Susan Zeeman Rogers News

INTAR presents the first production of its 2014 - '15 season: Teach, Teacher, Teachest by David Koteles, directed by Daniel Irizarry, beginning September 12th and continuing through October 5th only. Opening Night is set for Thursday, September 18th.

USELESS, Saviana Stanescu's dark-humored drama about human trafficking, ends its limited run at IRT Theater, downtown Manhattan. The production directed by Jose Zayas, starring Ana Grosse, Andy Phelan, and Steven Rishard, featured creative work by designers: Susan Zeeman Rogers (Set), Ryan O'Gara (Lighting), David Margolin Lawson (Sound), and Lisa Renee Jordan (Costumes). Check out production photos below!

Ripe Time, the Brooklyn-based company led by Rachel Dickstein, has garnered acclaim for creating physically charged, visually powerful adaptations of classic and contemporary stories by authors raging from Edith Wharton to Jhumpa Lahiri. Conceived, written and directed by Dickstein, the play The World is Round epitomizes the company's work, creating from Gertrude Stein's book a fable (for grownups and mature children) full of original, live music by Heather Christian and aerial movement choreographed by Nicki Miller. Ripe Time's first new show since its celebrated Mrs. Dalloway adaptation Septimus and Clarissa (2011), The World is Round makes its world premiere April 17 - 30 at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn).

The Drama League (Gabriel Shanks, Executive Director; Roger T. Danforth, Artistic Director) has announced the ten artists and theater ensembles chosen to develop new plays and musicals as part of the 2014 Artist Residency Program. The development of these works, which include two 2014 Artists In Residence, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time and Jeremy Bloom/Rady&Bloom, will be held at The Drama League Theater Center (32 Avenue of the Americas) in Tribeca from March-July 2014.

Beginning tonight, June 14, Underground Railway Theater and Suffolk University present the World Premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! with books, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick, and original music by Michael Wartofsky. The production runs from tonight, June 14 through August 12, 2012.

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, URT brings a powerful and riveting production of Katori Hall's award-winning play to Central Square Theater. Bravura performances by Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Kami Rushell Smith.

Underground Railway Theater presents the recent Broadway hit and the 2010 Oliver Award Winner for Best New Play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall. The Mountaintop is presented in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Underground Railway Theater's Associate Artistic Director, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, directs The Mountaintop. The press performance for The Mountaintop is Monday, January 14 at 7:30PM.

Underground Railway Theater presents the recent Broadway hit and the 2010 Oliver Award Winner for Best New Play, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall. The Mountaintop is presented in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Underground Railway Theater's Associate Artistic Director, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, directs The Mountaintop. The press performance for The Mountaintop is Monday, January 14 at 7:30PM.

Underground Railway Theater and Suffolk University present the World Premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! with books, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick, and original music by Michael Wartofsky. The production opened last night, June 14, and runs through August 12, 2012. Check out photos of the cast on stage below!

Beginning June 14, Underground Railway Theater and Suffolk University present the World Premiere of Car Talk: The Musical!!! with books, lyrics, and direction by Wesley Savick, and original music by Michael Wartofsky. The production runs from June 14 through August 12, 2012. The press performance for Car Talk: The Musical!!! is Monday, June 18 at 7:30PM.

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards recognize the extraordinary wealth of talent in the Boston theatre community, and this year's nominations have just been announced. IRNE Reviewers include among others David Brooks Andrews, Sheila Barth, Jules Becker, Kay Bourne, Beverly Creasey, Shirley Esthimer, Richard Fahey, Guy Giampapa, Norm Gross, Nancy Grossman, Bryce Lambert, Beatrice Lee, Kilian Melloy and Larry Stark.

The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe is Stephen Thorne's original three-act work exploring the final mysterious days of Poe plays at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI through June 5, 2011

The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE), a panel of critics from media outlets around the state of Massachusetts, have announced the winners for the 2011 IRNE Awards honoring the best of the 2010 Theatre Season. A list of the nominees and winners is below.

Passionate dreams toward peace in Jerusalem and beyond…Naomi Wallace offers a unique combination of lyrical theatricality and political passion in her new triptych for the stage, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, playing at Central Square Theater Thursday, November 18th through Sunday, December 19th.

Passionate dreams toward peace in Jerusalem and beyond…Naomi Wallace offers a unique combination of lyrical theatricality and political passion in her new triptych for the stage, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, playing at Central Square Theater Thursday, November 18th through Sunday, December 19th.

Passionate dreams toward peace in Jerusalem and beyond…Naomi Wallace offers a unique combination of lyrical theatricality and political passion in her new triptych for the stage, The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, playing at Central Square Theater Thursday, November 18th through Sunday, December 19th.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.

SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA, a new play based on Virginia Woolf's novel 'Mrs. Dalloway,' will be produced at New York's 13th Street Theater on June 25 and 26. This workshop production will be co-produced by the Red Bull Theater and Ripe Time.