The Acting Company News

The Acting Company's Macbeth and The Three Musketeers, playing in repertory through May 20th, began performances on May 9th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the celebration!

The Acting Company will perform Macbeth and The Three Musketeers in repertory between May 9th and May 20th

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green and Denis O'Hare in the co-world premiere (in collaboration with the Old Globe, San Diego, CA) of Greg Kotis's new comedy Pig Farm, directed by John Rando.

The Acting Company will present both Dumas' The Three Musketeers and Shakespeare's Macbeth in New York this May

Patti LuPone, Lynn Ahrens, Edward Albee, S. Epatha Merkerson and more will be featured on CUNY's 'Women in Theatre' series

Tom Hewitt has joined the cast of the upcoming benefit reading of When Ladies Meet, which will be performed on February 27th

On February 27th, Tony Award-winners Victoria Clark and Boyd Gaines will star in a benefit reading of Rachel Crothers' When Ladies Meet

The American Theatre Wing has announced the 49 not-for-profit theatre to which it will award grants

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Harriet Harris, Frances Conroy and Lisa Banes will headline This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a benefit for The Acting Company held in LA on December 5th

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy and others will headline a staged reading of This is Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker in LA on October 10th; the reading will benefit The Acting Company

Geva Theatre Center (Mark Cuddy, Artistic Director) and Five Course Love Company LLC will present the lip-smacking new musical comedy Five Course Love with Book, Music & Lyrics by Gregg Coffin at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane (between Sixth Avenue and MacDougal Street).

Today's New York Post reports that the pair have teamed up to write a musical based on the hit film.

Adam Guettel, fresh from The Light in the Piazza's 6 Tony wins, is at work on a musical that features adventure and swordfighting

Following a national tour, during which kids and adults alike proclaimed, 'Shakespeare Rocks!,' Love, Shakespeare will be presented by The Acting Company on Saturday, May 14 at 2pm at The Acorn on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues its 2004-2005 season on Wednesday, April 27, at 6:30 pm with a pre-performance talk with book writer, Craig Lucas, and lyricist/composer, Adam Guettel, the creators of the new musical, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, along with Elizabeth Spencer, the author of the novella on which the musical is based.

Sneak preview pictures from MTC's 'A Picaso' which opens on Tuesday, April 19th at Stage II at NY City Center.

Noted British actress/director/writer Maria Aitkin directs Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) in Terence Rattigan's Man & Boy, which takes place on the eve of a giant merger. Gregor Antonesco, the world's greatest financier, manipulates his estranged son, an obscure jazz composer, into unwittingly playing a part in the old man's latest ethically-questionable business venture.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of A PICASSO, the New York premiere of a new play by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by John Tillinger, will open Tuesday, April 19th at Stage II at NY City Center (131 West 55th Street). Previews begin Thursday, March 31st.