2023 Drama League Awards winners: Annaleigh Ashford (‘Sweeney Todd’) takes Distinguished Performance
Winners of the 2023 Drama League Awards were announced on Friday, May 19, 2023, at an in-person ceremony, hosted by Emmy-winning reporter Frank Dilella at The Ziegfeld Ballroom. The Drama League Awards honor both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions from the 2022-2023 theater season.
“Leopoldstadt” asserted itself as the dominant play of the season, picking up the Best Play prize. Tom Stoppard’s drama has been perched atop Gold Derby’s Tony Awards odds since we launched the prediction center. With Tony favorite “Kimberly Akimbo” out of the running for Best Musical (the Drama League already considered that tuner for its Off-Broadway run), “Some Like it Hot” cruised to a win in that category. It prevailed over four of its fellow Tony nominees: “& Juliet,” “New York, New York,” and “Shucked.”
The Drama League bolstered the Tony prospects of “A Doll’s House” by bestowing it with the Best Revival of a Play prize. But the...
“Leopoldstadt” asserted itself as the dominant play of the season, picking up the Best Play prize. Tom Stoppard’s drama has been perched atop Gold Derby’s Tony Awards odds since we launched the prediction center. With Tony favorite “Kimberly Akimbo” out of the running for Best Musical (the Drama League already considered that tuner for its Off-Broadway run), “Some Like it Hot” cruised to a win in that category. It prevailed over four of its fellow Tony nominees: “& Juliet,” “New York, New York,” and “Shucked.”
The Drama League bolstered the Tony prospects of “A Doll’s House” by bestowing it with the Best Revival of a Play prize. But the...
- 5/20/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
In a Broadway season bursting at the seams with critically-acclaimed production — 38 musicals, plays, and revivals opened during the 2022-2023 eligibility window — it is no surprise that the 40 Tony Awards nominators caught theatre aficionados off guard with some of their choices.
In particular, two new plays exceeded our nominations expectations. Ahead of the announcement this morning, our official odds predicted only a single nomination for the Pulitzer Prize-winner “Cost of Living” for Katy Sullivan in Featured Actress — although many of our savvy editors and experts knew this would break through in Best Play. But few anticipated it would earn five bids, including Director for Jo Bonney, who ranked in 12th place with only 11 folks predicting her, Kara Young for Featured Actress in ninth place and David Zayas for Featured Actor in eighth place.
See the complete list of 2023 Tony Awards nominations
Jordan E. Cooper’s acclaimed and sadly short-lived “Ain’t...
In particular, two new plays exceeded our nominations expectations. Ahead of the announcement this morning, our official odds predicted only a single nomination for the Pulitzer Prize-winner “Cost of Living” for Katy Sullivan in Featured Actress — although many of our savvy editors and experts knew this would break through in Best Play. But few anticipated it would earn five bids, including Director for Jo Bonney, who ranked in 12th place with only 11 folks predicting her, Kara Young for Featured Actress in ninth place and David Zayas for Featured Actor in eighth place.
See the complete list of 2023 Tony Awards nominations
Jordan E. Cooper’s acclaimed and sadly short-lived “Ain’t...
- 5/2/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
The Drama League today announced the nominations for the 2023 Drama League Awards. Honoring achievements on and Off-Broadway, the nominations were announced this morning by Roger Bart (“Back to the Future: The Musical”) and Justin Guarini (“Once Upon A One More Time”) at the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Winners will be revealed at the 89th Annual Drama League Awards ceremony at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Friday, May 19, 2023.
“I don’t think I’ve experienced a theater season in New York ever like this one,” noted Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks. “There’s been a range, a breadth, an expansion of possibility that has been truly astonishing to witness. Theater makers have inspired not only with their creativity, but also with their drive and determination to serve audiences with vision and talent. These nominees reflect the promise and greatness inherent in the work of theater folk, and I can’t help but be deeply proud.
