Jon Krupp's KILONOVA Wins The 15th Annual Barbour Playwrights Award
After three staged readings of three new plays by innovative emerging playwrights were presented to enthusiastic audiences at Guild Hall, the votes for the Episcopal Actors' Guild's 15th Annual Barbour Playwrights Award are in. The judges have selected Jon Krupp's Kilonova as this year's winner.
The 15th Annual Barbour Playwrights Award Announced
The Episcopal Actors' Guild (EAG) has announced that the Barbour Playwrights Award will be back for its fifteenth year this June. The festival celebrating new work for the theatre will feature readings of three new plays nominated by this year's partnering company Playwrights Gallery.
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Opens in February At Gallery Players
This February, Gallery Players presents a hilarious new production of Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The play is the story of middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia, who share a home in Bucks County, PA where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike.
Mile Square Theatre to Inaugurate New Space with CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION
Hoboken's Mile Square Theatre (Chris O'Connor, Founder & Artistic Director; Mark Cirnigliaro, Associate Artistic Director) will christen their new space with the Obie Award Winning play Circle Mirror Transformation written by Annie Baker and directed by Chris O'Connor. The play will begin performances on June 15 and celebrate its Gala Opening Night on June 16 and will run through July 2, 2016. Tickets are $30 ($18/students and seniors) and can be purchased by visiting milesquaretheatre.org
BWW Review: Public Theatre Opens with Finely Tuned WAIT UNTIL DARK
Lewiston's Public Theatre opened its twenty-fifth season with a finely tuned, engrossing production of Frederick Knott's classic thriller, Wait Until Dark. Presented in a well-crafted adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher which moves the action to the film noir world of the 1940s and directed by Janet Mitchko, this six-character drama retains all the spine-tingling creepiness of both the film and original stage versions.
Theatre 167 to Stage World Premiere of THE CHURCH OF WHY NOT
Theatre 167 will present the world premiere of The Church of Why Not, a new play inspired by the believers and skeptics, the Jews, Christians and Muslims, the activists and addicts, and the seekers and lost souls who pass through the doors of a church on the Upper West Side - staged at the very spot that inspired it.
Photo Flash: First Look at 4th Street Theatre's THE MAN-MADE ROCK
THE MAN-MADE ROCK, a dramatic comedy, which will run through December 16 at the 4th Street Theatre, is set in Texas and written by Justin Adams. Featuring direction from Matt Dickson (who just finished a run in Lincoln Center's War Horse and also appeared in all three parts of The Coast of Utopia), the cast will feature Broadway veterans Martin LaPlatney (the original Broadway cast of Amadeus, Roundabout's recent The Road to Mecca) and Stephen Bradbury (Dividing the Estate, the original cast of A Few Good Men on Broadway) alongside Blake DeLong, David Marantz (One Life to Live, As The World Turns) and Jon Krupp. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!
RECOVERY Plays NY Fringe Festival, 8/21-27
After an award-winning run during the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, playwright Mark Jason Williams will mark his New York International Fringe debut with the his comic Drama RECOVERY, directed by Andrew Block. (Lost and Found, last years Fringe Award winner, Small Engine Repair). RECOVERY will run from Sunday, August 21 - Saturday, August 27at The LES' Kraine Theatre (85 East 4th Street).
RECOVERY Plays NY Fringe Festival, 8/21-27
After an award-winning run during the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, playwright Mark Jason Williams will mark his New York International Fringe debut with the his comic Drama RECOVERY, directed by Andrew Block. (Lost and Found, last years Fringe Award winner, Small Engine Repair). RECOVERY will run from Sunday, August 21 - Saturday, August 27at The LES' Kraine Theatre (85 East 4th Street).
RECOVERY Plays NY Fringe Festival, 8/21-27
After an award-winning run during the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, playwright Mark Jason Williams will mark his New York International Fringe debut with the his comic Drama RECOVERY, directed by Andrew Block. (Lost and Found, last years Fringe Award winner, Small Engine Repair). RECOVERY will run from Sunday, August 21 - Saturday, August 27at The LES' Kraine Theatre (85 East 4th Street).
THE RAINMAKER Opens At Northern Stage 3/16
As the region emerges from a long and difficult winter, Northern Stage taps into the eternal optimism of the American spirit with N. Richard Nash's acclaimed comedy-drama-romance The Rainmaker, on stage from March 16 through April 3 at the Briggs Opera House in White River Junction.