Steppenwolf for Young Adults Announces 2012/13 Season: THE BOOK THIEF and Moreby BWW News Desk - May 8, 2012Steppenwolf for Young Adults (SYA) today announced two world premieres as part of its 2012/13 Season: The Book Thief, based on the novel by Markus Zusak, adapted by Heidi Stillman, directed by Hallie Gordon; and Oral Histories, collected from across the city by DePaul University students, curated and written by Miles Harvey (director to be announced at a later date). (more...)
NHTP Presents ANTIGONE, 5/18-27by BWW News Desk - May 7, 2012The NHTP Senior Repertory Company presents Antigone, a translation by Lewis Galantiere from the play by Jean Anouihl. First performed in Paris in 1944 during the German occupation under censorship, the play is clearly a metaphor for the French Resistance movement and its rejection of fascist authority. (more...)
BWW Reviews: HOW TO THINK THE UNTHINKABLE, Unicorn Theatre, May 5 2012by Gary Naylor - May 5, 2012Gary Naylor sees a version of Antigone for teens that pulls no punches. (more...)
Casting Announced for World Premiere of THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE at Imagination Stage, 6/20-8/12by BWW News Desk - May 4, 2012Imagination Stage, in a collaboration with The Washington Ballet, has announced casting for its world premiere summer production, THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE. In this fusion of theater, dance, and puppetry, based on the novel by C.S. Lewis, the roles of the four children are played jointly by an actor and a dancer, and the courageous lion Aslan is portrayed by a life-size puppet operated by three actor/puppeteers, similar to the puppets used in the Broadway production WAR HORSE. (more...)
Everyman Theatre Opens YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, 5/16by BWW News Desk - May 3, 2012Meet the Sycamores – the delightfully eccentric family at the center of the action in the madcap comedy classic, You Can’t Take It With You. They revel in day-to-day occurrences such as collecting snakes, making fireworks in the basement, and practicing ballet steps in the parlor. When their daughter Alice, decides to invite her conservative boyfriend’s family to dinner, they promise to be on their best behavior. However...! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and adapted into an Academy Award winning film, this beloved comedy has been a perennial favorite to theatre-goers for more than 70 years. (more...)
BWW's On This Day - May 28, 2012by - May 28, 2012
Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events!
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MACBETH, A TASTE OF HONEY, DC Moore's STRAIGHT & More Set for Sheffield Theatres' New Season Sept-Janby BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012A season of high drama and razor-sharp comedy takes to the stage this autumn as Sheffield Theatres unveils its new season from September 2012 – January 2013. The season opens with Sheffield Theatres’ Artistic Director Daniel Evans directing a new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, followed by the regional première of Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike and a major revival of Shelagh Delaney’s seminal work, A Taste of Honey. Other highlights include the world première of DC Moore’s latest play Straight, and a major revival of the classic musical My Fair Lady at Christmas. (more...)
Steppenwolf's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Preview on Broadway Sept. 27, 2012; Understudy EPAs Set for Jun. 5by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2012According to an Equity Audition notice, the Steppenwolf's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf will begin previews on Broadway on September 27, 2012 in anticipation of its previously announced October 13, 2012 opening at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. Pam Mackinnon will continue to helm the project. Jerry Frankel, Jeffrey Richards Susan Q. Gallin and Mary Lu Roffe will produce. (more...)
Breaking News: Brooke Shields & Richard Chamberlain to Star in Premiere of THE EXORCIST at Geffen Playhouse; Full Cast Announced!by BWW - May 17, 2012Stage and screen stars Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain will take on the iconic roles of Chris MacNeil and Father Merrin in playwright John Pielmeier’s world premiere of The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse. Helmed by acclaimed director John Doyle, who won a Tony Award for his striking reimagining of Sweeney Todd, this stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s famous 1971 novel transforms the unsettling battles of good versus evil, faith versus fact and ego versus ethos into a uniquely theatrical experience as sophisticated as it is suspenseful.
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The Flea Theater Mounts Encore of THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, 6/6-7/1by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012The Flea Theater presents an encore production of THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, a 5-hour marathon of all seven of Sophocles’ plays re-envisioned by playwright Sean Graney. Directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (a 2012 Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Director -- in his professional directing debut in NYC), the production stars 38 members of The Bats. Performances run June 6 - July 1 at The Flea (41 White Street between Church and Broadway in Tribeca). (more...)
FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES Set for 5/24-6/9by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2012From May 24 to June 9, 2012 the Festival TransAmériques (FTA) will set the city of Montreal ablaze with 28 diverse dance, theatre and performance art productions from Canada, the United States and abroad. (more...)
THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES Returns to the Flea, 6/6by BWW News Desk - May 1, 2012Due to popular demand, The Flea Theater will bring back THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES this summer. This theatrical adaptation of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays (Oedipus, In Trachis, Philoktetes, In Colonus, Ajax, Elektra and Antigone) will return for a limited engagement June 6 through July 1. (more...)
SpeakEasy Stage Company Presents XANADU, 5/11-6/9by BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2012Beginning May 11, SpeakEasy Stage presents the Boston Premiere of the hit Broadway musical comedy XANADU. This acclaimed show will be the company’s 100th production and opens May 11. (more...)
Lantern Theater Company to Close Season With THE ISLAND, 5/17-6/10by BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2012Lantern Theater Company concludes its best-selling season in company history with The Island, a play by renowned South African collaborators Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, directed by Peter DeLaurier and starring Philadelphia actors Frank X and U.R. A vivid portrayal of apartheid-era struggle and political oppression, The Island is a fitting bookend for a season which started with the provocative religious drama New Jerusalem. The Island will run from May 17-June 10(press opening: May 23, 7 p.m.). (more...)
ARABIAN NIGHTS, BLUE DOOR et al., Included in 2012-2013 Central Square Theatre Season by BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2012Central Square Theater and its resident companies, The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater, have announced their 2012-2013, and 5th anniversary, season. (more...)
New Hampshire Theatre Project Presents ANTIGONE, 5/18-27by BWW News Desk - Apr 25, 2012The NHTP Senior Repertory Company presents Antigone, running May 18-27, in a translation by Lewis Galantiere from the play by Jean Anouilh, which was adapted from the original Greek play by Sophocles. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, is sentenced to execution for burying her dead brother after her uncle, King Creon, declares that his body is to be left for the vultures. The prohibition against desecrating the dead is almost as old as war itself; and recently brought swift punishment to American Marines in Afghanistan. (more...)
22Q Entertainment and GoAlleyCat Productions Premieres IT IS DONE on West Coast, 5/15 by BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 201222Q Entertainment LLC and GoAlleyCat Productions presents the West Coast Premiere of the New York hit, IT IS DONE, a thrilling new play in an environmental setting, written by award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg and directed by Ovation award-winner Michael Michetti (The Twentieth Century Way, Carousel, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings). IT IS DONE will preview on Sunday, May 13 at 7:00pm & Monday, May 14 at 8:30pm and will open on Tuesday, May 15 at 8:30pm and run through Tuesday, June 12 at the Pig ‘N Whistle Restaurant, 6714 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood. (more...)
Cast Announced for THE HAIRY APE, May-June at the Southwalk Playhouseby BWW News Desk - Apr 18, 2012Cartwright Productions and Creature of London have announced the cast for their production of The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill, which is scheduled to play 16th of May to 9th June, 2012 at the Southwark Playhouse. The opening night is the 18th of May. The show is directed by Kate Budgen and designed by Jean Chan, with lighting design by Richard Howell and sound design by Tom Gibbons. (more...)
STINKYKIDS, THE MUSICAL Extends Through May 26 at Theatre 80by BWW News Desk - Apr 17, 2012STINKYKIDS-THE-MUSICAL-MOVES-TO-THEATRE-80-20010101
The award-winning Vital Theatre Company announces the extension of STINKYKIDS, THE MUSICAL, with book and lyrics by Sammy Buck, music by Daniel S. Acquisto with direction by Tim Drucker, based on the books by Britt Menzies. Performances will be May 12th, 19th and 26th at 1pm at Theatre 80. Tickets are $29.50 for regular seats and $49.50 for premium seats. The show is appropriate for ages 3-12. For reservations visit www.vitaltheatre.org or call (212) 579-0528. Theatre 80 is located at 80 St. Marks Place between 1st and 2nd Avenue. (more...)
Finborough Theatre Announces Cast for ALL GOOD MEN, April 29-May 14by BWW News Desk - Apr 16, 2012The Finborough Theatre presents the first UK production in nearly 40 years of Trevor Griffiths' All Good Men, last seen at the Young Vic in a production by the National Theatre in 1975, and opening at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of eight Sunday and Monday evening performances on Sunday, 29 April 2012. (more...)
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