The Sundance Institute News

La Jolla Playhouse presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, by Lynn Nottage (Intimate Apparel, Crumbs from the Table of Joy), directed by South Africa native Liesl Tommy, in the Mandell Weiss Theatre November 16 - December 19 (media night: Sunday, November 21 at 7:00 pm).

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Glenn Close will play the role of 'Dr. Emma Brookner' in the upcoming, Joel Grey-directed, 25th anniversary staged reading of Larry Kramer's ground-breaking play, The Normal Heart. She joins previously announced cast members Victor Garber, Jason Butler Harner, John Benjamin Hickey, Joe Mantello, Jack McBrayer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Patrick Wilson in the one-night-only event that will benefit The Actors Fund and Friends in Deed. The historic reading will take place at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street) on Monday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m.

oming straight off of their recent success with The War Cycle, the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble continues its string of original work with The Good Prisoner, writtenby award-winning playwright Kit Steinkellner.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents Two Wives in India, written by Leslie Harrell Dillen and directed by M. Bevin O'Gara, from October 28 through November 21, 2010.

The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, will hold the fifth in its series of seminars focused on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway.

An afternoon gallery talk by artist Elisabeth Subin will be offered at The Jewish Museum on Monday, November 8 at 1 pm. Ms. Subrin will talk about the current exhibition, Shulie: Film and Stills by Elisabeth Subrin. The gallery talk is FREE with admission to The Jewish Museum. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

The Huntington Theatre Company continues its 29th season with Circle Mirror Transformation, an acclaimed new comedy by Annie Baker.

Geva Theatre Center's 2010/11 Season continues with Broadway and recording star Maureen McGovern in a new production.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2010-11 season with the West Coast premiere of Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, directed by A.C.T. Associate Artistic Director Mark Rucker (A.C.T.'s The Rainmaker and the award-winning film Die, Mommy, Die!).

As previously announced, three Boston theatre companies will engage in a landmark local collaboration this fall to produce breakout writer Annie Baker's first three plays - Circle Mirror Transformation, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company (October 15 - November 14), Body Awareness, produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company (October 22 - November 20), and The Aliens, produced by Company One (October 22 - November 20). All set in the fictional town of Shirley, VT, the plays will run together in the first-ever festival dedicated to the work of this wryly observant young writer, which will be curated by the Huntington Theatre Company.

The Jewish Museum will present Shulie: A Film by Elisabeth Subrin from September 12, 2010 through January 30, 2011 in the Museum's Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. Shulie (1997) is a shot-by-shot remake of a little-known documentary about 1960s feminist Shulamith Firestone.

As a kind of 'giving back' to Governors Island, which donated space to the Sundance Institute in June for our first-ever two week 'Sundance Theatre Lab on Governors Island', Sundance Institute will be offering free to the public playwriting classes on the Island on Saturday, September 11, 2010.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced casting details for Circle Mirror Transformation which will be performed in the Studio Theatre, November 4 - 21, 2010. The cast features Lynn Blackburn as Theresa, Kayla Carlyle as Lauren, Lisa Hassler as Marty, Bill Jenkins as James and Ted Wold as Schultz.

The University of Georgia has approved four new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. Joining other distinguished experts who select television and radio's most coveted prize are Doreen Ringer Ross of Los Angeles, Barbie Zelizer of Philadelphia, Maureen Ryan of Chicago and Steve Bryant of London.

As a kind of 'giving back' to Governors Island, which donated space to the Sundance Institute in June for our first-ever two week 'Sundance Theatre Lab on Governors Island', Sundance Institute will be offering free to the public playwriting classes on the Island on Saturday, September 11, 2010.

The Off Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing firms, will hold the fifth in its series of seminars focused on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway.

The Big Picture, one of the Hollywood Bowl's most popular annual programs, pays tribute this year to the extraordinary 75-year legacy of Twentieth Century Fox, Sunday, September 5, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

ThroughLine Artists with J.J. Kandel and John McCormack will present SUMMER SHORTS 4, their fourth annual festival of new American short plays, at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street). Performances begin Friday July 30th, and continue through Thursday September 2nd.

The Big Picture, one of the Hollywood Bowl's most popular annual programs, pays tribute this year to the extraordinary 75-year legacy of Twentieth Century Fox, Sunday, September 5, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin recently announced that Amy Corcoran will direct the Company's production of the award-winning Annie Baker play, Circle Mirror Transformation. The comedy runs November 4-21, 2010 in the Studio Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre. WaterTower Theatre will celebrate its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season.