Sarah Kane News

While Maine Maine is the 12th smallest by area, the 9th least populous, and the 38th most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, it has a rich and vibrant theatre scene comprised of Equity, Professional and Community houses.

New York's PROTOTYPE OperaTheatreNow Festival returns for its seventh season from January 5 to the 13th and the one thing that you can't ask about it is “What's new?” That's not because there's nothing to answer. On the contrary--there's too much, in style, in content, in the sizes of its venues: This year's Festival is larger than ever, with a dozen works, 24 composerlibrettists and over 150 collaborators.

James is in Reykjavik for the Northern Lights, but they're not here. Instead he ventures into the 24-hour dark of the Icelandic winter and finds himself entangled with dangerous strangers, suspicious lovers, malevolent birds and the mysterious Huldufolk.

Clean Break is thrilled to announce that playwright Lucy Kirkwood and actors Zawe Ashton, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Tanya Moodie join the company as Patrons with immediate effect.

Four voices emerge from a void, desperate to seek freedom in a world of familiar anxieties and addictions. There is no linear story, the characters aren't named (only by letters), and relationships disappear as quickly as they're created. CRAVE ends up being a stage poem which audiences have opened their minds and hearts to since the piece was written in 1998, one year before Kane's suicide. CRAVE ran at Access Theater from November 15th-18th, 2018 with an incredible turnout

There's an important reason why Sarah Kane is not the most universally beloved playwright of the latter half of the 20th century. The elements of her work which fuel her disgusted critics and disgruntled audiences are the exact elements of her work which make her one of the most revolutionary writers in the world of theatre. With plays such as BLASTED, CLEANSED, PSYCHOSIS 4.8, and CRAVE, Sarah Kane changed the art form with her violence, her filterless abuse, but more importantly, her honesty.

The Rap Game heads into its most intense season ever and it's all-out music mayhem! The stakes are higher than ever before and with a battle every episode, this new crop of superstars must use everything in their arsenal to keep their place on the HIT List....and in the house! From executive producers, Golden Globe winner and Grammy nominee Queen Latifah and Grammy winner Jermaine Dupri, the fifth season of The Rap Game kicks off Thursday, January 10th at 9pm ET/PT. The following week (1/17) it will return to its regularly scheduled time slot of 10pm ET/PT. This is the time to shine for these six young rappers who will have to freestyle, flow and rhyme their way to a life-changing prize - a recording contract with Dupri's label, So So Def Recordings. This season, artists Will.I.Am, Lil Jon, Xscape, Killer Mike, Rapsody and Jacquees join Dupri to help guide these promising rappers to music victory.

"What could be better than a play that asks you to shout? Well, one that asks you to sing. All this fun is part of an updated version of "The Brave Little Tailor"...My son also thought of another reason that Seven in One Blow is the greatest play ever: the actors pass out candy at the end."-The New York Times

There's an important reason why Sarah Kane is not the most universally beloved playwright of the latter half of the 20th century. The elements of her work which fuel her disgusted critics and disgruntled audiences are the exact elements of her work which make her one of the most revolutionary writers in the world of theatre. With plays such as BLASTED, CLEANSED, PSYCHOSIS 4.8, and CRAVE, Sarah Kane changed the art form with her violence, her filterless abuse, but more importantly, her honesty.

The play will be shown from March 21, 2019 until March 24, 2019. 

E! Entertainment has greenlit a sixth season of “Botched,” as the popular series returns with even more high stakes procedures and jaw dropping reveals. Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif will continue to change the lives of their patients as they come face to face with the most complicated reconstructive surgeries they've ever been challenged with when season five of “Botched” premieres Thursday, December 6th at 10PM ET/PT on E!

PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now announces full programming for the seventh annual festival of fresh opera-theatre & music-theatre, running January 5-13, 2019 and featuring ten presentations that "shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be" (New York Observer).

Deafinitely Theatre today announce a series of events to complement the run of Paula Garfield's critically acclaimed production of Sarah Kane's award-winning play 4.48 Psychosis. This gives the audience a unique opportunity to hear discussions on various topics related to the play and to participate in Q&A sessions with the director, members of the cast, academics and deaf people.

Greater Boston Stage Company proudly announces the second Don Fulton New Play Project, The Salonnieres. By acclaimed playwright, Liz Duffy Adams, The Salonnieres, set in pre-Revolutionary Paris, is an evening filled with fairytales, facades, and the feminist revolution. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Weylin Symes, performances run October 25 - November 11, 2018. The Press Opening is Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 3:00pm.

Axis Company today announces the remount of High Noon, their adaptation of the screenplay for the 1952 Western film, devised by an ensemble led by Artistic Director Randy Sharp. The play returns October 3-27, following an acclaimed first run in January of this year.

Deafinitely Theatre and New Diorama Theatre today announce a new production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre, Paula Garfield, directs Adam Bassett, Brian Duffy, Jim Fish and Matt Kyle. Opening at New Diorama Theatre on 21 September, with previews from 18 September and running until 13 October. The production then tours to Derby Theatre from 19 - 20 October.

Deafinitely Theatre and New Diorama Theatre present a new production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Artistic Director of Deafinitely Theatre, Paula Garfield, directs Adam Bassett, Brian Duffy, Jim Fish and Matt Kyle. Opening at New Diorama Theatre on 21 September, with previews from 18 September and running until 13 October. The production then tours to Derby Theatre from 19 - 20 October.

Atlantic for Kids presents the world premiere production of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, featuring words and music by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and a book by Timothy Allen McDonald to kick off their season.

Opera/Theatre/Now announces full programming for the seventh annual festival of fresh opera-theatre & music-theatre, running January 5-13, 2019 and featuring ten presentations that "shift the whole paradigm of what opera is and can be" (New York Observer).