Carson McCullers News

Playwrights Horizons today announced its 2021-22 season. The influential Off-Broadway institution returns to in-person performance after 18 months in which, under new artistic leadership, it has marked its 50th anniversary and reflected deeply on the role the theater should play in the life of its city, its country, and the world.

Mint Theater Company will continue the highly popular Silver Lining Streaming Series with the on-demand streaming of the two-camera archival recording (filmed in HD!) of A Picture of Autumn by N.C Hunter, directed by Gus Kaikkonen beginning Monday April 19th, and continuing through June 13th.

The Saints & Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival returns for its 18th conference to be held online March 11-14, 2021. As in past years, the virtual SASFest will also include literary discussions, writing workshops, readings, and special events, all via Zoom or YouTube.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series on Sunday, January 24 at 3:00 pm (CST) with an exploration of the popular Southern Gothic/Realism writer, Carson McCullers.

The Adobe Theater next presents Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape featuring James Cady and Philip J. Shortell.

Sarah T. Schwab and Brian Long today announced the launch of their independent film production company Cardinal Flix (CFI). The New York-based company will produce low budget (under $2.5MM) independent films covering a range of genres, from dramas to psychological thrillers.

film production company Cardinal Flix (CFI). The New York-based company will produce low budget (under $2.5MM) independent films covering a range of genres, from dramas to psychological thrillers.

On Tuesday, December 15 at 8pm EST, tune in for Georgia Artists for Georgia’s Future: A Benefit Concert to Flip the Senate! The one-night event stars and celebrates performers, playwrights, and politicians born in or currently living in Georgia, and benefits the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff Senate campaigns.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is continuing its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series on Sunday, November 8 with an exploration of the Literary Renaissance of the Emerald Isle and its mystical Aran Islands.

The Purple Rose Theatre is partnering with the Chelsea District Library to present the reading of a new play via Zoom on Saturday October 17 at 10:30 am. Register here.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its 'Essential' 13th performance season on Friday, October 9 with an election season look at William Shakespeare's most political and perhaps relevant tragedy in Like to a Lonely Dragon: Shakespeare's Election of Coriolanus.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its 'Essential' 13th performance season on Sunday, September 27 with a celebration of the author of The Color Purple in its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center presents an at-home live-stream of Suzanne Vega's hit show (and now album) An Evening of New York Songs and Stories. Performed live at the Blue Note, the New York-themed setlist includes favorites like a?oeLuka,a?? a?oeTom's Diner,a?? a?oeMarlene on the Wall,a?? a?oeLudlow,a?? and Lou Reed's a?oeWalk on the Wild Side.a?? One of the foremost storytelling songwriters of her generation, Suzanne's a?oeclear, unwavering voicea?? (Rolling Stone) has been described as a?oea cool, dry sandpaper-brushed near-whispera?? by The Washington Post. NPR Music notes that she a?oehas been making vital, inventive musica?? throughout the course of her decades-long career.

Grammy Award-winning artist Suzanne Vega releases her latest album An Evening of New York Songs and Stories (Amanuensis/Cooking Vinyl) today and is celebrating the release of her album with a livestreaming concert, held at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 9P EST.

In celebration of her just-released, career-spanning album, An Evening of New York Songs and Stories (out now on Amanuensis/Cooking Vinyl), Suzanne Vega will play two globally livestreamed concerts.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company continues its 'Essential' 13th performance season Friday, September 11 with the most hopeful and immediate of its Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salons titled Creative Extremists: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Malcolm X.

Grammy and Peabody Award-winning artist Suzanne Vega shares a new lyric video for her cover of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.'

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is launching its 'Essential' 13th performance season this Sunday, August 30 with the first of nine Coger Literary Salons titled Take Upon's the Mystery of Things: Classical Creativity in Quarantine.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced its 13th performance season celebrating the essential power of our togetherness, in any form that is safe, inspired by history's classical creations while in isolation or quarantine.

It's the 31st season of East Lynne Theater Company's 'Tales of the Victorians.' Stories are read every Thursday at 4:00 PM, but not on the porches of B&B and at private homes like usual.