A Noise Within Announces Another Season of Classics
The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh’s ‘Antigone.’
The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh’s ‘Antigone.’
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre’s annual new-play gathering.
The Off-Broadway theatre’s season will also include play direction from Susan Stroman and Rebecca Taichman.
The playwright was this year’s honoree at the annual festival in Independence, which featured a generous sampling of his work, and Jen Silverman was the New Voices Award winner.
Art or social service? That’s a false choice for this small but committed L.A. theatre, where theatrical excellence and community service are inextricably intertwined.
The season will also include Lawrence Wright’s ‘Camp David,’ a world premiere play by Anna Ziegler, and new plays by Kimber Lee and Nick Payne.
Alongside popular shows by Shakespeare, Coward, Ibsen and Garson Kanin is a seldom-seen melodrama by David Belasco.
A commissioned Sherlock Holmes play and a new musical inspired by 9/11 are among the offerings in the 2015–16 season.
‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ is the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Jordan Harrison and Suzan-Lori Parks are named as finalists.
This year, in addition to its usual performance offerings, the festival partnered with thinkEAST to get site-specific with an Austin neighborhood.