Michael Greif News

Due to a request from the August Wilson Estate, Signature Theatre Company's planned August Wilson celebration has been cancelled

Previews begin tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1st, for Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) New York premiere, Off Broadway production of Noah Haidle's comedy Mr. Marmalade, directed by Tony Award nominated Michael Greif.

Priscilla Lopez has been cast in MTC's production of Nilo Cruz' Beauty of the Father; it will open on January 10th, 2006

The Broadway revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular opened on October 19th at the Biltmore Theatre and we were there to cover the celebrity arrivals!

The cast of the new Roundabout Theatre Company comedy Mr. Marmalade gathered at a rehearsal

From November 4th through 12th, Sue Costello will perform in her one-woman show The Evolution of a Sexy Mutha FuKah!! at the Zipper Theatre

Drama Dept. (Douglas Carter Beane, Artistic Director and Michael S. Rosenberg, Executive Director) and The Zipper are pleased to announce the first of three co-productions: a revival of Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, ROPE.

Lois Smith and Hallie Foote have been announced as the stars of A Trip to Bountiful and Sherie Rene Scott and Lili Taylor will headline Landscape of the Body; both plays will run as part of Signature Theatre Company's '05-'06 season

The star of HBO's 'Six Feet Under' will perform with the Roundabout Theatre Company in November.

Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal have been cast in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz' The Beauty of the Father, which will open this winter

The 10th anniversary of the epochal rock musical Rent will be celebrated in a benefit performance for the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts, Foundation, Friends in Deed and the New York Theatre Workshop

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) will present the New York Premiere of Noah Haidle's play Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre; 111 West 46th Street).

Patrick Marber's riff on the Strindberg classic, After Miss Julie, has been added to Manhattan Theatre Club's '05-'06 season line-up, and another new piece by Ariel Dorfman has also been scheduled

New York's Signature Theatre Company, in its 15th anniversary, will offer $15 tickets for its upcoming 20-month program of plays, including ones by John Guare, Horton Foote and August Wilson

Two new plays and a musical will be part of Playwrights Horizons' exciting 2005-2006 season, of which 3 other plays have already been announced

The limited 12-week Off-Broadway engagement opened officially on Wednesday, April 20th.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce four of the productions for its 2005-2006 season, including two shows on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two productions at MTC's Off-Broadway theatres at NY City Center (55th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues).

The Zipper Theatre is pleased to present 'March Madness' a week of eclectic musical performances featuring acclaimed rock & pop artists known from both the Downtown and Broadway music worlds.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director, John G. Schultz, Executive Director), is proud to announce its third production of the 2004-2005 season: WHAT OF THE NIGHT, an American premiere based on the writings of Djuna Barnes, created for the stage by Jane Alexander, Noreen Tomassi, Birgitta Trommler, directed and choreographed by Ms. Trommler, and starring Ms. Alexander (The Great White Hope; Kramer vs. Kramer; Testament; The Sisters Rosenzweig). The production marks Trommler's New York directorial debut.