Ray Dooley News

This sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise that it’s not: Noises Off at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill is, honest-to-goodness, the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time. It reminded me that live theater is magical – I cannot think of a single movie which is as funny as this live-action comedy. Michael Frayn’s writing is brilliant – how any human is able to write something so tight and fast-paced is beyond me. It’s not a popular piece for nothing. Under the skillful direction of Michael Michetti, the cast is able to capture the blissful comedy of the piece, beat by beat. (more...)

Perry Street Theatricals and Lee Menzies Productions Ltd. will present the first New York reading of the play that inspired the award-winning film, BREAKER MORANT by Kenneth G. Ross. (more...)

Perry Street Theatricals and Lee Menzies Productions Ltd. will present the first New York reading of the play that inspired the award-winning film, BREAKER MORANT by Kenneth G. Ross. (more...)

Beowulf Alley Theatre has announced its Auditions for '10-'11 Season and also seeks designers and tech crea. (more...)

Beowulf Alley Theatre has announced its Auditions for '10-'11 Season and also seeks designers and tech crea. (more...)

PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill presents Williams' masterpiece the way he always intended - as a break from "the exhausted theatre of realistic conventions." A moving tale of a mother/daughter relationship complicated by the daughter's disability, with universal themes of family conflict and dreams deferred, its groundbreaking theatrical form helped establish the memory play in the theatrical canon. (more...)

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore. (more...)

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore. (more...)

Tamara Tunie, Brooke Smith, Michael Cerveris and more will guest star in "an oak tree" (more...)

Martin Platt, Co-director of the Perry Street Theatre Company, has been tapped to direct the European Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award Winning Drama, DOUBT to begin performances at Vienna's English Theatre at January 30 – March 11, 2006. (more...)