Alfred Jarry News

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed repertory theatre company, stages Henrik Ibsen?s Ghosts, a haunting tale of unrequited passion, revelation and horror, which opens Saturday, March 21 and runs through Saturday, May 9, 2009 (previews begin Saturday, March 14). Directed by Michael Murray, the cast features Mark Bramhall (Estrand), Alex Feldman (Oswald), Rebecca Mozzo (Regina), Deborah Strang (Mrs. Alving) and Joel Swetow (Manders).

Ubu: A 'Patamusical began 14 years ago as Brantley was finishing his junior year in high school. Yep, high school. Monty Holamon asked him to spend the summer learning to walk on stilts. The reason: the one-act play that Monty was planning to direct that fall was based on three French plays by Alfred Jarry, and three of the characters, the Paljenttents, needed to be about 10 feet tall. Huh?

Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's complete 2009 Summer Season.

The cast of 'A Little Night Night Music' at Center Stage performs at a student matinee.

Avenue Q's Jordan Gelber will star in the Katharsis Theater Company's World Premiere production of The Polish Play: A Conflation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, devised and directed by 2004 Drama Desk-nominee Henry Wishcamper

Swados, composer, playwright and director, is the first of BWW's special profiles for Women's History Month.