Les Freres Corbusier News

Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundaton have announced the 9th annual First Light Festival, which will run from March 28th through April 27th at E.S.T.

Ars Nova (voted 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine), as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, presents THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, written by Rachel Shukert and directed by Alex Timbers. THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read by Jeff Binder, Elliotte Crowell, Billy Eichner, Sam Forman, Van Hansis, David Josefsberg, Julie Lake, Maggie Lauren, Austin Lysy, Reginald Veneziano and Taylor Wilcox on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street). A Neanderthal woman and Cro-Magnon man embark on a passionate love affair at the very dawn of time. But fate, not to mention an assortment of mystics, priestesses, dwarfs, and beautful blonde Californian twins have other things in store for them. Things that could threaten their very existence! Can love survive? Find out in THE RED BEARD OF ESAU, the world's first genocidal romantic comedy. RACHEL SHUKERT (Writer) is a playwright and author based in New York City. Her plays include Bloody Mary (NYIT Award nominee), Sequins for Satan, The Blackstone Hotel, and Soiled Linens. Her work has been developed and produced at Ars Nova, the Williamstown Theater Festival, the Culture Project, the Ontological/Hysteric, and the EVOLVE series at Galapagos. In 2003, she was the Playwright-in-Residence at e74 productions in Amsterdam, and her work was performed extensively throughout the Netherlands. As a performer, she has appeared with Richard Foreman's Ontological/Hysteric Theater, in New York and internationally; Les Freres Courbusier, the T.E.A.M., Salt Theater, e74, and with her own company, the Bushwick Hotel, which she founded in 2002 with the director Stephen Brackett. She is a regular contributor to Nerve.com (2005 ASME finalist, 2006 'Best Writing' Webby Award) and her work will be featured in their latest print anthology. She has also contributed to Heeb Magazine, McSweeney's, Babble, Culturebot, and Critical Moment. Her upcoming collection of essays, Have You No Shame? will be published by Random House/Villard. ALEX TIMBERS (Director) Recent credits include Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actor's Playhouse and 59E59), A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop; OBIE Award- NYC and Garland Award, Best Director- LA), Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse), underground with David Dorfman Dance (BAM Next Wave and US tour), Boozy (Culture Project- 10 Best of 2005, Daily News and Time Out), Marge (Summer Play Festival), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival), and Heddatron (HERE). Alex is a Williamstown Directing Fellow, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and the Artistic Director of award-winning theater company Les Freres Corbusier. OUT LOUD has attracted a variety of the industry's top artists, including writers Stephen Belber, Jorge Cortinas, Daniel Goldfarb, Stephen Guirgis, Rinne Groff, Rogelio Martinez, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Julian Sheppard, Jonathan Marc Sherman; directors Peter Askin, Jo Bonney, David Esbjornson, Moises Kaufman, Brian Kulick, James Lapine, Lisa Peterson, David Warren; and actors Jason Biggs, Kathleen Chalfant, Robert Sean Leonard, Marsha Mason, Denis O'Hare, Rosie Perez, Paul Rudd, Mercedes Reuhl, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Swoosie Kurtz, David Strathairn, Fred Weller. Ticket & Schedule Information THE RED BEARD OF ESAU will be read on Monday, January 29 at 7 PM. The Out Loud Series is FREE and open to the public. Reservations are required. Please call 212-977-1700. Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. For more information, check out www.arsnovanyc.com.

Les Freres Corbusier's pageant of 8-12 year olds telling the story of L. Ron Hubbard is the hippest holiday show in town.

Elizabeth Meriwether's The Mistakes Madeline Made will run at Yale Rep from October 27th through November 18th

On September 18th, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2006 award recipients at a exceptional evening hosted by Tony-nominee Charles Busch

On July 17, 2006, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2006 nominees at the Ukrainian National Home

The 3rd Annual Summer Play Festival (SPF) has announced the directors who will be staging the 15 plays to be showcased at this year's festival, as well as the on sale date (June 5th)

Les Freres Corbusier, creators of last Spring's sold-out off-Broadway hit Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses and the Obie Award-winning A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, will present Heddatron, written by Elizabeth Meriwether, directed by Alex Timbers, and produced by Aaron Lemon-Strauss.

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards

Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory festival will showcase six premieres of new plays in six weeks, from July 6th to August 13th

The HERE Arts Center's American Living Room Festival will be presented from July 20th to August 31st

Ars Nova and The Underwood Theater present, as part of the FREE Out Loud reading series, THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE by Elizabeth Meriwether. Directed by Evan Cabnet and featuring Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch, Zak Orth, Austin Lysy and Susan Pourfar, THE MISTAKES THAT MADELINE MADE will be read on Monday, March 28 at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street).

The creator of 21 Dog Years and the monologuist the New York Times has dubbed 'the master storyteller' and the Seattle Times calls 'a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black' is back at P.S. 122 on Monday nights from March 14 through May 9 at 7:30 PM, this time taking aim at nothing less than happiness itself.

SH-K-BOOM Records has announced the release of the Original Cast Album of the OBIE Award-winning musical A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant on November 2, according to label founder and co-president Kurt Deutsch.