“I don’t think I’ve experienced a theater season in New York ever like this one,” noted Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks. “There’s been a range, a breadth, an expansion of possibility that has been truly astonishing to witness. Theater makers have inspired not only with their creativity, but also with their drive and determination to serve audiences with vision and talent. These nominees reflect the promise and greatness inherent in the work of theater folk, and I can’t help but be deeply proud.
- 4/25/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
A Pulitzer Prize can be a burden, one must assume, trumpeting expectations and pumping reputations from a distance. Martyna Majok‘s Cost of Living won the trophy in 2018, and that victory has been mentioned often in the lead-up to the play’s opening on Broadway tonight in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
An often moving, not quite as often cloying but generally disappointing quadruple portrait of two “differently abled” people — the term is loathed by at least one of them — and the not-quite-prepared caregivers enlisted to assist them, Cost of Living does better as character study than workable play. Still, it has more than a few moments of grace — and a fine cast — that combine to raise it beyond the well-meaning exercise it might otherwise have been.
Cost of Living, directed by Jo Bonney, begins with an out-of-chronology monologue that contributes little but confusion,...
An often moving, not quite as often cloying but generally disappointing quadruple portrait of two “differently abled” people — the term is loathed by at least one of them — and the not-quite-prepared caregivers enlisted to assist them, Cost of Living does better as character study than workable play. Still, it has more than a few moments of grace — and a fine cast — that combine to raise it beyond the well-meaning exercise it might otherwise have been.
Cost of Living, directed by Jo Bonney, begins with an out-of-chronology monologue that contributes little but confusion,...
- 10/4/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, will begin Broadway previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, September 13, ahead of an official opening on Monday, October 3.
The Manhattan Theatre Club announced the dates today, along with the addition of cast members Kara Young, a Tony nominee for her performance in last season’s Clyde’s, and David Zayas, best known to TV audiences for his long-running role as Angel Batista on Showtime’s Dexter.
Young and Zayas join the previously announced Gregg Mozgala and Katy Sullivan, who reprise their performances from the play’s acclaimed 2017 Off Broadway production.
Also as previously announced, Jo Bonney directs.
Cost of Living won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and follows the relationships between a graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, and between a quadriplegic woman and her ex-husband. The Pulitzer committee described Cost of Living as an “honest, original...
The Manhattan Theatre Club announced the dates today, along with the addition of cast members Kara Young, a Tony nominee for her performance in last season’s Clyde’s, and David Zayas, best known to TV audiences for his long-running role as Angel Batista on Showtime’s Dexter.
Young and Zayas join the previously announced Gregg Mozgala and Katy Sullivan, who reprise their performances from the play’s acclaimed 2017 Off Broadway production.
Also as previously announced, Jo Bonney directs.
Cost of Living won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and follows the relationships between a graduate student with cerebral palsy and his female caregiver, and between a quadriplegic woman and her ex-husband. The Pulitzer committee described Cost of Living as an “honest, original...
- 7/25/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years ago, only two black stage directors – and no black choreographers – were hired on Broadway under the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society’s contract. During the last Broadway season, the union says, only one black director was hired under its Broadway contract, and no black choreographers.
The union, which represents some 4,300 professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States, said today that the time has come “to own our responsibility and use our influence to end racist policies and practices in our field.”
The Sdc is the third entertainment union this week to own up to its role in the underemployment of members of color. On Monday, in the wake of nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, leaders of the WGA West urged its members – television showrunners – “to take their share of responsibility” for the lack of diversity in writers rooms. And on that same day, the...
The union, which represents some 4,300 professional stage directors and choreographers throughout the United States, said today that the time has come “to own our responsibility and use our influence to end racist policies and practices in our field.”
The Sdc is the third entertainment union this week to own up to its role in the underemployment of members of color. On Monday, in the wake of nationwide protests over racism and police brutality, leaders of the WGA West urged its members – television showrunners – “to take their share of responsibility” for the lack of diversity in writers rooms. And on that same day, the...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Seventy-two miles. That's the space between a recently deported mother in Nogales, Mexico and her husband and children in Tucson, Arizona. It's distance measured in the graduations, anniversaries, and countless daily moments they spend apartabut also in the love that keeps them together, no matter where they are. Don't miss this profound and personal premiere from Juilliard playwright Hilary Bettis 'The Americans' and Jo Bonney director of the Pulitzer Prize-winningCost of Living.
