Uta Hagen News

David Saint took time out of his busy schedule to speak with BWW about the current National tour of West Side Story as well as to remember his close friend and trusted mentor, famed librettist, director and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, who passed away a year ago at the age of 93. (more...)

TheatreSquared today announced the lineup for the 2012 Arkansas New Play Festival, the theatre’s fourth annual celebration of new works for the stage. The festival will feature staged reading performances of four professional plays, a showcase of ten-minute plays by Arkansas high school students, and Northwest Arkansas’s sixth annual 24-Hour Play-Off. In partnership with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, T2’s lineup of new works will also be presented at Oxford American Magazine’s new venue in Little Rock (1300 Main Street, May 17-18). The lineup of events in Northwest Arkansas will take place at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios (505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville). Each new play reading will be followed by a conversation with the playwright, director and cast. (more...)

Steppenwolf Theatre Company hosts a one-night-only performance of Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, excerpted from the stage adaptation by Derek Goldman, from the book by Studs Terkel on Monday, May 21 at 7pm. (more...)

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project for New Plays on Science and Technology will tackle Post-Concussion Syndrome when it presents the world premiere of 27-year-old playwright Patrick Link's HEADSTRONG. (more...)

Silver screen he-men Steve McQueen, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Gary Cooper topline May's Classic films on "Reel 13. McQueen will be seen in two of his best films - "Papillon" and "Bullitt" - on consecutive weeks (see below). (more...)

Gina Stoj, co-founder of Theater 48 (a non-profit corporation dedicated to presenting theater that matters - www.Theater48.org), makes her producing debut the stage play, Finding the Burnett Heart by Paul Elliot, to premiere in Hollywood at The Lillian Theatre, April 19-May 27. (more...)

Das Akademikerpaar George und Martha kommt angetrunken von einer Universitätsfeier nach Hause – und erwartet noch Besuch: den neuen Biologieprofessor Nick mit seiner Frau. Ungewollt werden die beiden Zeugen eines seit Jahren andauernden Ehekrieges zwischen den Gastgebern, der extrem klug und häufig mit Witz und Ironie geführt wird. Nick und seine Frau werden bald mit in den Konflikt hineingezogen und müssen Stellung beziehen – dabei bröckelt langsam auch die Fassade ihrer eigenen Liebesbeziehung. (more...)

The World Premiere production of playwright Patrick Link's Headstrong, directed by William Carden, tackles the subject of football-related brain damage. It opens April 29 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. (more...)

Burning Coal announces the Uta Hagen-based Scene Study Class. Artistic Director Jerome Davis will conduct an 8-week acting class based on the principles found in Uta Hagen’s book Respect for Acting. Davis studied with Ms. Hagen in New York City for seven years. The class will be held at Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. The class runs Mondays from 7 to 10 pm, June 11 to July 30, 2012. The fee is $200, payable prior to the first class. To enroll, call 919-834-4001 or visit www.burningcoal.org. (more...)

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents BUSINESS SPEAK - How Business People Can Use the Tools of an Actor's Trade, a four week class that presents the non-actor with the fundamental tools of the actor’s trade: confidence, articulation, improvisation, and how to concisely convey ideas, using your voice and your body. Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Jerome Davis, and Education Director Ian Finley will teach this class on the art of public speaking. Dates and times are May 7- May 28, 2012, Mondays from 6:30-9:30 pm. The class costs $120, due at the first class. Classes will take place at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. For further information, visit www.burningcoal.org. To register, call 919-834-4001. (more...)

Burning Coal Theatre Company will close its 15th season with the world premiere of Jude the Obscure, Parts 1 & 2 by Ian Finley, with music and lyrics by Thomas Hardy, Bruce Benedict, Jerome Davis and Jonathan Fitts. The production will run April 12 – May 5, 2012 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm (April 12 – 14, 19 – 21, 26 – 28 and May 3 - 5, 2012), Saturdays at 2 pm (April 21, 28 and May 5, 2012) and Sundays at 2 pm (April 15, 22, 29, 2012). Sunday, April 15 (Part 1) and Sunday, April 22nd (Part 2) at 2 pm are our ‘Pay What You Can’ days. Those performances will also be Audio Described. Tickets are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military. All tickets are $10 on Thursday evenings. For reservations and information, please call 919-834-4001 or visit www.burningcoal.org. (more...)

Check out these photographs from the set of Northlight Theatre's TEN CHIMNEYS by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones. The production runs until April 15, 2012 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. (more...)

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, presents Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones. The production runsMarch 9 – April 15, 2012 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. The press opening is on Friday, March 16, 2012. (more...)

Rubicon offers process-oriented acting classes for kids (beginning at age five) and adults. (more...)

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, in partnership with the University of Oklahoma’s A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre, will present, just in time for Valentine’s Day, MY FAIR LADY with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. (more...)

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, presents Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones. The production runsMarch 9 – April 15, 2012 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. The press opening is on Friday, March 16, 2012. (more...)

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company (Carl Forsman, Artistic Director/Damon Chua, Executive Director) today announced that Kate Turnbull would join Kathleen Chalfant and Richard Easton for Tina Howe’s Painting Churches, the 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Keen Artistic Director Carl Forsman directs. (more...)

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, in partnership with the University of Oklahoma's A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre, presents, just in time for Valentine's Day, one of the most romantic musicals of all time, MY FAIR LADY with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. MY FAIR LADY, based on Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, tells the story of the transformation of a Cockney flower girl to a lady of society. (more...)

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, in partnership with the University of Oklahoma’s A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre, will present, just in time for Valentine’s Day, MY FAIR LADY with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. (more...)