Stella Adler News

More than 50 actors are set to participate in The Blank TheatreÂ’s 20th Anniversary Young Playwrights Festival, including Catherine Hicks (7th Heaven), Laura Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program), Mackenzie Phillips (American Graffiti, One Day At A Time), Peri Gilpin (Frasier), Josh Randall (Greek, Scrubs, Dusk Rings A Bell at The Blank), Lenny Jacobson (Nurse Jackie, Sukie & Sue: Their Story at The Blank), Zach Roerig (The Vampire Diaries), and Matthew Moy (2 Broke Girls). Twelve winning plays by young playwrights aged 9 -19, from nine different states, will be presented during this yearÂ’s festival at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, running from May 31- June 24. (more...)

The Attic Theater Company will present a limited run of Erica LipezÂ’s (story editor for Suits on USA) play The Tutors. The production will be directed by Drama League Directors Project Alumnus Laura Braza, and performances are May 18th-26thh at The Access Theater. (more...)

Off-BroadwayÂ’s The New Group has just announced its 2012-2013 season, featuring three world premiere productions. As the season launch in Fall 2012, Scott Elliott, Artistic Director of The New Group, directs Francine VolpeÂ’s The Good Mother, featuring Gretchen Mol. Jonathan Marc ShermanÂ’s new work Clive arrives in Winter 2013, directed by and featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role. Spring 2013 ushers in the premiere of a new musical at The New Group, Bunty Berman Presents..., by Ayub Khan Din (music, book, lyrics) and Paul Bogaev (music), directed by Scott Elliott. (more...)

Last night The Stella Adler Studio of Acting held its Seventh Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala at The Players Club in New York City. This yearÂ’s honorees included Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Daryl Roth, Ed Schultz and Masa Tanaka. Notable attendees included co-chair of the evening, Kate Mulgrew, and Broadway director George C. Wolfe who presented producer Daryl Roth with her award. Check out photos from the event below! (more...)

On the occasion of the Group Theatre’s 80th anniversary, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Frank Hentschker, Executive Director) presents a day of readings, panels, rarely-heard recordings and screenings of unseen footage all dedicated to understanding “The Group Theatre and How it Changed American Culture.” All events are free, first-come-first-served, and take place in the Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, CUNY, at 34th Street and 5th Avenue. (more...)

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Feinstein's at Loews Regency is continuing its Spring 2012 season with the return engagement of award winning vocalist, Sheera Ben-David through May 19, 2012. (more...)

Now celebrating its 20th Anniversary, The Blank TheatreÂ’s Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival has chosen 12 plays by young playwrights, aged 9 -19, from nine different states. These plays will be presented by professional actors and directors in this yearÂ’s festival at The Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, May 31 - June 24. Full details below. (more...)

CYCLES, Robert LitzÂ’s funny and explosive new play, receives its world premiere as part of the 2012 Hollywood Fringe. Directed by Stefan Lysenko, CYCLES stars Emmy-nominated stage/screen veteran Alan Rosenberg opposite one of L.A.Â’s hottest young talents, Dominic Rains. (more...)

The Attic Theater Company will present a limited run of Erica LipezÂ’s (story editor for Suits on USA) play The Tutors. The production will be directed by Drama League Directors Project Alumnus Laura Braza, and performances are May 18th-26thh at The Access Theater. (more...)

Play in the Box presents a FEEDING TIME, a world premiere dark comedy by M. Nasorri Pavone for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2012, with previews June 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. and an opening night set for June 14. (more...)

Towne Street Theatre presents a staged reading of "The Fountain" by Harriet A. Dickey, Tuesday @ 8pm on May 22, 2012 at the Stella Adler Theatre, located at 6773 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif. $5 donation requested. (more...)

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting announced today that the Seventh Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala will be held May 20th at the Players Club in New York City. This yearÂ’s honorees include Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Daryl Roth, Ed Schultz and Masa Tanaka. (more...)

On May 26 @ 2:00pm, the Orange County Playwrights Alliance's OCPA Studios series returns to the Hunger Artists Theatre Company with the reading of Erica's Bennett's drama Water Closet. The resumption of the series also marks a new chapter: OCPA Studios is now a benefit series of play readings, with 100 percent of the box office going to the host theatres. (more...)

The Veteran Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening exploring the soldiers experience through the timeless words of William Shakespeare – CRY HAVOC conceived by Stefan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker & Bruce Cervi. CRY HAVOC will open on Saturday, May 26th and run through Monday, June 4th at The Shakespeare Center LA – Studio Space, 1238 West 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles. (more...)

Conservatives, Liberals, Punkers, Rocker Girls, Fairies, maintenance workers, Uptown, Downtown and the Central Park of Athens slam together in The Art of Acting Studio and the Harold Clurman Lab Theater’s presentation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Don K. Williams, Midsummer is set in “Athens” where neo-conservative lawmakers outlaw love; punk kings, rocker queens and Clockwork Orange droogs rule the Central Park; a band of sanitations workers dream of stardom; and the power of love (and “potions”) makes all right in the world. (more...)

id Theater returns to McCall, Idaho for the 12th Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June 11-23, sponsored by the Alpine Playhouse. Playwrights, actors and directors from around the country will travel to McCall and, working with local artists and students, develop ten new plays that will be presented to the public free of charge. Since 2001, the Conference has developed more than 100 new plays by some of the most exciting voices in American Theater. (more...)

Towne Street Theatre presents STUDENTS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, a theatrical showcase of monologues, scenes and letters in an evening inside the minds of Rose, Cory and Troy from FENCES, Beneatha and Walter Lee from A RAISIN IN THE SUN, Julie and Jean from MISS JULIE and more, May 10 at 8 p.m. (more...)

Vital Theatre Company, Linda Ames Key, Education Director and BROOKLYN THEATRE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL, Amy Murphy, Principal - partners in one of six small schools in the South Shore Educational Complex located in Canarsie, Brooklyn - hosted Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to cut the ribbon for the newly renovated South Shore Auditorium on yesterday, May 2nd. The ribbon cutting was followed by a proclamation for the inaugural production, “Footloose” and a performance of the show at 10:00 am. See photos of Markowitz at FOOTLOOSE below! (more...)

Vital Theatre Company and Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School had a ribbon cutting ceremony by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz for the newly renovated South Shore Auditorium on May 2nd. Following the event was a proclamation for the inaugural production, “Footloose” with a performance of the show. (more...)