Johanna Day News

Tonight, March 20th, 2008 Almost An Evening will begin previews at the Bleecker Street Theatre. Direct from its sold-out run at the Atlantic Theater Company, Ethan Coen's series of three one act plays unsuccessfully tackle important questions Almost An Evening, directed by Atlantic artistic director Neil Pepe, sold out before previews began on January 9, opened on January 22, and played a limited engagement through February 10, 2008 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street). The Off-Broadway transfer of Almost An Evening will be produced by Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Managing Director) and Art Meets Commerce (Chip Meyrelles, Executive Director; Ken Greiner, Producing Director). The Atlantic Stage 2 engagement of Almost An Evening featured Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham, Jonathan Cake, J.R. Horne, Jordan Lage, Mark Linn-Baker, Elizabeth Marvel, Mary McCann, Del Pentecost and Joey Slotnick.

Tony Award® nominee Johanna Day and Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Tim Hopper join the cast of Atlantic Theater Company's acclaimed world premiere production of Academy Award®-winning film maker Ethan Coen's Almost An Evening.

Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of The Evildoers by David Adjmi, directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman. The Evildoers begins performances on January 18 and will play through February 9 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street, New Haven). Opening Night is Thursday, January 24.

Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry, starring Johanna Day, Bill Pullman and Dallas Roberts officially opens at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street) on Sunday, November 11 at 6:30PM; directed by Pam MacKinnon.

Longtime Chicago dance captain Gregory Butler is featured in the newly released short film The Trap, starring Jeanne Tripplehorn. The film is featured as part of Glamour Magazine's Reel Moments, a series of short films based on true stories from Glamour readers. The Trap is directed by Butler's former Chicago co-star, Rita Wilson.

Although previews do not begin until October 19, Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry has extended three weeks through Sunday, December 30 at Second Stage Theatre. Directed by Pam MacKinnon and featuring Johanna Day, Bill Pullman, and Dallas Roberts, the production will officially open on Sunday, November 11 at 6:30PM at Second Stage Theatre.

Second Stage Theatre kicks off its 29th season with the New York Premiere of Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry, directed by Pam MacKinnon and featuring Johanna Day, Bill Pullman, and Dallas Roberts. The production begins previews on Friday, October 19; opening on Sunday, November 11 at 6:30PM at Second Stage Theatre.

Four major productions of work by playwright Edward Albee - who celebrates his 80th birthday on March 12, 2008 - will be presented in and around New York during the 2007-08 season

An expanded version of Edward Albee's early work The Zoo Story, as well as a musical co-written by High Fidelity's Tom Kitt, will be among the highlights of Second Stage Theater's 2007-2008 season

The New York Theatre Barn has announced its New Play Reading Series, with four free, invitation-only readings taking place at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios this month.

Actors David Burnham, Johanna Day, Danai Gurira, costume designer Catherine Zuber and director Michael Kahn are among the winners of this year's Helen Hayes Awards,

Distracted, a world premiere play by Lisa Loomer, opened Sunday afternoon at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. With Rita Wilson, wife of Tom Hanks, starring in the show, many Hollywood friends and turned out on the sunny afternoon for the play and after party, at the adjacent Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...

Upon first entering the Mark Taper Forum, distraction ensues with three large television screens barraging the theatre with television clips ranging from CNN to the 'Price is Right,' all hoping to establish the overwhelming drowning feeling created in a world full of immediate and all too accessible information coming from anywhere and everywhere...

Rita Wilson, Bronson Pinchot and Johanna Day will star in Lisa Loomer's Distracted, which will begin at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum on March 15th, open on March 25th and run through April 29th

Christine Andreas, Elena Shaddow, David Burnham, Steve Kazee, Judith Ivey and Bill Pullman are among the nominees of the 27th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, celebrating achievement in Washington, D.C.-area theatre.

Mary Beth Peil, Johanna Day, Reg E. Cathey and other theatre veterans will star in Kate Walbert's Make Time for Norman, presented as part of the Out Loud reading series at Ars Nova on December 4th

Tony-nominee Johanna Day will headline the cast of Noah Haidle's Vigils at Chicago's Goodman Theatre

Due to popular response, the previously announced reading of Charles Grodin's new play The Prosecution of Brandon Hein has been moved to the larger Barrow Street Theatre, where it will be presented on June 5th

The Culture Project will present a reading of Charles Grodin's new play The Prosecution of Brandon Hein, which will take place on June 5th; it will feature Carey Lowell, Johanna Day, Grodin and more

The Public Theatre's world premiere of Satellites, written by Diana Son and directed by Michael Greif, will begin previews on Tuesday, May 30 in the Martinson Theater and open on June 18th