LAW & ORDER star Mariska Hargitay and screenwriter Warren Leight visited the cast and crew after seeing the Thursday evening performance of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Check out photos below!
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents Good People, the humor-filled Broadway hit about class, fate and economic hardship from Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole). Esteemed Canadian director Jackie Maxwell, now in her 11th season as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, makes her D.C. directorial debut and returns to direct in the United States after five years. Named Best Play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle during its Broadway run, Good People runs February 1-March 10, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents Good People, the humor-filled Broadway hit about class, fate and economic hardship from Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole). Esteemed Canadian director Jackie Maxwell, now in her 11th season as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival, makes her D.C. directorial debut and returns to direct in the United States after five years. Named Best Play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle during its Broadway run, Good People runs February 1-March 10, 2013 in the Kreeger Theater. BroadwayWorld has a video of highlights from the show below.
On Sunday, February 10, 2013, Kate Burton visited the cast and crew after the matinee performance of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? And on Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, Dr. Ruth Westheimer came to give some marital advise to George and Martha. Check out photos of the guests with the cast below!
Nicholas Hytner, Director of London's National Theatre, visited the cast and crew after seeing the evening performance of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Check out a photo of the group below!
The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its world premiere of Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, dedicated to Nataasha van Kampen and James Hillman. The production will be directed by Rylance and Claire van Kampen (who also contributes original music) and will feature Rylance as Ron as well as actors Jim Lichtscheidl (Guthrie: Arms and the Man, The 39 Steps) as Eric, Emily Swallow (Guthrie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Television: the upcoming TNT series "Monday Mornings") as Flo and Chris Carlson (Guthrie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, God of Carnage) as Wayne in a humorous and mythic story based on Jenkins' prose poetry and taking place on the frozen waters of the Upper Midwest on the last day of ice fishing season. Nice Fish also features Bob Davis (Guthrie: Tales from Hollywood, Arsenic and Old Lace) as DNR Officer and Tyson Forbes (Guthrie: Peer Gynt, 1776) as Wainwright.
More than 110 local and national theater artists representing more than 45 San Diego theatrical productions will compete for the 2012 Craig Noel Awards.
Last night, February 2nd, Parker Posey joined George and Martha's party at The Booth Theatre. After the performance of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, she visited the cast and crew backstage. Check out a photo of the group below!
This afternoon, February 2, 2013, the cast and crew of Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? were visited by Oliver Platt after the matinee. Check out a photo of the group below!
On Thursday night January 31, 2013, David Hyde Pierce and his nephew, the playwright Greg Pierce attended the performance of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and then visited the cast and crew backstage after the show. Check out a photo of the group below!
On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, after the matinee of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, Shirley MacLaine came backstage to visit the cast and crew. Check out a photo of the group below!
Terry Kinney and his friend Heidi Neurauter visited the cast and crew of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF after the performance on Saturday evening, January 26, 2013. Check out a photo of the group backstage below!
theatreWashington just announced the 29th Helen Hayes Awards nominees today, January 28th, 2013 in The National Theatre's Helen Hayes Gallery. This year, for the first time, theatre lovers in Washington and around the world were able to watch the nomination announcements live via webcast at theatrewashington.org, Facebook, or on the Livestream. Rebecca Sheir of WAMU's Metro Connection and WTOP's Bob Madigan hosted. Scroll below for the full list of the 2013 nominees!
The critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will play its final performance on Sunday, March 3rd at 3:00 PM. The production, which began performances on Thursday, September 27, 2012 and officially opened on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street) will have played 159 performances.
Friday night brought Kathryn Erbe to Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF on Broadway. Kathryn and her daughter Maeve visited the cast and crew backstage after the performance. Check out a photo from the visit below!
The critically-acclaimed 50th anniversary Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? began performances on Thursday, September 27, 2012 and officially opened on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), is on sale through March 2013. The cast and crew were greeted backstage last night, January 24, by Randy Jones, Cowboy from The Village People. Check out photos of him backstage at the play below!
On Tuesday, January 22nd Jay O. Sanders and Mariann Plunkett visited the home of George and Martha. They're pictured below with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf's Tracy Letts and Amy Morton. And today backstage before the show, the cast and crew celebrated the birthday of Honey, Carrie Coon. In the photo below, Carrie is ready to make the first slice in a Triple Layer Death by Chocolate cake covered in chocolate ganache.
Last week the cast and crew of Edward Albee's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF were visited by Julianna Margulies and her husband on Saturday evening, January 19, 2013 and Philip Seymour Hoffman on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at the matinee. Check out photos of the stars with the cast below!