Susan Smith News

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus; Managing Director) is pleased to announce the launch of PLAYTIME! at Playwrights Horizons, a brand new program offering affordable, professional childcare while you see a show.

Different Stages continues its 2010 - 2011 season with the Austin premier of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced that STEPHANIE J. BLOCK, DANIEL BREAKER, KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY, KEVIN ISOLA and KAREN OLIVO will star in the world premiere comedy, BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK, the new play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Jo Bonney. BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK is Ms. Nottage's first play to be produced in New York since she won the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined in 2009.

New Village Arts will be presenting the San Diego Premiere of Jamie Pachino's award-winning play WAVING GOODBYE. Originally produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, WAVING GOODBYE was named the Best New Work in Chicago in 2002, and has won numerous other awards.

New Village Arts will be presenting the San Diego Premiere of Jamie Pachino's award-winning play WAVING GOODBYE. Originally produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, WAVING GOODBYE was named the Best New Work in Chicago in 2002, and has won numerous other awards.

Different Stages continues its 2010 - 2011 season with the Austin premier of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award.

The OBIE Award-winning company New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director) announces the appointment of Jaynie Saunders Tiller, formerly of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, (A.R.T./New York) as Managing Director of the company.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 18th season with Heather McDonald's 'An Almost Holy Picture,' directed by Tony Tsendeas and featuring Michael Stebbins, Rep Stage's producing artistic director. Freely drawn from Pamela Ward's story 'The Hairy Little Girl,' 'An Almost Holy Picture' follows the odyssey of former minister Samuel Gentle as he travels from Massachusetts to New Mexico - and from despair to triumph - heeding a mysterious voice. 'An Almost Holy Picture' opens February 2 and runs through February 20, 2011 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the HCC campus. For tickets and additional information, visit www.repstage.org.A post-show reception follows the Saturday, February 5 evening performance and free post-show discussions follow the February 11 and 18 performances.

Direct Arts is proud to announce the new season of its acclaimed double bill of theater and film, Take Two, which will begin on Tuesday, January 11th at 7PM with a presentation of Jeff Sousa's short film THE HIROSAKI PLAYERS and a staged reading of JAPANOIR by noted Village Voice theater critic Michael Feingold.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).

Atop a high dive, a woman terrified of heights chronicles her comic misadventures of past vacations, while her son and a cast of 34 goad her to take the plunge. High Dive is a light comedy starring five-time Carbonell nominated actress, Barbara Sloan, where ½ hour before the performance begins she casts the show's supporting roles (one-liners) from audience members who are willing to participate.

Red Tape Theatre presents two Chicago premieres, 'Church' and 'Pullman, WA' by Young Jean Lee. One of the boldest voices in contemporary theater, playwright Young Jean Lee puts her absurdist spin on religion and self-esteem.

Different Stages continues its 2010 - 2011 season with the Austin premier of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award. Felix Humble, theoretical physicist, has left Cambridge and his search for a unified 'Theory of Everything', to attend his beekeeper father's funeral -- but finds himself in the middle of a hornet's nest instead.

Different Stages continues its 2010 - 2011 season with the Austin premier of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award. Felix Humble, theoretical physicist, has left Cambridge and his search for a unified 'Theory of Everything', to attend his beekeeper father's funeral -- but finds himself in the middle of a hornet's nest instead.

Keen Teens, the educational theatre partnership between Off-Broadway's Keen Company and the theatrical publishing company Playscripts, has selected the writers for the program's fifth season: Greg Kotis, Mike Lew, and Jenny Schwartz have been commissioned to write thirty-minute, large cast plays, which will be produced with student actors Off-Broadway.

Playwrights Horizons announced in December that it had commissioned FAR FROM HEAVEN, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain), music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel (Grey Gardens) and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens, The Grapes of Wrath).

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows).

Different Stages continues its 2010 - 2011 season with the Austin premier of Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award and the People's Choice Best New Play Award.

Red Tape Theatre presents two Chicago premieres, 'Church' and 'Pullman, WA' by Young Jean Lee. One of the boldest voices in contemporary theater, playwright Young Jean Lee puts her absurdist spin on religion and self-esteem.

After 18 years, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Heidi Chronicles, is back in Houston. With previews November 20, 21, and 24, The Heidi Chronicles opens November 26 and runs through December 19 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd.