Suzanne Agins News

The Cherry Lane Theatre presents the world premiere production of Deirdre O'Connor's JAILBAIT--a new play about two teenaged girls and the men they meet when they pose as college students during a night out at a club in Boston--as the inaugural production at Cherry Lane's newest Off-Broadway theatre, the 90-seat Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street), with previews set to begin March 19 prior to its official press opening on March 25. Suzanne Agins directs.

WRECKIO ENSEMBLE is pleased to announce the world premiere production of ROOFTOPS, directed by Kimberlea Kressal. ROOFTOPS will play a four-week limited engagement at The Milagro at Clemente Soto V?lez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002). Performances begin Thursday, March 5 and continue through to Saturday, March 28. Opening Night is Saturday, March 7 (8 p.m.). ROOFTOPS is a satiric commentary on the economic divide present in American society. When Crane is ripped from her world of comfort and convenience and catapulted on to ?the Tops?, she is introduced to a world of women living and working in a futuristic ?debtors prison?. These women, under constant sedation, unlivable conditions, and government experimentation, are quickly deteriorating both mentally and physically. As she learns the rituals and rules of her new home, including a regimented diet of fast food chicken and an expectation to breed with the rooftop's male watchdog, Crane's hope of ever returning to her old life seems impossible. When an Arab-American man, who is demonized by the media as a terrorist, offers Crane a chance to end the suffering of the rooftop dwellers, but possibly sacrifice herself in the process, Crane is forced to question the worth of one human life versus the freedom of thousands.

The Cherry Lane Theatre-Angelina Fiordellisi, Artistic Director, James King, Managing Director-announces its 2009 Season, including all programs, productions and partnerships. As the oldest, continuously running Off-Broadway theatre, which has helped define American drama for more than 80 years the Cherry Lane will devote the season to expanding its Mentor Project, and its Discovery and Heritage Series.

The Roundtable Ensemble will present in rotating repertory Moira Buffini's award-winning play Silence, directed by Suzanne Agins, and a ninety-minute version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Andrew Grosso, as well as Michelle Matlock's The Mammy Project

Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced that the winner of the 2006 Weissberger Playwrighting Award is Etan Frankel, for his script Truth and Reconciliation

Adam Rapp, a recent Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Red Light Winter, has been selected to be among the honorees of this year's Princess Grace Awards

The Williamstown Theatre Festival will present two world premieres next week--of Cusi Cram's Lucy and the Conquest as well as of the hip hop musical Demon Dreams

Emmy Rossum and Sharon Lawrence will respectively play Juliet and Anything Goes' Reno Sweeney at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, running from July 6th through August 27th

Malcolm Gets, Matt Cavenaugh, Beth Fowler, Kerry Butler, and Kristine Nielsen--as well as Kathleen Turner in her theatrical directing debut--will be among the participating stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in MA, running from July 6th through August 27th

Five new plays will be presented as part of Primary Stage's Dorothy Strelsin Fresh Ink Readings series from May 16th through 20th

The Douglas J. Cohen musical The Opposite of Sex--previously seen in San Francisco--will be one of the shows presented as part of this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival

In the Works at the Williamstown Theatre Festival will showcase readings of 6 new plays from July 15th to August 19th on the Nikos Stage