Bill C. Davis

Wanzie Presents' MASS APPEAL to Play White Elephant Cabaret Theater in July
by Blair Ingenthron - May 13, 2023

Former Orlando theater and opera mainstay Frank McClain, who left Orlando in 2012 to assume the role of Managing Director of Opera Tampa and who then relocated to Dubuque, Iowa (2015) to become the Executive and Artistic Director of the Grand Opera House, will return to Orlando this summer to direct Stephen Lewis and Michael Wanzie in the Wanzie Presents production of Mass Appeal – opening on Friday, July 14th, 2023 for a limited 3-performance run.

Manhattan Theatre Club Executive Producer Barry Grove to Step Down at End of 2022-2023 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 11, 2023

Barry Grove will step down as the Executive Producer of Manhattan Theatre Club at the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season.

Robert Cuccioli & Edward James Hyland to Star in UNCLE TED: SCENES FROM THE MCCARRICK REPORT Reading
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 14, 2022

The Peccadillo Theater Company will present Edward James Hyland and Robert Cuccioli in  Uncle Ted: Scenes from the McCarrick Report, a new play by Dan Wackerman, directed by Michael Parva with John Fitzgibbon, Daren Kelly, Robert Verlaque, Kersti Bryan, Jonathan Brody, Jim Schubin, Michael Castillejos, and more.

Playwright, Actor and Activist Bill C. Davis Has Passed Away
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 3, 2021

Bill C. Davis passed away on February 26, 2021 after a brief illness. Bill was a playwright, author, actor, director and political activist, and was best known for his play Mass Appeal, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club and subsequently moved to Broadway in 1981.

Algonquin Arts Theatre Presents MASS APPEAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 2, 2021

 Mass Appeal, a play with a long Broadway run in the early 1980s, marks the first theatre production of 2021 for Algonquin Arts Theatre. Audience members attending will have a Socially Distanced Theatre Experience which includes required mask wearing, distanced seating, limited capacity and expanded cleaning protocols.

Mission To (dit)Mars Announces New Writers For The 2018-2020 Propulsion Lab
by Julie Musbach - Aug 30, 2018

Mission to (dit)Mars is excited to announce the selection of four new members to the 2018-2020 Propulsion Lab, a Queens based writers group serving emerging playwrights from the borough.  In addition to the new lab members, one returning member has been named a Writer in Residence and three have been named Orbiting Artists.

MASS APPEAL Comes to Stage Door Players
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 5, 2018

Continuing the 44th Season of Dunwoody's very own professional theatre, STAGE DOOR PLAYERS produces the Tony Award © Winning Comedy- Drama, MASS APPEAL, written by Bill C. Davis and Directed by James Donadio.

AVOW, A Film By Bill C. Davis, Comes to The Warner
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2017

A Torrington based company, Harry Banks Productions, in appreciation for all of its support, invites Torrington and its surrounding areas to a screening of its newest film, AVOW. The screening will take place Saturday, January 6 at 8:30 pm in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre, where the play on which the film is based, was presented two years earlier.

SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, PICNIC, DIAL M FOR MURDER and More Set for Stage Door Players' 44th Season
by BWW News Desk - May 4, 2017

Stage Door Players celebrates the announcement of its exciting 44th Season as Dunwoody's own professional theatre. This season includes new takes on your favorite American classics: uplifting, hopeful, challenging and raucous fun.

Peterborough Players to Stage MASS APPEAL and STEEL MAGNOLIAS This Winter
by BWW News Desk - Feb 15, 2017

Fresh off the heals of the successful run of The Santaland Diaries in December, the Peterborough Players Inaugural Winter Season returns to the stage in February for the final two shows of the season. 

Peterborough Players to Stage MASS APPEAL and STEEL MAGNOLIAS This Winter
by BWW News Desk - Feb 1, 2017

Fresh off the heals of the successful run of The Santaland Diaries in December, the Peterborough Players Inaugural Winter Season returns to the stage in February for the final two shows of the season. 

Peterborough Players to Stage MASS APPEAL and STEEL MAGNOLIAS This Winter
by BWW News Desk - Jan 9, 2017

Fresh off the heals of the successful run of The Santaland Diaries in December, the Peterborough Players Inaugural Winter Season returns to the stage in February for the final two shows of the season. 

Peterborough Players Announces Inaugural Winter Season of Plays
by BWW News Desk - Nov 16, 2016

The Peterborough Players is known throughout New England as the quintessential summer stock theatre.

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, Starring Molly Ringwald, Opens Tonight Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - Nov 16, 2016

59E59 Theaters hosts the US premiere of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, written by Dan Gordon, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Larry McMurtry and the Oscar-winning screenplay by James L. Brooks, and directed by Michael Parva.

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, Starring Molly Ringwald, Begins Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - Oct 29, 2016

59E59 Theaters hosts the US premiere of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, written by Dan Gordon, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Larry McMurtry and the Oscar-winning screenplay by James L. Brooks, and directed by Michael Parva.

Cast Complete, Opening Set for TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, Starring Molly Ringwald Off-Broadway
by BWW News Desk - Oct 6, 2016

59E59 Theaters will host the US premiere of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, written by Dan Gordon, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Larry McMurtry and the Oscar-winning screenplay by James L. Brooks, and directed by Michael Parva.

BWW Review: MASS APPEALs at 2nd Story
by Larry O'Brien - Mar 24, 2016

2nd Story Theatre in Warren is on a pretty good run in 2016: HYSTERIA, LOVE DEATH AND WHAT I WORE, and now MASS APPEAL by Bill C. Davis, playing Upstage until April 3, have each provided entertaining and interesting evening or afternoons for their audiences. This play premiered in 1981-about halfway between Going My Way and Spotlight. That seems right: the show does not portray priests as saints, and only hints at the existence of problems, that will be revealed later on. In ninety minutes, MASS APPEAL tells the story of Father Tim Farley (Bob Colonna), a Catholic parish priest whose comfortable existence is upset by the arrival of an idealistic young seminarian, Mark Dolson (David Sackal), who becomes Fr. Farley's charge and challenge. Father Tim Farley is highly popular with his parishioners due to his charm, wit, easy-going manner, and entertaining (but unchallenging) sermons. One Sunday Dolson interrupts Farley's 'dialogue' sermon to challenge his stance on the ordination of women. In fairness to the young man, Fr. Farley had invited questions but got more than he asked for from Dolson. The pastor is outraged yet intrigued by Dolson, and asks to have him assigned to work with him. And that, as Rick tells Captain Renaud in Casablanca, is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Wendy Beckett's A BETTER PLACE Heads Off-Broadway This Spring
by BWW News Desk - Feb 26, 2016

The Directors Company, in association with Pascal Productions, will present A BETTER PLACE, a new work by playwright Wendy Beckett (Anais Nin: One Of Her Lives, A Charity Case) and directed by Evan Bergman (Love Therapy), will play a limited six-week engagement this spring at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET project (229 West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues).

BWW Reviews: MASS APPEAL at Square One Theatre
by Cindy Cardozo - Nov 12, 2015

Square One Theatre opens season with MASS APPEAL

Square One Theatre's MASS APPEAL Opens at New Location
by Sally Henry Fuller - Oct 25, 2015

Mass Appeal, a two-character comedy-drama by Bill C. Davis, will open Square One Theatre's 26th Season at its NEW LOCATION on the stage of Stratford Academy at 719 Birdseye Street in Stratford, Connecticut.