Universes News

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein are delighted to announce the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, running February 26-April 6, 2014. This year's Festival program will feature (in order of opening):

She tells them that 'I never read these comics before, not Scarlet Witch. She's crazy. She has more things wrong with her than any character I've ever played. She can tell you where an object has been, she can tell you what your future is, she can connect with the dead and people from the past, the future, other universes, and she's the only person in this universe who's capable of doing that. She's unbelieveable; it's so cool. I grew up loving STAR WARS and LORD OF THE RINGS, and anything that has another type of world or universe aspect to it is so fun. '

The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the award winners from its inaugural festival in Lille, France which took place from October 25-27, 2013 at the historic L'Hybride Cinema venue.

Neil Gaiman's journey through 'London Below' comes to life onstage this fall, featuring the next generation of performers and technical artists from Cornish College of the Arts. Robert Kauzlaric's adaptation of Neverwhere runs tonight, November 6 through 10 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.

Rift Realm by Bethany Challenger is the first in a six part series that brings to light the transformation of Jade Avanasy, a girl from Australia, who with her best friend, falls into the Realmscape and begins to experience all the terrors and delights that the new universes have to offer. This book is her story, a diary from her to her mother that tells of a war between gods, demons, dragons, men and magic where the goddess of hope has already fallen and without her, all seems to be lost.

Berkeley audiences are asked to question their perceptions and attitudes about sound, disability and access, with the opening of Kid-Simple: a radio play in the flesh by Jordan Harrison. TDPS Ph.D. Candidate Caitlin Marshall directs the production, running November 15-24 in Durham Studio Theater.

The Alley Theater is proud to announce its all-new original Christmas special, 'All the Whos in Whoville'!

The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the final films to be screened at its first international event which will honor one of the most respected writers within the literary world. The three-day experience will mark the first of many worldwide gatherings in the beautiful and historic Lille, France this weekend, October 25-27, 2013 at the famous L'Hybride Cinema venue. The films which are adapted or inspired from the works of Philip K. Dick will entertain and enthrall the innumerable fans who have continued to honor his enduring legacy within the genre of science fiction.

The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the final films to be screened at its first international event which will honor one of the most respected writers within the literary world. The three-day experience will mark the first of many worldwide gatherings in the beautiful and historic Lille, France from October 25-27, 2013 at the famous L'Hybride Cinema venue. The films which are adapted or inspired from the works of Philip K. Dick will entertain and enthrall the innumerable fans who have continued to honor his enduring legacy within the genre of science fiction.

One of the major questions musicologists have asked for years is why the brilliant Ludwig van Beethoven devoted four years of his life to writing 33 variations of what is considered to be a very mediocre waltz by Anton Diabelli.

Neil Gaiman's journey through "London Below" comes to life onstage this fall, featuring the next generation of performers and technical artists from Cornish College of the Arts. Robert Kauzlaric's adaptation of Neverwhere runs November 6 through 10 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.

The world is coming down on Emily. The things which have been buried are now surfacing - and those which have been lost are being found. Billy and Delia Trexler have agreed to return to Leona Street to house-sit as a favor for Ricky Pettibone - a war hero who has died too many times to count. The favor quickly becomes an errand, the pursuit of which leads to the secret contents of The Pinch, as well as an even greater and more troubling suspicion: that things really are just as they seem - especially in the spaces between the spaces.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is pleased to announce the East Coast premiere of Appropriate, an audacious comic drama written by native Washingtonian Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed). Jacobs-Jenkins' brazen reimagining of the classic Southern family drama will continue Woolly's season-long excavation of the secrets that lie beneath America's sunny exterior.

RacocoRx & Rachel Cohen present Construct, choreographer/director: Rachel Cohen Composer: Lynn Wright Set designer: Stephanie Beck Lighting designer: Jon Harper.

Was it an ice pick or an axe that did in Communist pioneer Leon Trotsky? Can monkeys really write HAMLET? Is love the true universal language or is it 'Unamunda'? These questions and more are answered, quite comically, in the Fells Point Corner Theater's production of David Ives' ALL IN THE TIMING.

RacocoRx & Rachel Cohen present Construct, choreographer/director: Rachel Cohen Composer: Lynn Wright Set designer: Stephanie Beck Lighting designer: Jon Harper.

Nick Payne has 'dismissed rumors that his award-winning 2012 play Constellations is being adapted for the big screen.' In an interview with WhatsOnStage, Payne said that a film was previously discussed, but realized that he 'didn't know how to do it on film.'

Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director Tony Taccone today announces the appointment of Liesl Tommy as the nonprofit's associate director. Tommy, who most recently directed Berkeley Rep's critically acclaimed production of Ruined, joins the Theatre's artistic team effective September 1. Tommy will fulfill various artistic duties including directing for Berkeley Rep's main stage; developing new work through The Ground Floor, the Center for the Creation and Development of New Work; and supporting ongoing artistic pursuits in the spirit of cultivating and producing innovative and adventurous work for the Theatre.

Bruce Sherman's drawings evolve and flow; as he breathes it breathes. This may sound like child play but it takes a quiet mind to open up to a free unguided hand,. Remember that Picasso quote, “ It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” Sherman's clay work has an organic feel. The forms seem to be almost happening as if they were created softly, developed by a soft hand reaching for the form to reveal itself and not to be ordered and directed. The material is often slab left overs, remnant rogue clay not fashioned for play this way or that, a gap in the note, a space for the music.

Sundance Institute and the LUMA Foundation previously announced that the two organizations would collaborate to host The Sundance Institute | LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat at Domaine de l'Armelliere, today, July 29 - August 9, in Arles, France. Under the supervision of Philip Himberg, Artistic Director of The Sundance Institute Theatre Program, Producing Director Christopher Hibma and Program Associate Anne Kauffman, the Retreat will be the first theatre director-centered residency at the Institute.