Nedra McClyde News

Harry Carson, Hall of Fame Linebacker and all-time NY Giants great, Bennet Omalu, Forensic Pathologist/Neuropathologist/Epidemiologist and Stone Phillips, veteran news reporter, will participate in a panel discussion of the issues raised by Headstrong, the new play by Patrick Link, directed by Ensemble Studio Theatre Artistic Director William Carden, that tackles football's Post-Concussion Syndrome. (more...)

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project for New Plays on Science and Technology has extended by two weeks its play that tackles Post-Concussion Syndrome, the world premiere Headstrong by 27-year-old playwright Patrick Link. (more...)

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project for New Plays on Science and Technology will tackle Post-Concussion Syndrome when it presents the world premiere of 27-year-old playwright Patrick Link's HEADSTRONG. (more...)

The World Premiere production of playwright Patrick Link's Headstrong, directed by William Carden, tackles the subject of football-related brain damage. It opens April 29 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. (more...)

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project for New Plays on Science and Technology will tackle Post-Concussion Syndrome when it presents the world premiere of 27-year-old playwright Patrick Link's Headstrong. The play, directed by Ensemble Studio Theatre Artistic Director William Carden, begins previews April 18 for an opening April 30 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street. (more...)

Creative Mind Entertainment & OBC DreamTheatre in association with Randolph Sturrup and Mike Muse proudly present UNSPEAKABLE: a dramatic fantasia. Explosive, underground actor and award winning filmmaker join forces to explore the tragic genius of comedian Richard Pryor. (more...)

Creative Mind Entertainment & OBC DreamTheatre in association with Randolph Sturrup and Mike Muse proudly present UNSPEAKABLE: a dramatic fantasia. Explosive, underground actor and award winning filmmaker join forces to explore the tragic genius of comedian Richard Pryor. (more...)

The BE Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ethan Matthews and Director of Artistic Development Clare Drobot, is pleased to present the world premiere of SEX ON SUNDAY (OR HOW TO MAKE A MAN STAY, BEG AND ROLL OVER) by Chisa Hutchinson (She Like Girls, Dirt Rich). (more...)

The BE Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ethan Matthews and Director of Artistic Development Clare Drobot, is pleased to present the world premiere of SEX ON SUNDAY (OR HOW TO MAKE A MAN STAY, BEG AND ROLL OVER) by Chisa Hutchinson (She Like Girls, Dirt Rich). (more...)

CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR “SELLING OUT”The reading of SELLING OUT by J Kyle Manzay is by invitation only (more...)

CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR “SELLING OUT”The reading of SELLING OUT by J Kyle Manzay is by invitation only (more...)

On Monday September 21, 2009, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, and host Julie Halston, announced the 2009 recipients at the Fifth Annual IT Awards Ceremony at New World Stages. Those unable to attend joined the OOB theatre community's biggest night of the year online, and also followed theatre critic Aaron Riccio's (Theater Talk's New Theater Corps, That Sounds Cool) live-blogging at www.nyitawards.com/live. (more...)

Comedic actress Julie Halston hosts the 2009 IT Awards, which honor the best of Off-Off Broadway, tonight at New World Stages at 7:00pm. (more...)

On July 20, 2009, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, celebrated it?s fifth birthday and announced the 2009 nominees at its annual sold-out event at the Carmine Street Recreation Center located at 25 Carmine Street. (more...)

Miss Evers' Boys has added a performance for Sunday April 5th. The remaining performances are: Tonight Friday April 3 at 8pm, Saturday April 4 at 8pm Sunday April 5 at 3pm and Sunday April 5 at 8pm - added performance. 300 West 43rd Street at 8th Avenue. (more...)

The Red Fern Theatre Company announces that David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys will run March 19 - April 5, 2009 at the Shell Theater in the Times Square Arts Building. The Red Fern's third show of the 2008-2009 "Season of Secrets" will be directed by Artistic Director Melanie Moyer Williams. (more...)

A sold-out audience of over 550 people attended the annual benefit, 'Footlights and Film: A Celebration of the Great Musicals from Stage and Screen,' hosted by Julia Roberts and featuring a special tribute to Angela Lansbury presented by Bernadette Peters, at Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) on Monday evening, September 15. The fundraiser grossed $1,407,610, including revenue from tickets, donations and silent auctions. (more...)

Award-winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Lithgow and other celebrities will offer one-of-a-kind entertainment experiences in a silent auction to benefit Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director), at the historic Westport, Connecticut theatre's annual fundraising gala on Monday, September 15. In addition to celebrity auction items, there will be sports, vacation, fashion and jewelry auction packages. Full details of all silent auction items are available at www.westportplayhouse.org (more...)

Broadway talents Tituss Burgess ("The Little Mermaid"), Kerry Butler ("Xanadu"), Gavin Lee ("Mary Poppins"), Nedra McClyde, Julia Murney, Q. Smith and Aurelia Williams will join previously announced Laura Benanti ("Gypsy"), Raúl Esparza ("Company") and Steven Pasquale ("The Light in the Piazza") on Monday, September 15, at the annual gala for the venerable 78-year-old Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director), Westport, Connecticut. (more...)