Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. At the moment, Metcalf is winning raves for her West End debut as the sorrowful, morphine-addicted Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s ...

Raul Esparza and Laurie Metcalf are among the winners of the 2011 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. The awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2010-2011 season, were presented on November 14 at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Broadway favorite Esparza took home top honors for his role in the musical Leap of Faith, and Metcalf ...

Kyle Soller will play Edmund opposite previously announced stars David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf in the forthcoming London revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. The production will begin previews on April 2, 2012, and open on April 10, directed by Anthony Page. A UK tour will precede the West End run; further casting is ...

Tony nominee and Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf will return to the London stage for the first time in more than 10 years to play Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, featuring previously announced star David Suchet, according to OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk.  Directed by Anthony Page, performances begin April 2, 2012, at the Apollo ...

The 2011 Obie Awards were presented on May 16 at a ceremony held at Webster Hall hosted by David Hyde Pierce and S. Epatha Merkerson. Administered by The Village Voice, the awards honor off-Broadway productions, performers and directors and are not competitive. Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was named Best New American Play, an award that ...

The best of off-Broadway was honored on May 1, when the winners of the 2011 Lucille Lortel Awards were presented at New York University’s Skirball Center. The event, co-hosted by stage and screen vets Zach Braff and Samantha Bee and featuring a roster of big-name guest presenters, is the latest milestone in the ever-busier 2010-11 awards season; click through ...

Complete casting has been announced for MCC Theater's upcoming world premiere production of Sharr White’s The Other Place, starring the previously announced Laurie Metcalf. Dennis Boutsikaris, Aya Cash and John Schiappa will join Metcalf in the play, which will begin performances on March 11 and open on March 28, directed by Joe Mantello.

In The Other Place, Metcalf ...

Laurie Metcalf started her 2009-2010 season starring on Broadway as Kate Jerome, the matriarch of Neil Simon’s comedies Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, which were scheduled to play in rep. After Brighton Beach’s run shockingly ended a week after opening (and Broadway Bound, which centered on Kate, was cancelled entirely), Metcalf found off-stage drama creeping into her ...

Tony Award nominees Laurie Metcalf and Keith Carradine have joined the cast of the New Group's upcoming off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind. Metcalf replaces the previously announced Deirdre O'Connell, who had to withdraw from the production to return to Playwrights Horizons' Circle Mirror Transformation. Directed by Ethan Hawke, A Lie of the ...

They co-starred in David Mamet’s political comedy November two years ago, and now Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf will be on Broadway this season a couple of very different shows: He’s headed back to NYC next spring as Gomez in The Addams Family, and she’s currently in previews as matriarch Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs. On ...