Wallace Shawn News

Lisa Kron, actress and member of the Five Lesbian Brothers, returns to host the Sixth Annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards), in a ceremony dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway.

Jewish Voice for Peace has collected over 150 names of Obie/Emmy/Tony/Pulitzer and other prize- winning theater and film professionals in support of the Israeli actors'/playwrights' boycott of Israeli settlements. The issue has exploded in Israel and now support for the boycott has gone global.

The New York Times has announced that Ethan Hawke, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Natasha Lyonne will star in the New Group's Blood From A Stone, the first production of the theater company's 2010-2011 season. Performances begin on December 13, 2010 at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row. The production will run through February 19, 2011.

According to a report by Haaretz, over 150 American actors have declared their support of the West Bank theatre boycott by signing a letter of support. Some of the supporters include: Cynthia Nixon, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn.

Lisa Kron, actress and member of the Five Lesbian Brothers, returns to host the Sixth Annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards), in a ceremony dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway.

Red Hour Films, Lauren Versel, Molly Hassell, Maria Teresa Arida and Lucky Monkey Pictures announced today that Marilu Henner, Zak Orth and Malcolm McDowell have joined the cast of writer/director Amy Heckerling's new feature film VAMPS. Written and to be directed by Heckerling, VAMPS tells the modern day tale of two young beautiful female vampires (Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter) living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality.

Red Hour Films, Lauren Versel and Maria Teresa Arida of Lucky Monkey Pictures and Molly Hassell announced today that Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Dan Stevens and Todd Barry have joined the cast of writer/director Amy Heckerling's new feature film VAMPS.

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced today that Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave will return to the New York stage this Fall to star opposite one another in the Broadway Premiere of Alfred Uhry‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy. Directed by David Esbjornson (The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?), Driving Miss Daisy will begin performances on October 7, 2010, at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street), with an official opening on Monday, October 25, 2010.

Today Les Waters, the associate artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, launches another new play in New York. As part of Clubbed Thumb's 2010 Summerworks Festival, the Obie Award-winning director is staging the world premiere of a comedy written by a Berkeley native: THE SMALL by Anne Washburn plays for only six performances at the Ohio Theatre in Soho from June 20 - 26. Waters previously directed the off-Broadway production of Washburn's Apparition.

Osip Theatre Presents MISS LILLY GETS BONED Beginning 22 June

Today Les Waters, the associate artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, launches another new play in New York. As part of Clubbed Thumb's 2010 Summerworks Festival, the Obie Award-winning director is staging the world premiere of a comedy written by a Berkeley native: THE SMALL by Anne Washburn plays for only six performances at the Ohio Theatre in Soho from June 20 - 26. Waters previously directed the off-Broadway production of Washburn's Apparition.

Spend two weekends catching up with all your favorite 'Toy Story' friends, including Woody and Buzz Lightyear, during ABC Family's premieres of Disney·Pixar's 'Toy Story,' 'Toy Story 2' and 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins,' starting on Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, June 6th and continuing on Sunday, June 13th.

Philadelphia Theatre Company concludes its 2009-2010 season with August Wilson's masterpiece and first Broadway success Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on May 21-June 13.

Spend two weekends catching up with all your favorite 'Toy Story' friends, including Woody and Buzz Lightyear, during ABC Family's premieres of Disney·Pixar's 'Toy Story,' 'Toy Story 2' and 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins,' starting on Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, June 6th and continuing on Sunday, June 13th.

Spend two weekends catching up with all your favorite 'Toy Story' friends, including Woody and Buzz Lightyear, during ABC Family's premieres of Disney·Pixar's 'Toy Story,' 'Toy Story 2' and 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins,' starting on Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, June 6th and continuing on Sunday, June 13th.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC), one of the world's premiere contemporary dance companies, will present the final series in its 2009-2010 season, which will include a World Premiere by eminent choreographer Aszure Barton; the Theatrical Premiere of resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's Deep Down Dos, which received its symphonic debut in April with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and a revival of Bardo by Japanese choreographer Toru Shimazaki

Spend two weekends catching up with all your favorite 'Toy Story' friends, including Woody and Buzz Lightyear, during ABC Family's premieres of Disney·Pixar's 'Toy Story,' 'Toy Story 2' and 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins,' starting on Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, June 6th and continuing on Sunday, June 13th.

Osip Theatre Presents MISS LILLY GETS BONED Beginning 22 June

After almost a year on hiatus and several months of construction and permitting issues with the City of Fullerton, former members of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Rude Guerrilla Theater Company have reunited and formed the new Monkey Wrench Collective.

Philadelphia Theatre Company concludes its 2009-2010 season with August Wilson's masterpiece and first Broadway success Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on May 21-June 13.