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The Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team for the West Coast premiere of Laura Marks's powerful new play Bethany. Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Bethany will run today, Jan. 25 - Feb. 23, 2014 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run Jan. 25 - Jan. 29. Opening night is Thursday, Jan. 30 at 800 p.m. Meet the cast and creative team in the photos below...

The Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team for the West Coast premiere of Laura Marks's powerful new play Bethany. Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Bethany will run Jan. 25 - Feb. 23, 2014 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run Jan. 25 - Jan. 29. Opening night is Thursday, Jan. 30 at 800 p.m. Meet the cast and creative team in the photos below...

‘In space no one can hear you scream’ is arguably the most memorable tagline in film history. Taken from Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Alien (1979), it describes the isolation and futility that man is faced with when staring in to the abyss that lies beyond our planet. Gravity reinforces this maxim in its opening titles, which state ‘space is impossible’. However, director Alfonso Cuarón’s film will leave you with so little air in your lungs that you may have trouble breathing let alone screaming. Such is its immersive nature.

Much has been written about the technological innovation behind this tale of a rookie astronaut struggling to survive after being set adrift in space. Yet for all its effects wizardry – which aids in putting viewers within the film, especially through the expert use of point-of-view (Pov) shots – Gravity offers a relatively simple take on the human will to endure in the face of tragedy.

Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein's inaugural season kicks off with The Last Goodbye, a new musical that marries Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the electrifying songs of the legendary singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. As previously announced, the rock musical is directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with choreography by Sonya Tayeh So You Think You Can Dance. The 2013-14 Season will also feature the World Premieres of The Few by Samuel D. Hunter and Dog and Pony, a new musical by Rick Elice and Michael Patrick Walker. Edelstein will make his Old Globe directorial debut with Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Rounding out the season are the California Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes, the West Coast Premiere of Bethany by Laura Marks, the J.B. Priestley classic Time and the Conways and Christopher Durang...

Emmy Award winning actress America Ferrera, best known for her fearless portrayal of Betty on ABC's hit comedy Ugly Betty, will star as a financially-strapped woman who discovers just how far shell go to regain what she has lost in Womens Project Theaters first play of the 2012 2013 season, the world premiere dark comedy Bethany by Laura Marks, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Julie Crosby, Women's Project Theater Producing Artistic Director, announced.

The New York Times reports today that America Ferrera will headline the season opener, Bethany. Laura Marks's world premiere dark comedy exploring the limits of morality, Bethany, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, will run January 11 through February 17. Set in an American exurb wiped out by foreclosures, a financially-strapped single mother discovers just how far she'll go to regain what she has lost.