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Sonia Friedman Options BAKERSFIELD MIST for West End, NY Productions

BroadwayWorld.com Published December 13, 2011 BAKERSFIELD MIST, the new play by Fountain Theatre co-artistic director Stephen Sachs, has been optioned by multiple Tony award-winning producer Sonia Friedman for productions in London and New York. Sonia Friedman Productions has signed an option to produce the play on the West End in London with plans to bring [...]

Interview with Curt Columbus…

“…As a Chekhov translator you could spend your whole life waiting for a person to have that kind of visceral response to Chekhov and never see it happen. I felt really blessed to be in the room to watch a young person hear Chekhov in a way that made her leap to her feet.” -Curt [...]

Larsen-Elliot Musical CLOAKED at the Village Theatre

Washington State’s Village Theatre, which helped give life to the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, will develop the new musical Cloaked by writers Danny Larsen and Michelle Elliott. Cloaked, a psychological thriller about an online connection, was first developed in a reading as part of the 2010 Festival of New Musicals. The [...]

Theater roundup: From Afghanistan war to Victorian sex

Palm Beach Arts Paper Written by Hap Erstein | 19 May 2011 Whether or not the pen is truly mightier than the sword, playwright Carter W. Lewis is out to prove in his enigmatically titled The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider that slam poetry can trump a mercenary private army. If that sounds like an [...]

BAKERSFIELD MIST Comes To The Fountain Theater, Opens June 11

The world premiere of a funny, touching and thought-provoking new comedy about art by Stephen Sachs is next up at the multiple award-winning Fountain Theatre. Starring veteran actors Jenny O’Hara and Nick Ullett and directed by Sachs, Bakersfield Mist opens on June 11, the first in a series of productions set to take place at [...]