Mint Theater Spring Benefit will feature a reading of The Importance Of Being A Woman, a one-act play by Rachel Crothers, with a cast led by Sara Surrey (Rutherford and Son), Samantha Soule (A Little Journey), Kate Levy (Return of the Prodigal, Soldier's Wife), and Stephen Schnetzer (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Bladys) tonight, April 23rd at The Cosmopolitan Club (122 East 66th Street). Eleanor Reissa directs. Leslie Hendrix (Susan from Mint's production of Susan and God and a fixture on "Law and Order" for 19 years as Dr Elizabeth Rogers) is going to introduce the evening.
Mint Theater Spring Benefit will feature a reading of The Importance Of Being A Woman, a one-act play by Rachel Crothers, with a cast led by Sara Surrey (Rutherford and Son), Samantha Soule (A Little Journey), Kate Levy (Return of the Prodigal, Soldier's Wife), and Stephen Schnetzer (Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Bladys) on Monday, April 23rd at The Cosmopolitan Club (122 East 66th Street). Eleanor Reissa directs. Leslie Hendrix (Susan from Mint's production of Susan and God and a fixture on "Law and Order" for 19 years as Dr Elizabeth Rogers) is going to introduce the evening.
On Wednesday, November 3, the Vineyard opened Will Eno's Middletown. The all-star cast of MIDDLETOWN features Heather Burns, Cindy Cheung, Johanna Day, Georgia Engel, David Garrison, Ed Jewett, McKenna Kerrigan, James McMenamin, Michael Park, Linus Roache, Olivia Scott and Pete Simpson.
Arena Stage presents The Quality of Life, written by playwright and Emmy Award-winner Jane Anderson and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker). In this 'magnetic work of theater' (San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor, we find two couples dealing very differently with devastation.
Arena Stage announces full cast for its upcoming production of The Quality of Life, newly rewritten by Emmy Award-winning Jane Anderson (TV's Mad Men and Normal) and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker).
As previously announced, on October 12, nearly 150 theaters nationwide will stage readings of the epilogue piece to 2000's The Laramie Project, entitled The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, in honor of the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. Two regional companies that have announced productions include Washington DC's Arena Stage and Who Wants Cake in Michigan.
As previously announced, on October 12, nearly 150 theaters nationwide will stage readings of the epilogue piece to 2000's The Laramie Project, entitled The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, in honor of the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. Two regional companies that have announced productions include Washington DC's Arena Stage and Who Wants Cake in Michigan.
Arena Stage presents The Quality of Life, written by playwright and Emmy Award-winner Jane Anderson and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker). In this 'magnetic work of theater' (San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor, we find two couples dealing very differently with devastation.
Arena Stage announces full cast for its upcoming production of The Quality of Life, newly rewritten by Emmy Award-winning Jane Anderson (TV's Mad Men and Normal) and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker).
In preparation for the opening of the theater's renovated complex in Southwest D.C., Arena Stage has undertaken ARENA RESTAGED-a two-year festival of American voices. Part Two will continue the remarkable exploration of American work and provide the theater with necessary time to move into the new Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in time for the Fall 2010 opening.
There are two things you should know about me: I am a musical theatre lover, and I love to schmooze with actors and composers. I am very fortunate to live in the DC area where our theatre community is growing by leaps and bounds. There are so many productions opening in September in DC, Maryland and Virginia theatres, my head is spinning trying to figure out which ones I will see.
Arena Stage presents The Quality of Life, written by playwright and Emmy Award-winner Jane Anderson and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker). In this 'magnetic work of theater' (San Francisco Chronicle) filled with compassion, honesty and humor, we find two couples dealing very differently with devastation.
Arena Stage announces full cast for its upcoming production of The Quality of Life, newly rewritten by Emmy Award-winning Jane Anderson (TV's Mad Men and Normal) and directed by Lisa Peterson (Arena's The Rainmaker).
Local playwright Karen Zacarías offers Arena Stage audiences the world premiere of Legacy of Light, a funny and moving romp about the passion for truth as lived by two different women in their separate eras.
Local playwright Karen Zacarías offers Arena Stage audiences the world premiere of Legacy of Light, a funny and moving romp about the passion for truth as lived by two different women in their separate eras.
Local playwright Karen Zacarías offers Arena Stage audiences the world premiere of Legacy of Light, a funny and moving romp about the passion for truth as lived by two different women in their separate eras.
Local playwright Karen Zacarías offers Arena Stage audiences the world premiere of Legacy of Light, a funny and moving romp about the passion for truth as lived by two different women in their separate eras.
This week at the O'Neill the performances of national playwrights and national music theater conferences continue. There will be a freee Theatermakers performances on Tuesday, July 8th.
PERFORMANCES OF NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS, NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER CONFERENCES CONTINUE!
