The Gate Theatre News

The Gate Theatre has announced its upcoming season. Plays include Hedda, a new translation, of Hedda Gabler, State of Emergency by Falk Richter, Unbroken by Alexandra Wood, and I Am Fallingby Jenny Worton.

The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) is pleased to announce the San Francisco Premiere of Bug by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Tracy Letts (August: Osage County, Killer Joe) will be directed by Jon Tracy.

This March, be among the first people in America to see Will Eno's Tragedy: a tragedy at the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre. An apocalyptic comedy by an intriguing new playwright, Tragedy makes its American premiere as part of Berkeley Rep's 40th birthday party, directed by Obie Award-winner Les Waters. Presented on the intimate Thrust Stage, Tragedy begins previews on March 14, opens March 19, and closes April 13, 2008.

Victoria Clark will star in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's Juno, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008 season. Directed by Tony Award winner Garry Hynes, with guest music direction by Eric Stern and musical staging by Warren Carlyle, Juno will play for five performances, from March 27 - 30, at New York City Center

My Land's Shore, with music by Christopher J. Orton and book and lyrics by Orton and Robert Gould, will receive its world concert premiere at the Gate Theatre in Cardiff, Wales, from August 3rd through 5th.

Book of Longing, Swan Lake, and The Constant Wife, all part of this years Spoleto Festival in Charlston.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer, starring Tony Award-winners Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid, will play its final performance as scheduled on Sunday, August 13th at 3:00 p.m. at the Booth Theatre

Catch scenes from Faith Healer and book tickets for its final weeks

The critically acclaimed new Broadway production of Brian Friel's Faith Healer, starring Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid, will recoup its entire $2 million investment in 8 weeks

Harold Pinter, who is recuperating from cancer of the oesophagus, has been ordered by his doctor to cancel all public apperances relating to his Nobel Prize for Literature

Due to health reasons, playwright Harold Pinter will not go to Sweden to pick up his Nobel Prize for Literature

Christopher Meloni, who stars on 'Law and Order: SVU' may reprise his Gate Theatre role of Eddie in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge on Broadway

Geraldine Fitzgerald, who recieved a Tony nomination as a director and an Oscar nomination as an actress, passed away on July 17th at the age of 91

Sharon pulls out of Vagina due to daughter's breast cancer scare, Brooke paints the town red and Anthony Andrews replaces Michael Ball. Plus lots of transfer news!