Alley Theatre Announces 61st Season Lineup

March 28, 2007

The Alley Theatre’s 61st season is crowned by the world premiere of The Gershwins’ An American in Paris featuring the music of the greatest American song-writing team George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin including: “ S’Wonderful,” “The All Laughed,” and “Stairway to Paradise.” This new production presents an all-new book created by Ken Ludwig, author of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Crazy For You. Kicking off the season is John Patrick Shanley’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt. On the Alley’s Neuhaus Stage in the New Year is the return of Martin McDonagh with his Tony Award-nominated gruesome comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore...

Stages Surround Events Celebrate the Art & Culture of India & Pakistan

Stages Repertory Theatre’s 2007 Surround – a series of community outreach events designed to create a larger context for a particular play or theatre artist’s work – explores how culture defines us, and what happens when cultures merge or clash, through a series of theatre, film and visual art events focusing on Stages’ U.S. Premiere production of Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat. Along with An American Brat, the Surround includes three additional theatrical presentations, two film screenings, and an exhibit of original artwork...

January 2007

Anthony Barilla, artistic director of Infernal Bridegroom Productions, has announced that he will be leaving the organization at the end of April, 2007. Barilla will be moving to Kosovo to join his wife, Emily Patterson, who works as a Human Rights Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. They will be based in Mitrovica, a town still struggling with ethnic tensions between nationalist extremists on both sides of the conflict. Patterson has been based in Mitrovica since August of 2006. Barilla joined IBP in 1998 as associate director/production manager, and was promoted to artistic director in 2003 following the departure of IBP’s founding artistic director, Jason Nodler...

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Replaces the Previously Announced Terms of Endearment

January 2007

To Kill a Mockingbird will replace the previously scheduled adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment as the fourth play on the Hubbard Stage during the Alley’s Sixtieth Anniversary season. Terms of Endearment, a new play, in development with Hartford Stage Company, has been postponed indefinitely. Linda Gray, remembered most often for her portrayal of “Sue Ellen” in the long running television hit “Dallas,” was to take on the role of Aurora with Hartford Stage Artistic Director (and Alley Theatre Associate) Michael Wilson directing...

Stages Repertory Theatre Board names Kenn McLaughlin Producing Artistic Director

December 2006

After ten years of artistic acclaim for his leadership of Stages Repertory Theatre, Artistic Director Rob Bundy announced today that he will not return to Stages Repertory Theatre following his year-long leave of absence. Mr. Bundy will pursue a freelance directing career based in New York where he maintains a home. Kenn McLaughlin, Stages' current Managing Director, will continue performing the producing duties previously held by Bundy and will immediately assume the role of Producing Artistic Director of Stages...

dos chicas theater commune presents:
Sadomasochistic Xmas
fundraiser and preview party!
Saturday, November 18,

dos chicas theater commune’s Company and Board invite you to their “Sadomasochistic Xmas” Preview Party & Fundraiser. For the last 9 years, all dos chicas work has been 99% self-funded; we have not asked for donations to produce our shows or to support our company. We have only had one other fundraiser...