Timberlake Wertenbaker News

Renowned for concocting wildly imaginative adventures, playwright Kira Obolensky and visual artist Irve Dell of Minneapolis join forces with Gas & Electric Arts, bringing fierce physicality and object theater together for a multi-sensory ride through the magical mesh of fiction and reality that reside in family stories.

Cape Rep Theatre has announced the final production in the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD the drama by Timberlake Wertenbaker, will open November 5 and play for five weeks through December 6.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that two-time Olivier Award winner Henry Goodman will star as French impressionist Edward Degas in the world premiere of The Line, by Timberlake Wertenbaker. The production will play at the U.K.'s Arcola Theatre from November 23 - December 12.

Fierce passions flood through Phyllis Nagy's award-winning play, a visionary love story set in a remote, rain-swept village in the South of France. NEVER LAND'S exploration of love, loss, cultural dispossession and the abiding power of the human imagination moves from scabrous wit to heart-breaking tenderness as it charts the course of three fateful days in the lives of a singular French family that yearns to be English.

Cherry Jones won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on 24.

Fierce passions flood through Phyllis Nagy's award-winning play, a visionary love story set in a remote, rain-swept village in the South of France. NEVER LAND'S exploration of love, loss, cultural dispossession and the abiding power of the human imagination moves from scabrous wit to heart-breaking tenderness as it charts the course of three fateful days in the lives of a singular French family that yearns to be English.

Established among the theater elite, Cherry Jones is quickly becoming the small screen's up-and-comer. Best known for originating the role of Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley's 'Doubt' in 2004, she was recently nominated for her first Emmy for her more recent role as President Allison Taylor on 24. Jones sits down with the New York Times to talk TV and that Emmy nod.

Renowned for concocting wildly imaginative adventures, playwright Kira Obolensky and visual artist Irve Dell of Minneapolis join forces with Gas & Electric Arts, bringing fierce physicality and object theater together for a multi-sensory ride through the magical mesh of fiction and reality that reside in family stories.

Cape Rep Theatre will produce the classic Broadway Musical My Fair Lady by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as part of the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. My Fair Lady will open July 30 and run through August 29. Tickets, priced at $28, are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.

Audiences had the first opportunity to see Seana McKenna and Roberta Maxwell in Timberlake Wertenbaker's new translation of Jean Racine's masterpiece Phèdre on Thursday, August 6, as the play began previews at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's intimate Tom Patterson Theatre.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced that it has exceeded its 2009-10 season subscription goal of $3.165 million last week. 'We are thrilled to be able to make the first financial goal of the season well ahead of schedule,' said Janette Andrawes, A.C.T.'s Director of Marketing and Public Relations.

Cape Rep Theatre will produce the classic Broadway Musical My Fair Lady by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as part of the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. My Fair Lady will open July 30 and run through August 29. Tickets, priced at $28, are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.

Variety reports that Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall will star with Ben Affleck in 'The Town,' the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures adaptation of the Chuck Hogan novel.

Renowned for concocting wildly imaginative adventures, playwright Kira Obolensky and visual artist Irve Dell of Minneapolis join forces with Gas & Electric Arts, bringing fierce physicality and object theater together for a multi-sensory ride through the magical mesh of fiction and reality that reside in family stories.

Cape Rep Theatre will produce the classic Broadway Musical My Fair Lady by Allan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as part of the 2009 Indoor Theatre Season. My Fair Lady will open July 30 and run through August 29. Tickets, priced at $28, are available by calling 508.896.1888 or visiting www.caperep.org.

Impetuous Theater Group (John Hurley, Artistic Director) celebrates the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species with the New York premiere of After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Tony Award-nominated Our Country's Good). The production runs May 7 through 24, 2009 at the Access Theater (380 Broadway) with a May 8, 2009 opening.

Impetuous Theater Group (John Hurley, Artistic Director) celebrates the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species with the New York premiere of After Darwin by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Tony Award-nominated Our Country's Good). The production runs May 7 through 24, 2009 at the Access Theater (380 Broadway) with a May 8, 2009 opening.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the lineup of the company's 43rd subscription season today. Running from September 2009 to June 2010, the season welcomes some of the best American and international artists to San Francisco and celebrates the 100th anniversary of A.C.T.'s historic theater.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2009 season ? a playbill reflecting the Festival's commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights is now offering tickets to the public.

British actress Rebecca Hall was cast as jetsetting Caroline Cushing, one of the few women who might tame notorious lothario David Frost. Ex-wife of wealthy socialite Howard Cushing, she met Frost shortly before he met with Nixon to propose the interview series; Cushing remained his girlfriend for several years thereafter. A former secretary to columnist Liz Smith, she later became successful Hollywood editor Caroline Graham.