Courtney Baron News

Courtney Baron's play about a grieving couple and the doctor who operated on their newborn is oddly more entertaining than moving.

Northwestern University has announced that award- winning Broadway director Michael Greif has replaced Oskar Eustis as the director of the American Music Theatre Project's (AMTP) fourth new musical, The Boy in the Bubble.

Lynn Collins will star in MCC Theater's New York premiere production of A Very Common Procedure by playwright Courtney Baron, to be directed by Obie Award-winner Michael Greif

MCC Theater will present the New York premiere of A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron. The play will be directed by Obie Award winner Michael Greif (Rent, Grey Gardens).

The Cherry Lane Theatre will launch its Mentor Project 2006 on Monday, March 14 with the first production of the 2006 season--Lascivious Something by Sheila Callaghan; the play will run from March 14-25

Cherry Lane Theatre will launch its Mentor Project 2006 on Monday, December 5, with the announcement of its three finalists

Playwright Deb Margolin -- author of the plays 'Three Seconds in the Key,' 'Bringing the Fisherman Home' and 'Rock Scissors Paper' -- is the recipient of the $15,000 '2005 Kesselring Prize' for playwriting, it has been announced by O. Aldon James, president of The National Arts Club, which presents the Kesselring each year to an emerging American playwright. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Kesselring Prize.