The Night of the Iguana

Tides Theatre & The Center for Investigative Reporting to Present STORYWORKS, 5/31-6/15

A groundbreaking artistic-journalistic collaboration, which seeks to artistically explore investigative reporting through performances developed in front of live audiences, by Tides Theatre (Jennifer Welch, Producing Artistic Director and Cary Cronholm Rose, Associate Artistic Director), an innovative artistic collective in San Francisco, and The Center for Investigative Reporting (Phil Bronstein, Executive Chair and Robert J. Rosenthal, Executive Director), which believes that journalism that moves people to action is an essential pillar of democracy. (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Rubicon Theatre's OUR TOWN

Rubicon Theatre of Ventura presents the centerpiece of the company's 15th Anniversary 'Our Town/Your Theatre' Season, with Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Our Town. This year marks not only Rubicon's 15th anniversary, but also the 75th Anniversary of Our Town's first production, which is being celebrated nationally. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below! (more...)

Kumu Kahua Theatre Stages ALL THAT REMAINS World Premiere, Now thru 4/28

Kumu Kahau Theatre will present the world premiere of ALL THAT REMAINS, a story of loyalty and betrayal told by ghost soldiers from the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat team who return just one night to a forest in France to recreate a single act of violence that torments both the living and the dead. Using an experimental style drawing from Japanese Noh theatre, ALL THAT REMAINS offers a challenging, provocative look at the heroism and despair of war. (more...)

Shakespeare Guild to Welcome Authors Paul Dickson, Thomas Keith and Susannah Carson, Spring 2013

After memorable conversations with such fascinating guests as the New Yorker's JOHN LAHR (September 17), Hunter College's IRENE DASH (October 22), the McCarter Theatre's NAGLE JACKSON (November 19), Columbia University's JAMES SHAPIRO (December 17), and The Lion King's JULIE TAYMOR (January 28), The Shakespeare Guild now looks forward to evenings in Manhattan's National Arts Club that will focus on three engaging authors: PAUL DICKSON, THOMAS KEITH, and SUSANNAH CARSON. These events will be followed in May by a fourth gathering that will take us to another venerable institution, The Players, and place the spotlight on EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER, a celebrity portrait painter who has been compared to the legendary John Singer Sargent. (more...)

Houston Ballet to Present LA BAYADERE, 2/21-3/3

From February 21-March 3, 2013, Houston Ballet presents Stanton Welch's La Bayadère ('The Temple Dancer'), a historic classic staged by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and set in royal India of the past. (more...)

Aaron Costa Ganis Replaces CJ Wilson in Berkshire Theatre Group's THE LION IN WINTER

Berkshire Theatre Group Company Member, CJ Wilson, has been cast in Broadway's The Big Knife. Fellow Berkshire Theatre Group Company Member, Aaron Costa Ganis, will step in to join the cast of The Lion in Winter as Richard. Also joining the cast is Karl Gregory as Prince John. (more...)

Visionbox Presents A TRUE THING, Scenes from Tennessee Williams, Tonight

Visionbox, a professional actors' studio and intermedia production company in Denver, will present A True Thing: Scenes from the plays of Tennessee Williams, tonight, March 17th, 2013 at 6:00pm. This free Visionbox event will feature Visionbox Ensemble Members and Visionbox Actors. Join Visionbox at their location in the heart of the Santa Fe Arts District, the 910 ARTS Gallery. (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Fountain Theatre's ON THE SPECTRUM, Opening Tonight

Mac has Asperger's. Iris is autistic. Jacqueline Schultz directs Jeanie Hackett, Virginia Newcomb and Dan Shaked in the West Coast premiere of a funny, touching and unconventional romance. On the Spectrum by Ken LaZebnik opens at The Fountain Theatre tonight, March 16. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! (more...)

Visionbox to Present A TRUE THING, Scenes from Tennessee Williams, 3/17

Visionbox, a professional actors' studio and intermedia production company in Denver, will present A True Thing: Scenes from the plays of Tennessee Williams, Sunday, March 17th, 2013 at 6:00pm. This free Visionbox event will feature Visionbox Ensemble Members and Visionbox Actors. Join Visionbox at their location in the heart of the Santa Fe Arts District, the 910 ARTS Gallery. (more...)

