Susan Pourfar News

Sundance Institute today announced the acting company for its 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, to be held July 7 to July 27 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The 2008 ensemble company includes: Satya Bhabha, (Queens Boulevard) Reed Birney (Stuff Happens), J. Alex Brinson (The Happening), Amari Cheatom (Histoire du Soldat), Michael Chernus (Hunting and Gathering), Tracee Chimo (Water and Discarded Hair), Jennifer Dundas (Good as New), Greg Felden (Naked Will), Chinai Hardy (In the Red and Brown Water),Erin Hill (a-ha), Nicholas Hormann (The Little Foxes), Ella Joyce (Roc), Lisa Joyce (U.S. Drag), Christina Kirk (Well),David Margulies (Angels in America, 45 Seconds from Broadway, Wonderful Town), James McDaniel (Malcolm X), Kristine Nielsen (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Green Bird), Deirdre O'Connell (In the Blood, 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore), Nija Okoro (August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone), Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Susan Pourfar (The Last Sunday in June), Gita Reddy (Hindustan), Heidi Schreck (Major Barbara), Jeanine Serralles (Hold, Please), Lois Smith (The Trip to Bountiful, Buried Child, The Grapes of Wrath) and Susie Sokol (The Sound and the Fury).

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) announced casting today for The Poor Itch, the second play of the inaugural PUBLIC LAB initiative. Directed by Lisa Peterson, The Poor Itch is a new play by the late John Belluso that will run March 7-23. Tickets are $10 for all PUBLIC LAB performances.

Plays by John Guare, David Mamet, Craig Lucas, Tina Howe and more will be featured in the Atlantic Theater Company's Ten by Twenty, featuring stars such as Kristen Johnston and Jan Maxwell, and running from June 14th through July 1st

Jeff McCarthy will star in The Front Page, presented by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, in April

Daniel Gerroll, T. Scott Cunningham, Dan McCabe and Susan Pourfar will appear in Dan O'Brien's new play The Dear Boy, which will open on August 1st as the second part of Second Stage Theatre Uptown

Adam Bock's funny and frisky surreal romantic comedy ain't just another boy meets shark story

Ars Nova and The Underwood Theater present, as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE by Elizabeth Meriwether. Directed by Evan Cabnet and featuring Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch, Zak Orth, Austin Lysy and Susan Pourfar, THE MISTAKES THAT MADELINE MADE will be read on Monday, March 28 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street).

Check out Bay Street Theatre's 'AUNTIE MAME' starring Charles Busch

Starring Charles Busch at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor...