Bill Rauch News

The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its 74th year the weekend of February 20-22 and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Elizabethan Stage. In honor of that milestone, OSF is dedicating the 2009 season to principal theatre and scenic designer, Richard L. Hay, acknowledging his creative work that spans more than 50 years at OSF and includes the design of all three theatre spaces, beginning with the current Elizabethan Stage in 1959, half a century ago. 'I am deeply moved as I reflect on the achievement and commitment of our extraordinary theater artist, Richard Hay,' OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch said, 'whose dedication to our artform and to OSF is an inspiration to all of us. The remarkable spaces he designed allow for a connection between actors and audiences that make OSF's theater experience unique and richly satisfying. And he remains an unstoppable creative force, designing scenery for two world premiere adaptations this season: The Servant of Two Masters and Don Quixote.' The 2009 season opens at 8:00 p.m. Friday, February 20, in the Angus Bowmer Theatre on the battlefields of Scotland with William Shakespeare's tragic play, Macbeth, directed by guest artist Gale Edwards. On Saturday, February 21 at 1:30 p.m. in the Angus Bowmer Theatre, theatergoers will have the opportunity to see the rarely produced Death and the King's Horseman,, written by Nigeria's Nobel Laureate playwright Wole Soyinka and directed by Goodman Theatre resident artist Chuck Smith. At 8:00 p.m. that evening, audiences will be treated to Meredith Willson's classic American musical The Music Man, directed by Rauch.

BILL RAUCH NAMED UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOW Fifty artists from across the country each receive $50,000 award

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater continues its 2008 season of critically acclaimed stage-work with Avant GardARAMA! Like Cutting Ball's 2004 edition of Avant GardARAMA!

365 Days/ 365 Plays - The play cycle by Suzan-Lori Parks comes to Baltimore via Run of the Mill, Morgan State University and the University of California at Irvine.

Dying City will at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on March 4th

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher will star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn that will begin previews on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Pablo Schreiber and Rebecca Brooksher will star in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will extend the run of its current production of The Clean House, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Bill Rauch, through Sunday, January 28 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

The Clean House, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Bill Rauch will open on Sunday, October 30, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

The Clean House, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Bill Rauch, begins preview performances on Thursday, October 5 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Lincoln Center Theatre will present Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn, beginning performances Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

Lincoln Center Theatre has appointed its upcoming production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House with a starry cast that will include Tony Award-winner Blair Brown and Oscar-nominee Jill Clayburgh

Oscar-nominated film and theatre star Amy Irving and theatre veteran Jason Butler Harner have signed onto the cast of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia, which is set to run in three parts at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre from October of 2006 through March of 2007

The Clean House, the much-produced Sarah Ruhl play about the messiness of life, is now set to have its previously announced New York premiere at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where it will begin previews on October 5th, open on October 30th and run through December 17th

Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle, Richard Easton and more have signed on to the cast of Tom Stoppard's three-part The Coast of Utopia, which will run at Lincoln Center from October of 2006 to March of 2007

Ethan Hawke, and most likely Brian F. O'Byrne too, will be among the stars of The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's trilogy tracing a 30-year arc of history in nineteenth century Russia

The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard's trilogy tracing a 30-year arc of history in nineteenth century Russia, is now set for its US premiere at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre

Casting has been announced for The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Tony Award-winner Jeff Whitty's (Avenue Q) take on the Ibsen classic that will be produced at the South Coast Rep in January

Tony Award-winner Jeff Whitty's The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler will open at the South Coast Repertory in January of 2006