FREE THEATERMAKERS PERFORMANCE ON TUESDAY, JULY 8
The National Playwrights Conference continues with two new projects, SMUDGE and MAGNOLIA. National Music Theater Conference presents performances of MAX UNDERSTOOD and begins performances of IRON CURTAIN.
SMUDGE by Rachel Axler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Performances: Thurs., July 10 at 8:15 pm; Sat., July 12 at 8:15 pm
When a young couple's first child doesn't turn out as expected, they're forced to revise their notions about what constitutes a life, and figure out -- in their own, specific ways -- how to be parents. A very, very, very dark comedy.
CAST:
Maria Dizzia*
Mike Doyle*
Jonathan Walker*
MAX UNDERSTOOD
Book by Nancy Carlin; Lyrics by Nancy Carlin and Michael Rasbury; Music by Michael Rasbury
Directed by Jack Cumming
Performances: Fri., July 11 at 8:00 pm; Sun., July 13 at 3:00 pm
The transformative journey of a 7-year old autistic boy and those who love him, and how the need to communicate overcomes an unintelligible chasm. This sound-scaped musical may leave you feeling autistic yourself…and that's OK.
CAST:
Matthew Gumley*
Jonathan Hammond*
Hannah Laird*
Lauren Marcus*
Kerry O'Malley*
Ben Roseberry*
Paul Oakley Stovall*
MAGNOLIA* by Regina Taylor
Directed by Regina Taylor
Performances: Fri., July 11 at 8:15 pm; Sunday, July 13 at 5:15 pm
Magnolia is set in winter, 1963, as the schools, stores and real estate markets of Atlanta, Georgia are beginning to desegregate-much to the resentment of the white community. Lily, a white landowner, returns from Paris to find the Forest Estate, her family's land, on the brink of ruin. Thomas, a successful businessman and the descendent of former slaves to the estate, has a plan to save the land: turn it into subdivisions and sell it to the white families fleeing the city. Tensions build as members of the estranged family reunite to try and save their beloved land-magnolia trees and all.
*MAGNOLIA is a collaboration with Chicago's The Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, Artistic Director
CAST:
Tyla Abercrumbie*
Tory Davis*
Ted Dasy*
Harriett Foy*
Mattie Hawkinson*
Stephen Henderson*
Brandon Miller*
Caitlin O'Connell*
Tim Rhoze*
David Ross*
Stephen Schnetzer*
Makela Spielman*
IRON CURTAIN***
Book by Susan DeLallo, Lyrics by Peter Mills, Music by Stephen Weiner
Directed by Cara Reichel
Performances: Sat., July 12 at 8:00 pm; Weds., July 16 at 8:00 pm; Fri., July 18 at 8:00 pm; Sat., July 19 at 3:00 pm
New York, 1956: two down-on-their luck songwriters are kidnapped by the KGB and brought to Moscow, where they are forced to write Communist Propaganda musicals. A madcap farce about fame vs. freedom, filled with divas and dominatrixes, stooges and spies, mishaps and misdirects as our heroes try desperately to get back home.
***IRON CURTAIN is funded in part through The ASCAP Residency.
CAST:
David Abeles*
Alison Briner*
Stephen Bogardus*
Monique French*
David Gregory
Daniel Levine*
Anne Torsiglieri*
Dan Sharkey*
Robby Sharpe*
Lucy Sorenson*
Gordon Stanley*
Jessica Snow Wilson*
*member of Actors' Equity Association
THE PUB is open to the public before and after all performances. Come enjoy your favorite beverage and spend some time with our artists!
COMING UP NEXT WEEK will be performances of THUNDER ABOVE, DEEPS BELOW and MISTAKES WERE MADE at the National Playwrights Conference, and IRON CURTAIN continues the National Music Theater Conference! Also Coming Soon: The Summer Gala Musicals Under the Star:, Celebrating 31 years of the National Music Theater Conference and NMTC co-founder and Artistic Director Paulette Haupt! July 19th at 6:30pm. For tickets and more information see www.theoneill.org or contact Suzanne Hendrix at 860-443-5378 x 217.
All schedules and artists subject to change. Please call the O'Neill Box Office at 860-443-1238 for times, prices and reservations. Outdoor performances will be moved indoors in the event of rain.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964, is the pre-eminent center for the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. It has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full productions at other theaters around the world, including Broadway, off-Broadway and major regional theaters. The O'Neill has received a special Tony Award, the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theater Excellence and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award. The O'Neill's programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, National Critics Institute, and the National Theater Institute, which includes semester-long, fully accredited intensive theater-training programs and a six-week accredited summer program, Theatermakers. In addition, the O'Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, a National Historic Landmark and the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill. For more information regarding the Center, please visit the O'Neill website at www.TheONeill.org or call 860-443-5378.
This week at the O'Neill the performances of national playwrights and national music theater conferences continue. There will be a freee Theatermakers performances on Tuesday, July 8th.
