William Mastrosimone News

Rules of Desire, a new play by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone (Extremities), will have its world premiere Off Broadway in a limited engagement next month. Performances are set to begin on Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30pm at The Playroom Theatre (151 West 46th Street - just east of Broadway). Opening Night is set for Monday, February 24th, 2020 at 7:30pm. Performances will continue through March 21, 2020.

Last evening's first preview of “RULES OF DESIRE” had a very special guest in attendance – the Award-winning playwright himself, WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE! He met with the cast and director onstage following the performance.

Rules of Desire, a new play by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone (Extremities) will have its world premiere Off Broadway in a limited engagement. Produced by Eric Krebs, performances are set to begin TOMORROW night Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30pm at The Playroom Theatre (151 West 46th Street - just east of Broadway). Opening Night is set for Monday, February 24th, 2020 at 7:30pm. Performances will continue through March 21, 2020.

Producer Eric Krebs announced today that Rules of Desire, a new play by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone (Extremities), will have its world premiere Off Broadway in a limited engagement next month.

In 1982, Extremities, by playwright William Mastrosimone, premiered at Westside Arts in New York starring Susan Sarandon, and later the play was adapted into a movie starring Farrah Fawcett, the final actress to play the role of Marjorie in the Broadway production.

Boston-based indie theatre company Also Known As Theatre is proud to announce its third production, Extremities by William Mastrosimone, which will run March 28-April 13, 2019 in Margaret Jewett Hall at First Church Harvard Square, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

Bid to win 4 premium tickets to the hit Off-Broadway show, Daniel's Husband, written by Michael McKeever and directed by Joe Brancato, at the Westside Theatre, NYC, along with a meet and greet opportunity with the cast of the show and dinner with the Director at the West Bank Cafe on West 42nd Street!

Boston indie theatre company Also Known As Theatre is proud to announce its second production, In the Forest, She Grew Fangs by Stephen Spotswood, which will run November 16 - December 2 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, located at 527 Tremont Street in Boston's South End.

La Strada Theater Ensemble is one of New Jersey's premiere developmental theater companies to collaborate actors from the tri-state area with playwrights from throughout across the world.  HAPPENSTANCE is a collection of new short plays with theater artists from the New Jersey and New York on stage!

Boston indie theatre company Also Known As Theatre is proud to announce its second production, In the Forest, She Grew Fangs by Stephen Spotswood, which will run November 16 - December 2 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, located at 527 Tremont Street in Boston's South End.

J.B.J Film and Elevated Films announced today that acclaimed actor Ben Foster has been cast as the lead in director Petr Jakl's historical action drama MEDIEVAL. Jakl wrote the screenplay and will produce alongside Cassian Elwes. The film will be produced with the support of private investors and many Czech state institutions and regions, including the Czech Film Fund, the Prague Film Fund, Creative Europe - Media and others. Principal photography is scheduled to begin this fall in Prague and the surrounding Czech countryside.

Take a look back into BroadwayWorld's archives with this throwback from when Farrah Fawcett rehearsed for Extremities in 1983! Check out the photos below!

Every spring for the last 40 years, something very special has happened in Rockland County: the Penguin Rep, the not-for-profit professional Equity theatre started by artistic director Joe Brancato in 1977, begins its season. This year will be their 41st season! Brancato along with with executive director Andrew M. Horn -- has grown Penguin from a small summer theatre into what the New York Times calls: 'the gutsiest little theater!' - one of the Hudson Valley's most influential nonprofit cultural institutions, and nearly half a million theater-goers have passed through its doors during that time.

In celebration of their 17th Year in Los Angeles, Ronnie Marmo and Theatre 68 are proud to present A Theatre 68 Festival of great works. Both the Mainstage and the Flex theatre will be utilized for the festival, which will feature acclaimed works by Tennessee Williams, Sam Henry Kass, as well as several world premieres. The Festival will open February 8th , 2018.

Independence Day written & directed by N.Y.C. and Asbury Park Resident Gary C. Walter: Three siblings, who barely know each other, are summoned home where an anonymous phone call from their mother, who had disappeared many years ago, prompts a prank with lethal consequences.

Newnan Theatre Company has announced the opening of William Mastrosimone's Extremities today, November 9th. The show will run through November 19th in the NTC Black Box arena.

Newnan Theatre Company has announced the opening of William Mastrosimone's Extremities on Thursday, November 9th. The show will run through November 19th in the NTC Black Box arena.

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning professional Equity theatre under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, presents the world premiere of Fall River, a new play by Frederick Stroppel, directed by Mr. Brancato, beginning Today, October 13.

Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning professional Equity theatre under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, presents the world premiere of Fall River, a new play by Frederick Stroppel, directed by Mr. Brancato, beginning Friday, October 13.

Fearon Productions presents William Mastrosimone's EXTREMITIES at The Players' Ring in Portsmouth, NH from October 6th to the 22nd.