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Rupert Goold will direct Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, opening at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 September 2008, with press night on 7 October 2008.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes the Traverse Theatre Company (Edinburgh, Scotland) to Brits Off Broadway with the NYC premiere of David Greig's DAMASCUS, directed by Philip Howard and starring Ewen Bremner. DAMASCUS, which plays in Theater A, begins performances on Tuesday, May 6 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 1.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, will begin preview performances on Wednesday, April 23 at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue).

The 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Judith Thompson for her critically acclaimed play Palace of the End, marking the first time a Canadian writer has received the prestigious playwriting award's highest honor. Thompson received $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning at a special 30th Anniversary ceremony on Monday, March 10th at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas where Ms. Blackburn first became involved in theatre.

Second Stage Theatre has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, Good Boys and True, will be the third production of its current season. Directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis, Good Boys and True will begin previews in late April and will officially open in mid-May.

Over the next six months, Washington, D.C. audiences will be treated to a veritable banquet of Shakespeare plays

Playwright and director Paul Alexander has announced the creation of a new, not-for-profit theatre company that will spotlight what has historically been the focus of the theatre: the artist

The Uptown Players ride over some rough spots in a disjointed comedy and provide a evening of top-notch hilarity and camp.

San Francisco Theater Festival showcases the Bay Area's vibrant and thriving theater scene on Sunday, July 23, 2006

His interesting career begins by day as the writer of the monthly adventures of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics and then by night, he is a playwright. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is the author of such plays as The Muckle Man, The Mystery Plays, Rough Magic, and The Velvet Sky. His comedies Golden Age and Say You Love Satan were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. Now, Aguirre-Sacasa decided to use his own life as a basis for his newest production, Based on a Totally True Story.