Bob Cohen News

The Mendocino Theatre Company is pleased to present Lucas Hnath's  a?oesmart, funny and utterly engrossinga?? play A Doll's House, Part 2, directed by LA-based director Alex Rapport.  Named one of TIME Magazine's Top 10 Plays of 2017, and nominated for eight 2017 Tony Awards, the play is a very modern a?oesequela?? to Henrik Ibsen's 19th century classic, A Doll's House.

After more than two years of planning, the schedule is set and tickets are now on sale for Touchstone Theatre's ten-day Festival UnBound, a community convergence featuring more than 20 free and ticketed events October 4-13, throughout the Lehigh Valley but primarily held in the City of Bethlehem. Festival UnBound uses art to spark conversation about how the city has changed in the 20 years since the closing of Bethlehem Steel and to imagine our future together now that we are a?oeunbounda?? from the Steel.

The Mendocino Theatre Company is excited to present the third offering of its 2019 season, Aaron Loeb's comic thriller Ideation, winner of the prestigious 2014 Will Glickman Award for excellence in playwriting. The production is directed by Bob Cohen.

On Presidents' Day Weekend 2019, the Provincetown Playwrights' Lab is proud to partner with the Provincetown Theater to present The 24 Hour Plays: Provincetown**. Now in its 9th consecutive year on the Outer Cape, where, from conception to curtains, 8 original short plays are written, cast, and staged all within a 24 hour time limit, The 24 Hour Plays: Provincetown will be presented at 7:30pm on Saturday, February 16th and at a special "encore performance" at 2pm on Sunday, February 17th at the Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA 02657.

Fox Stage Productions and Kevin McCollum have announced the creative team for the new Broadway-bound musical MRS. DOUBTFIRE. Four-time Tony Award Winner Jerry Zaks, (most recently represented on Broadway by the hit revival of Hello, Dolly!) will direct, joined by Tony Award Nominees (for Something Rotten!) John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick (book) and Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick (music and lyrics).

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed two music legends to its Neighbouring Rights division with deals to represent the prestigious and extensive recording catalogues of Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen.

The Mendocino Theatre Company's 2018 season opens March 1st with RUMORS, a zany farce by Neil Simon, one of America's best-loved playwrights. At the helm of this production is veteran MTC director Bob Cohen, who has assembled a team of some of the coast's best comedic actors, including  Pamela W. Allen, Mark Friedrich, Nicole Traber, Raven Deerwater, Ken Krauss, Terilynn Epperson, Lisa Norman, Milo Young, Matt Biggs, and Mervin Gilbert . 

The Mendocino Theatre Company continues its 40th Anniversary season with The Open House, Will Eno's delightfully anarchic 'comedy of discomfort', opening July 27th.

Producers Fox Stage Productions and Aged In Wood Productions have announced plans to adapt the blockbuster film WORKING GIRL into a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winner Cyndi Lauper and book by FOX TV's 'New Girl' writer and Tigers Be Still playwright Kim Rosenstock. WORKING GIRL is based upon the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture written by Kevin Wade.

Josh Groban, Denee Benton, and the cast of the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 will perform at Culture for One's Fifth Annual Benefit to further their mission to improve the lives and futures of New York City children living in foster care by providing them with access to the arts and cultural opportunities.

The Mendocino Theatre Company opens its 40th anniversary season on March 2, 2017 with a revival of Paul Osborn's endearing comedy Morning's at Seven, originally performed in 1987. Directed by Bob Cohen, this heart-warming play from 1939 takes a humorous look at a close-knit family, exploring the eccentricities, regrets, and longings that underlie the lives of ordinary people.

The Mendocino Theatre Company opens its 40th anniversary season on March 2, 2017 with a revival of Paul Osborn's endearing comedy Morning's at Seven, originally performed in 1987. Directed by Bob Cohen, this heart-warming play from 1939 takes a humorous look at a close-knit family, exploring the eccentricities, regrets, and longings that underlie the lives of ordinary people.

The Mendocino Theatre Company opens its 40th anniversary season on March 2, 2017 with a revival of Paul Osborn's endearing comedy Morning's at Seven, originally performed in 1987. Directed by Bob Cohen, this heart-warming play from 1939 takes a humorous look at a close-knit family, exploring the eccentricities, regrets, and longings that underlie the lives of ordinary people.

Sir Elton John and Paul Rudnick are writing the new Broadway musical, The Devil Wears Prada. Based on Lauren Weisberger's best-selling 2003 novel and the 2006 blockbuster film from Fox 2000 Pictures and, the new musical will be produced by Kevin McCollum, Fox Stage Productions and Rocket Entertainment.

The final leg of the Mendocino Theatre Company's 2016 'theatrical road trip' takes the audience to northern England , circa 1912. 

The next leg of Mendocino Theatre Company's 2016 theatrical road trip takes the audience down memory lane with a revival of A. R. Gurney's Pulitzer-nominated play, The Dining Room, directed by Bob Cohen.

The next leg of Mendocino Theatre Company's 2016 theatrical road trip takes the audience down memory lane with a revival of A. R. Gurney's Pulitzer-nominated play, The Dining Room, directed by Bob Cohen.

Barb Jungr is making a very welcome return visit to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) presents KulturfestNYC, the international festival of Jewish performing arts, that attracted 50K+ attendees in one week in its June 2015 inaugural year, and this year returns for three months, from June 6 to August 29.  With over three-dozen separate events in venues across the city, the summer-long festival welcomes artists and groups from France, Romania, Japan, Israel, Russia and the U.S.

Eight plays will be presented on each day of the Spring Playwrights Festival at the studio of WOMR Radio (494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA).