A special episode of American Theatre’s podcast, The Subtext, in which playwright Brian James Polak interviews Heather Raffo about her new play, Tomorrow Will Be Sunday—which explores the intersection between currencies and migration. The play had a reading last year at Minneapolis’s Playwrights Center and remains in development. Listen to the episode here.
Company member Eva Kaminsky joins the cast of Karen Hartman’s The Lucky Star, a production from The Directors Company now appearing as part of 59E59’s inaugural VOLT festival through June 12. Directed by Noah Himmelstein, the drama brings Richard Hollander’s book, Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland to the stage, restoring a family’s uncharted legacy.
Christopher Ryan Grant on Season 9 of Chicago P.D. on NBC
Emma Ramos, Antonio Edwards Suarez, and Karl Bury on debut season of The Endgame on NBC
Earl Baker Jr., Vivian Font, and Karl Bury on Season 3 of FBI: Most Wanted on CBS
Sean Carvajal and Kelly Aucoin on Season 4 of New Amsterdam on NBC
Stephanie Kurtzuba appears in Season 12 of Blue Bloods on CBS
Damian Young in Ozark Final Season, Part 2, now released on Netflix
Cindy Cheung appearing in Season 6 of Bull on CBS
Ellen Adair appearing Season 4 of FBI on CBS
The Actors Center is pleased to announce a new collaboration with The Moving Frame, and Welker White and Damian Young, offering a series of intensives for both actors and acting teachers in June 2022.
On April 14, members of the original 1976 Broadway cast of for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, including company member Michele Shay, visited the Booth Theatre to enjoy Camille A. Brown’s reimagined, Broadway production of Ntozake Shange’s classic choreopoem and meet the current cast. View the photos here.
Company member Anne Torsiglieri is understudying Calista Flockhart as Martha in the Geffen Playhouse production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? celebrating the 60th anniversary of the hilarious and harrowing play, arguably Edward Albee’s most famous and most vicious masterpiece. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, the production also features Zachary Quinto, Aimee Carrero, and Graham Phillips, and is scheduled to run through May 29 in Los Angeles.
Twenty-five years ago, our founder Michael Miller invited the incomparable Olympia Dukakis to give an inaugural address at The Actors Center’s first annual symposium. Listen to Olympia’s speech.
Company member Antoinette LaVecchia stars as Dorothea “Polly” Noonan in Capital Rep’s production of The True in Albany, NY. Playwright Sharr White’s political drama follows Noonan—the blunt, profane, decades-long defender of Albany’s Democratic Party machine. The True is an intimate portrait of the bounds of love, loyalty and female power in the male-dominated world of 1977 patronage politics. The play originally debuted Off-Broadway in 2018.