Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley Join Cast of NO MAN'S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOTby BWW News Desk - May 6, 2013Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, directed by Sean Mathias, on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street, this fall. Performances will begin Saturday, October 26 at 8pm. The official opening is Sunday, November 24, 2013. This limited season will run for 14 weeks only. (more...)
2013 William Inge Theatre Festival to Honor Its Namesake, May 1-4, 2013by BWW
News Desk - May 3, 2013The William Inge Theatre Festival has a long rich history of honoring great living playwrights, acknowledging these too-often underappreciated creative heroes of the stage. But the 32nd annual Inge Festival in 2013 changes pace: honoring its namesake American icon William Inge, to celebrate the centennial of his birth. The William Inge Theatre Festival at Independence Community College takes place May 1-4 of 2013, in Inge's rural hometown of Independence, Kansas, where, annually, Broadway and Hollywood artists meet on the prairie to mingle with visitors from more than 24 states. (more...)
Melinda Porto and Steven Good to Star in MODROCK at El Portal Theatre; Full Cast Announced!by BWW News Desk - May 13, 2013The era of the British Music Invasion comes alive in 'ModRock,' a new musical, which is having its world premiere engagement beginning Wednesday, June 19 (press opening Sunday June 23 at 5pm) at the El Portal Theatre. 'ModRock' is set in the vibrant, swinging London of the mid 1960's - a time when styles and cultures clashed, the British bands ruled the pop charts and all fashion trends emerged out of Carnaby Street. (more...)
2013 William Inge Theatre Festival Honors Its Namesake, Now thru May 4by BWW News Desk - May 1, 2013The William Inge Theatre Festival has a long rich history of honoring great living playwrights, acknowledging these too-often underappreciated creative heroes of the stage. But the 32nd annual Inge Festival in 2013 changes pace: honoring its namesake American icon William Inge, to celebrate the centennial of his birth. The William Inge Theatre Festival at Independence Community College takes place today, May 1-4 of 2013, in Inge's rural hometown of Independence, Kansas, where, annually, Broadway and Hollywood artists meet on the prairie to mingle with visitors from more than 24 states. (more...)
Raven Theatre Opens BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 5/6by BWW News Desk - Mar 29, 2013Raven Theatre finds the truth, beauty and humor of family in Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, directed by Cody Estle. Opening night is Monday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, with a reception following in Raven's lobby. Tickets and information are available at www.raventheatre.com or 773-338-2177. (more...)
Theater Masters Sets 7th Annual 'Take 10' for 4/2-6by BWW News Desk - Mar 28, 2013Aspen's acclaimed Theater Masters will present its seventh annual "Take 10," an evening of six 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights competition on April 2nd - 6th at Off-Broadway's The Studio Theatre on Theatre Row (410 W 42nd Street). (more...)
Amanda Quaid, Frank Wood and More Join Larry Pine in Lucas Hnath's Disney Play at Soho Rep; Full Cast Announced!by BWW News Desk - Mar 27, 2013Soho Rep has announced casting and an official opening date for the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. (more...)
RLT's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Opens This Fridayby BWW News Desk - Apr 8, 2013This Friday, The Importance of Being Earnest opens at Raleigh Little Theatre for a 3-week run, helmed by guest director John T. "Jack" Hall. Earnest is one of the most cherished plays in the English language, featuring Oscar Wilde's unique brand of social satire, effervescent wit, and high farce. (more...)
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, VIEUX CARRE and More Set for Raven Theatre's 2013-14 Seasonby BWW News Desk - Apr 5, 2013Producing Artistic Director Michael Menendian and Co-Artistic Director JoAnn Montemurro announce Raven Theatre's 2013/2014 season which includes The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote, Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams, Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge. (more...)
Opera-Infused Play RISE Set for Theatre 54, Now thru 4/20by BWW News Desk - Apr 5, 2013Roots and Wings Theatrical has announced the world premiere production of RISE, directed by Samantha Shechtman. RISE will play a three-week limited engagement at Theatre 54 (244 W. 54th Street, 12th Floor). Performances begin tonight, April 5 and continue through Saturday, April 20. Opening Night is tonight, April 5 (8 p.m.). (more...)
