John Buchan News

Theatre Aspen today announced casting for its summer season, opening with the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q, on June 25th. The season also includes the new musical How I Became a Pirate, based on the beloved children’s book by Melinda Long (July 10th – Aug 18th) and the film noir thriller The 39 Steps (July 25th – Aug 18th). (more...)

Terry O’Brien, Founding Artistic Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, has announced the 2012 season that will run from mid-June through Labor Day weekend. (more...)

Theatre Aspen today announced that single tickets and passes for the summer season will go on sale April 16th. Deals include customizable season passes for both two or three shows, discounted preview passes and the popular Local’s Pass ($20 off 2- and 3-show passes), for valley residents willing to attend within a specific date range. (more...)

Due to the high volume of advance ticket sales, Olney Theatre Center today announced that the show has already been extended from its previous run date: The 39 Steps will run in Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab from April 18 to May 20, 2012. (more...)

The Cheyenne Little Theatre presents THE 39 STEPS, a play adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock from March 23-April 1, directed by Steve Lien. (more...)

South Bend Civic Theatre presents The 39 Steps through March 18. Written by Patrick Barlow from the classic spy novel by John Buchan and the celebrated film by Alfred Hitchcock, this comedy ran for two years after originating in London. (more...)

Theatre Aspen’s annual benefit gala will be held on Saturday, March 10th at the Hotel Jerome. The evening will feature dinner, DJ, silent and live auctions, games and dancing. CK Swett, a rising star in the world of auctioneering, will preside over the live auction. Swett, recently profiled in the New York Times, is also set to headline the TheatreWorks USA 50th Anniversary gala on February 12th. (more...)

Theatre Aspen’s benefit gala will be held on March 10th at the Hotel Jerome. The evening will feature dinner, DJ, silent and live auctions, games and dancing. CK Swett, a rising star in the world of auctioneering, will preside over the live auction. Swett, recently profiled in the New York Times, is also set to headline the TheatreWorks USA 50th Anniversary gala on February 12th. (more...)

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival will roll into its repertory season when William Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor opens on April 13 followed by Henry VIII on April 19. In addition to the openings of these two Shakespearean works, two comedies The Thirty Nine Steps and Travels My Aunt will reopen for the second half of their runs on April 22. ASF’s Extreme Weekends, in which theatre lovers can see all four repertory shows Friday through Sunday are available April 20-22 and 27-29 as well as May 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20. (more...)

Theatre Aspen’s annual benefit gala will be held on Saturday, March 10th at the Hotel Jerome. The evening will feature dinner, DJ, silent and live auctions, games and dancing. CK Swett, a rising star in the world of auctioneering, will preside over the live auction. Swett, recently profiled in the New York Times, is also set to headline the TheatreWorks USA 50th Anniversary gala on February 12th. (more...)

South Bend Civic Theatre will present The 39 Steps March 2-18. Written by Patrick Barlow from the classic spy novel by John Buchan and the celebrated film by Alfred Hitchcock, this comedy ran for two years after originating in London. (more...)

The 39 Steps hits Arizona Theatre Company's stage at the Temple of Music and Art. Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps plays from January 14 - February 4, 2012 and continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center through February 26, 2012. (more...)

The Cheyenne Little Theatre presents THE 39 STEPS, a play adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock from March 23-April 1, directed by Steve Lien. (more...)

Theatre Aspen’s benefit gala will be held on March 10th at the Hotel Jerome. The evening will feature dinner, DJ, silent and live auctions, games and dancing. CK Swett, a rising star in the world of auctioneering, will preside over the live auction. Swett, recently profiled in the New York Times, is also set to headline the TheatreWorks USA 50th Anniversary gala on February 12th. (more...)

South Bend Civic Theatre will present The 39 Steps March 2-18. Written by Patrick Barlow from the classic spy novel by John Buchan and the celebrated film by Alfred Hitchcock, this comedy ran for two years after originating in London. (more...)

The cast of The 39 Steps at Hale Center Theater Orem gives a polished, madcap performance that tips its hat to both the mystery thriller and slapstick comedy genres. (more...)

Two “winter-blues” busting comedies, the Broadway smash The 39 Steps and Travels With My Aunt will be running in tandem at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival beginning on January 27. The 39 Steps will be performed at ASF’s Festival stage from January 27 through February 7 and Travels With My Aunt will run on ASF’s Octagon stage from February 3-7. Both shows will return later in the repertory season. (more...)

6th Street Playhouse presents "The 39 Steps", a show adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, and based on the film by Alfred Hitchcock. (more...)

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Today in 2008, The 39 Steps opend at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 771 performances. The play is a farce adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Patrick Barlow wrote the adaptation, based on the original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon of a two-actor version of the play. The play's concept calls for the entirety of the 1935 adventure film The 39 Steps to be performed with a cast of only four. One actor plays the hero, Richard Hannay, an actress plays the three women with whom he has romantic entanglements, and two other actors play every other character in the show: heroes, villains, men, women, children and even the occasional inanimate object. This often requires lightning fast quick-changes and occasionally for them to play multiple characters at once. Thus the film's serious spy story is played mainly for laughs, and the script is full of allusions to (and puns on the titles of) other Alfred Hitchcock films, including Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo and North by Northwest. (more...)