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Nine years running, excellence in all aspects of theatre - cast and creative crew - continue to substantiate UD Rep Ensemble as the most professional troupe in Delaware.

Delaware's Resident Ensemble Players present Shakespeare's enchanting comedy Twelfth Night, April 19 through May 6 in the Roselle Center for the Arts, Newark, DE.

The Acting Company (Ian Belknap, Artistic Director; Elisa Spencer-Kaplan, Executive Director) presents William Shakespeare's beloved comedy, Twelfth Night, directed by Tony nominee Maria Aitken (The 39 Steps) with a dynamic cast of The Acting Company alumni and ensemble members of Delaware's Resident Ensemble Players (REP). When her ship is wrecked, Viola washes ashore in the unfamiliar land of Illyria and embarks on a journey to find her lost brother. Brimming with music, love and longing, Shakespeare's enchanting play transports audiences to a world of comedic mayhem, mistaken identity and unrequited passion. This co-production with the Resident Ensemble Players comes to Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn), May 10-27.

Artistic Director Sandy Robbins comments in the Program Notes that any director would prefer staging KING LEAR rather than A FLEA IN HER EAR.

A perfumed letter, a seedy hotel and a pack of wacky characters bring 1907 Paris to Delaware in the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) production A Flea in Her Ear, a new version of Georges Feydeau's farce, written by David Ives, Mar. 1 through Mar. 18, in the Roselle Center for the Arts, Newark, DE. Internationally renowned director, Mark Lamos, returns to the REP to stage the bawdy bedroom comedy.

UD Rep Ensemble by and large stages classics: Shakespeare, Moliere, Bernard Shaw, Tennessee Williams, etc. Plays become classics due to their timeless quality and universal truths; truths that lived, for example, in Shakespeare's time as they do today. The immediacy of live theatre brings these principals to life before our eyes.

Ten Chimneys Foundation has announced accomplished, London-born actor Alfred Molina will lead the prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program at Ten Chimneys.

In this supercharged political environment, we are buffeted with tweeted grotesqueries daily. We ask ourselves where is the humanity in this?

UD REP Ensemble continues its excellent work

Garson Kanin's BORN YESTERDAY premiered on Broadway in 1946, and seventy years later it still entertains and gently enlightens. Regardless of the time period, the play is far more relevant than you'd think. Directed by Jonathan Moscone, the play is about wealth, political corruption, education and opportunity. As we drag along into the current presidential election, there is plenty to say on these topics, and evidently Kanin felt the same way back in the forties.

Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, presents Jason Wells's The Engine of Our Ruin for two Signature Staged Readings on July 17 and 18 on the Bratton Stage.

Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to introduce the final New Play Workshop (NPW) of the 2010 season, An Incident by Anna Ziegler, directed by Ms. Benesch and artistic associate and literary manager Katherine McGerr. Four performances will run July 29-August 1 at Chautauqua's Bratton Theater.

Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to introduce the final New Play Workshop (NPW) of the 2010 season, An Incident by Anna Ziegler, directed by Ms. Benesch and artistic associate and literary manager Katherine McGerr. Four performances will run July 29-August 1 at Chautauqua's Bratton Theater.

Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to introduce the final New Play Workshop (NPW) of the 2010 season, An Incident by Anna Ziegler, directed by Ms. Benesch and artistic associate and literary manager Katherine McGerr. Four performances will run July 29-August 1 at Chautauqua's Bratton Theater.

Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce the first full production of CTC's 27th season: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's high spirited comedy You Can't Take It With You.

Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are proud to announce the first full production of CTC's 27th season: Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's high spirited comedy You Can't Take It With You.

Artistic Directors Vivienne Benesch and Ethan McSweeny are pleased to announce the schedule for the Chautauqua Theater Company's 27th season as the resident theater on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution -- western New York's premier summer arts festival.

One of the most famous comedies ever written, The Government Inspector offers nonstop hilarity, as news of a surprise visit from an undercover government inspector sends a small provincial Russian town spiraling into a world of panic and greed.

The Guthrie today announced casting for 'The Government Inspector', a bitingly hilarious political comedy by famed local playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher.

More than a decade after its critically acclaimed run, director Joe Dowling today announced his cast of sexy young lovers and sensual fairies for the return of A Midsummer Night's Dream, his landmark production of Shakespeare's beloved comedy. A glorious celebration of young love and the power of imagination, A Midsummer Night's Dream begins previews April 12 and plays through June 22, 2008. Tickets are priced from $24 to $69 and are on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE and online at www.guthrietheater.org.