The Royal Court Theatre News

Nice People Theatre Company (NPTC) kicks off its season with the World Premiere of Lauren Feldman's Grace, or the Art of Climbing.

Today, 26 October 2009, Digital Theatre announce their first high definition downloadable theatre productions available from their website using their specially developed Theatre Player which is compatible with all major browsers and operating systems.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has announced that that playwrights Bruce Norris, Tarell Alvin McCraney and David Adjmi are the first recipients of the Steinberg Playwright Award.

Noel Coward's dazzling comic masterpiece comes to the West End's Vaudeville Theatre for a ten week season from 24 February 2010, following a two week run at the Theatre Royal Bath (10 - 20 February). Starring Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen, and directed by Richard Eyre, Private Lives remains one of Coward's most sophisticated comedy of manners.

According to a report on whatsonstage.com, The Royal Court has announced its spring 2010 season. The Lineup includes plays by Roy Williams, Laura Wade, Nick Grosso and Bola Agbaje, DC Moore,Anupama Chandrasekhar, and newcomer 17-year-old Anya Reiss.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Immediate Theatre Company and Monarch Theater with the NY premiere of GHOST LIGHT, written by Desi Moreno-Penson and directed by José Zayas.

As announced by Producer Jeffrey Finn, previews began onTuesday, September 29, 2009 for the first ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet. Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt), the play is a gripping account of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students. The Broadway production has an Opening Night set for tonight Sunday, October 11 at 6:30 PM at The Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street).

Bristol Riverside Theatre (BRT) kicks off the 2nd season of its America Rising reading series with I Am A Superhero by Jennifer Tuckett. This reading will take place Sunday, October 11 at 5 p.m. at St. James Parish Hall, 225 Walnut Street in Bristol.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will open its 15th anniversary season with a fresh look at Killers and Other Family, the provocative play by Lucy Thurber (Monstrosity, Where We're Born, Stay) which had its world premiere as part of the company's 2000-01 season.

THE PRIORY by Michael Wynne will open at the Royal Court Theatre on November 22 2009 (previews from November 19), directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Bristol Riverside Theatre (BRT) kicks off the 2nd season of its America Rising reading series with I Am A Superhero by Jennifer Tuckett. This reading will take place Sunday, October 11 at 5 p.m. at St. James Parish Hall, 225 Walnut Street in Bristol.

As announced by Producer Jeffrey Finn, previews begin tonight, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 for the first ever Broadway production of OLEANNA, the provocative drama by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet.

Good Night Out Presents The World Premiere Of BROOKLYN, Rose Martula's brutally entertaining new play. 'The Chekhov of her generation.' Leon Katz, Emeritus Professor Yale Drama

Good Night Out Presents The World Premiere Of BROOKLYN Rose Martula's brutally entertaining new play.

Profiles Theatre opens its 21st Anniversary Season with the Midwest premiere of the drama The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, directed by Artistic Director Joe Jahraus. The production runs September 25- November 15, 2009, at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway. The press opening is Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 8:00 p.m.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will open its 15th anniversary season with a fresh look at Killers and Other Family, the provocative play by Lucy Thurber (Monstrosity, Where We're Born, Stay) which had its world premiere as part of the company's 2000-01 season.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Immediate Theatre Company and Monarch Theater with the NY premiere of GHOST LIGHT, written by Desi Moreno-Penson and directed by José Zayas.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) proudly welcomes the return of Origin Theatre Company with the world premiere of SPINNING THE TIMES, an evening of five short plays by Geraldine Aron, Lucy Caldwell, Rosalind Haslett, Rosemary Jenkinson and Belinda McKeon, part of 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 17th season with ?Hysteria,? a farcical re-imagining of an actual 1938 meeting between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali ? a year before Freud?s death. Steven Carpenter (?Mrs. Farnsworth,? ?Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted?) returns to Rep Stage to direct two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Bruce Nelson as Salvador Dali and Jeff Baker as Sigmund Freud. Also featured in the cast are Conrad Feininger and Marni Penning. ?Hysteria? opens October 7 and runs through November 1, 2009 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has announced that that playwrights Bruce Norris, Tarell Alvin McCraney and David Adjmi are the first recipients of the Steinberg Playwright Award.