Stella Adler News

The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Spirit Square has invited Linda Ann Watt to teach a Master Class--Acting & Scene Study using "Method" techniques for adults.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today Ron Burrus, legendary acting teacher, will begin teaching actors in Manila, Philippines.

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards with Emmy® Award-winning stage and screen actress Holland Taylor is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe Street) for a limited three-week engagement, Nov. 13- Dec. 4, 2011.

The Broadway Beauty Pageant announced that the award-winning Tovah Feldshuh will be the host for this not-to-be-missed event on Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, benefiting The Ali Forney Center, NYC's primary housing resource for homeless LGBT youth. The annual show will again be at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street).

Marin Theatre Company is proud to announce that 9 Circles by Bill Cain and Splinters by Emily Schwend are finalists for the 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.

Collaborative Arts Theatre is pleased to present the Southeastern regional premiere of Tina Packer's Women of Will, a funny, lively and insightful look at some of Shakespeare's female heroines.

BENCHED, featuring actresses Dionne Audain, Leigh Jameson and Liz Mamana, will close Sunday February 27 at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, 1556 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Historic Georgetown.

Rubicon offers process-oriented acting classes for kids (beginning at age five) and adults. These programs focus on developing skills and technique, basic theatre terminology, building confidence and stage presence, learning proper voice techniques and developing an awareness of body language through character work, and other fundamental techniques through improvisation, scene study and theatre games.

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Tracy Aron, announces the complete cast for the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE, starring two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company will present William Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It" from February 7- February 20th.

In honor of Black History Month, Towne Street Theatre celebrates the diaspora of the black experience onstage with its 4th Annual Ten Minute Play Festival 'The Black Experience' - Colored, Negro, Black, African-American; a collection of our stories' will be performed at the Stella Adler Theater. Performance dates are February 3-6, 10-13, and 17-20; Thursday-Saturday performances are at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday performances are at 3:00 p.m.

Playwright Allyson Currin and director Jessica Lefkow are pleased to announce the upcoming presentation of Allyson's newest play, BENCHED, featuring actresses Dionne Audain, Leigh Jameson and Liz Mamana.

Playwright Emily Schwend has been named ACT's 2011 New Play Award winner for her play South of Settling. Two FREE staged readings will be presented in ACT's Bullitt Cabaret on March 12 at 8:00 p.m. and March 13 at 2:00 p.m.

The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Spirit Square has invited Linda Ann Watt to teach a Master Class--Acting & Scene Study using "Method" techniques for adults.

The Open Fist Theatre Company and The Aquila Morong Studio are thrilled to announce their co-production, PROOF, written by David Auburn and directed by John Hindman.

ANN: An Affectionate Portrait of Ann Richards with Emmy® Award-winning Actress Holland Taylor plays Austin's Paramount Theatre May 4-7.

Casting is complete and rehearsals have begun for The Blank Theatre Company's third production of its 20th anniversary season, Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock.

Following six weeks of fierce competition among 20 of California's finest young musical theatre performers, LA's Next Great Stage Star 2011 celebrated Judy Mora's outstanding victory at the 5th annual competition's glittering Finale on Sunday, February 6, presented by Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's, the most critically acclaimed, award-winning supper club of its kind in greater Los Angeles. Runners up included San Francisco's Michael David (2nd place); Matthew McFarland (3rd place); Emily Goglia (4th place); and Reba Buhr (5th place). Broadway World's Dean Butler was there to capture the three and a half hour event ... off and on stage - which also included a Special Guest Star performance by musical theatre, television star and pop composer/singer Blake McIver Ewing.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company will present William Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It" from February 7- February 20th.

Casting is complete and rehearsals have begun for The Blank Theatre Company's third production of its 20th anniversary season, Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock.