Torben Betts News

Villanova Theatre will produce the U.S. premiere of Muswell Hill by award-winning English playwright Torben Betts, tonight, February 12-24, 2013.

Villanova Theatre will produce the U.S. premiere of Muswell Hill by award-winning English playwright Torben Betts, February 12-24, 2013.

Written by Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers graduate, Jimmy Osborne, MEAT will preview at Theatre503 from 5 June with press night on 7 June.

Philadelphia's Inis Nua Theatre Company will host a staged reading of the play The Error of Their Ways on Monday, November 28 at First Baptist Church (1636 Sansom Street).

Philadelphia's Inis Nua Theatre Company will host a staged reading of the play The Error of Their Ways on Monday, November 28 at First Baptist Church (1636 Sansom Street).

Theatre503 presents David Harewood as Martin Luther King in The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, directed by James Dacre.

Torben Betts' The Unconquered is a fast-moving satirical portrait of patriarchy, political indolence and over-reaction. The laughs begin when the 're-liberation' knocks on the door of your average upper-middle class family after aggressive revolutionaries have overthrown the government. Strange and unsettling, their new found freedom provokes the parents to reminisce about the comfort of life under the previous aristocracy while their spirited daughter criticizes her parent's banal and conforming attitudes with great, yet impotent, ferocity. The piece is a reflection of war's long-reaching effects on the domestic front, demonstrating the encompassing ambiguity of a public out of touch with reality. With great wit, poetics and charm, Betts sketches the self-hypocrisy that materializes during times of opaque identity and societal partition.

Torben Betts' The Unconquered is a fast-moving satirical portrait of patriarchy, political indolence and over-reaction. The laughs begin when the 're-liberation' knocks on the door of your average upper-middle class family after aggressive revolutionaries have overthrown the government. Strange and unsettling, their new found freedom provokes the parents to reminisce about the comfort of life under the previous aristocracy while their spirited daughter criticizes her parent's banal and conforming attitudes with great, yet impotent, ferocity. The piece is a reflection of war's long-reaching effects on the domestic front, demonstrating the encompassing ambiguity of a public out of touch with reality. With great wit, poetics and charm, Betts sketches the self-hypocrisy that materializes during times of opaque identity and societal partition.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick as 'Philip' in a new Broadway production of The Philanthropist by Tony and Academy Award winner Christopher Hampton, directed by David Grindley.

Columbia Stages presents Bertolt Brecht's BAAL, translated by Peter Tegel and directed by James Dacre, running October 22nd - 25th, 2008, at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

59E59 Theaters announces the 2008 Brits Off Broadway line up! Annual festival of new British theater launches its 5th smash year of premiering the UK's most innovative, electrifying and inspiring theater to NYC audiences

The Error of Their Ways will run as part of The American Living Room Festival at HERE Arts Center from Thursday, August 30th - Sunday, September 2nd, 2007.