Route 66 Announces World Premiere of Diana Lawrence's NEXT STOP for 6/18-26by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012Route 66 Theatre Company has announced the details of their newest world premiere collaboration, a one-of-a-kind original musical by local sensation Diana Lawrence (of Diana and the Dishes, and currently musical director of TICK, TICK, BOOM at Porchlight Music Theatre). NEXT STOP runs Monday and Tuesday nights at 7:30pm, June 18-26, at Theater Wit, 1229 West Belmont Ave, Chicago IL. (more...)
Mark Jackson's SALOMANIA Set for 6/15-7/22 at The Aurora Theatre, Berkeleyby BWW News Desk - May 2, 2012Closing Aurora’s 20th season is the World Premiere of SALOMANIA, Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross’s first new play commission for the company, written and directed by award-winning Bay Area auteur Mark Jackson (Metamorphosis, Salome, Miss Julie). Workshopped and developed at Aurora in 2010, SALOMANIA features Madeline H.D. Brown (Metamorphosis), Mark Anderson Phillips (Small Tragedy), Alex Moggridge (Betrayed), Liam Vincent (California Shakespeare Theater), Anthony Nemirovsky (Awake and Sing!), Marilee Talkington (Crowded Fire), and Kevin Clarke (Shotgun Players). SALOMANIA plays June 15 through July 22 at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. (more...)
MetroStage Presents Steven Dietz' LONELY PLANET, 5/10-6/17by BWW News Desk - May 2, 2012Producing Artistic Director Carolyn Griffin has announced that the final play of the season, Lonely Planet, by Steven Dietz, will be in performance May 10-June 17, 2012. (Note that this replaces the play that was originally announced for this time slot, Playing Sinatra). Dietz is one of the most prolific, versatile and widely produced playwrights in the country. Lonely Planet was written in 1994 and is considered a second generation AIDS play although the disease is never named. Dietz uses his obsession with maps and his connection with Ionesco’s The Chairs to write a play about friendship in the dawn of the AIDS crisis. The play won the PEN-USA Award for Drama. (more...)
Photo Flash: INTAR's AMERICAN JORNALERO Premieres Off-Broadway Tomorrow, 4/3by BWW News Desk - May 2, 2012INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will present American Jornalero, a new play written by Ed Cardona, Jr., directed by Mariana Carreño-King, beginning performances Off-Broadway tomorrow, May 3rd, and continuing through June 3rd only, at INTAR (500 West 52nd Street at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th Floor). Opening Night is set for Monday May 7th at 8pm. The play runs 80 minutes with no intermission. See photos from the production below! (more...)
Aurora Theatre Company Calls for Global Age Project Submissions, 5/22-7/31by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012Berkeley’s acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company has announced a call for submissions for its eighth season of the Global Age Project (GAP) festival of new works. The company will choose four new plays to be presented as staged readings with professional directors and actors during the GAP festival in February of 2013; the festival will coincide with the company’s fully-staged World Premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s OUR PRACTICAL HEAVEN, directed by Allen McKelvey, the third Aurora main stage production to develop from the GAP. Each of the four finalists will receive a $1,000 award and their work will be considered for further development and production during Aurora Theatre Company’s regular season; out of town artists will receive travel and accommodation expenses. The submission period opens May 22; deadline for play submission is July 31, 2012. Finalists will be announced in early December 2012. (more...)
ENRON, MISTAKES WERE MADE and More Highlight Capital Stage's 2012-2013 Seasonby BWW News Desk - May 11, 2012In the midst of a ground-breaking and record-breaking season at its new midtown home, Capital Stage announces an ambitious line-up of titles for its 2012-2013 season. (more...)
LADCC Awards to Feature Performance of MY HUSBAND and SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE, 3/19by BWW News Desk - Mar 9, 2012The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s 43rd Annual Awards Show will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The show will feature performances from previously-announced hosts Jason Graae (recipient of the 2007 Joel Hirschhorn Award for outstanding achievement in musical theatre) and Lesli Margherita (nominee for Kiss Me, Kate). In addition, the Awards show will feature the Los Angeles premiere performance of My Husband, by Paul Rudnick, a short play added to the New York production of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. Also, Yvette Tucker and Salvatore Vasallo will perform an excerpt from “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” from On Your Toes, choreographed by this year’s Hirschhorn Award recipient, Lee Martino. (more...)
Dallas Theater Center's 2012-13 Season Will Include New Works from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Peter Pan Musical FLY and Moreby BWW News Desk - Mar 29, 2012Dallas Theater Center Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty announced today the theater’s 2012-13 season, which will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. DTC’s 54th season will include three world premieres; two new musicals; the culmination of DTC’s four-year Shakespeare cycle; and several nationally acclaimed plays making their North Texas debut.