- 1/17/2020
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has received the 2019 Obie Award for Best New American Play. The Obies, announced at a ceremony tonight, recognize Off and Off Off Broadway productions (Schreck’s play was staged last fall at the New York Theatre Workshop Off Broadway prior to its move to Broadway).
A 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, What the Constitution Means to Me has been nominated for two Tony Awards for its Broadway staging at the Helen Hayes Theatre: Best Play, and, for playwright-performer Schreck, Best Leading Actress/Play.
Other winners at the 64th Annual Obie Awards, presented each year by The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice, include Playwriting awards to Marcus Gardley, Madeleine George and Suzan-Lori Parks; Directing awards to Jo Bonney, Leigh Silverman, Stevie Walker Webb; and Performance awards to Mia Barron, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cherise Boothe, Francis Jue, and Heather Alicia Simms.
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A 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, What the Constitution Means to Me has been nominated for two Tony Awards for its Broadway staging at the Helen Hayes Theatre: Best Play, and, for playwright-performer Schreck, Best Leading Actress/Play.
Other winners at the 64th Annual Obie Awards, presented each year by The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice, include Playwriting awards to Marcus Gardley, Madeleine George and Suzan-Lori Parks; Directing awards to Jo Bonney, Leigh Silverman, Stevie Walker Webb; and Performance awards to Mia Barron, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cherise Boothe, Francis Jue, and Heather Alicia Simms.
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- 5/21/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Kate del Castillo, whose wildly popular run as Teresa Mendoza in Telemundo’s La Reina del Sure series even drew the headline-making attention of El Chapo, will return to the New York stage this summer in the Off Broadway production of Isaac Gomez’s the way she spoke, directed by Jo Bonney as the next Audible Theater production at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
Previews begin Monday, July 8, with opening night set for Thursday, July 18. The Minetta Lane, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, is home base for Audible’s live performances, with productions recorded and released by Audible as audio plays.
the way she spoke follows an actress who enters a theater, picks up a script, and begins to read a story that reveals “disturbing and haunting accounts of the murder of thousands of women in Juarez, Mexico and one playwright’s journey of discovery and responsibility.” According to Audible’s description,...
Previews begin Monday, July 8, with opening night set for Thursday, July 18. The Minetta Lane, in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, is home base for Audible’s live performances, with productions recorded and released by Audible as audio plays.
the way she spoke follows an actress who enters a theater, picks up a script, and begins to read a story that reveals “disturbing and haunting accounts of the murder of thousands of women in Juarez, Mexico and one playwright’s journey of discovery and responsibility.” According to Audible’s description,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Be More Chill and What The Constitution Means To Me, currently on Broadway, are among the just-announced Lucille Lortel Award nominees for their previous Off Broadway versions.
The Lortels, which honor Off Broadway productions, mark a sort of unofficial kick-off to New York’s theater awards season. Broadway’s Tony Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, April 30.
Winners of the 34th annual Lortel Awards will be announced Sunday, May 5 at an event hosted by Wayne Brady.
Another nominated Off Broadway production that later made its way to Broadway is Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, nominated in the Outstanding Solo Show category.
Tying for most Lortel nominations are Classic Stage Company’s Carmen Jones starring Anika Noni Rose and Ars Nova’s Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future, each with six nominations.
The nominations were announced today by the Off-Broadway League. The 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards will be handed out Sunday,...
The Lortels, which honor Off Broadway productions, mark a sort of unofficial kick-off to New York’s theater awards season. Broadway’s Tony Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, April 30.
Winners of the 34th annual Lortel Awards will be announced Sunday, May 5 at an event hosted by Wayne Brady.
Another nominated Off Broadway production that later made its way to Broadway is Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, nominated in the Outstanding Solo Show category.
