Original Casts of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE and THE DYING GAUL Reunite

The Vineyard Theater will reunite the casts of two of their biggest hits - How I Learned To Drive and The Dying Gaul for two, one-night-only readings this summer.

Original director, Mark Brokaw will again direct Cotter Smith, Robert Emmet Lunney, Linda Emond and Tim Hopper in Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul on Monday June 24th.

And on Monday, July 1st, Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse will read Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned To Drive.

Tickets are $75 and available at www.vineyardtheater.org or (212) 353-0303

2013 Lortel Award Winners

The winners of the 2013 Lortel Awards were announced tonight, they are indicated below in *GREEN.

Outstanding Play  
Bethany by Laura Marks, produced by Women's Project Theater
Cock by Mike Bartlett, produced by Stuart Thompson, Jean Doumanian, Royal Court Theatre, William Berlind, Scott Delman, Dena Hammerstein, Jon B. Platt, Scott Rudin, Ted Snowdon, True Love Productions
Detroit by Lisa D'Amour, produced by Playwrights Horizons
The Flick by Annie Baker, produced by Playwrights Horizons
*The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter, produced by Playwrights Horizons

Outstanding Musical  
*Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Peter Duchan, produced by Second Stage Theatre
Giant by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, produced by The Public Theater in association with The Dallas Theater Center
Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club
The Other Josh Cohen by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, produced by Amas Musical Theatre in association with Scandobean Productions, LLC
Skippyjon Jones by Eli Bolin and Kevin Del Aguila, produced by TheatreworksUSA

Outstanding Revival  
All In The Timing by David Ives, produced by Primary Stages in association with Jamie deRoy
My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard, produced by Signature Theatre
Passion by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, produced by Classic Stage Company
*The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, produced by Signature Theatre
Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company

Outstanding Solo Show  
*All the Rage, written and performed by Martin Moran, produced by piece by piece productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory in association with The Barrow Group
Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek, performed by Tina Benko, produced by Women's Project Theater
Title and Deed by Will Eno, performed by Conor Lovett, produced by Signature Theatre

Outstanding Director
Sam Gold, The Flick
Anne Kauffman, Belleville
Tina Landau, A Civil War Christmas
James Macdonald, Cock
*Ruben Santiago-Hudson, The Piano Lesson

Outstanding Choreographer
George De La Peña, A Midsummer Night's Dream
*Christopher Gattelli, Dogfight
Kyle Mullins, TRIASSIC PARQ: The Musical
Alex Sanchez, Giant
Doug Varone, Murder Ballad

Outstanding Lead Actor
Danny Burstein, Talley's Folly
Brandon J. Dirden, The Piano Lesson
Daniel Everidge, Falling
*Shuler Hensley, The Whale
Aasif Mandvi, Disgraced

Outstanding Lead Actress
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Neva
America Ferrera, Bethany
Vanessa Redgrave, The Revisionist
*Roslyn Ruff, The Piano Lesson
Sharon Washington, Wild With Happy

Outstanding Featured Actor
David Wilson Barnes, Don't Go Gentle
*Chuck Cooper, The Piano Lesson
Zach Grenier, Storefront Church
Jake Gyllenhaal, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
Mark Nelson, My Name Is Asher Lev

Outstanding Featured Actress
Eisa Davis, Luck of the Irish
*Annie Funke, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
Rebecca Naomi Jones, Murder Ballad
Amanda Quaid, Luck of the Irish
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, What Rhymes with America

Outstanding Scenic Design
Beowulf Boritt, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
Miriam Buether, Cock
*Clint Ramos, Wild With Happy
Louisa Thompson, Detroit
Mark Wendland, Murder Ballad

Outstanding Costume Design
Toni-Leslie James, A Civil War Christmas
*Jessica Pabst, The Whale
Clint Ramos, Wild With Happy
Emily Rebholz, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Anita Yavich, Golden Child

Outstanding Lighting Design
Jane Cox, The Flick
Rui Rita, The Piano Lesson
Ben Stanton, Belleville
Ben Stanton, Murder Ballad
*Scott Zielinski, A Civil War Christmas

Outstanding Sound Design
*Leah Gelpe, Slowgirl
Bray Poor, The Flick
Shane Rettig, Detroit '67
Jane Shaw, Jackie
Matt Tierney, Detroit

SPECIAL AWARDS
*Lifetime Achievement Award - Todd Haimes
*Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee - Neil LaBute
*Outstanding Body of Work Award - Theatre Development Fund
*Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience - Old Hats, created and performed by Bill Irwin and David Shiner, with music by and featuring Nellie McKay, produced by Signature Theatre

RENO: ALIVE IN AMERICA at TheaterLab

RENO: ALIVE IN AMERICA is the newest, electrifying solo show by the woman the New York Times has hailed as “consistently, energetically, loudly funny.” 

Being Alive in America comes with all kinds of uninvited responsibility. You’ve got to apply for a social security number, for instance, a day or so after you’re born. Welcome to the world. Now, initial here…and here.

And no one warns you about it. No one tells to prepare your John Hancock in utero. And no one tells you you’re going to have to know all about stocks and bonds to get by as an adult. Not just a suit-wearing, day-trading climb-the-corporate-ladder kind of adult but ANY kind. You might be a colorist but you’re supposed to have a financial portfolio. Heck, you might be a subterranean, left-handed lesbo and be expected to have one. And that pisses Reno off!

