T. Ryder Smith News

I don't know about you, but when I first heard the title of Sarah Ruhl's comic fantasy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, it immediately brought to mind the title of Sister Helen Prejean's book, Dead Man Walking.  The sister's title refers to those who are still living but imprisoned on death row, but Ruhl's variation brings to mind the way technology has allowed the dead to figuratively walk among the living.  Personal web sites, blogs and cell phone voice mails assuring us that the person we're trying to reach will reply if we leave a message serve as our evergreen footprints, widely giving the impression of continuing life far more effectively than dusty old diaries or the fading memories of loved ones.

The Sun is reporting that actor actor Zac Efron may be considering the role of Alan Strang in EQUUS. At the London premiere of High School Musical 3 Efron was quoted as saying, 'You know that Daniel Radcliffe role on Broadway? Well it's been mentioned.'

EQUUS officially opened on Broadway last night, September 25th, after beginning previews on September 5. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there as the cast took their first official bow together and celebrated at New York City's Pier 66.

EQUUS officially opened on Broadway last night, September 25th, after beginning previews on September 5. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture the star studded arrivals at the Broadhurst Theatre.

EQUUS officially opens on Broadway tonight, it began previews on September 5. EQUUS will play a strictly limited engagement through February 8, 2009. EQUUS reunites the two stars of the wildly successful 'Harry Potter' films: Daniel Radcliffe, who portrays the brilliant young wizard, Harry Potter, and Richard Griffiths, who appears as Harry's Uncle Vernon Dursley.

Daniel Radcliffe will appear on NBC's 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' (late Monday night) August 25, 12:35 a.m. - 1:35 a.m. to talk about his upcoming Broadway debut next month in the award-winning play Equus. Check local listings.

Daniel Radcliffe will appear on NBC's 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' (late Monday night) August 25, 12:35 a.m. - 1:35 a.m. to talk about his upcoming Broadway debut next month in the award-winning play EQUUS. Check local listings.

Joining the previously announced Richard Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe and Kate Mulgrew in EQUUS are Anna Camp, Carolyn McCormick, Lorenzo Pisoni, T. Ryder Smith, Graeme Malcolm and Sandra Shipley, along with Collin Baja, Tyrone Jackson, Spencer Liff, Adesola Osakalumi, and Marc Spaulding.

Playwright's Horizons announced today that due to high demand, two more performances will added to their hit show 'Dead Man's Cell Phone'. The final performance will now take place on March 29th, 2008

The Playwrights Horizons production of the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, officially opens Tuesday March 4 at 7PM at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

The Playwrights Horizons production of the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, began previews on Saturday, February 9 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street); and officially opens Tuesday March 4 at 7PM.

Playwrights Horizons has announced a cast change for the New York premiere of Dead Man's Cell Phone, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice). Drama Desk Award winner and Playwrights Horizons alum T. Ryder Smith will assume the role of Gordon (the 'dead man' of the title) beginning Tuesday, February 19.

Goodman Theatre launches its 2007/2008 season with Passion Play: a cycle in three parts by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl. British director, actor and teacher Mark Wing-Davey helms this triptych that addresses the thorny relationship between politics and religion, lust and dogma, and perception and reality, over 425 years and three controversial, politically-charged eras. Passion Play runs September 15 - October 21.

Goodman Theatre launches its 2007/2008 season with Passion Play: a cycle in three parts by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl. British director, actor and teacher Mark Wing-Davey helms this triptych that addresses the thorny relationship between politics and religion, lust and dogma, and perception and reality, over 425 years and three controversial, politically-charged eras. Passion Play runs September 15 - October 21.

BroadwayWorld takes you into the press room and star-studded VIP reception for the 52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center!

Screenings, talkbacks and panel discussions will be offered in conjunction with The Women's Projects transFigures, running April 21st through May 5th at the Julia Miles Theater.

transFigures, a new work for Women's Project, conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, and inspired by the Jerusalem Syndrome (the well-documented psychosis that causes ordinary tourists to channel Biblical figures, create togas out of hotel bed-sheets, and parade through the Holy City as Moses, Mary Magdalene, Jesus, and other religious icons) begins previews April 6th, opens April 16th for a run through May 6th at the Julia Miles Theater,

An excellent acting ensemble is featured in The Classical Theatre of Harlem's thrillingly disturbing environmental production of Peter Weiss' drama.

Film and theatre star Josh Lucas will play the legendary gangster in a free reading of Bruce Konenberg's The Unauthorized Moving Picture of John Dillinger, which will be presented on Thursday, February 22nd at 3pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's offices

Israel Horovitz's play begins with the present day chancellor of Germany, Rudolph Stroiber, deciding to make amends for the Holocaust by inviting 6 million Jews from anywhere in the world to come to his country, where they'll be given jobs and granted automatic citizenship.