August Strindberg News

Cutting Ball Theater closes its 12th season with the adventurous RISK IS THIS.THE CUTTING BALL NEW EXPERIMENTAL PLAYS FESTIVAL, one of the only play festivals in America solely dedicated to experimental works for the stage. (more...)

Cutting Ball Theater has announced that it will add an additional four performances of its current hit production of TENDERLOIN, a World Premiere about the people and places in Cutting Ball TheaterÂ’s neighborhood. Written by Annie Elias, with theater documentarians Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Uy Kelly, Leigh Shaw, and David Sinaiko (with additional writing by David Westley Skillman), and directed by Elias, TENDERLOIN plays now through June 3 (added performances: Thursday, May 31, 7:30pm; Friday, June 1, 8pm; Saturday, June 2, 8pm; Sunday, June 3, 5pm). (more...)

Happy Medium Theatre, Inc. (HMT) will present The American Plan, written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Melanie Garber from June 8th – 16th, 2012 at the Factory Theatre, 791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02118. (more...)

August Strindberg's Chekhovian comedy, "Playing With Fire" (Leka med elden, 1893), in a translation by Ulrika Brand that has been newly adapted by Obie-winner Leslie Lee, Executive Director of Negro Ensemble Company, will be presented May 18 to June 10 with an all-black cast as the inaugural production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre, directed by Robert Greer. The play, to be staged at New School for Drama, 151 Bank Street (West Village), will be a co-production of August Strindberg Repertory Theatre and Negro Ensemble Company in association with Theater Resources Unlimited. (more...)

The Old Globe’s 2012-13 Season will feature the World Premieres of two new musicals: Allegiance – A New American Musical by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The season also includes George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in celebration of the classic play’s 100th anniversary and the World Premiere of a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt. Two recent Broadway hits will make their San Diego debuts at the Globe: David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People and Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities. Rounding out the season are the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s Be a Good Little Widow and the Southern California Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size. (more...)

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has named Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Professor Anne Bogart to the first class of Doris Duke Artists. (more...)

The Theatre School at DePaul University presents THE DEATH OF GAIA DIVINE, by Jacob C. Shuler, and directed by John Jenkins, as the featured production in the 2012 New Playwrights Series. THE DEATH OF GAIA DIVINE opens Friday, May 4, and runs through Sunday, May 13, 2012, at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Performances are Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Previews are on May 2 and May 3 at 7:30 PM. (more...)

Cutting Ball Theater concludes this seasonÂ’s Hidden Classics series with THE KEYS TO HEAVEN, part of the companyÂ’s celebration of August StrindbergÂ’s centennial. (more...)

The Geffen Playhouse announces an unprecedented eight plays – five in the Gil Cates Theater and three in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater – for its 2012/2013 season. With an ongoing focus on introducing audiences to new plays, reimagined classics and emerging voices, the Geffen’s season features three world premieres – including a commission by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (Coney Island Christmas), a classic adaptation by Tony Award nominee Neil LaBute (August Strindberg’s Miss Julie) and a new work by Michael Golamco (Build); two American premieres – one marking the return of Olivier Award nominee Joanna Murray-Smith (The Gift) and the other a riotous British import by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (Yes, Prime Minister); two West Coast premieres – including Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new work (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark) and comedienne Judy Gold’s acclaimed off-Broadway memoir (The Judy Show); and a brand new production of David Mamet’s defining work American Buffalo helmed by Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Randall Arney. (more...)

The Geffen Playhouse announces an unprecedented eight plays – five in the Gil Cates Theater and three in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater – for its 2012/2013 season. With an ongoing focus on introducing audiences to new plays, reimagined classics and emerging voices, the Geffen’s season features three world premieres – including a commission by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies (Coney Island Christmas), a classic adaptation by Tony Award nominee Neil LaBute (August Strindberg’s Miss Julie) and a new work byMichael Golamco (Build). (more...)

Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, BEYOND THE HORIZON, directed by Louis Contey, will perform for eight final shows and close on April 22nd. (more...)

