500 CLOWN CHRISTMAS Limited Holiday Run.
by Steve Leary - Nov 23, 2008
500 Clown Theater,, founded in 2000 and made a non-profit in 2007, presents its holiday hit ?500 Clown Christmas? for a limited holiday 2008 engagement during the first season of programming at North Central College?s Meiley-Swallow Hall.
Downstage Revives Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries 12/17-1/4
by Gabrielle Sierra - Nov 19, 2008
Downstage @ New Rep is reviving its holiday celebration of anti-cheer with David Sedaris' hilarious autobiographical solo show, The Santaland Diaries. The one-man comedy that satirizes everything we love to hate about the holidays opens for the press on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. and plays through January 4, 2009 in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.
LAByrinth Opens Alternative Festival Of Free Readings 11/16
by BWW News Desk - Nov 16, 2008
LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co- Artistic & Executive Director) opens its alternative festival of free staged readings, Live Nude Plays (November 16-19, 2008).
LAByrinth Opens Alternative Festival Of Free Readings 11/16
by Gabrielle Sierra - Nov 14, 2008
LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co- Artistic & Executive Director) opens its alternative festival of free staged readings, Live Nude Plays (November 16 ? 19, 2008).
Pan Asian Rep's 'SHOGUN MACBETH' Opens Tonight
by Robert Diamond - Nov 12, 2008
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launches their 32nd season with SHOGUN MACBETH, an adaptation by John R. Briggs from the play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Ernest Abuba (Pacific Overtures, Yellow Fever) with Japanese movement by Sachiyo Ito (2008 Japan Foreign Minister's Commendation) and fight choreography by Michael G. Chin (Rashomon), SHOGUN MACBETH begins performances at the Julia Miles Theatre (424 W. 55th Street between 9th & 10th Aves) on November 4th with opening night set for November 12th at 7:00 p.m. For more information, please visit www.PanAsianRep.org.
Parker, Cerveris, Sparks & Stormare to Star in HEDDA GABLER; Begins Jan. 09
by Robert Diamond - Nov 12, 2008
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced that Tony® award winner Mary-Louise Parker (Hedda Gabler), Tony® award winner Michael Cerveris (Jorgen Tesman), Paul Sparks (Ejlert Lovborg) and Peter Stormare (Judge Brack) in a new Broadway production of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. The production features a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn and will be directed by Ian Rickson.
Jean Genet’s French Thriller ' The Maids'
by Chicago News Desk - Nov 10, 2008
Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Jean Genet's The Maids directed by Jimmy McDermott. The production runs November 18, 2008- April 5, 2009, at Writers' Theatre, 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe. The official press performances are December 3 and 4, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
SHOGUN MACBETH Presents 'Manga Night' 11/6
by BWW News Desk - Nov 6, 2008
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and the company of SHOGUN MACBETH invites manga, anime, comic and graphic novel enthusiasts to MANGA NIGHT at the Julia Miles Theater (424 W. 55th St. between 9th & 10th Ave.
The Brick Theater to Present THE GRANDUNCLE QUADRILOGY Starting 12/04
by Reynard Loki - Nov 4, 2008
A frozen northern country. Mammoths and walruses. The legendary death of a saintly child. A twisted winter celebration. The Granduncle Quadrilogy is a holiday special for a made-up holiday. Listen to Granduncle, ancient storyteller and veteran of an endless war, as he and his fellow citizens mix folktales, fictional ethnology, and war stories to conjure a mordant yet moving portrait of an imaginary icebound world that curiously mirrors our own.
Jean Genet’s French Thriller ' The Maids'
by Steve Leary - Nov 2, 2008
Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Jean Genet's The Maids directed by Jimmy McDermott. The production runs November 18, 2008- April 5, 2009, at Writers' Theatre, 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe. The official press performances are December 3 and 4, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
Court Theatre Presents 'Radio MacBeth'
by Chicago News Desk - Oct 31, 2008
Court Theatre continues its 2008/09 season with SITI Company's Radio Macbeth adapted from the play by Shakespeare and co-directed by SITI Company Artistic Director Anne Bogart and Darron L. West. The production will run November 6, 2008 - December 7, 2008 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. The press opening will be Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
SHOGUN MACBETH Presents 'Manga Night' 11/6
by Faetra Petillo - Oct 30, 2008
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and the company of SHOGUN MACBETH invites manga, anime, comic and graphic novel enthusiasts to MANGA NIGHT at the Julia Miles Theater (424 W. 55th St. between 9th & 10th Ave.
Brick Theater Presents LORD OXFORD Starting 10/23
by BWW News Desk - Oct 23, 2008
The Brick Theater, Inc. presents LORD OXFORD BRINGS YOU THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVE! being the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT, written by Robert Honeywell and directed by Moira Stone, at the Brick in Brooklyn, New York from October 23 through November 22, 2008.
Absurd Person Singular to Run at Bristol Riverside Theatre, Nov. 11-30
by Robert Diamond - Oct 22, 2008
Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its 2008-2009 season with Absurd Person Singular by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, one of the most prolific and widely performed of English language playwrights. Gus Kaikkonen directs this charming, modern romantic comedy that looks at the game of love through the kitchens of three married couples and their fortunes on Christmas.
Court Theatre Presents 'Radio MacBeth'
by Steve Leary - Oct 20, 2008
Court Theatre continues its 2008/09 season with SITI Company's Radio Macbeth adapted from the play by Shakespeare and co-directed by SITI Company Artistic Director Anne Bogart and Darron L. West. The production will run November 6, 2008 - December 7, 2008 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue. The press opening will be Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Photo Flash: SHOGUN MACBETH at Pan Asian Rep
by Reynard Loki - Oct 14, 2008
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launches their 32nd season with SHOGUN MACBETH, an adaptation by John R. Briggs from the play by William Shakespeare. Directed by Ernest Abuba (Pacific Overtures, Yellow Fever), SHOGUN MACBETH begins performances at the Julia Miles Theatre in NYC on November 4, 2008
Brick Theater Presents LORD OXFORD Starting 10/23
by Reynard Loki - Oct 14, 2008
The Brick Theater, Inc. presents LORD OXFORD BRINGS YOU THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, LIVE! being the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT, written by Robert Honeywell and directed by Moira Stone, at the Brick in Brooklyn, New York from October 23 through November 22, 2008.
HARM'S WAY Receives Pen USA Literary Award; Opens October 18
by Robert Diamond - Oct 9, 2008
Critically acclaimed theatre company Circus Theatricals proudly announces that playwright SHEM BITTERMAN has won the 2008 Pen USA Literary Award for Drama for his play HARM'S WAY. Past winners of the award include Sarah Rule, Luis Alfaro, Donald Freed, and Craig Volk.