Janece Shaffer News

The Alliance National Graduate Playwriting Competition continues to spotlight the best emerging playwrights with a full production for the competition winner and staged readings for four competition finalists. BIKE AMERICA, the ninth competition winner, will premiere on the Hertz Stage February 1 - 24, 2013. Opening night is February 6, 2013. BIKE AMERICA is written by Mike Lew from the Juilliard Drama Division and will be directed by Mortiz von Stuelpnagel.

The Eighth Annual Goodspeed Festival of New Artists, produced by Goodspeed Musicals' Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre, kicks off its tremendously popular three day festival of brand new works on Friday, January 18, at the Goodspeed Opera House with a staged reading of Nine Wives.

It's almost over! There's just FIVE days of voting remaining for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday December 26, 2011. Voting ends at midnight on 12/31 so time is running out.

There's just TWO short weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday December 19, 2011. Voting ends at midnight on 12/31 so time is running out.

There's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday December 12, 2011.

There's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday December 05, 2011.

There's just 4 weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday November 28, 2011.

Voting is now well underway for the 2011 Atlanta Awards and here is the latest update! Now, it's time for you to get out and vote for your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Atlanta Award. No time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday November 21, 2011.

For the past 10 years, the Alliance Theatre has collaborated with teenagers all across Atlanta, helping them to discover their unique voice through the Collision Project.

'Brownie Points began with the question, ‘what is more powerful: the shared experience of motherhood or the divisiveness of race?' says playwright Janece Shaffer of her new dramedy, making its West Coast premiere at Taproot Theatre this spring. Directed by Karen Lund, Brownie Points opens on May 20 and runs through June 18, with previews on May 18 and 19.

'Brownie Points began with the question, ‘what is more powerful: the shared experience of motherhood or the divisiveness of race?' says playwright Janece Shaffer of her new dramedy, making its West Coast premiere at Taproot Theatre this spring. Directed by Karen Lund, Brownie Points opens on May 20 and runs through June 18, with previews on May 18 and 19.

The Alliance Theatre and Susan V. Booth, the Jennings Hertz Jr. Artistic Director today announced the final pieces of the theatre's 43rd season. Joining previously announced titles Into the Woods, Broke, Golda's Balcony, Sex and The Second City, A Christmas Carol, The Real Tweenagers of Atlanta and The Wizard of Oz, come four more productions, including the hotly anticipated world premiere of John Mellencamp and Stephen King's Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.

Single tickets for Taproot Theatre Company's 2011 season go on sale to the public on Tuesday, January 4, at 12 p.m. Founded in 1976, Taproot Theatre celebrates 35 years of performance-15 of those at its Greenwood playhouse-in 2011.

Single tickets for Taproot Theatre Company's 2011 season go on sale to the public on Tuesday, January 4, at 12 p.m. Founded in 1976, Taproot Theatre celebrates 35 years of performance-15 of those at its Greenwood playhouse-in 2011.

The Suzi Bass Awards hosted their sixth annual celebration of Atlanta theatre last night at the Conant Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Oglethorpe University

The Suzi Bass Awards, Inc. announced nominations for the 2009-2010 Atlanta professional theatrical season this evening to an enthusiastic crowd of patrons and theatre industry artists. Guest announcers LaLa Cochran, Bart Hansard, and Anthony Rodriquez joined Suzi Awards Executive Director Deadra Moore in sharing the list of Nominees while playfully riffing on the 2009/2010 Atlanta theatre season.

Asolo Repertory Theatre has added three performances to its run of Managing Maxine by Janece Schaffer to accommodate demand for tickets to this popular comedy about a couple who discovers that falling in love can happen at any age.

Asolo Repertory Theatre has added three performances to its run of Managing Maxine by Janece Schaffer to accommodate demand for tickets to this popular comedy about a couple who discovers that falling in love can happen at any age.

TEATRON Theatre Presents The Canadian Premiere of BLUISH a comedy by Janece Shaffer At the Toronto Centre for the Art - Studio Theatre. The show will play its final performance on March 14.

Asolo Rep announces additional casting for award-winning Managing Maxine, Janece Shaffer's new play that takes a straight forward look at sex, love and life after 70. The cast features Howard Elfman as Louis, the role he originated last season in the world premiere of Managing Maxine at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.