TheaterWorks Hartford, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announce an extension of their season opener English by Sanaz Toossi, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is now set to close Saturday, November 8, 2025. This powerful and timely play kicks off TheaterWorks Hartford’s landmark…
TheaterWorks Hartford, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, and Long Wharf Theatre, under the Artistic Leadership of Jacob Padrón, announce a co-production of English by Sanaz Toossi, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This powerful and timely play kicks off TheaterWorks Hartford’s landmark 40th season before…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s fall play, THREE TALL PERSIAN WOMEN, a world premiere by Awni Abdi-Bahri (who also plays Golnar, the youngest of the women), is about many things: a gathering (the “mehmooni”) of three generations of Iranian women and their friends to pay homage to Golnar’s father…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company presents the World Premiere of Awni Abdi-Bahri’s Three Tall Persian Women, directed by Dalia Ashurina and staged at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from August 30 through October 13. This comedic play is about generational differences, grief, control, and learning to let go; but more than…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced its second annual Plays in Process series, spotlighting two new, in-workshop plays. Plays in Process offers patrons an opportunity to peer into the process of playmaking, celebrating Shakespeare & Company’s long-held mission to champion and nurture theater’s creative process. The two new works…
A NEW PLAY BY BRENT ASKARI DIRECTED BY REGINALD L. DOUGLAS COMMISSIONED BY BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY (Pittsfield, MA – July 28, 2021) – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, is pleased to announce that Obie Award winner Anthony Rapp (Rent, If/Then) will take on…
