August Strindberg News

The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre announces on 29th March the 2021–22 theatre season.

Storyhouse today has announced a NEW LIVE streamed run of the production of Strindberg’s Miss Julie will take place 9 – 17 April. Lockdown restrictions halted Storyhouse’s and New Earth Theatre’s plans to welcome a live audience to the show that was due to open in March.  

29PWC NEW WORK SERIES presents THE WHEEL OF LIFE, written and directed by Edgar Chisholm, on Tuesday, February 16, at 7:30pm on Zoom, with Ariel Estrada in the role of Guardian.

ArtsEmerson has announced that registration is now open for the latest iteration of its wildly popular Play Reading Book Club (PRBC), now being offered virtually. This pioneering theater literacy and community education program deepens the theater-going experience by offering unique and radical access to scripts, artists, and conversations featured at ArtsEmerson, while expanding the social networks of its participants. 

The Alley Theatre's free digital production of A Half Sheet of Paper is now available to view. There are two different versions. Written by August Strindberg and translated and directed by Rob Melrose, A Half Sheet of Paper will be available to view for free from January 22 - February 14, 2021.

The Alley Theatre's free digital production of The Stronger is now available to view. Written by August Strindberg and translated and directed by Rob Melrose, The Stronger will be available to view for free from January 15 - February 7, 2021.

The Alley Theatre's Artistic Director Rob Melrose has translated three classic short plays and adapted them for the Alley@Home 2021 Digital Season.

Internationally praised Brazilian theatre and film artist Christiane Jatahy brings her production of Julia to ArtsEmerson via its digital platform, premiering Tuesday, February 09 at 7:30PM ET, with on-demand streaming available through Monday, February 22 at 10:00PM ET. 

Storyhouse is looking forward to 2021 with a must-see programme of classic comedy, thought-provoking drama and stand-up silliness. Newly announced shows include acclaimed touring productions of stage hits Educating Rita and The Greatest Play in the History of the World, the return of Miss Julie and major names from the world of comedy.

New Earth Theatre and Storyhouse today announce the Storyhouse production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie, following its acclaimed run earlier this year.

The Alley Theatre has announced the cancellation of all in-person performances of the 2020-21 season. The following shows are affected by the cancellation: Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams (January 22 – February 14, 2021), Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (March 5 – 28, 2021), and more.

Ideal para puestas en escena en el formato de teatro arena, El Granero Xavier Rojas (ubicado en el Centro Cultural del Bosque) cumple 64 años de haber sido edificado por iniciativa del director y dramaturgo Xavier Rojas, quien propuso al arquitecto Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, el diseño y construcción de un escenario circular.  

On the latest episode of The Cool Kids Table podcast, Maggie Stiggers & Spiro Marcos, the co-hosts and co-founders of NikoFrank Productions, chat with Tony Award Winner Victoria Clark. The podcast, affiliated with Radio Free Brooklyn, highlights a guest each episode from the entertainment business who has a reputation for kindness and humility.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has announced the ninth weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS, which was conceived, created and curated by Frank Hentschker in March 2020. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center's director, Frank Hentschker.

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene continues to entertain and educate audiences with a new season of NYTF Radio conversations about the history of Yiddish Theatre and Jewish performative culture.

Actress Kim Cattrall recently chatted with BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz about her fears for the stage, and why she thinks theatre is so important.

Heartwood Theater is launching a mini-series of play readings, streamed live to audiences each week during the month of April.

With the current theatre world on hiatus, I have created a Spotlight Series which features interviews with some of the many talented artists who make our theatre community so exciting and vibrant thanks to their ongoing contribution to keeping the Arts alive in the City of the Angels. And I wanted to find out how are they dealing with the abrupt end of productions in which they were involved. This Spotlight shines on Scott Jackson who discovered his love of acting after college and now graces stages in the City of Angels. He had just wrapped portraying George Deever in a sold-out production of ALL MY SONS at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice when the entire theatre world was forced to shut down.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) has announced the 2020 NYC Audition Weekend,which will take place from Saturday, April 25, 2020 to Sunday, April 26, 2020 at Actors Connection, 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1410, between 45th and 46th Streets, NYC.

Classic Stage Company has announced its 2020-21 season. Bookending the season will be Doyle's new staging of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in fall 2020, and the long-awaited New York premiere of Ten Cents a Dance, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorzenz Hart, in spring 2021. In between, CSC presents the third annual edition of its winter repertory series, this time pairing landmark 1970s prison dramas: the Tony Award-winning, Apartheid-era play The Island and Kiss of the Spider Woman, which inspired the Tony Award-winning musical and Academy Award-winning film of the same name.