Stephen Rea News

The Traverse Theatre in association with Aurora Nova have announced that Siobhan Redmond, Phill Jupitus and Ewen Bremner will star on the Traverse 1 stage next week in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour.

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who are kidnapped and held hostage in a nondescript location in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival, they also find themselves trying to overcome both their personal grudges towards one another, and their nationalistic differences, all under the watchful eyes and ears of their captors.

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who are kidnapped and held hostage in a nondescript location in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival, they also find themselves trying to overcome both their personal grudges towards one another, and their nationalistic differences, all under the watchful eyes and ears of their captors.

Today the Donmar Warehouse announced the full cast of Fathers and Sons, by Brian Friel, after the novel by Ivan Turgenev. Directed by Olivier Award-winner Lyndsey Turner - who returns to the Donmar having previously directed Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 2012 - Turgenev's masterpiece reveals a new world in conflict with the old, the uneasiness of clashing generations and the difficulty of staying radical as you move through life.

SundanceTV announces its 2014 Programming Guide.

Signature Theatre has announced eight productions for the 2014-15 Season at the company's Frank Gehry-designed Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). All subscriber tickets for the 2014-15 Season are $25 each as part of the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access. Subscription packages start at just $125.

In Translations, a group of students at a hedge school in 1833 Ireland are greeted by two British Army engineers that intend to map their town and change its place names from Gaelic to English. What ensue are the trials and tribulations of people living with a language barrier that quietly outlines a division between two very different cultures. Translations explores deeply rooted political and cultural issues about the imposition of the British on the Irish and what it means to preserve culture.

Thomas Kilroy's version of The Seagull is a reappraisal of Chekhov's first great comedy, a story of a distinguished actress and her passionate lonely son. Trudie Styler will play that actress under the direction of Max Stafford Clark.

A stellar international cast join Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing the titular role (Nessa Stein) in the eight part mini-series.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan and Janet McTeer have signed on for Sundance Channel's upcoming miniseries THE HONOURABLE WOMAN, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.

GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER by Sam Shepard is directed by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia at Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, running now through October 28th, 2012. The cast features Simon Ahmed, Bill Daniel, Rudy Galvan, Christopher Meister, Gavin Robinson, Matt Rockwood, Kevin Stark and Mark Vallarta. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Seanachaí Theatre Company has announced its 2012-13 Season 'Rag-Tags and Wayward Souls', feautring the World Premiere of IN PIGEON HOUSE by Honor Molloy, October 17 - November 18, 2012, and the U.S. Premiere of LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY by Billy Roche, March 27 - April 28, 2013.

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) has launched The Saturday Arts Program (SAP), a training ground for passionate young performers. Classes will take place weekly from September 22nd - November 17th at the Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope Solebury High School, and the Solebury School.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday, April 24 the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries 'Appropriate Adult,' which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.

DirecTV's Audience Network continues to provide viewers with cutting-edge, provocative programming with the addition of two new dramas, THE SLAP, premiering Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10pm ET/PT and THE SHADOW LINE, premiering on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

DirecTV's Audience Network continues to provide viewers with cutting-edge, provocative programming with the addition of two new dramas, THE SLAP, premiering Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10pm ET/PT and THE SHADOW LINE, premiering on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Digitalspy.com reports that Linkin Park and Evanescence will be among the list of musical artists to be featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming vampire film UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING. Joining them will be The Cure and Lacuna Coil.

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING is coming to theaters on January 20, 2011 from Screen Gems. The fantasy, horror film was directed by Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein and stars Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, India Eisley, Sandrine Holt, Robert Lawrenceson, Charles Dance and Stephen Rea.

Burning Coal Theatre Company, in collaboration with The Delta Boys, continues its Wait Til You See This! (second stage) season with Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel. The production will run September 29 - October 9, 2011 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.

J M Synge's comic masterpiece and one of Ireland's greatest plays, The Playboy of t he West ern World will preview at The Old Vic from 17 September 2011 with a press night on 27 September.