Chichester Festival Theatre's THE PAJAMA GAME, Starring Hadley Fraser and Joanna Riding, Will Begin April 22

Distinguished director Richard Eyre returns to Chichester to open Festival 2013 with THE PAJAMA GAME. Love is in the air at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory as handsome new Superintendent Sid Sorokin falls head-over-heels for firebrand Union rep Babe Williams. But when the employees are refused a seven-and-a-half cents an hour raise, sparks fly and the couple find themselves deliciously at odds. Will love, eventually, conquer all in this delightful romantic comedy? (more...)

Alfred Molina in Talks for NBC's ASSISTANCE

Acclaimed stage and film star Alfred Molina may be lining up a new job. According to Deadline, Molina, the current star of TNT's MONDAY MORNINGS, has entered late negotiations to star opposite Krysten Ritter (DON'T TRUST THE B---- IN APARTMENT 23) in NBC's single-camera comedy pilot ASSISTANCE. The project comes from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Prods and Universal TV. (more...)

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Theatre Southwest's THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA

Theatre Southwest presents 'The Night of the Iguana' by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mimi Holloway. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast below! (more...)

Les Waters to Return to Berkeley Rep for Sarah Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH, 5/24-7/7

To conclude its 45th season, Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes back a pair of acclaimed collaborators: Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters, the creators of Eurydice, Three Sisters, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), return to Berkeley Rep with another tale of love and longing in Dear Elizabeth. (more...)

Christine Lahti, Treat Williams and More Set for Berkshire Theatre Group's 85th Season; Full Cast Announced!

Berkshire Theatre Group and Artistic Director/CEO Kate Maguire have announced the complete casting for Berkshire Theatre Group's 85th summer season. (more...)

Kumu Kahua Theatre to Stage ALL THAT REMAINS World Premiere, 3/28-4/28

Kumu Kahau Theatre will present the world premiere of ALL THAT REMAINS, a story of loyalty and betrayal told by ghost soldiers from the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat team who return just one night to a forest in France to recreate a single act of violence that torments both the living and the dead. Using an experimental style drawing from Japanese Noh theatre, ALL THAT REMAINS offers a challenging, provocative look at the heroism and despair of war. (more...)

Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 4/22

If you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater - exclusive features, interviews, reviews and more! - around the Broadway World for the week of April 22! (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at THE PAJAMA GAME at Chichester Festival

Distinguished director Richard Eyre returns to Chichester to open Festival 2013 with THE PAJAMA GAME. The production is at the Minerva Theatre, now through 8 June. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below! (more...)

33 VARIATIONS & More Set for Southern Rep's 2013-14 Mainstage Season

Southern Rep Theatre is pleased to announce a bold new Mainstage Season full of passion, politics, spirit, sex and satire. Four exceptionally vibrant productions will investigate the voices and histories of an eclectic cast of characters as they grapple with universal issues of love, truth, salvation and self. Featuring a Broadway play, an unforgettable classic, a world-premiere comedy, and the last masterwork of a Louisiana legend, this multifaceted Mainstage Season will challenge and delight audiences as it sheds new light on the colorful spectrum of the human experience. (more...)

BWW Reviews: TSW's THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA is Absorbing and Suspenseful

Theatre Southwest is currently producing a fascinating production of Tennessee William's thrilling and tense The Night of the Iguana. The 1961 drama is set at The Costa Verde Hotel in Puerto Barrio on the West Coast of Mexico in the summer of 1940. The Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is leading a tour group of Baptist women from Texas through Mexico, but makes an unplanned stop at the hotel, which is owned and operated by his friend, Maxine Falk. Over the course of the afternoon and evening, Shannon slowly unravels, exposing his secrets and sins. An impoverished and entirely broke New England spinster, Hannah Jelkes, and her aging grandfather, a poet losing his mind, arrive at the hotel as well. Without any money, the duo hopes to lodge at the hotel with the promise to earn some money and pay upon checkout. (more...)

Shakespeare Guild to Welcome Authors Paul Dickson, Thomas Keith and Susannah Carson, Spring 2013

After memorable conversations with such fascinating guests as the New Yorker's JOHN LAHR (September 17), Hunter College's IRENE DASH (October 22), the McCarter Theatre's NAGLE JACKSON (November 19), Columbia University's JAMES SHAPIRO (December 17), and The Lion King's JULIE TAYMOR (January 28), The Shakespeare Guild now looks forward to evenings in Manhattan's National Arts Club that will focus on three engaging authors: PAUL DICKSON, THOMAS KEITH, and SUSANNAH CARSON. These events will be followed in May by a fourth gathering that will take us to another venerable institution, The Players, and place the spotlight on EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER, a celebrity portrait painter who has been compared to the legendary John Singer Sargent. (more...)

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