Tying for most Lortel nominations are Classic Stage Company’s Carmen Jones starring Anika Noni Rose and Ars Nova’s Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future, each with six nominations.
The nominations were announced today by the Off-Broadway League. The 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards will be handed out Sunday,...
- 4/3/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Geffen Playhouse today announced that it has added three directors to its upcoming 20182019 season, the first from new Artistic Director Matt Shakman. Tony Award nominee Michael Arden will direct Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted by and starring Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays Obie Award winner Jo Bonney will direct the world premiere of Jose Rivera's The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona and Obie Award-winner Robert O'Hara will direct the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galvan's Black Super Hero Magic Mama.
- 6/7/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Dylan and productions starring Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge will be among the 2018-19 offerings of Off Broadway’s Public Theater.
The West End hit Girl From the North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson and featuring music from Dylan’s songbook, will make its North American premiere in September, with an American cast. (The photo above was taken at the Old Vic Theatre in London last July).
Also in September, Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid makes its New York premiere starring Glenn Close as the mother of Joan of Arc.
Gyllenhaal and Sturridge also are set to appear in a double bill of solo shows beginning in January. Sturridge will perform Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall, a monologue “about love and the human need to know the unknowable,” while Gyllenhaal stars in Nick Payne’s A Life,...
The West End hit Girl From the North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson and featuring music from Dylan’s songbook, will make its North American premiere in September, with an American cast. (The photo above was taken at the Old Vic Theatre in London last July).
Also in September, Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid makes its New York premiere starring Glenn Close as the mother of Joan of Arc.
Gyllenhaal and Sturridge also are set to appear in a double bill of solo shows beginning in January. Sturridge will perform Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall, a monologue “about love and the human need to know the unknowable,” while Gyllenhaal stars in Nick Payne’s A Life,...
- 6/5/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced today a two-week extension for the world premiere of Mlima's Tale. Written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and directed by Obie Award winner Jo Bonney, Mlima's Tale continues The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work and the 50th Anniversary of Hair. Mlima's Tale will now run two additional weeks through Sunday, June 3.
- 4/19/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Martyna Majoks just became the recipient of one of the theater’s highest honors: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Recognizing a superlative theatrical work staged in the previous calendar year, the prestigious prize has been voted upon by a small group of critics since 1918. Announced by the recently elected Pulitzer administrator Dana Canedy April 16, along with the many other awards, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to the play “Cost of Living.” Majoks’ winning work is described by the Pulitzer committee as an “honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched individuals: a former trucker and his recently paralyzed ex-wife, and an arrogant young man with cerebral palsy and his new caregiver.” The play was presented last summer at New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Jo Bonney. Nominated as finalists...
- 4/16/2018
- backstage.com
The Public Theater is currently hosting the world premiere of Mlima's Tale, written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and directed by Obie Award winner Jo Bonney. Mlima's Tale continues The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work and the 50th Anniversary of Hair. The play will run through Sunday, May 20 in The Public's Martinson Hall.
- 4/16/2018
- by Review Roundups
- BroadwayWorld.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' may have served as the initial inspiration for Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious 2000 drama, Fucking A, but, especially in director Jo Bonney's chilling Signature Theatre production, her sardonically abstract portrait of human cruelty may remind playgoers of another writer, Bertolt Brecht.
- 9/13/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Suzan-Lori Parks has said that the original idea for her play “F—ing A” was something of a joke: “I’m going to write a riff on ‘The Scarlet Letter’ and I’m going to call it ‘F—ing A’!” This was before Parks had won the Pulitzer Prize for her breakout 2002 play “Topdog/Underdog.” More tellingly, it was also before she had even read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel. And like many an idea borne of an ill-informed joke, “F—ing A” doesn’t really sustain itself over its two-hour-plus running time. That’s the takeaway from director Jo Bonney’s occasionally stirring revival,...
