NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

Mark Haddon’s celebrated, multi-award-winning novel is beautifully and imaginatively adapted into a stage play by Simon Stephens, directed by Marianne Elliot, co-director of the National Theatre’s acclaimed War Horse.

Culture Project’s Revival of ‘And God Created Great Whales’

A Composer Who’s Losing His Memory, Hopelessly at Sea

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK AT THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP

This summer, The Public and The Drama Book Shop are teaming up to fill your summer with Shakespeare!

Visit The Drama Book Shop at 250 West 40th Street, NYC for a closer look at Shakespeare in the Park 2011.

Before she would inspire millions, one woman would inspire her.

Performances Begin February 12th

William Gibson’s Tony Award® winning play THE MIRACLE WORKER will celebrate its 50th Anniversary of opening on Broadway with its first revival.

THE MIRACLE WORKER will star Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, iconic roles made famous by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in the Tony Award® winning play and landmark feature film adaptation.

The cast also features Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® nominee Matthew Modine (And the Band Played On, Short Cuts), Jennifer Morrison (the Fox series House M.D., the film Star Trek), both making their Broadway debuts, and Tony Award® winner Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman).

Keen Company kicks off its tenth anniversary season, with an evening of five short plays by American master Thornton Wilder, all of which will be maki

Synopsis

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The evening of shorts includes Such Things Only Happen in Books, in which a domestic life is slowly unwrapped to reveal the complexities at the heart of all families; Cement Hands, about an uncle who attempts to explain to his niece the precariousness of marrying a tight-fisted young fellow; and The Angel That Troubled the Waters, which shows the healer's pain, and how his suffering makes him most human. Also included are In Shakespeare and the Bible and Now the Servant's Name was Malchus. The cast includes Clayton Apgar, Pepper Binkley, Sue Cremin and Kevin Hogan. Carl Forsman and Jonathan Silverstein direct.

Clurman Theatre 410 W. 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Currently running! Closes on November 14, 2009 Opened on October 6, 2009 Running Time: 1 hr. 30 min. Ticket Price: $51.25 Tickets by Phone: 212-279-4200

The Twilight Zone

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

by Rod Serling

Review:

I just reread this short play with my class and loved it. We are watching the TV episode on Friday and have been practicing tableaux (slide show) interpretations of it all week long. The setting is anywhere, any town, Maple Street when a meteor supposedly hits the earth. Everyone in town is in a panic and accusations fly. I love the exploration of fear and prejudice in this story and the ending is eerie. If you haven't seen this episode and do not mind reading a script alone, you should pick this story up, it is only 10 pages long.