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Albee's THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY Opens Custom Made's 2012-13 Season, 9/7

The Play About the Baby previews September 7-9 and runs through October 7 at Gough Street Playhouse. (more...)

Albee's THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY Opens Custom Made's 2012-13 Season Tonight, 9/7

The Play About the Baby previews tonight, September 7-9 and runs through October 7 at Gough Street Playhouse. (more...)

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs to Present AS YOU LIKE IT, Beginning 11/2

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs will present one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, As You Like It, directed by Heidi Handelsman (Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs '14). With clever gender reversals and surprising twists of fate, As You Like It has long been considered one of Shakespeare's most romantic comedies. Performances are Friday November 2 at 7:30PM, Saturday November 3 at 2:00PM and 7:30PM, and Sunday November 4 at 2:00PM in the Citizens Bank Theater, Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street, Providence. General admission is $10, with a $5 admission for seniors and students. Tickets are now on sale at the Trinity Rep box office, by phone (401) 351-4242, and online at trinityrep.com. (more...)

Pultizer Prize-Winning Playwright Tony Kushner to Write New Spielberg Script

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY columnist Mark Harris sat down with Pultizer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner to discuss the highly anticipated film LINCOLN. Kushner, best known for Broadway's Angels in America, penned the screenplay for the upcoming Steven Spielberg epic. In the November 9th issue of the magazine, Kushner revealed that another collaboration with the legendary director is currently in the works. (more...)

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs to Present AS YOU LIKE IT, Beginning Today

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs will present one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, As You Like It, directed by Heidi Handelsman (Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs '14). With clever gender reversals and surprising twists of fate, As You Like It has long been considered one of Shakespeare's most romantic comedies. Performances are Today November 2 at 7:30PM, Saturday November 3 at 2:00PM and 7:30PM, and Sunday November 4 at 2:00PM in the Citizens Bank Theater, Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street, Providence. General admission is $10, with a $5 admission for seniors and students. Tickets are now on sale at the Trinity Rep box office, by phone (401) 351-4242, and online at trinityrep.com. (more...)

VIDEO: Tony Kushner Chats 'Lincoln' on THE COLBERT REPORT

Tony Kushner appeared on last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central to speak about 'Lincoln', his lastest film collaboration with director Steven Spielberg. Check out the full interview below! (more...)

STAGE TUBE: On This Day 7/16- Tony Kushner

Happy Birthday Tony Kushner! Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. His new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2006 starring Meryl Streep and directed by George C. Wolfe. Kushner has also adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk. (more...)

Pinole Players Stage East Bay Presents NEXT TO NORMAL, 2/1

Pinole Players Stage East Bay presents the regional premiere of NEXT TO NORMAL, Feb. 1-16. (more...)

Tony Kushner to Receive WGAW's 2013 Paul Selvin Award for LINCOLN Screenplay

Writers Guild and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Tony Kushner has been chosen to receive the WGAW's 2013 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay for Lincoln. Named after the late Selvin, who served as counsel to the Guild, the award is given to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties, which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. Kushner will be recognized, along with other honorees, at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 17, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE. (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Fargo - Week of 1/27/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 1/27/2013 for Fargo (more...)

LINCOLN Screenplay Set for 1/22 Release

Tony Kushner's screenplay for LINCOLN, directed by Steven Spielberg, is set for release on Jan. 22, it was announced today. (more...)

TCG Books Publishes LINCOLN Screenplay

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) today announced the publication of Tony Kushner's critically acclaimed screenplay for Lincoln, now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Based in part on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, the published screenplay of Lincoln, available in both paperback and a limited edition hardcover, contains a Foreword by Kearns Goodwin and eight pages of color photos from the film. (more...)

Now Playing Onstage in Fargo - Week of 2/03/2013

Upcoming Shows - Week of 2/03/2013 for Fargo (more...)

Brown/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs Present RHINOCEROS and MARISOL Next Month

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs will present a three week run of two unique and rarely produced plays running in repertory next month at the Pell Chafee Performance Center (PCPC), Providence, RI. (more...)

Brown/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs Present RHINOCEROS and MARISOL

The Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs will present a three week run of two unique and rarely produced plays running in repertory next month at the Pell Chafee Performance Center (PCPC), Providence, RI. (more...)

Tony Kushner Among Winners of New York Film Critic Circle Awards

The New York Film Critics Circle today annouces its 2012 winners via a live Twitter feed. Below is the NYFCC winners which have been announced so far: (more...)

VIDEO: Tony Kushner Talks LINCOLN and Modern Politics

Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for Lincoln, recently joined Bill Moyers to talk about what Abraham Lincoln can still teach us all about politics, compromise, and the survival of American democracy. Click below to watch the interview! (more...)

GIANT Original Cast Album Coming in Spring 2013!

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced today that the cast of the acclaimed epic musical GIANT will enter the recording studio in January to create an original cast album, which will be released by Ghostlight Records in spring 2013. GIANT officially opened at The Public on November 15 and features a book by Sybille Pearson, music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, and direction by Michael Greif. The show will end its limited run at The Public Theater at Astor Place on Sunday, December 16 following a final two-week extension. (more...)

Albee's THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY Opens Custom Made's 2012-13 Season, 9/7

The Play About the Baby previews September 7-9 and runs through October 7 at Gough Street Playhouse. (more...)

Custom Made Theatre to Present PRELUDE TO A KISS, 5/17-6/16

Directed by Stuart Bousel, Prelude to a Kiss previews May 17-19, opens May 21, and runs through June 16 at the Gough Street Playhouse. (more...)

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