Jon Kern News

New York City-based theater collective Special Sauce Company presents its latest project, an ambitious four-week festival of new work conceptualized as ‘Flash Plays', to take place over the Spring season. The festival, comprised of over three dozen pieces, are all characterized as site-specific, performed in public locations, and no more than five minutes in length. Audiences will be asked to optionally donate with 100% of proceeds going towards Shelterbox, a disaster relief organization currently focusing its efforts on assisting Japan.

On Wednesday, June 1, Clubbed Thumb celebrated its upcoming 16th annual festival of new plays, SUMMERWORKS 2011, at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Avenue) with EXQUISITE CORPSE, a special evening of short plays by Mary Hamilton, Nick Jones, Jon Kern, Michael Mitnick, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Kim Rosenstock and Susan Soon He Stanton.

In the middle of its acclaimed Cino Nights series, which runs through April 2012, Rising Phoenix Rep presented a workshop on Sunday, March 27th of Maya Macdonald's new play The Really Important People, directed by RPR artistic associate Julie Kline. The workshop featured Stephen Brown, Laura Ramadei, Amy Staats, and Ali Stroker, and will be followed by a full production at the Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43 in July.

Red Fern Theatre Company presents Gentrifusion at LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC).

With 'Gentrifusion: an installation of new work', Red Fern Theater Company continues its community-conscious theatre work with six new plays by New York writers on the theme of gentrification.

Red Fern Theatre Company presents Gentrifusion at LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC).

Red Fern Theatre Company presents Gentrifusion at LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC).

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY, Artistic Director, Melanie Moyer Williams, and Artistic Producers, Andrea Day and Kel Haney, are pleased to announce the world premiere production of GENTRIFUSION a series of short plays searching for the truth behind the gentrification of New York.

Red Fern Theatre Company presents Gentrifusion at LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC).

Red Fern Theatre Company presents Gentrifusion at LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street between First and Second Avenues, NYC).

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY, Artistic Director, Melanie Moyer Williams, and Artistic Producers, Andrea Day and Kel Haney, are pleased to announce the world premiere production of GENTRIFUSION a series of short plays searching for the truth behind the gentrification of New York.

Playwrights Michael Lew (MICROCRISIS, STOCKTON) and Rehana Mirza (BARRIERS, THE GOOD MUSLIM) take the helm as co-directors of Ma-Yi Theater Company's Writers Lab succeeding co-director Lloyd Suh and co-director Qui Nguyen, it has been announced by Ma-Yi Artistic Director Ralph Pena.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Dorothy Fortenberry?s GOOD EGG, directed by Kel Haney.

The Life Stories Youth Ensemble, the collaborative education project between The New Group and Urban Arts Partnership, has selected five emerging playwrights to serve as writers for their inaugural Playwrights in Residence Program.

The Life Stories Youth Ensemble, the collaborative education project between The New Group and Urban Arts Partnership, has selected five emerging playwrights to serve as writers for their inaugural Playwrights in Residence Program.