Studio Theatre News

Stage West presents the regional premiere of Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2.

New Light Theater Project (Producing Director, Michael Aguirre; Artistic Director, Sarah Norris) is thrilled to present a revival of Yasmina Reza's LIFE x3, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Jerry Heymann. LIFE x3 begins performances on Tuesday, November 20 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 8.  Press opening is Sunday, November 25 at 3 PM.  The performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30 PM; Sunday at 3 PM. There is an added performance on Tuesday, November 21 at 7:30 PM; there are no performances on Wednesday, November 22 Thursday, November 23, and Friday, November 24 for Thanksgiving. Performances are at Urban Stages (259 W 30th Street at 8th Avenue). Tickets are $25 - $35. To purchase tickets, visit www.newlighthteaterproject.com.

New Hampshire native Doris 'Granny D' Haddock didn't settle into a rocking chair at age 88.  She took a 3,200 mile walk from Pasadena, California to Washington DC - to get big money out of politics.  On October 20, New Hampshire Theatre Project is pleased to present actor Dixie Tymitz in her one-woman, one-act show honoringGranny D's legacy: Granny D: The Power of One.

The Lark is thrilled to announce five plays and playwrights have been chosen through its Open Access Program for the 25th Annual Playwrights' Week. This year's plays, selected from a pool of over 1,200 submissions, will be: Sistren by Erin Buckley; Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes by Franky D. Gonzalez; As Is: Conversations With Big Black Women in Confined Spaces by Stacey Rose; form of a girl unknown by Charly Evon Simpson; and Desarrollo by Juliany Taveras. The selected playwrights will participate in an intensive seven-day retreat, designed to foster a peer-based community among the writers, their creative teams, and The Lark's staff.

Anton Chekhov's classic 1898 play, 'Uncle Vanya' will come to the stage at Western Connecticut State University this month. Presented by the university's Department of Theatre Arts, performances will be at 8 p.m. on Oct. 12, 13, 19 and 20; with 2 p.m. matinees on Oct. 13, 14, 20 and 21. It will take place in the Studio Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university's Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. General admission is $20.

They took Broadway by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time. Now, THE MIDTOWN MEN are bringing their magic to Torrington's Warner Theatre on October 12 at 8 pm, singing their favorite 'Sixties Hits' from The Beatles, The Rascals, The Turtles, Motown, The Four Seasons and more.

The Old Globe invites your participation as Globe for All celebrates five years of making theatre matter to more people! This talented company of professional actors will tour Shakespeare's most popular comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream throughout San Diego County to a wide variety of economically, geographically, and culturally diverse communities. The free Globe for All Tour begins Tuesday, October 30 and will visit 17 community partner venues new and old, from Oceanside to the South Bay, from Linda Vista to the Imperial Valley. Patricia McGregor returns to direct her second Globe for All tour, following Measure for Measure in 2016, along with recent critical acclaim for her direction of the world premiere of Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (People's Light, Geffen Playhouse) and Skeleton Crew (Studio Theatre, Geffen Playhouse).

The Second City Hollywood continues to celebrate diversity in comedy. After their inaugural success in 2016, with over 400 performers from all over the country, they're solidified in their ongoing efforts to celebrate diversity in Los Angeles and beyond through bringing artists together, having panel discussions and workshops, as well as continuing to help change the landscape of the community through diversity scholarships. LADCF is very proud to be sponsored by NBC, 3 Arts Entertainment, Thruline Entertainment, and Nickelodeon.

Dallas' Dark Circles Contemporary Dance celebrates the opening of its 2018-19 Season in the U.S.A. with a brand-new immersive evening-length creation conceived and choreographed by international award-winning choreographer and founder of Dark Circles Joshua L. Peugh inspired by the story "The History of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp."

Snake Oil brings their hair-whipping, guitar-shredding, hard-rocking homage to rock to the McAninch Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. With all the costumes, props and incredible technical special effects, Snake Oil will rock the MAC with covers of everyone favorite hair and glam rock bands of the 80s including KISS, the Scorpions, Poison, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Journey, Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen and Autograph.

Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Zeger, opens its opera season with Britten's The Turn of the Screw, featuring Juilliard singers and the Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Steven Osgood and directed by John Giampietro, on Wednesday, November 14 and Friday, November 16, 2018, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, November 18, 2018, at 2pm in Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Today, influencer and talent manager ChiChi Anyanwu of the NYC Black Theater Network, Marcia Pendelton, President of Walk Tall Girl Productions/Black Theater Online, and the award-winning Vineyard Theatre (Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern, Artistic Directors; Suzanne Appel, Managing Director) announced BLACK PLAYWRIGHTS: THEY SPEAK. WHO LISTENS? A Black Theater Fall Preview: Off Broadway Edition. The event is scheduled at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15th Street) on Monday, October 15, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Four-time Tony Award-winning producer Ron Simons of SimonSays Entertainment (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Porgy & Bess, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Jitney) will host the program whose purpose is to bring attention to the unprecedented number of plays by black playwrights being produced Off-Broadway this season.

The Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre closes its 2018 season with Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins. The play opens with an eerie carnival calliope playing Hail to the Chief. Instead of a patriotic welcome for a president it's a carnival shooting gallery that offers a shocking invitation to the assembled crowd. As the barker calls for contestants, eight individuals step forward.

Jeremy Julian Greco brings Keeping Up with the Jorgensons to the United Solo Theater Festival for just one performance, Today, October 10, 9pm. In this presentation, Greco recounts a childhood road trip to Orange County, CA to attend the wedding of a relative he's never met.

The award winning Wagner College Theatre, as part of its Golden Jubilee Season and its New Works Agenda, presents Mouth Pieces from October 11 through 14 at the Stage One Studio Theatre. WCT Professor Theresa McCarthy directs.

From October 12-21, Outcry Youth Theatre will transport you to the future world of The Giver, adapted by Eric Coble from the Newberry Medal winning book by Lois Lowry. The play is performed by a cast of youth actors ages 9-14 at the Addison Theatre Centre's Studio Theatre.

Sultans of String get set to take their genre-bending mix of songs to venues across Canada and US. Known for being culturally inclusive the bandcombines elements of Spanish flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Manouche Gypsy-jazz into their eclectic sound.  See full schedule below for shows for the whole family.

Anton Chekhov's classic 1898 play, 'Uncle Vanya' will come to the stage at Western Connecticut State University this month. Presented by the university's Department of Theatre Arts, performances will be at 8 p.m. on Oct. 12, 13, 19 and 20; with 2 p.m. matinees on Oct. 13, 14, 20 and 21. It will take place in the Studio Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university's Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. General admission is $20.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the full cast for its Christmas programme - a kaleidoscope of choice for whatever Christmas means to you!

Due to popular demand, "Runaway Princess, a Hopeful tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness" adds an additional performance on Saturday, October 27 at 6:00 p.m. at United Solo. Writer/Performer Mary Goggin takes the audience on a dark comic journey to the other side of the overpass in her 60-minute solo show, directed by award winning solo artist Dan Ruth.