The Spiritualist

THE SPIRITUALIST, THE FOOTBALL PROJECT & More Set for Arkansas New Play Festival, Beg. 5/18

TheatreSquared today announced the lineup for the 2012 Arkansas New Play Festival, the theatre's fourth annual celebration of new works for the stage. The festival will feature staged reading performances of four professional plays, a showcase of ten-minute plays by Arkansas high school students, and Northwest Arkansas's sixth annual 24-Hour Play-Off. In partnership with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, T2's lineup of new works will also be presented at Oxford American Magazine's new venue in Little Rock (1300 Main Street, May 17-18). The lineup of events in Northwest Arkansas will take place at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios (505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville). Each new play reading will be followed by a conversation with the playwright, director and cast. (more...)

THE SPIRITUALIST, THE FOOTBALL PROJECT & More Set for Arkansas New Play Festival 2012

TheatreSquared today announced the lineup for the 2012 Arkansas New Play Festival, the theatre's fourth annual celebration of new works for the stage. The festival will feature staged reading performances of four professional plays, a showcase of ten-minute plays by Arkansas high school students, and Northwest Arkansas's sixth annual 24-Hour Play-Off. In partnership with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, T2's lineup of new works will also be presented at Oxford American Magazine's new venue in Little Rock (1300 Main Street, May 17-18). The lineup of events in Northwest Arkansas will take place at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios (505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville). Each new play reading will be followed by a conversation with the playwright, director and cast. (more...)

Dark Comedy SHEKINAH Comes To La MaMa E.T.C 3/5-3/22

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case. (more...)

Michael McFaden's CITY OF LIGHT Debuts With Pair of Readings 3/30-31

City of Light, a new and original light opera set in The Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New Yor-written by Michael McFaden, set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan-will make its bow to the public in two staged readings on March 30 and 31 at Nashville's Global Education Center. (more...)

Dark Comedy SHEKINAH Comes To La MaMa E.T.C 3/5-3/22

'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, directed by Peter S. Case, peels open the world of post-WWI spiritualist con artists. 'Shekinah,' a new dark comedy by Charles Case, revolves around the tragic, humorous and desperate lives of early twentieth century spiritualists. People who lost loved-ones to WWI or a child to polio made especially easy prey for these practitioners of mystic bunkum, who would abuse the desperate and those whose desperation made them blind. La MaMa E.T.C. will present the play in its First Floor Theater March 5 to 22, directed by Peter S. Case. (more...)

BWW's Top Little Rock Theatre Stories of 2012

BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of Little Rock in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013! (more...)

TheatreSquared Announces Upcoming Season

TheatreSquared (T2) Artistic Director Robert Ford and Managing Director Martin Miller today announced TheatreSquared Season 8, the 2013/14 lineup of professional theatre at Northwest Arkansas's nationally acclaimed regional theatre. The five-play season includes the World Premiere of The Spiritualist by Robert Ford; 4,000 Miles, a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist by Amy Herzog; a new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol; David Lindsay-Abaire's acclaimed new drama Good People; and Hamlet-TheatreSquared's first subscription Shakespeare production. Five-play packages start at $105 and may be purchased by calling the Walton Arts Center subscription line at (479) 571-2785 or by visiting theatre2.org/subscribe. (more...)

THE SPIRITUALIST, THE FOOTBALL PROJECT & More Set for Arkansas New Play Festival 2012

TheatreSquared today announced the lineup for the 2012 Arkansas New Play Festival, the theatre's fourth annual celebration of new works for the stage. The festival will feature staged reading performances of four professional plays, a showcase of ten-minute plays by Arkansas high school students, and Northwest Arkansas's sixth annual 24-Hour Play-Off. In partnership with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, T2's lineup of new works will also be presented at Oxford American Magazine's new venue in Little Rock (1300 Main Street, May 17-18). The lineup of events in Northwest Arkansas will take place at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios (505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville). Each new play reading will be followed by a conversation with the playwright, director and cast. (more...)

TheatreSquared Celebrates New Works During ARKANSAS NEW PLAY FEST

TheatreSquared announced today the lineup for the 2011 Arkansas New Play Fest, the theatre's third annual festival of new works. (more...)