington City Paper has called Lypsinka 'certifiably fabulous,' while the Los Angeles Times dubbed her 'a geyser of glamour!' Daily Variety raved: 'Watching a Lypsinka show is like channel-surfing in Heaven.'

Janozak Productions will present Sam's Romance, the new romantic comedy by Paul Manuel Kane, having its Off-Broadway premiere at the Actors Temple Theater (339 West 47th Street), beginning May 11th for an open-ended run.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting held the Sixth Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala last night, May 2, at the home of songwriter and philanthropist, Denise Rich. This year's honorees included Annette Bening, Liza Minnelli, Muriel 'Mickie' Siebert and Donald Katz. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.