The Actors Theatre News

This May, Berkeley Repertory Theatre continues its string of solo shows by presenting No Child…, the off-Broadway play that became the breakaway hit of the year. Performed by Nilaja Sun and directed by Hal Brooks, No Child… runs from May 11 through June 1 on Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage. Opening night is Monday, May 12.

Barrington Stage Company presents the Berkshire Area premiere of Trumbo from February 14 through 24. Starring Thom Christopher and Brian Hutchison, with direction by Julianne Boyd, this stirring drama about the famous blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo will have a press opening on Saturday, February 16 at 8PM.

Curtain Call, Inc., sponsor of the Musical Mondays series of new works of musical theater performed in concert, is pleased to announce that the creative team is in place for the winner of this year's American Harmony Prize: Jip: His Story by Danny Duncan and Emily Klion.

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to announce a new Off-Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Crimes of the Heart, written by Beth Henley and directed by Kathleen Turner. The cast will feature Patch Darragh (Doc Porter), Jennifer Dundas (Lenny Magrath), Sarah Paulson (Meg Magrath), Lily Rabe (Babe Botrelle), Jessica Stone (Chick Boyle) and Chandler Williams (Barnette Lloyd).

This October, Berkeley is the epicenter of Bay Area drama when Tony Award-winning director Frank Galati brings after the quake to Berkeley Repertory Theatre; performed on the Thrust Stage beginning previews October 12, opening October 17 and runs through November 25.

A conversation with the First Violinist of Mr. Hollinger's 'Opus' at Primary Stages

Boy Howdy Productions has announced the cast and performance dates of the new play Madonna and Child and Other Divas, written by Tom Johnson and directed by Julie Hamberg to be presented at the New York International Fringe Festival/ FringeNYC in August.

The Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival has announced casting for the 1oth Annual New Works Festival of public presentations June 15-17 at the venerable performing arts camp and school in Steamboat Springs, CO.

Aurora Theatre Company presents 'Private Jokes, Public Places,' a biting academic satire by Oren Safdie. Tony-nominated director Barbara Damashek helms this take-no-prisoners comedy playing April 6 through May 13 (opening April 12) at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn that opened on Sunday, March 4th at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Dying City will at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on March 4th

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher will star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn that will begin previews on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher will star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn

The Actors Theatre of San Francisco proudly presents Horton Foote's acclaimed play, The Trip to Bountiful, through September 9.

The Actors' Theatre of Washington is serving up a double act evening of Joe Orton's Ruffian on the Stair and Charles Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; the effect is of a grandly filling entree after an under-spiced appetizer

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006. The service will be held at The Public Theater on Monday, February 27th at 7:00 PM. It will be open to the general public.

The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Mara Manus, Executive Director) and New Dramatists (Todd London, Artistic Director; Joel Ruark, Executive Director) will hold a memorial service for the Playwright John Belluso, who died on Friday, February 10, 2006.

DANIEL JENKINS, who received a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of Huck in the 1985 production of Big River on Broadway, will join the cast of SEPARATING THE MEN FROM THE BULL, presented by the Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret, a new theatre company made up of Yale School of Drama graduates recently chosen as one of NYTheatre.com's 'People of the Year' 2005.