- 9/13/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Save Up To 35 Directed by Obie Award winner Jo Bonney, this achingly human andsurprisingly funny play from exciting new voice Martyna Majok is about theforces that bring people together, the realities of facing the world withphysical disabilities and how deeply we all need each other. Truck driver Eddie is struggling to rebuild a relationship with hisestranged wife Ani, and Jess is trying to navigate the day-to-day withJohn, her new boss, in a job that she desperately needs. People are hard.
- 6/5/2017
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
If you like a gripping drama, you will want to catch Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty Boardwalk Empire,' End of the Rainbow and Michael Crane in The Body of an American, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Obie winner Jo Bonney Father Comes Home from the Wars..., Lost Girls and presented by Primary Stages and Rhoda R. Herrick, in association with Hartford Stage. Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award shared with Tony-winner All The Way. The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien is...
- 3/9/2016
- by TJ Fitzgerald
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus, presents Suzan-Lori Parks' epic Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2 amp 3, directed by Jo Bonney, in a co-production with The Public Theater in New York. Performances run now through March 1 at the Loeb Drama Center. Click below to see what audiences think of the show...
- 2/18/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater has announced the 2014 PlayLabs reading series, which will feature new works in development by playwrights Stephen Belber, John Pollono, and Will Snider. Friends alum David Schwimmer, currently represented off-Broadway with his direction of the critically-acclaimed hit Sex with Strangers, is set to direct Belber's Shut Up When You Talk to Me. Pollono's Lost Girls will be directed by McC alum Jo Bonney, who also directed McC's hit production of Pollono's Small Engine Repair. Snider's How to Use a Knife will be helmed by Kareem Fahmy. Readings will be held on September 15th, September 29th, and October 6th, respectively, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street. All readings are at 7pm. Full casting will be announced at a later date. Tickets are 10, which include the post-reading reception. For tickets and more info, please visit www.mcctheater.org.
- 8/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Managing Director William Russo, has announced the remaining production planned for its 201415 Season Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2 amp 3, written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Jo Bonney, in a co-production with The Public Theater in New York. Performances will begin January 2015 at the Loeb Drama Center.
- 4/21/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater presents the New York Premiere of John Pollono's celebrated Small Engine Repair, which plays through December 15, 2013 due to popular demand. Keegan Allen, James Badge Dale, playwrightactor John Pollono, and James Ransone star in the production directed by longtime McC collaborator Jo Bonney McC's The Break of Noon, Fat Pig. Small Engine Repair at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC had its official opening last night November 20, and you can check out photos from the special event below...
- 11/21/2013
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey,William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director presents the New York Premiere of John Pollono's celebrated Small Engine Repair, the comic thriller that premiered to rave reviews and sold-out audiences at L.A.'s Rogue Machine Theatre, where it won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Playwriting, among many other honors. Keegan Allen, James Badge Dale, playwrightactor John Pollono, and James Ransonestar in the production directed by longtime McC collaborator Jo Bonney McC's The Break of Noon, Some Girls, Fat Pig. Small Engine Repair begins at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC on October 30, 2013. An official opening night is set for November 20, 2013.In the video below, go inside rehearsal with the cast and creative team...
- 10/24/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sure, you can find Pretty Little Liars’ Toby, the show’s second most questionable fella, running around Rosewood, but starting this month, the same can’t be said for Toby’s portrayer, Keegan Allen. Rather, Allen is spending his days on a stage just out of Rosewood’s reach.
Allen is starring in the off-Broadway play Small Engine Repair. Put on by McC Theater, Small Engine Repair is a comic thriller about three old high-school pals who regularly meet up at an off-the-beaten-path repair shop. What they do, we’re not sure. But we do know that when 19-year-old Chad (Allen) shows up,...
Allen is starring in the off-Broadway play Small Engine Repair. Put on by McC Theater, Small Engine Repair is a comic thriller about three old high-school pals who regularly meet up at an off-the-beaten-path repair shop. What they do, we’re not sure. But we do know that when 19-year-old Chad (Allen) shows up,...