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Aurora Theatre Company to Feature Works of Kristoffer Diaz, Neil LaBute et al. in 2012-2013 Seasonby Jessica Showers - Mar 28, 2012Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company has announced the lineup for its 21st season. (more...)
American Blues Theater Announces 2012-13 Seasonby BWW News Desk - Mar 22, 2012Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside of American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago’s second oldest Equity ensemble, today announced the Ensemble’s 27th season. The season kicks off with the world premiere of Illegal Use of Hands by Emmy Award-winner, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and ABT Artistic Affiliate James Still, directed by Sandy Shinner, August 31 – September 30 and followed by the critically acclaimed It’s a Wonderful Life: Live on State Street! , now at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, directed by ABT Artistic Affiliate Marty Higginbotham, November 16 – December 30. ABT’s final 2012 -2013 production is Pulitzer Prize playwright Donald Margulies’ 2010 Broadway script Collected Stories, co-directed by Steppenwolf Artistic Affiliate Jessica Thebus and Mary Ann Thebus. (more...)
Victory Gardens Presents WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, 3/30-4/29by BWW News Desk - Mar 13, 2012Victory Gardens continues its 2011-12 season with We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915, from Victory Gardens’ 2010 IGNITION festival, written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Eric Ting. The production runs March 30 – April 29, 2012 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater. (more...)
Woolly Mammoth Announce THE PAJAMA MEN & More for Sept-Jan Seasonby BWW News Desk - Mar 13, 2012 (more...)
Lesli Margherita, Kevin Carroll, et al. Nominated for LA Drama Critics Circle Awardsby BWW News Desk - Jan 30, 2012The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County theatre for the year 2011. The 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within, the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, in its new 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art venue in Pasadena, thanks to the generous donation of A Noise Within’s management. The theatre is located on the corner of Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue at 3352 East Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107. Tickets are $40, and should be reserved in advance from the LADCC's website, at www.ladramacriticscircle.com. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. for pre-show hors d’oeuvres (with no-host bar), and the show commences at 7:30 p.m. (more...)
Brooks Ashmanskas, Andréa Burns, et al. Set for THE DRAMA DEPARTMENT Reading, 1/30by BWW
News Desk - Jan 29, 2012The Hangar Theatre’s Pilot Reading Series in NYC continues into 2012 with a reading of The Drama Department, a new play by James Hindman. The reading is Monday, January 30th at 7.30pm at The Black Box Theatre on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenue). The reading will be directed by Peter Flynn, the Hangar's Artistic Director. (more...)
Woolly to Host Launch of Black Women Playwrights' Group Cyber Narrative by BWW News Desk - Jan 27, 2012Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is set to host the launch of the Cyber Narrative Project—an innovative collaboration between Black Women Playwrights’ Group (BWPG) and the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center-Global (ETC-Global). (more...)
Victory Gardens Presents WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT..., 3/30by BWW News Desk - Feb 8, 2012Victory Gardens continues its 2011-12 season with We Are Proud to Present…, from Victory Gardens’ 2010 IGNITION festival, written by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Eric Ting. The production runs March 30 – April 29, 2012 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. (more...)
ATC's DISGRACED Closesby BWW News Desk - Feb 26, 2012American Theater Company (ATC) announces the World Premiere of Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Kimberly Senior. (more...)
Kristoffer Diaz, Crystal Skillman, et al. to Take Part in Samuel French Institute Eventsby BWW News Desk - Apr 30, 2012Samuel French announces the launch of The Samuel French Institute, a series of seminars, classes and workshops taught by industry professionals such as Kristoffer Diaz (The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), Crystal Skillman (Cut, Birthday & Nobody), Mark Blankenship (Editor of TDF Stages) and others this summer. (more...)
INTAR to Present the Off-Broadway Premiere of AMERICAN JORNALERO, 5/3-6/3by BWW News Desk - Apr 24, 2012INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will present American Jornalero, a new play written by Ed Cardona, Jr., directed by Mariana Carreño-King, beginning performances Off-Broadway Thursday May 3rd and continuing through June 3rd only at INTAR (500 West 52nd Street at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th Floor). Opening Night is set for Monday May 7th at 8pm. The play runs 80 minutes with no intermission. (more...)
SEEING JERUSALEM Continues Hangar Theatre's Pilot Reading Series, 4/23by BWW News Desk - Apr 16, 2012The Hangar Theatre’s Pilot Reading Series in NYC continues with a reading of Seeing Jerusalem, a new play by Seth Greenland. The reading is Monday, April 23rd at 7 pm at One on One Studios, 34 West 27th Street, 11th floor (between Broadway and Sixth Avenue). The reading will be directed by Roger Danforth. (more...)
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