Stephen Adly Guirgis News

Just as the one time of year when taking candy from strangers and dressing up in strange costumes is overlooked as run-of-the-mill, LAByrinth Theater Company gets ready for its annual charity showdown - 'Celebrity Chrades'. The Battle of Good vs. Evil event taking place on Monday, October 29th at St. Paul's Hall is SOLD OUT with a limited number of standing room tickets available at the door for $125 per person and will be accommodated on a space-available basis only.

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

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announced today the lineup for its 2007-08 season: seven exciting new productions that will mark the return of three of The Public's most-produced playwrights and introduce several emerging new voices to Public Theater audiences.

Ensemble Studio Theatre will present Marathon 2007, E.S.T.'s 29th festival of new one-act plays, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street). Performances begin Thursday May 31st, and continue through Sunday, June 30th.

Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast opposite Meryl Streep in the upcoming big screen adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt

13P, the OBIE-winning collective of 13 playwrights, will present The Secret Lives of Ps at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, for one performance only, on Sunday, April 29 at 7pm

SF Playhouse presents 'Jesus Hopped the A-Train' by Stephen Adly Guirgis, playing February 28 through April 20, opening March 3.

For more information and tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or for out-of-town callers toll-free at 888-927-7529, or visit the box office at 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Information about the Playhouse is also available at www.westportplayhouse.org.

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced their lineup for The Seventh Annual Barn Series Festival, which will be presented in the 102-seat Shiva Theater at The Public from December 2 to December 20, 2006

Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman--both stars of stage and screen--will direct productions for the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia next year

The San Francisco Playhouse has announced its 2006-07 season, including Reckless, Man of La Mancha, and West Coast Premieres!

Philip Seymour Hoffman may be returning to Broadway sometime next year

Amy Brenemann, Marsha Mason, Tony Roberts, Jobeth Williams, Lili Taylor, Adam Arkin, Jill Clayburgh and Hector Elizondo are among the theatre, film and TV veterans who will be seen in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Voices from the Edge' 2006-2007 season of play

LAByrinth Theater Company has annoucned that LABPASS® for the 2006-07 season is now onsale

Ensemble Studio Theatre bills itself as 'The Major Forum for One-Act Plays in America.' Having not surveyed too many of the minor forums, I can't necessarily second it. But if its 28th Festival of One-Act Plays 'Series C' is any indication, the company can pride itself on presenting intriguing work by artists more than skilled in the craft of one-act playwriting-and even the writing of musicals

Playwright Eric Bogosian as well as actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daphne Rubin-Vega will be part of LAByrinth Theater Company's next season

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (Curt Dempster, Founder/Artistic Director) will present MARATHON 2006, E.S.T.'s 28th annual festival of new one-act plays, at E.S.T. (549 West 52nd Street). Performances begin Friday, May 23rd and continue through Sunday, June 25th.

The musical The Girl in the Frame will be among the works presented as part of MTC's 6@7 readings series on April 10th

Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award for Leading Actor for his starring role as Capote in the film of the same name.