- 10/17/2013
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW.com - PopWatch
McC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director today announced that single tickets have gone on sale for the New York Premiere of John Pollono's celebrated Small Engine Repair, the comic thriller that premiered to rave reviews and sold-out audiences at L.A.'s Rogue Machine Theatre, where it won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Playwriting, among many other honors. Keegan Allen, James Badge Dale, playwrightactor John Pollono, and James Ransone star in the production directed by longtime McC collaborator Jo Bonney McC's The Break of Noon, Some Girls, Fat Pig. Small Engine Repair begins at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC on October 30, 2013. An official opening night is set for November 20, 2013.
- 9/18/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pretty Little Liars star Keegan Allen will make his professional stage debut this fall in McC Theater’s Off Broadway production of Small Engine Repair. And it sounds like he hasn’t left the intrigue of Rosewood behind. Allen will play a privileged college jock who turns up at an out-of-the-way repair shop and sets off an explosion of resentment among the three former high school buddies who regularly meet there under shady circumstances. The buddies will be played by James Badge Dale (World War Z, The Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3), James Ransone (The Wire, Treme), and actor-playwright John Pollono,...
- 7/8/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Signature Theatre presents The Mound Builders written byLanford Wilson and directed by Jo Bonney. The production will now play through Sunday, April 14. The production opened last night, March 17 in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photo coverage below...
- 3/18/2013
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Signature Theatre has announced a one-week extension for The Mound Builders written by Lanford Wilson and directed by Jo Bonney. The production will now play through Sunday, April 14. The production is currently in previews and will open March 17 in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. Tickets during the extension week are 75 each.Check out highlights from the show below...
- 3/12/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony nominee Lily Rabe American Horror Story, Merchant of Venice joins Broadway actress Laura Heisler Lucille Lortel and Drama League nominee and Logan Marshall-Green Julie Taymor's Across the Universe for Tony nominee Neil Labute's world premiere adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The production is directed by Obie Winner Jo Bonney, who has directed the Geffen Playhouse productions of Labute's Some Girls, The Break of Noon and Fat Pig. She also directed the theater's West Coast premiere production of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.
- 3/7/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Off Broadway premiere of Emotional Creature, the newest play by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, will end its limited engagement as scheduled on Sunday, January 13th. Produced Off Broadway by Carole Black and Pat Mitchell, and directed by Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark with original music and musical direction by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Emotional Creature began previews The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street on Friday, October 26, 2012, and officially opened on Monday, November 12, 2012.
- 1/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Emotional Creature, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, gets a New York premiere this fall. Directed by Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark with original music and musical direction by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Emotional Creatureopened on November 12, direct from an acclaimed World Premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. Anne Hathaway just visited the show and you can check out photos of her wit hthe cast below...
- 11/16/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Emotional Creature, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, gets a New York premiere this fall. Directed by Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark with original music and musical direction by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Emotional Creature opened on last night, November 12, direct from an acclaimed World Premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. BroadwayWorld was there for the opening and we bring you coverage below...
- 11/13/2012
- by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producers Carole Black and Pat Mitchell present Emotional Creature, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, will get a New York premiere this fall. Directed by Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark with original music and musical direction by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Emotional Creature will open on Monday, November 12, 2012, direct from an acclaimed World Premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California.
- 11/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producers Carole Black and Pat Mitchell present Emotional Creature, the new play written by Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, activist, and The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, will get a New York premiere this fall. Directed by Obie Award-winner Jo Bonney By the Way, Meet Vera Stark with original music and musical direction by Charl-Johan Lingenfelder, Emotional Creature will begin previews at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd Street on Friday, October 26, 2012 with an official opening night set for Monday, November 12, 2012, direct from an acclaimed World Premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California.The cast and creative team just met the press and you can check out complete photo coverage below...
