Theatre: New York News

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith for the final time on Sunday, May 22, 2011

Tonight's edition of 'Theater Talk' will feature JERUSALEM's Tony-nominated star Mark Rylance and Tony-nominated playwright Jez Butterworth. 'Theater Talk' airs tonight at 12:30 AM on WNET-TV, Channel 13 and on CUNY TV on Saturday, May 14 at 8:30 PM, Sunday, May 15 at 12:30 PM and Monday, May 16 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM.

Due to popular demand, Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith's RADIO PLAY, now in performances at Performance Space 122 is extending an additional week through May 29, 2011.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present UNNATURAL ACTS, a new play created by members of the Plastic Theatre, conceived and directed by Tony Speciale, as the final offering of its triumphant 2010-11 season.

Karole Armitage's contemporary ballet company, Armitage Gone! Dance, has announced the official programming for the company's return to The Joyce Theater, taking place April 26-May 8, 2011.

The Broadway community mourns the loss of Arthur Laurents, who passed away Thursday night at age 93.

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

A continent away and exactly 345 years to the day after it premiered at the Theatre du Palais-Royal in Paris, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will officially open its production of Moliere's The Misanthrope, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year.

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

Immediately after the Broadway opening of his play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, named a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, Alley Company Artist Rajiv Joseph returns to the Alley with the world premiere of his latest play, The Monster at the Door.

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. is pleased to present select winners and finalists from The A.W.A.R.D. Show! series of 2009 and 2010 at Joyce SoHo from May 31- June 5. In shared programs, twelve winners and finalists from series at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, On the Boards (Seattle) and Joyce SoHo (New York City) will perform works that they either showed in their respective cities or that they created after they received cash awards

Vineyard Theatre will present its 4th annual Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to emerging playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of the play NEIGHBORS and an adaptation of THE OCTAROON, it has been announced by Vineyard Theatre's Artistic Director Douglas Aibel and Associate Artistic Director Sarah Stern.

Immediately after the Broadway opening of his play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, named a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year, Alley Company Artist Rajiv Joseph returns to the Alley with the world premiere of his latest play, The Monster at the Door.

Zelda Sayre is the belle of Alabama, the outlandish good-time girl who captures the heart and imagination of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their life together is one great party, from the madness of Jazz Age New York to the gin-soaked glamour of the Riviera. Then Zelda takes up writing herself - and more than her marriage begins to crack up.

The Theatre School at DePaul University's Showcase Series of Contemporary Plays and Classics presents MEDEA by Euripides, translated by Frederic Raphael & Kenneth McLeish, and directed by Damon Kiely. MEDEA closes Sunday, April 24, 2011, at DePaul's historic Merle Reskin Theatre.

Performance Space 122 presents the WORLD PREMIERE of RADIO PLAY by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith Friday, May 6 - Sunday, May 22, 2011