Amanda Quaid, Frank Wood and More Join Larry Pine in Lucas Hnath's Disney Play at Soho Rep, Beg. Tonightby BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2013Soho Rep presents the world premiere of Lucas Hnath's play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. (more...)
Larry Pine Leads A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY at Soho Rep, Now thru 5/26by BWW News Desk - Apr 29, 2013Soho Rep welcomes celebrated stage and screen actor Larry Pine in the world premiere production of Lucas Hnath's adrenaline-charged odyssey A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. Directed by Soho Rep Artistic Director Sarah Benson, Pine will play the title character - the man who forever changed the American Dream. Hnath's fictional play centers around the reading of a screenplay Walt Disney has written about his last days on earth. The script is about a city he is going to build that is going to change the world; about his brother; about everyone who loves Disney and how sad they are going to be when he is gone. (more...)
Elaine Stritch Bids Adieu to New York Cityby BWW News Desk - Apr 26, 2013As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Broadway legend Elaine Stritch recently announced that she would be leaving New York City for good, after 71 years here, to relocate to her home state of Michigan. According to the New York Post, the 88 year-old just left her home at the Carlyle, and 35 hotel employees were there to see her off when she got off the elevator. (more...)
Austin Pendleton to Helm Mississipi Mud's THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL PROJECTby BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 2013Mississippi Mud Productions will present The Blonde Bombshell Project, a new solo play written and starring Jen Danby and directed by Tony Nominee and Obie-Winning Director Austin Pendleton. Fresh from their collaboration as Catharine Holly and Dr. Sugar in Suddenly, Last Summer with Mississippi Mud, this new solo work is about about legendary Hollywood 'Blonde Bombshell' Marilyn Monroe in her final summer of 1962. ?? (more...)
Theater Masters Presents TAKE 10 National MFA Playwrights Competition at Theatre Row, Now thru 4/6by BWW News Desk - Apr 2, 2013Aspen's acclaimed Theater Masters will present its seventh annual 'Take 10,' an evening of nine 10-minute plays from award-winning MFA graduate playwriting students across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights competition tonight, April 2nd - 6th at Off-Broadway's The Studio Theatre on Theatre Row (410 W 42nd Street). (more...)
Opera-Infused Play RISE Set for Theatre 54, 4/5-20by BWW
News Desk - Apr 19, 2013Roots and Wings Theatrical has announced the world premiere production of RISE, directed by Samantha Shechtman. RISE will play a three-week limited engagement at Theatre 54 (244 W. 54th Street, 12th Floor). Performances begin Friday, April 5 and continue through Today, April 20. Opening Night is Friday, April 5 (8 p.m.). (more...)
Stephens City Student Wins Wayside Theatre's Young Playwrights' Competitionby BWW News Desk - Apr 18, 2013Wayside Theatre has announced the winner and runner up of the Young Playwrights' Competition. The winners were chosen by a panel of readers on Wayside Theatre's staff, who read and judged the plays without knowing the identity of the playwrights. (more...)
Griot Theatre to Stage VOICES, 3/23-4/14by BWW
News Desk - Apr 13, 2013Griot Theatre of the West Valley presents Les Wieder's VOICES, directed by Malik B. El-Amin, March 23 - April 14, 2013. (more...)
MODROCK Will Premiere in June at El Portal Theatreby BWW News Desk - Apr 12, 2013The era of the British Music Invasion comes alive in "ModRock," a new musical, which is having its world premiere engagement beginning Wednesday, June 19 (press opening Sunday Evening, June 23) at the El Portal Theatre. "ModRock" is set in the vibrant, swinging London of the mid 1960's - a time when styles and cultures clashed, the British bands ruled the pop charts and all fashion trends emerged out of Carnaby Street. (more...)
BWW Interviews: Debut of the Month - VANYA AND SONIA's Shalita Grantby Caryn Robbins - Apr 1, 2013Shalita Grant makes her Broadway debut as the inimical, yet well-meaning psychic maid Cassandra in Christopher Durang's newest romp Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike now playing at the Golden Theatre. (more...)
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