The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced that Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is the winner of its 2008 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award was presented March 29 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Ky.
While the award is based in part on Wilder’s career, it [...]
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Wilder wins Osborn for `Gee’s Bend’
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Mar 08 - 1 Comment
Loretta Greco to head Magic Theatre
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Loretta Greco, whom Bay Area audiences know mainly from her work with American Conservatory Theater, has been named as the new artistic director of the Magic Theatre. She replaces Chris Smith.
“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to partner with David Jobin in launching the next era of adventuresome work at Magic Theatre,” Greco said [...]
K-K-K-Katie Holmes on Broadway, `Tales’ in tune
Archived in the category: Armistead Maupin, Arthur Miller, Avenue Q, Ben Affleck, Jason Moore, Jeff Whitty, Jennifer Garner, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, Tales of the City, Tom Cruise, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Mar 08 - 1 Comment
Yes, Katie Holmes, late of Dawson’s Creek, she of the couch-jumping husband, the ever-changing cute hairdos and the impossibly adorable Suri parentage, is being rumored to be heading to Broadway for a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring John Lithgow and Dianne Weist. Ms. Holmes must have had a conversation with Jennifer Garner, [...]
Moises Kaufman’s `33 Variations’ wins big award
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Posted by Chad Jones on 30 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations to receive the 2008 Harold and Mimi Steinberg /American Theatre
Critics Association New Play Award. The announcement was made Saturday, March 29 at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The award includes a commemorative plaque and a cash [...]
Bock, Beck hit `Drunken City’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 29 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
The arrival of a new Adam Bock play is always an event.
Even though the Canadian playwright decided to forgo the pleasures of life in the Bay Area for the rigors of a New York writer’s existence, we still love him. And as long as he sends us a play every now and then (like The [...]
Hello, Jerry Herman!
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Posted by Chad Jones on 29 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Saw a fantastic documentary last night that I highly recommend: Word and Music by Jerry Herman. It was on PBS for about a second, but it’s available via PBS Home Video.
Clearly this was a labor of love for Amber Edwards, who produced, wrote, directed and edited the 90-minute movie. She adores Herman, and it’s easy [...]
Review: `The Government Inspector’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Opened March 26, 2008 at American Conservatory Theater
The town’s mayor (Graham Beckel, seated) succumbs to a sneezing fit while accepting the congratulations of the town council (from left: Delia MacDougall, Andrew Hurteau, Dan Hiatt, and Rod Gnapp) on the engagement of his daughter to Khlestakov.
Photos by Kevin Berne
Fantastic cast makes Gogol’s Government worth inspecting
Let me [...]
k.d. lang gives good koncert
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
This isn’t a theater item, but I wanted to share with you a superb concert experience I had Tuesday night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, where k.d. lang brought her Watershed tour promoting her new album of the same name.
I’ve see lang a number of times in concert, but I have never seen [...]
So many new seasons: Woodminster Summer Musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
Woodminster Summer Musicals, the annual theatrical tradition of musicals under the stars, will produce three shows this summer at the Woodminster Amphitheater in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park.
The season, Woodminster’s 42nd, opens with the high-stepping Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (July 11-20). Next up is Seussical: The Musical (Aug. 8-17), and the season concludes with the [...]
ACT announces 2008-09 season
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Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Mar 08 - 0 Comments
There’s some juicy-good stuff in American Conservatory Theater’s newly announced 2008-09 season.
Here’s the rundown:
Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard (Sept. 11-Oct. 12) — Surprising no one, especially after Stoppard’s visit to ACT in January, the West Coast premiere of this London and New York hit will be directed by ACT artistic director Carey Perloff. The [...]