- 10/11/2012
- by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- BroadwayWorld.com
Stage and screen star Sanaa Lathan A Raisin in the Sun, Contagion returns to the title role in Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottages By the Way, Meet Vera Stark for its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. Lathan, who originated the character of Vera Stark in the critically acclaimed New York run, will once again take the stage as the 1930s era maid turned movie star, reunited with original cast member Kimberly Hbert Gregory Spike Lees Red Hook Summer reprising her role as fellow aspiring African American actress Lottie. Broadway vet and Geffen alum Merle Dandridge Spamalot, Rent, Aida will take on the spicy role of Anna Mae, who fakes a Brazilian accent for a slice of fame, and former leading lady of ABCs Man Up, Amanda Detmer, will portray Gloria Mitchell, the white starlet dubbed Americas little sweetie pie and Veras first employer. Helmed by award-winning director Jo Bonney,...
- 7/26/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
McC Theater Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors Blake West, Executive Director today announced that Jon Bernthal AMC's The Walking Dead and actorplaywright John Pollono will star in the New York Premiere of Small Engine Repair, by John Pollono, directed by Jo Bonney Neil Labute's The Break of Noon, Some Girls, Fat Pig. The production will be the third and final production of MCCs 2012-13 three-play mainstage season, which marks the companys 27th consecutive year producing and developing new work by today's most provocative and vibrant artists. Small Engine Repair will be performed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre 121 Christopher Street, NYC May 16 June 23, 2013.
- 6/19/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The New Group presents the world premiere of An Early History of Fire, a new play by Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe. Directed by Jo Bonney, this production features Gordon Clapp, Erin Darke, Jonny Orsini, Devin Ratray, Dennis Staroselsky, Theo Stockman and Claire van der Boom. Limited Off-Broadway engagement plays through May 26 at The New Group Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street. Official Opening Night is set for Monday, April 30 at 700 Pm.
- 4/20/2012
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The New Group will present the world premiere of An Early History of Fire, a new play by Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe. Directed by Jo Bonney, this production features Deema Aitken, Gordon Clapp, Erin Darke, Jonny Orsini, Devin Ratray, Dennis Staroselsky, Theo Stockman and Claire van der Boom. Limited Off-Broadway engagement is slated April 5 May 26 at The New Group Theatre Row 410 West 42nd Street. Official Opening Night is set for Monday, April 23 at 700 Pm. Lily Rabe, who was previously slated to star in the play will no longer be taking part in the production.
- 2/28/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
La Jolla Playhouse presents American Night The Ballad of Juan Jos, written by Richard Montoya Zorro in Hell for Culture Clash, developed by Culture Clash and Jo Bonney The Seven, Adoration of the Old Woman, directed by Jo Bonney. A co-production with Center Theatre Group and originally commissioned and produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Night The Ballad of Juan Jos will run through February 26, 2012 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Check out highlights from the show below...
- 2/7/2012
- by Stage Tube
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La Jolla Playhouse presents American Night The Ballad of Juan Jos, written by Richard Montoya Zorro in Hell for Culture Clash, developed by Culture Clash and Jo Bonney The Seven, Adoration of the Old Woman, directed by Jo Bonney. A co-production with Center Theatre Group and originally commissioned and produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Night The Ballad of Juan Jos will run January 27 - February 26, 2012 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.
- 2/2/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This will probably be as close as most of you will ever get to seeing Sanaa Lathan in Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. No, I’m not rubbing it in, just stating the obvious.
In the play, currently previewing New York’s Second Stage Theater, Sanaa plays the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musical Wicked).
The official synopsis: “A seventy-year journey into the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career.
In the play, currently previewing New York’s Second Stage Theater, Sanaa plays the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musical Wicked).
The official synopsis: “A seventy-year journey into the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career.
- 4/19/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Tickets are now on sale for By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage’s new play since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for the Congolese civil war drama Ruined, which stars Sanaa Lathan.
Sanaa will play the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musical Wicked).
Here’s the official synopsis which I very recently was alerted to: “A seventy-year journey into the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career. When both land roles in the same Southern epic,...
Sanaa will play the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musical Wicked).
