Natalia Payne News

Audiences and critics on both coasts embraced Eurydice and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), two shows steeped in longing from playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters. Now this talented team turns its attention to a fresh translation of a masterpiece: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Ruhl enlivens this classic with the same elegant understanding of intimacy that infused those earlier collaborations, while Waters and a cast of 14 deliver another sumptuous production. This West Coast premiere begins previews on Berkeley Rep's intimate Thrust Stage on April 8, opens April 13, and runs through May 22. Three Sisters is a co-production between Berkeley Rep, where Waters serves as associate artistic director, and Yale Repertory Theatre.

Audiences and critics on both coasts embraced Eurydice and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), two shows steeped in longing from playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters. Now this talented team turns its attention to a fresh translation of a masterpiece: Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Ruhl enlivens this classic with the same elegant understanding of intimacy that infused those earlier collaborations, while Waters and a cast of 14 deliver another sumptuous production. This West Coast premiere begins previews on Berkeley Rep's intimate Thrust Stage on April 8, opens April 13, and runs through May 22. Three Sisters is a co-production between Berkeley Rep, where Waters serves as associate artistic director, and Yale Repertory Theatre.

Rehearsals are now underway for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) New York premiere of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, a new play by the three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?). The production opens the theater company's 40th Anniversary Season, in which Mr. Albee will be making his Playwrights Horizons debut. The play is Mr. Albee's 30th.

Concluding BroadwayWorld's exclusive three-part series on Edward Albee's newest masterpiece ME, MYSELF & I, comes this exciting and energized interview with the youngest star of the show, playing one of the titular twosome both named Otto, the enthusiastic and expressive Preston Sadleir! In this in-depth conversation we discuss working with Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray on ME, MYSELF & I as well as the director, Emily Mann, and the master writer himself, Edward Albee. Additionally, we discuss the rehearsal process at Playwrights' Horizons, the themes of the play, the acting process onstage acting every night with two of the greats, as well as what the play means to not only himself as an actor, but also to the twenty-first century audience coming to see the show (which has just been extended and now runs to October 31st). We also talk about the exciting workshop productions and readings of two burgeoning musicals that are eyeing Broadway soon, including the much anticipated Broadway revival of CARRIE and a new original cougar-themed musical starring Jane Krakowski called MRS. SHARP! Few performers are so at ease in plays and musicals as Preston is - and at barely twenty-five years old - so here is a chance to see why he is one of the hottest new theatrical stars on the rise! Enjoy!

There's a strong essence of familiarity to be whiffed at Edward Albee's latest, Me, Myself & I, especially if you have fond memories of his far superior absurdist effort, The Play About The Baby.  Once again there's a bickering couple bearing a strong resemblance to an older version of ...Virginia Woolf?'s George and Martha, especially in their dominating relationship to a younger couple and the matter of a child who may or may not exist.  This isn't necessarily a flaw in the piece, but when farce isn't funny, when wordplay lacks crackle and when a play about identity can't seem to claim its own, the mind tends to wander to sunnier days.

Playwrights Horizons presents the New York premiere production of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I with a cast lead by Elizabeth Ashley & Brian Murray and directed by Emily Mann

Rehearsals are now underway for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) New York premiere of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, a new play by the three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?). The production opens the theater company's 40th Anniversary Season, in which Mr. Albee will be making his Playwrights Horizons debut. The play is Mr. Albee's 30th.

Playwrights Horizons presents the New York premiere production of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I with a cast lead by Elizabeth Ashley & Brian Murray and directed by Emily Mann

Rehearsals are now underway for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) New York premiere of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, a new play by the three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?). The production opens the theater company's 40th Anniversary Season, in which Mr. Albee will be making his Playwrights Horizons debut. The play is Mr. Albee's 30th.

Playwrights Horizons is now accepting 'LIVEforFIVE' lottery entries for $5 tickets to the first preview of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, directed by Emily Mann, at the Playwrights Horizons website.

Rehearsals are now underway for the Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) New York premiere of Edward Albee's ME, MYSELF & I, a new play by the three-time Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner (A Delicate Balance; Seascape; Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?). The production opens the theater company's 40th Anniversary Season, in which Mr. Albee will be making his Playwrights Horizons debut. The play is Mr. Albee's 30th.

First Day of Rehearsals kick off for the cast and creative team of PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS' New York premiere production of EDWARD ALBEE's ME, MYSELF & I with a cast lead by ELIZABETH ASHLEY & BRIAN MURRAY and directed by EMILY MANN

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting for its 2010/2011 40th Anniversary Season.

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING by Lauren Feldman, directed by Lisa Peterson. The cast includes Reed Birney, Natalia Payne, Armando Riesco, Maureen Sebastian, Charles Socarides and Susan Kelechi Watson.

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING by Lauren Feldman, directed by Lisa Peterson. The cast includes Reed Birney, Natalia Payne, Armando Riesco, Maureen Sebastian, Charles Socarides and Susan Kelechi Watson.

WET Announces Casting for 2009 INKubator Summer Series June 15 - 29 at The DR2 Theatre, featuring new plays by Melissa James Gibson, Cusi Cram & Kate Robin starring Christina Kirk, Charlotte Booker, Gareth Saxe, Keith Reddin, Darren Pettie & more

WET Announces Casting for 2009 INKubator Summer Series June 15 - 29 at The DR2 Theatre, featuring new plays by Melissa James Gibson, Cusi Cram & Kate Robin starring Christina Kirk, Charlotte Booker, Gareth Saxe, Keith Reddin, Darren Pettie & more

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: 99 WAYS TO F*CK A SWAN by Kimberly Rosenstock and directed by Shira Milikowsky. The cast includes Amir Arison, Cassie Beck, Jesse Hooker, Jennifer Ikeda, Greg Keller, Natalia Payne, and Brian Sgambati.

The Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street), Cherry Lane Theatre's third and newest Off-Broadway venue presents the world-premiere production of Deirdre O'Connor's JAILBAIT--a new play about two teenaged girls and the men they meet when they pose as college students during a night out at a club in Boston. Suzanne Agins directs.

On Wednesday, March 25, Cherry Lane opened its newest theatre The Cherry Pit on Bank Street, with the Off-Broadway premiere of Deirdre O'Connor's play JAILBAIT -- about two fifteen-year-old girls who spend a night at a Boston club posing as college students.