Tectonic Theater Project News

Oscar & Emmy Award winning screen legend JANE FONDA will return to Broadway in MOISÉS KAUFMAN's 33 VARIATIONS. The play marks Fonda's first time on Broadway in 46 years.

Elizabeth Doran has been chosen to fill the position of Managing Director of The Actors' Gang, concluding a two-month search.

On October 6th, 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died six days later. His torture and murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted many of the fault lines of our culture. Now, ten years later, members of the Tectonic Theater Project will return to Laramie to find out what has happened over the last ten years

The Village Voice, the nation's first and largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced the judges for the 54th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards. The Voice's chief theater critic, Michael Feingold, will again chair the Obie Awards committee. Joining him will be Voice critic Alexis Soloski and six guest judges: Eric Grode, New York Sun; Andy Probst, AmericanTheaterWeb.com (also a frequent Voice contributor); Eisa Davis, actress-playwright, Obie Award winner for her performance last year in 'Passing Strange'; Ty Jones, actor-playwright, 2003 Obie Award winner for his performance in 'The Blacks' (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Moises Kaufman, playwright-director, 2004 Obie Award winner for his direction of 'I Am My Own Wife'; Chay Yew, playwright-director, 2007 Obie Award winner for his direction of 'Durango' (Public Theater). Mr. Propst will also serve as secretary to the committee.

The Village Voice, the nation's first and largest alternative weekly newspaper, announced the judges for the 54th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards.

One of this decade's most acclaimed plays makes its Berkshire-area debut when Barrington Stage Company presents Doug Wright's 'I Am My Own Wife', May 21 through June 8.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Acting Managing Director Fred Walker have announced that the final event in NYTW's special series of twenty-fifth anniversary public programs will be 'Two-and-a-Half Decades of Serving the Artist (Part II),' a discussion exploring the 'workshop' component of the theatre's activities on Monday, March 12 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.

The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced yesterday that it has selected Moisés Kaufman's 33 Variations to receive the 2008 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The announcement was made at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The award includes a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of $25,000-currently the largest national playwriting award. Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone also received citations and $7,500 each. These three were among six finalists selected from 28 eligible scripts submitted by ATCA members. They were evaluated by a committee of 12 theater critics from across the country.

Arena Stage and the Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program formed an official partnership last year.

Arena Stage opens its 57th season with the world premiere of 33 Variations, a new drama written and directed by Moisés Kaufman.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith recently announced the lineup for the Arena Stage's 57th theater season, her 10th as Artistic Director.

Arena Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Director Stephen Richard, and the Georgetown Theater Program have developed a partnership to enrich the future of American theater through collaboratively hosting artists and developmental play workshops, involving Arena artists as faculty, and providing mentoring for students in professional settings as well as in community outreach programs.

Honoring the 30th birthday of the late Matthew Shepard, an all-star benefit reading of Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project took place at the Town Hall Theater in Times Square on December 1st

Mary-Louise Parker, Joshua Jackson, Kathy Najimy and James Murtaugh have joined the previously announced all-star cast of the December 1st reading of The Laramie Project

On December 1, 2006, the Matthew Shepard Foundation will honor Moises Kaufman's acclaimed play The Laramie Project with a reading that will feature Stockard Channing, Judith Light and more

Randal Myler, whose It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues was seen on Broadway some years ago, will bring Grant James Varjas' 'new rock 'n' roll play' 33 to Nothing to a developmental workshop this month and then to a new Off-Broadway production later this year

Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Kathryn Lipuma, Executive Director) announced today that Beth Whitaker has been promoted to Associate Artistic Director after seven years with the company. In a newly created position, Jennie Greer has joined the staff as Director of Theatre Advancement.

Grant James Vargas' play 33 to Nothing will run in New York from March 2nd through April 8th