On the eve of Britain’s entry into World War II, Sigmund Freud, a Jew exiled to London from Vienna, is plagued with oral cancer, fast approaching death, and remains as avowedly unconvinced as ever, by the illusion of God.

Enter C.S. Lewis, an established middle-aged novelist and Oxford academic with unparalleled imaginative gifts who fervently believes in God.

This is the sure-to-go-well scenario concocted by the US playwright Mark St. Germain, whose thought-provoking play, ‘Freud’s last session’, debuted in 2009 and went on to win the Off Broadway Alliance’s Best Play Award in 2011.

Now, starring Jorge Suarez as Freud and Luis Machín as C.S. Lewis, Daniel Veronese’s Spanish language adaptation ensures all of the power, humour, and intimacy of St. Germain’s fictional rendezvous remains alive, if unwell.

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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 it to New York for a subsequent Off Broadway or Broadway run. The cast and director have not been set.

“I’m thrilled beyond belief and couldn’t be happier,” says Sachs. “With the expert care and pedigree of Sonia Friedman Productions, the play is in very good hands.”

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New York’s hit play FREUD’S LAST SESSION opened its second foreign production on January 25th at the famed Multiteatro in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the title La Ultima Sesion de Freud, the play’s South American debut stars Jorge Suarez as Sigmund Freud and Luis Machin as C. S. Lewis, under the direction of Daniel Veronese.

Read more and watch video highlights courtesy of TV Publica Argentina

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“…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 Columbus, I AM THEATRE 

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Breast in Show explores the lives of five patients who build strength and create lasting friendships even though, beyond their diagnoses, they have nothing else in common.

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Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried will co-star in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Itamar Moses’ science-filled love story Completeness, which will get its theatrical software up and running Oct. 20.

The play recently enjoyed its New York premiere at Primary Stages, which concluded Sept. 25 Off-Broadway. Completeness had its world premiere at the South Coast Repertory earlier this year.

Stephen Sachs will direct the six-performance run, which will continue through Oct. 23 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. Ritter (“Parenthood”) and Mandy Siegfried (“Gray’s Anatomy”) are the first cast members announced. Susan A. Loewenberg produces the run.

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Everyone who’s ever been dumped — and doesn’t that include all of us? — is going to adore “The Breakup Notebook.”

The new musical at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park is a complete triumph. Librettist Patricia Cotter and songwriter Lori Scarlett admit in their opening number that their story is all “what you’ve heard before.” Nevertheless, they have dealt with the subject of shattered relationships in a fresh, exciting way.

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I could share, as I have before, something deeply reverential and reflective about what transpired for me on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the 10 years since. Or I could go another way and quote Flora, a 9/11 widow, about why she doesn’t like to attend the memorials of that day:

“When I do go to those things, people are just so incessantly respectful, ya know? Even people’s voices — however sweet they mean to be — just the tone is like nails on a blackboard. They talk to everyone like they’re 90 years old: ‘Oh, yes, yes, dear, we have a special section for you all.’ I mean seriously: ugh … Solemnity has its limits …”

Incessantly respectful? Did she just say that?

“It’s not what you think she’ll say,” playwright/director Charles Evered says in our recent interview.

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WELLFLEET — Maude Gutman’s style of art includes pictures of clowns with bulbous red noses, a plastic Santa and a bookcase full of kitsch she’s picked up at flea markets and thrift shops. But when she decides one day to buy an “ugly” painting as a gag gift, she discovers it actually could be a Jackson Pollock. So into her trailer comes an art expert from New York who is there to determine the painting’s authenticity.

And that is when the fun, along with some fiery conflict, begins in Stephen Sachs’ clever, witty and even poignant “Bakersfield Mist.”

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