LaTonia Phipps News

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lucy Alibar ('Beasts of the Southern Wild') joins public conversation following New Dramatists alumni reading of 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play Upon the Fragile Shore tonight, October 16, 2014 at 7 PM, and The Drama League in New York City hosts its reading of the play on November 8 under Gabriel Shanks' direction as part of global artivist action centered on this work of intertwining monologues, which explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lucy Alibar ('Beasts of the Southern Wild') joins public conversation following New Dramatists alumni reading of 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play Upon the Fragile Shore on October 16, 2014 at 7 PM, and The Drama League in New York City hosts its reading of the play on November 8 under Gabriel Shanks' direction as part of global artivist action centered on this work of intertwining monologues, which explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath.

The initial line-up of worldwide organizations that will present readings of 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play Upon the Fragile Shore has been announced.

The Wild Project has announced its current and upcoming winter productions, including the Poetic License Festival, Ageless, Timeless, Eternal, the Avant Music Festival 2013 and more. Details below.

Poetic Theater Productions presents Poetic License, their second annual festival of new poetic theater, tonight, January 21st through January 27th, 2013. All performances will take place at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street.

Poetic Theater Productions presents Poetic License, their second annual festival of new poetic theater, January 21st through January 27th, 2013. All performances will take place at The Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street.

The nominations have been announced for the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity's 2012 Awards Gala, taking place tonight, July 29 at 7:30pm at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (405 W. 55th Street). Among the nominees are three-time Tony Award-winner Hinton Battle (for directing & choreographing What We Do for Love or Other Desperate Measures) and recent Tony Award-nominee Patti Murin (for her performance in La Strega).

The nominations have been announced for the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity's 2012 Awards Gala, taking place on Sunday, July 29 at 7:30pm at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (405 W. 55th Street). Among the nominees are three-time Tony Award-winner Hinton Battle (for directing & choreographing What We Do for Love or Other Desperate Measures) and recent Tony Award-nominee Patti Murin (for her performance in La Strega).

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance. Both plays deal with eternal themes of intolerance from an émigré's perspective. Performances are December 3 to 19 at Cherry Lane Theatre (Studio Theatre), 38 Commerce Street. Since our notice of November 2, there has been a change of directors on one of the plays. Now both one-acts will be directed by Negro Ensemble Company's Artistic Director, Charles Weldon.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance. Both plays deal with eternal themes of intolerance from an émigré's perspective. Performances are December 3 to 19 at Cherry Lane Theatre (Studio Theatre), 38 Commerce Street. Since our notice of November 2, there has been a change of directors on one of the plays. Now both one-acts will be directed by Negro Ensemble Company's Artistic Director, Charles Weldon.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance. Both plays deal with eternal themes of intolerance from an émigré's perspective. Performances are December 3 to 19 at Cherry Lane Theatre (Studio Theatre), 38 Commerce Street. Since our notice of November 2, there has been a change of directors on one of the plays. Now both one-acts will be directed by Negro Ensemble Company's Artistic Director, Charles Weldon.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance.

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).

OLD HICKORY is a story about a man with a little problem - two really -a fearsome ex-wife who won't leave him alone and a knife . . . and he's been having these thoughts. Set today in the mountains of West Virginia, Old Hickory is a ‘hillbilly gothic' comedy about one man's journey to his moment of decision, with his trusty knife (and the guidance of a mountain shaman named Catfish).