PERFORMANCES OF NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS, NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER CONFERENCES CONTINUE!
FREE THEATERMAKERS PERFORMANCE ON TUESDAY, JULY 8
The National Playwrights Conference continues with two new projects, SMUDGE and MAGNOLIA. National Music Theater Conference presents performances of MAX UNDERSTOOD and begins performances of IRON CURTAIN.
SMUDGE by Rachel Axler
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Performances: Thurs., July 10 at 8:15 pm; Sat., July 12 at 8:15 pm
When a young couple's first child doesn't turn out as expected, they're forced to revise their notions about what constitutes a life, and figure out -- in their own, specific ways -- how to be parents. A very, very, very dark comedy.
CAST:
Maria Dizzia*
Mike Doyle*
Jonathan Walker*
MAX UNDERSTOOD
Book by Nancy Carlin; Lyrics by Nancy Carlin and Michael Rasbury; Music by Michael Rasbury
Directed by Jack Cumming
Performances: Fri., July 11 at 8:00 pm; Sun., July 13 at 3:00 pm
The transformative journey of a 7-year old autistic boy and those who love him, and how the need to communicate overcomes an unintelligible chasm. This sound-scaped musical may leave you feeling autistic yourself…and that's OK.
CAST:
Matthew Gumley*
Jonathan Hammond*
Hannah Laird*
Lauren Marcus*
Kerry O'Malley*
Ben Roseberry*
Paul Oakley Stovall*
MAGNOLIA* by Regina Taylor
Directed by Regina Taylor
Performances: Fri., July 11 at 8:15 pm; Sunday, July 13 at 5:15 pm
Magnolia is set in winter, 1963, as the schools, stores and real estate markets of Atlanta, Georgia are beginning to desegregate-much to the resentment of the white community. Lily, a white landowner, returns from Paris to find the Forest Estate, her family's land, on the brink of ruin. Thomas, a successful businessman and the descendent of former slaves to the estate, has a plan to save the land: turn it into subdivisions and sell it to the white families fleeing the city. Tensions build as members of the estranged family reunite to try and save their beloved land-magnolia trees and all.
*MAGNOLIA is a collaboration with Chicago's The Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, Artistic Director
CAST:
Tyla Abercrumbie*
Tory Davis*
Ted Dasy*
Harriett Foy*
Mattie Hawkinson*
Stephen Henderson*
Brandon Miller*
Caitlin O'Connell*
Tim Rhoze*
David Ross*
Stephen Schnetzer*
Makela Spielman*
IRON CURTAIN***
Book by Susan DeLallo, Lyrics by Peter Mills, Music by Stephen Weiner
Directed by Cara Reichel
Performances: Sat., July 12 at 8:00 pm; Weds., July 16 at 8:00 pm; Fri., July 18 at 8:00 pm; Sat., July 19 at 3:00 pm
New York, 1956: two down-on-their luck songwriters are kidnapped by the KGB and brought to Moscow, where they are forced to write Communist Propaganda musicals. A madcap farce about fame vs. freedom, filled with divas and dominatrixes, stooges and spies, mishaps and misdirects as our heroes try desperately to get back home.
***IRON CURTAIN is funded in part through The ASCAP Residency.
CAST:
David Abeles*
Alison Briner*
Stephen Bogardus*
Monique French*
David Gregory
Daniel Levine*
Anne Torsiglieri*
Dan Sharkey*
Robby Sharpe*
Lucy Sorenson*
Gordon Stanley*
Jessica Snow Wilson*
*member of Actors' Equity Association
THE PUB is open to the public before and after all performances. Come enjoy your favorite beverage and spend some time with our artists!
COMING UP NEXT WEEK will be performances of THUNDER ABOVE, DEEPS BELOW and MISTAKES WERE MADE at the National Playwrights Conference, and IRON CURTAIN continues the National Music Theater Conference! Also Coming Soon: The Summer Gala Musicals Under the Star:, Celebrating 31 years of the National Music Theater Conference and NMTC co-founder and Artistic Director Paulette Haupt! July 19th at 6:30pm. For tickets and more information see www.theoneill.org or contact Suzanne Hendrix at 860-443-5378 x 217.
All schedules and artists subject to change. Please call the O'Neill Box Office at 860-443-1238 for times, prices and reservations. Outdoor performances will be moved indoors in the event of rain.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964, is the pre-eminent center for the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. It has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full productions at other theaters around the world, including Broadway, off-Broadway and major regional theaters. The O'Neill has received a special Tony Award, the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theater Excellence and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award. The O'Neill's programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, National Critics Institute, and the National Theater Institute, which includes semester-long, fully accredited intensive theater-training programs and a six-week accredited summer program, Theatermakers. In addition, the O'Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, a National Historic Landmark and the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill. For more information regarding the Center, please visit the O'Neill website at www.TheONeill.org or call 860-443-5378.
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