Lauren Yee News

EXIT Theatre announced today that it has replaced the staged reading of Sean Owens' Center Square, a one-person show about the late comedian and 'Hollywood Squares' star Paul Lynde, after receiving a 'cease and desist' letter February 25 from the current licensee of the Lynde rights, Matzoball Entertainment LLC. EXIT's 2009 DIVAfest runs April 2-25, 2009.

PlayGround, the incubator for the next generation of Bay Area playwrights, announces its annual Benefit & Awards Night at American Conservatory Theater on Monday, April 6th, 2009, with special guests Octavio Solis and Jasson Minadakis. A tribute to the outstanding playwrights of PlayGround, the evening features an intimate discussion with Solis and Minadakis and the presentation of the 2009 Emerging Playwright Awards, June Anne Baker Prize, and PlayGround Fellowship. Attendees will also be treated to a reception, silent auction, and dinner.

EXIT Theatre announced today that it has replaced the staged reading of Sean Owens' Center Square, a one-person show about the late comedian and 'Hollywood Squares' star Paul Lynde, after receiving a 'cease and desist' letter February 25 from the current licensee of the Lynde rights, Matzoball Entertainment LLC. EXIT's 2009 DIVAfest runs April 2-25, 2009.

EXIT Theatre, San Francisco's downtown indie home for new and alternative performance, announces its 2009 DIVAfest, featuring the work of established and emerging women writers, directors, and performers. The 8th Annual DIVAfest runs at the EXIT Theatreplex, 156 Eddy Street, in downtown San Francisco, Thursdays through Saturdays, April 2nd through 25th. Featured at this year's DIVAfest is a fully staged production of An Affair of Honor, the latest play by Lee Kiszonas, directed by Kathryn Wood.

PlayGround, San Francisco's incubator for the next generation of playwrights, caps off its 2008-09 season with The Best of PlayGround 13: A Festival of New Writers & New Plays. The festival presents seven 10-minute plays selected from the 36 works developed as part of the season's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

EXIT Theatre announced today that it has replaced the staged reading of Sean Owens' Center Square, a one-person show about the late comedian and 'Hollywood Squares' star Paul Lynde, after receiving a 'cease and desist' letter February 25 from the current licensee of the Lynde rights, Matzoball Entertainment LLC. EXIT's 2009 DIVAfest runs April 2-25, 2009.

EXIT Theatre announced today that it has replaced the staged reading of Sean Owens' Center Square, a one-person show about the late comedian and 'Hollywood Squares' star Paul Lynde, after receiving a 'cease and desist' letter February 25 from the current licensee of the Lynde rights, Matzoball Entertainment LLC. EXIT's 2009 DIVAfest runs April 2-25, 2009.

EXIT Theatre's upcoming DIVAfest is temporarily short one show. The staged reading of Sean Owens' Center Square, a one-person show about the late comedian and 'Hollywood Squares' star Paul Lynde, has been cancelled after EXIT Theatre received a 'cease and desist' letter from the current licensee of the Lynde rights, Matzoball Entertainment LLC of West Hollywood, CA.

PlayGround, the incubator for the next generation of Bay Area playwrights, announces its annual Benefit & Awards Night at American Conservatory Theater on Monday, April 6th, 2009, with special guests Octavio Solis and Jasson Minadakis. A tribute to the outstanding playwrights of PlayGround, the evening features an intimate discussion with Solis and Minadakis and the presentation of the 2009 Emerging Playwright Awards, June Anne Baker Prize, and PlayGround Fellowship. Attendees will also be treated to a reception, silent auction, and dinner.

Women writers, directors, performers featured in 8th annual festival, April 2-25; World Premiere of An Affair of Honor, the newest play by Lee Kiszonas; plus new work by ?Stealth Diva? Sean Owens; a reading of a new play by Lauren Yee; readings by poet Diane di Prima ? and DIVA Cabaret returns

EXIT Theatre, San Francisco's downtown indie home for new and alternative performance, announces its 2009 DIVAfest, featuring the work of established and emerging women writers, directors, and performers. The 8th Annual DIVAfest runs at the EXIT Theatreplex, 156 Eddy Street, in downtown San Francisco, Thursdays through Saturdays, April 2nd through 25th. Featured at this year's DIVAfest is a fully staged production of An Affair of Honor, the latest play by Lee Kiszonas, directed by Kathryn Wood.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) has announced the 10 members of the 2009 Emerging Writers Group, the second season of an annual program that targets playwrights at the earliest stages of their careers and nurtures their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support. The 10 writers were selected from more than 400 applicants. The 2009 Emerging Writers are J. Julian Christopher, D.S.A. Deen, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Bridget Kelso, Mona Mansour, Vickie Ramirez, Jordan Seavey, Alena Smith, Kevin Christopher Snipes, and Lauren Yee.

The Playwrights Theater, sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library's O'Neill at Yale project, will present The O'Neill Festival at 10, ten days of free readings, screenings and discussions as well as a musical revue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the O'Neill. From January 4 - 13 this O'Neill celebration will take place at New York University's Provincetown Playhouse