Here’s the official synopsis which I very recently was alerted to: “A seventy-year journey into the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress, and her tangled relationship with her boss, a white Hollywood star desperately grasping to hold onto her career. When both land roles in the same Southern epic,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
When Back Stage spoke with them, Tracee Chimo, Catherine Dent, and John Earl Jelks were in previews for the Los Angeles premiere of Neil Labute's "Break of Noon," directed by Jo Bonney, at the Geffen Playhouse. The show began its Los Angeles run Feb. 2 after a long sit at New York's McC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Jelks and Chimo came to Los Angeles with the show, which had also starred David Duchovny and Amanda Peet. Dent replaces Peet. She is joining Kevin Anderson, who replaces Duchovny as John, a man who claims to hear the voice of God after an office massacre kills every other person there. The three we spoke with portray two characters apiece in the play. We found out how each actor got cast and how each is working to create distinct characters. Back Stage: How did each of you get cast in this production?...
- 2/3/2011
- backstage.com
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage’s new play since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for the Congolese civil war drama Ruined, has announced its star: Ms Sanaa Lathan!
Sanaa will play the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musicals 9 to 5 and Wicked).
Color me intrigued!
The play reportedly looks to “1930s screwball films” as inspiration. Its remaining cast includes Tony Award winner Karen Olivo (West Side Story), Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker (for Passing Strange), Kimberly Hebert Gregory, and Kevin Isola.
Directed by Jo Bonney (The Break of Noon, Fat Pig), preview performances of the...
Sanaa will play the titular Vera Stark, described as “a black maid in Hollywood who pursues her dream of making it in the pictures while also grappling with racial stereotypes through decades of the 20th century,” and will focus primarily on the relationship between Stark and her boss, a white Hollywood star, played by Stephanie J. Block (whose Broadway resume includes the musicals 9 to 5 and Wicked).
Color me intrigued!
The play reportedly looks to “1930s screwball films” as inspiration. Its remaining cast includes Tony Award winner Karen Olivo (West Side Story), Tony Award nominee Daniel Breaker (for Passing Strange), Kimberly Hebert Gregory, and Kevin Isola.
Directed by Jo Bonney (The Break of Noon, Fat Pig), preview performances of the...
- 2/2/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced complete casting and creative team today for Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9), the final play of the 2008-2009 Public Lab season. Written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Jo Bonney, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9) will begin performances on Friday, June 5 and run through Sunday, June 28. Tickets are $10 for all performances and are on-sale now.
- 5/22/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will present the world premiere of Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9), the fifth and final play of the 2008-2009 Public Lab season. Written by Public Theater Master Writer Chair Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Jo Bonney, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 8, & 9) will begin performances on Friday, June 5 and run through Sunday, June 28.
- 4/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present The 70/70 Horovitz Project, a worldwide, year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz. Barefoot will lead over 50 theatre companies from around the globe including France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea & the United States, performing readings, staged readings & fully staged productions of 70 of Horovitz's plays. The 70/70 Horovitz Project will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010. The evening will be hosted by Barefoot Theatre Company Advisory Board Member, Pierre Dulaine. The entire Barefoot Theatre Company will be present at the event to greet all guests, along with the Horovitz family.
- 3/22/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present The 70/70 Horovitz Project, a worldwide, year-long celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz. Barefoot will lead over 50 theatre companies from around the globe including France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea & the United States, performing readings, staged readings & fully staged productions of 70 of Horovitz's plays. The 70/70 Horovitz Project will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010. The evening will be hosted by Barefoot Theatre Company Advisory Board Member, Pierre Dulaine. The entire Barefoot Theatre Company will be present at the event to greet all guests, along with the Horovitz family.
- 3/11/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
NYC's Barefoot Theatre Company will present The 70/70 Horovitz Project, a worldwide celebration of the 70th birthday of internationally-acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz. The year-long event will include readings & productions of 70 Horovitz plays by theatres companies around the globe & will begin with a gala & a reading of Sins of the Mother (directed by Jo Bonney) at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street on Israel's birthday, March 31, 2009 & will continue throughout the following year, ending on March 31, 2010.
- 2/7/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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