Cutting Ball Theater closes its 12th season with the adventurous RISK IS THISÂ…THE CUTTING BALL NEW EXPERIMENTAL PLAYS FESTIVAL, one of the only play festivals in America solely dedicated to experimental works for the stage. This yearÂ’s festival, which will run June 8 to July 14, features two new works and five new translations in staged readings. Like the 2011 festival, which featured workshops of two Cutting Ball commissioned works, this yearÂ’s festival offers a unique opportunity to see plays in development, alongside the artists creating them, as the works find their theatrical voice. (more...)

Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2012 celebration of August StrindbergÂ’s centennial with a Hidden Classics presentation of three one-act plays that show the power of StrindbergÂ’s invention. The readings are free and open to the public on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 1pm at The Cutting Ball Theater in Residence at EXIT on Taylor, 277 Taylor St., San Francisco. For more information, visit cuttingball.com or call 415-525-1205 (more...)

Annie Elias brings her years of experience in documentary theater to Cutting Ball with the World Premiere of TENDERLOIN, a piece about the people and places in Cutting Ball Theater’s neighborhood. Written by Annie Elias, with theater documentarians Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Uy Kelly, Leigh Shaw, and David Sinaiko (with additional writing by David Westley Skillman), and directed by Elias, TENDERLOIN plays April 27 – May 27 at the Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor (277 Taylor Street) in San Francisco. (more...)

The cast features Tony Award nominee Keith Carradine (Nashville, Broadway’s The Will Rogers Follies) as “JD Drew,” Allison Case (Hair revival on Broadway) as “Kelli Mangrum,” Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick (Broadway’s Ring of Fire) as “Mike Ferris,” Hunter Foster (Playhouse’s Little Miss Sunshine; Broadway’s Urinetown) as “Benny Perkins,” Jay Armstrong Johnson (Broadway’s Catch Me If You Can) as “Greg Wilhote,” David Larsen (Broadway’s Good Vibrations) as “Chris Alvaro,” Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone (Legally Blonde national tour) as “Heather Stovall,” Mary Gordon Murray (Broadway’s Little Me) as “Virginia Drew,” Connie Ray (author/performer, Smoke on the Mountain, Broadway’s Next Fall) as “Cindy Barnes,” Jon Rua (Broadway’s In the Heights) as “Jesus Pe?a,” Keala Settle (Broadway’s Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) as “Norma Valverde,” Dale Soules (Grey Gardens) as “Janis Curtis,” Jacob Ming Trent (Lincoln Center Theatre’s On the Levee) as “Ronald McGowan,” Scott Wakefield (Broadway’s It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues) as “Frank Nugent” and William Youmans (Playhouse’s Dracula, Twelfth Night) as “Don Curtis/Dr. Stokes.” (more...)

Scandinavian American Theater Company (SATC) will present the American premiere of Pinocchio’s Ashes April 13—29 at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue). (more...)

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR, announce the third event in the series, TCG Playwrights in Conversation: Discussions and Readings – In Conversation with Anne Bogart. In celebration of TCG’s 50th anniversary, four events featuring conversations with TCG authors and featured artists are being presented at The Greene Space, WNYC and WQXR’s innovative broadcast studio and performance venue. (more...)

On the centennial of Strindberg's death, Harvard University is hosting a two-day symposium of staged readings, expert lectures, an exhibit of rare artifacts, and film screenings that will provide a fresh look at the work of this Swedish playwright, author and artist who changed the course of the modern theatre. The symposium events will take place from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, March 2 - Saturday, March 3, primarily in Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street on the Harvard campus. All events are free and open to the public. (more...)

On the centennial of Strindberg's death, Harvard University is hosting a two-day symposium of staged readings, expert lectures, an exhibit of rare artifacts, and film screenings that will provide a fresh look at the work of this Swedish playwright, author and artist who changed the course of the modern theatre. The symposium events will take place from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, March 2 - Saturday, March 3, primarily in Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street on the Harvard campus. All events are free and open to the public. (more...)

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company announces its 16th season, the first under the new leadership of longtime company member Nick Sandys. (more...)