Dion Boucicault News

Conjoined identical twins separated at birth but who can feel each other’s pain, sword fighting, feuding families and romance are key features in Placer Repertory Theater’s adventurous interactive theatrical experience.

The second New Works Showcase for season 2024-2025 features Sacamento area native performer / playwright Stacey Winn, and her new solo show in progress, Openings, on November 18 at 7 p.m. in the Parkview Event Room, Rocklin, California.

Greater Sacramento area favorite playwright/director/actor Chris Smith has joined the cast of Placer Rep’s production of MacBeth, performing the titular role in a slightly truncated version of Shakespeare's play, adapted for performance by four actors.

The fruits of a region-wide talent search, Placer Repertory Theater has cast four very talented actors (Thomas Van Briggle, Stacey Winn, Matthew Rivera and Liam Roberts) to star in Placer Rep’s MacBeth, a slightly truncated version of Shakespeare's play, adapted to be performed by four actors and influenced by the absurdist, despot icon King UBU.

 T.S. Forsyth, producing artistic director for Placer Repertory Theater, has announced the first Placer Repertory Theater main season show for 2024-2025, MacBeth.

Slip into a riotous world of Victorian satire as London Assurance takes to the Festival Stage. Directed by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, the production is brimming with sexual innuendo, word play and farcical comedy.

Open submissions are now being accepted for auditions to fill roles in the 2024-2025 Placer Repertory Theater main season, themed 'Dark Ambitions.' Learn more about the lineup here!

The cast has been announced for The Vampire, a new pop-rock musical based on Dion Boucicault's 1852 melodrama with book adapted by Patrick Finelli and Douglas Hall and music composed by Clint Randles.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate, directed by Lila Neugebauer, opens on Broadway tonight in a production from Second Stage Theater. The show's star-studded cast includes Emmy-winner Sarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, Elle Fanning and more! Read the reviews!

Get all the latest updates on the highly anticipated 2024 season at the Stratford Festival. Find out which talented actors have been cast in which productions, and get ready to experience the magic of live theater at one of the world's most renowned festivals.

Discover the story behind the closure of Metropolitan Playhouse in New York after 31 years. Explore how this theater company brought forgotten American plays to light and celebrate its contributions to the neighborhood.

City Lit Producer and Artistic Director Terry McCabe announced that the theatre’s 2023-2024 season—its forty-third—will be his last on its staff. 

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins radical 2014 reboot of Irish playwright, Dion Boucicault's notorious 1859 play The Octoroon makes its Dublin premiere.

In AN OCTOROON, Jacobs-Jenkins seems to delight in taking audiences on a shock-and-awe tour through America’s history and present. In turns horrifying and hilarious, this work manages to elicit almost every emotion a human being can feel as it burrows into your psyche.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today two productions, two special one-night-only performances and one streaming event for their upcoming winter 2022 season.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre will stage Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon, promising audiences an explosive theatrical experience to jump-start the new year. Both old and new, An Octoroon reinterprets a famous Victorian melodrama as an audaciously theatrical and sometimes shocking examination of race and representation in America.

Irish Repertory Theater is cancelling performances of The Streets Of New York through December 26, 2021.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today casting and additional creative team members for The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault, featuring adaptation, songs & direction by Charlotte Moore. The Streets of New York will begin previews on December 4, 2021, with an opening night scheduled for December 14 and a limited run through January 30, 2022.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today productions for their upcoming fall season, which will mark their return to in-person programming following the Covid-19 shutdown in March 2020.  

Judith Moreland’s cunning production for the Fountain Theatre sneaks up behind you, gooses, tickles, sings, brays and pretty much does everything but give everyone in the audience a wedgie.