Wooster Group News

Soho Rep has announced the new preview date of October 13 and the new opening date of October 17 for its 2007-08 season opener, Philoktetes by John Jesurun at Soho Rep.

The Public Theater in association with St. Ann's Warehouse, opens its 2007-2008 season with The Wooster Group's Hamlet, a wildly inventive take on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, Hamlet marks the debut of the legendary Wooster Group at The Public Theater, building upon The Public's historic role as a home for independent and experimental artists. The Wooster Group's Hamlet will begin previews on Tuesday, October 9 and run through Sunday, November 18 with an official opening on Wednesday, October 31.

The Public Theater will open its 2007-2008 season with The Wooster Group's Hamlet, a wildly inventive take on Shakespeare's best-known tragedy. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, Hamlet marks the debut of the Wooster Group at The Public Theater, opening on Wednesday, October 31.

The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus announced today the lineup for its 2007-08 season: seven exciting new productions that will mark the return of three of The Public's most-produced playwrights and introduce several emerging new voices to Public Theater audiences.

Theatre veterans Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe will square off as rival bloodsuckers in the upcoming film Daybreakers.

New York Theatre Workshop has announced that The Black Eyed, written by Betty Shamieh, directed by Sam Gold, will begin performances Tuesday, July 17 at 8:00pm, at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery

Three theatre veterans - Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and Stanley Tucci - are directing films as part of the 'Theo Van Gogh remake trilogy,' in which three films by the controversial Dutch filmmaker will receive new English-language reimaginings

Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep will join previously announced Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Joe Pantoliano, and Lois Smith in performances of excerpts from new plays by a host of artists at Soho Rep's Spring Gala '07

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming (Cabaret, The Threepenny Opera, film X-Men 2) will star in David Grieg's new translation of Euripides' The Bacchae.

Multi-award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 'The Grey Zone') will host the star-studded Spring Gala '07 for Obie Award-winning Soho Rep on Monday, May 14

The first program for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), preceding the larger Edinburgh Fringe, has been announced by EIF director Jonathan Mills. This year, the Festival runs in theatres, concert halls, and opera houses across the city August 10-September 2.

Director Michael Mayer and Musical Director Kimberly Grigsby have a fun discussion just a few days before the opening of the show... They get into the geeky spirit of the whole series with tons of fun stories!

Signature Theatre Company's production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running will open on December 3rd at the company's Peter Norton Space

Signature Theatre Company has once again extended August Wilson's Two Trains Running, this time through January 14th, 2007

Signature Theatre Company will extend August Wilson's Two Trains Running one additional week since the originally scheduled run is already sold out

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director; Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) presents the New York premiere of a provocative new play by Christopher Denham (star of Red Light Winter), directed by Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, 'Winter Passing').

RED LIGHT WINTER, a new play written and directed by Adam Rapp, will begin rehearsals in New York tomorrow.

Isabelle Huppert will be featured in one of the events that are part of Carte Blanche: French-American Dialogue Series in November and December

DOUBT, the critically acclaimed new play by John Patrick Shanley, begins previews tonight on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). The production, directed by Doug Hughes, opens Thursday, March 31st.

The Manhattan Theatre Club production of DOUBT, the critically acclaimed new play by John Patrick Shanley, will open on Broadway on Thursday, March 31st at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). The production, directed by Doug Hughes, will begin previews on Wednesday, March 9th.