TheaterLab presents
RENO: ALIVE IN AMERICA
written and perfomed by Reno

2 Performances only! 
May 11 and May 18th, 2013 - 8pm

Theaterlab (at their FAB new location)
357 W. 36th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Tickets $20

For Tickets: Click Here or call 866-811-4111

Tennessee Williams Does Chekhov? THE NOTEBOOK OF TRIGORIN

Apparently,  playwright Tennessee Williams was a fan of Anton Chekhov (and, really, who isn't?) and attempted his own adaptation of The Seagull in 1981, where it premiered at the Vancouver Playhouse in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Well, it took an enterprising young theater company, The Attic Theater Company, to give this interesting bit of theater history its New York premiere.  

The Attic Theater Company presents
THE NOTEBOOKS 
OF TRIGORIN
by Tennessee Williams
directed by Laura Braza

FEATURING:  
Ted Caine, Meredith Forlenza*, Charise Greene*, Jeremy Lawrence*, Allen McCullough*, Henry Packer, Amelia Pedlow*, Renee Petrofes, Nicholas Ritacco, Will Sarratt, and Michael Schantz*, and Liz Tancredi. 

*Members of Actors Equity Association

Set design by Julia Noulin-Merat
Costume design by Michael Krass
Lighting design by Libby Jensen
Sound design by Colleen Toole
Stage Managed by Katie Kavett
Casting by Lexie Pregosin

Friday, May 3rd through Saturday, May 18th, 2013 

at The Flea Theater
41 White Street
(between Church and Broadway)
New York, NY 10013

Tickets: $25.00 

For Tickets + Info: Click Here

EST Marathon of One-Act Plays is BACK!

The flagship festival of new one-act plays that has played at Ensemble Studio Theater for over 30 years and proves to be the longest running and most acclaimed one-act play festival in the country, returns in 2013 after being sadly absent for several years.This year's Marathon will be a three series event and feature sixteen new One-Act plays. 

Series A: May 18 - June 2 
Poison by John Patrick Shanley, directed by John Giampietro
Kandahar to Canada By Dan O'Brien, directed by Mark Armstrong
You Belong to Me by Daniel Reitz, directed by Marcia Jean Kurtz
Curmudgeons in Love by Joshua Conkel, directed by Ralph Peña
Something Fine by Eric Dufault, directed by Larissa Lury

Series B: May 29 - June 16
Love Song of an Albanian Sous Chef by Robert Askins, directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel
A Sunrise in Times Square by Sharr White, directed by Claudia Weill
The Favor by Leslie Ayvazian, directed by Leslie Ayvazian
Something Like Loneliness by Ryan Dowler, directed by Colette Robert
Waking Up by Cori Thomas, directed by Tea Alagić
Daddy Took My Debt Away by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Jamie Richards

Series C: June 8 - June 29
Existence by Murray Schisgal, directed by Peter Maloney
Zero by Tommy Smith, directed by William Carden
Hate the Loser Inside by Jon Kern, directed by R.J. Tolan
Carry the Zero by Christopher Sullivan, directed by Andrew Grosso
Solar Plexus by Clare Barron, directed by Nelson Eusebio

May 18 - June 29, 2013

Tickets: $18
Student/Senior: $15
Previews: $10

2 Series Pass: $30
3 Series Pass: $40

For Tickets + Info: Click Here

Powerhouse Casting: THE OLD FRIENDS @ Signature

Betty Buckley, Hallie Foote and Lois Smith will star in the world premiere of THE OLD FRIENDS, a new play by Horton Foote as part of Signature Theater's 2013-2014 season.

The description reads, "matriarch Mamie Borden and the remaining members of two longtime Texas farming families await a visit from Mamie's son Hugo and his wife Sybil. When Sybil arrives with alarming news, old friends on opposing sides must confront the issues surrounding legacy, loyalty, and the meaning of happiness that have hounded them for generations."

We can't think of three better actresses to be cast in this production, that will be directed by Michael Wilson who previously directed Signature's production of The Orphans' Home Cycle and is currently represented on Broadway by A Trip to Bountiful with Cecily Tyson. 

THE OLD FRIENDS will run August 20 - September 29, 2013.

For more info: Click Here

Project Shaw: Mrs. Warren's Profession

The wonderful Project Shaw which presents monthly readings of George Bernard Shaw's plays has made an excellent case for Shaw's plays relevance to contemporary audiences. 

Up next, Project Shaw presents Mrs. Warren's Profession with an excellent cast: Harriet Harris, Richard Easton, Tony Sheldon, Amelia Pedlow, Mr. Lenny Wolpe and Matt Doyle! NY1's Roma Torre will narrate. Project Shaw Artistic Director and Founder, David Staller, directs.  Get there early as seating is general admission, and enjoy being in the usually members-only Players Club!

When Shaw completed Mrs. Warren's Profession in 1893, it was censored for eight years. When it was finally produced on the London stage in 1902, the public was outraged by its controversial content. Reviewers overwhelmingly condemned the play as immoral, citing its focus on prostitution and incest. Today, however, the play is applauded for its astute view of the corruption at the heart of Victorian society. The play centers on Mrs. Warren, who, forced by the economic realities of nineteenth century London, becomes a prostitute and later runs several unsuccessful brothels. Through her characterization, Shaw exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the "genteel" class. He also explores the personal consequences of such a profession as Mrs. Warren struggles to gain the respect and love of her daughter after she discovers the truth about her mother. Modern audiences admire the play's artistry as well as its subject since, as Shaw notes in his "Apology," "Mrs. Warren's defence of herself and indictment of society is the thing that most needs saying." 

Project Shaw presents
MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION
written by George Bernard Shaw during 1893 and 1894
directed by David Staller

Monday, May 20th, 2013 

$30

The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South
New York, NY 10003


For Tickets and Info: Click Here