New Players Theater

01/27/2014

Congratulations to Bryant Bentley and Christopher Austin for their Excellence in Acting awards from the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable for THE WHIPPING MAN. And to Tim Browning, Jared Saltman and the entire cast and crew from New Players Theater and Gallery Players on being chosen as the Outstanding Production (Play) for the same. Kudos to all!

12/29/2013

Richard Ades has been so good to us. Kudos to the directors, casts and crews of THE WHIPPING MAN and HENRY IV, PART ONE for making his annual best-of list.

By Richard Ades 2013 may be remembered as The Year of the Musical in Central Ohio. Or, more likely, as The First Year of the Musical. In the more than two decades I’ve been reviewing local theater,...

12/27/2013

Thanks ColumbusUnderground.com!

If you didn’t make it out to one of the dozens upon dozens of local theatrical performances in Columbus in 2013, then go ahead and make it a priority New Years Resolution for 2014, because you missed out on some good stuff this year. From big budget Broadway shows to stripped-down minimalist perform...

11/30/2013

Very exciting. Who knew the title character was such a badass?

Adaptação ao cinema da obra de William Shakespeare Cymbeline. Assinado por Michael Almereyda, esta adaptação vai ser contemporânea, envolvendo a fita um grup...

11/10/2013

Mark Rylance as Olivia? Sign us up! What do our fans think of bare-bones Elizabethan stagecraft and casting?

Broadway's Richard III and Twelfth Night are staged pretty much like the Bard would've done them.

09/30/2013

To the left, Hamlet. TO. THE. LEFT.

09/14/2013

Hey fans! Jonesin' for some NPT theatre? While we're gearing up for the new season, make sure to check out the latest exploits of our company members:

1) Performing right now is SCOTLAND ROAD at Curtain Players. Directed by our own Sonda Staley, it's been getting fantastic buzz.

2) Opening this Thursday (in the beautiful Lincoln Theatre) is SHREK THE MUSICAL at Columbus Children's Theatre, starring Tim Browning in the title role.

3) Opening September 27th, Matt Hermes directs the world premiere of STATE OF CONTROL, an original play from Columbus playwright Bill Cook and A & B Theatrical Productions.

4) Todd Covert has joined the illustrious cast of ASSASINS, being produced by Red Herring Productions. Opens Oct 31st.

08/20/2013

'Twill be full of sound and fury.

Call it a hat-trick of Scottish plays: The Kenneth Branagh-toplined staging of "Macbeth," which bowed in a much-lauded U.K. run earlier this summer, will make the move to New York next year,...

08/13/2013

A professor says he has found something closer to definitive proof that some 325 lines in the 1602 quarto edition of Thomas Kyd’s play “The Spanish Tragedy” were indeed written by Shakespeare.

08/08/2013

We love our Festival interns at NPT. Picture here are our 2013 acting interns, with Education Coordinator David Tull. Not pictured are stage management interns Liz Kurtzman and Anna Field. We send much love to these awesome theatre artists. Thanks for sharing your talents with us, and break legs in all your future endeavors!

08/08/2013

Happy World Cat Day!

08/07/2013

We love it when a fan gets in on the act! At our final performance of SHREW last Saturday, NPT superfan Bill Hurley made a cameo appearance in the final scene of the play, and he even delivered the second-to-last line of the show!

Last December, Bill won an auction item for a Festival walk-on role during our annual Christmas fundraiser. The word is he had a great time doing it, and as you can see, he really threw himself into the cameo. Great job, Bill, and thanks for all your support!