The 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play 12TH PREMISE, by Los Angeles playwright Brian Crano, will have its U.S. Premiere at The Lillian Theatre (1076 Lillian Way in Hollywood). Kristin Hanggi, who won both the LA Weekly and the LADCC Awards for Best Direction for the Ovation Award-winning musical bare, is set to stage this dramatic play about twenty-something college students emerging into the real world. Presented by Chaotic Entertainment, the limited engagement begins performances on March 3, 2005 with an official press opening on March 10, 2005.
Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic
Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will continue its 20th
Anniversary season with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, a new musical with book by
Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel and direction by Bartlett
Sher.
The winner of the 2003 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, Elmina's Kitchen is a darkly hilarious firecracker of a play written by Kwame Kwei-Armah. First presented by the National Theatre in 2003, Elmina's Kitchen will commence a UK tour at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 25 February - 5 March.
The Lucille Lortel Foundation, in its continuing effort to respond to the needs of small to midsize not-for-profit theatre companies, has accelerated the timing of its 2005 General Operating Support grant program.
Emmy and Peabody Award winner Tom Fontana (writer/producer Oz, Homocide) directs Michael Hayden (Henry IV, Enchanted April, Judgement at Nuremburg), Anthony Arkin (I'm Not Rappaport), and Samantha Soule (White Chocolate, Dinner at Eight) in Phillip Barry's Paris Bound, Monday, December 13th to benefit The Acting Company.
Lynn Redgrave will star in the October 7 reading of her new one-woman play, Nightingale, based on the life of her maternal grandmother, as part of the FOOD FOR THOUGHT season at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South at 20th Street).
