Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director and Sandra Coudert, Managing Director) begins its 14th anniversary season with the New York Premiere of Lady, a provocative new play by Craig Wright (The Pavilion), directed by Dexter Bullard (Bug). The production will be produced in association with Barrow Street Theatre. Performances begin Thursday, August 28th, 2008.
Rattlestick is proud to announce the 2008/09 Season!
This season will see four new plays, beginning with the return of Rattlestick alum Craig Wright and his new play Lady, which will be directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracey Letts' BUG).
New season subscription packages on sale today for CanStage's 2008/09 season. Doubt, Frost/Nixon and Blackbird, are among the highlights.
John Steinbeck's timeless classic graces the New York stage for its 70th Anniversary production.
Frost/Nixon, the new play by Peter Morgan, directed by Michael Grandage, will open on Broadway this spring starring Frank Langella (as President Richard Nixon) and Michael Sheen (as Sir David Frost).
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will open its 12th season with It Goes Without Saying, a solo piece by acclaimed actor and mime Bill Bowers that will run from August 30th through October 8th
The Theatre Outlet presents the world-premiere of MEN OF CLAY, a comedy written and directed by Jeff Cohen (founder of the award-winning Worth Street Theater Company). Matthew Arkin and Obie Award winner Steve Ratazzzi join the previously announced Danton Stone in a cast that also includes Daniel Ahearn, Victor Barbella and Gabrielle Maisels.
Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre (239 W. 45th St.), with performances beginning Thursday, March 23. Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies have been cast in the Broadway production. Directed by Rufus Norris, in a dramatization by David Eldridge from the Danish 1998 film, FESTEN will have its official press opening on Sunday, April 9.
Stephen Schwartz will appear at Ford's Theatre in D.C. on January 30th to play piano for his son Scott Schwartz' play-with-music adaptation of Willa Cather's My Ántonia
Jefferson Mays, Michael Cumpsty and David Strathairn will discuss cross-dressing in Shakespeare in Boys Will Be Girls on February 13th
NORA, legendary film director Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play, A Doll's House, is coming to Manhattan for the first time in its 25-year history.
Farm Avenue Productions and Joseph Smith are proud to announce CYCLING PAST THE MATTERHORN, a new play by award-winning playwright Deborah Grimberg, starring Tony Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight.
Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is very excited to announce that Conor McPherson's The Shining City has found its home on Broadway at MTC's Biltmore Theatre.
Frank Wildhorn & Friends was presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, September 5, 2005 and will be repeated on September 12th, and 19th. The September 12th concert takes place at 7:00PM, on September 19th, the show will be performed at 7:00PM, and 9:30PM.
Patrick Marber's riff on the Strindberg classic, After Miss Julie, has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club's '05-'06 season line-up, and another new piece by Ariel Dorfman has also been scheduled
The 50th Annual Drama Desk Awards Ceremony took place on Sunday, May 22. The big winners of the night were Doubt and The Light in the Piazza, each of whom received 5 awards. Outstanding Musical however, went to Spamalot.
On June 5th, join Elaine Stritch, Jo Anne Worley and host Jason Graae honor Stockard Channing with the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement at the LA Actors' Fund Tony Party.
The production, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner and directed by Edward Berkeley, will be performed March 17-19 and 22, 2005.
Actors' Fund of America LA Tony Party to present the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement on June 5.
Complete casting was announced today for the upcoming Broadway production of LENNON, the world premiere musical based on the life and songs of John Lennon. The cast includes Will Chase, Chuck Cooper, Julie Danao, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Chad Kimball, Terrence Mann, Julia Murney, and Michael Potts.
The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), will present the world premiere of LingoLand, a musical revue with words by Kenward Elmslie and music by a wide array of composers, beginning Monday, February 7 at the Company's home at Saint Peter's, Citigroup Center, 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street).
On Wednesday 2 February 2005, 'Live' at the Delfont Room will be launched in spectacular style, with one of the UK's best-loved musical theatre actresses. For one night only, 2 time Olivier Award winning actress Joanna Riding will be joined by 'The Woman In White' star, Martin Crewes to perform an intimate concert. In the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, Crewes has been nominated for Best Actor in a Musical while, for her role in Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit' Riding is in the running for Best Actress.
Paper Mill Playhouse is proud to present the world premiere of 'Harold & Maude: The Musical,' starring Academy Award-winner Estelle Parsons, Eric Millegan, Donna English, Donna Lynne Champlin and Danny Burstein.
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