Lauren Smith News

We Have to Hurry , by a new work by acclaimed playwright, actor, and director Dorothy Lyman starring Kathleen Chalfant and Elliott Gould will host a Virtual Stage Door.

Stage legend Kathleen Chalfant is set to star in Dorothy Lyman's new play, We Have To Hurry, which will be streamed live for two performances only, Saturday, May 1 at 8pm and Sunday, May 2 at 3pm. Chalfant stars alongside Elliot Gould in this poignant play about two people learning to take a chance on life and love in their later years.

Elliott Gould has joined the cast of the live stream play We Have To Hurry, a new work by playwright, actor, and director Dorothy Lyman. Kathleen Chalfant co-stars in this  production where love gets a second chance.

We Have To Hurry, a new work by playwright, actor, and director Dorothy Lyman will star Kathleen Chalfant. The two-hander play, about a pair of mature people reigniting their spark in life’s third act, will stream live via Broadway on Demand for two performances only, Saturday, May 1 at 8pm and Sunday, May 2 at 3pm.

92Y has announced its upcoming lineup, including Justine Bateman, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lauren Ambrose, Men In Kilts, Anna Deveare Smith, Alan Bergman, and more in virtual talks.

Winter Opera Saint Louis rises from its pandemic slumber with a very lovely production of one of Puccini’s more rarely performed works—Suor Angelica.

The University of Southern Mississippi has announced that The University of Southern Mississippi's dance program will kick off its fall 2020 concert series featuring performances developed by faculty and students over the course of the semester. The series will be broadcast live on Nov. 13, Nov. 14 and Dec. 5 at 7 p.m.

Dorothy Lyman's new play, THE KEYS, will get a reading on Zoom

The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, The Theater at St. John's, and Yorick Theatre Company announce a very special live stream performance of Charles Ludlam's DER RING GOTT FARBLONJET, Ludlam's adaptation of Wagner's Ring Cycle called The Ring of the Nieblungen, directed by and starring theater legend Everett Quinton.

Ignition Arts and Literati Press collaborate for a unique book launch of elevated thoughts: 100 shadormas from 9,000ft. by Kate Brennan and Corinne Prudente. elevated, premiering on Thursday, May 7 at 7PM is a short film adaptation of the book. The film will be available free to the public for one month from launch (www.ignitionarts.org/2020) 

This summer, Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents the 75-minute musical stage adaptation of the timeless 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, directed by Brian Hill and choreographed by Kenny Ingram. Based on the landmark novel by L. Frank Baum and featuring music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, The Wizard of Oz promises to be the perfect outing for audiences of all ages at Chicago Shakespeare's home on Navy Pier all summer long, July 6-August 25, 2019 with performances on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. and Thursdays-Sundays at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Two-time Emmy Award-winner Dorothy Lyman, renowned for her acting and directing on All My Children, Mama's Family, and The Nanny, and in films like Blow and The Departed, will bring her powerful play, Gladstone Hollow, to Westchester County's Schoolhouse Theater from June 13-30.

Two-time Emmy Award-winner Dorothy Lyman, renowned for her acting and directing on All My Children, Mama's Family, and The Nanny, and in films like Blow and The Departed, will bring her powerful play, Gladstone Hollow, to Westchester County's Schoolhouse Theater from June 13-30.

In a tale as old as FaceTime, Electronic City pulses with potential as a dynamic dystopian mash-up where LED, KLM, EDM and 'news' of J-Lo's CVS H20 all vie for our short attention spans. Art imitates and pixelates life, and a co-dependency on little screens leads to big problems for Joy (Jeanne Laurent Smith) and Tom (Brandon Lee Olson), a disconnected but determined couple whose relationship status can best be described as 'buffering.'

New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) will bring its signature blend of inventive choreography and striking visual design to a modernist masterpiece of German theater with its production of 'Electronic City' (2003) by Falk Richter, translated by Marlene J. Norst, adapted and directed by Ildiko Nemeth. Performances are April 12 to May 10 at The New Stage Performance Space, 36 West 106th Street (basement level).

Jock Tears are a sensitive, sporty & sassy four piece microtonal band from Vancouver, Canada! Sweet & mean and everything in between! The band is Lauren Ray, Lauren Smith, Dustin Bromley, Spencer Hargreaves, and they are hitting the road with the reunited Apollo Ghost. 

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces today the extension of A Midsummer Night's Dream, now playing in the Courtyard Theater through February 3, 2019. Staged by internationally acclaimed director Joe Dowling, Shakespeare's beloved comedy is infused with raucous humor, dazzling dance numbers, and eclectic musical score blending rock, jazz, blues, rock, and '50s doo-wop.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces today the extension of A Midsummer Night's Dream, now playing in the Courtyard Theater through February 3, 2019. Staged by internationally acclaimed director Joe Dowling, Shakespeare's beloved comedy is infused with raucous humor, dazzling dance numbers, and eclectic musical score blending rock, jazz, blues, rock, and '50s doo-wop.

Chapin and Town close their season openers, while Trustus and Theatre SC kick off their seasons!

It's a packed weekend on Midlands stages!