Uncle Tom's Cabin

Photo Flash: First Look at Steppenwolf's GOOD PEOPLE in Rehearsal

Rehearsals began this week at Steppenwolf Theatre Company for the 2012/13 season opener, Good People, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire's surprising, humorous and deeply moving tale of a modern American story set in economically opposed South Boston and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Ensemble member K. Todd Freeman directs Lindsay-Abaire's Steppenwolf debut, featuring ensemble members Alana Arenas, Mariann Mayberry and Molly Regan. Good People begins previews September 13, with an opening night slated for September 23, and runs through November 11, 2012, in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre. Get a first look at the cast in rehearsal in the photos below! (more...)

Library of Congress Kicks Off 2012-13 AMERICAN VOICES Season Today, 10/6

The 2012-2013 Concerts from the Library of Congress season offers a packed lineup of 40 concerts, lectures, film screenings, master classes and workshops, all celebrating the rich tapestry of the nation's musical heritage. Concerts kick off tonight, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m., with a performance by the Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Announces Lineup for 2013 East Village Theater Festival, 4/15-5/5

Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity. (more...)

EgoPo Classic Theater to Open UNCLE TOM'S CABIN World Premiere, 5/31-6/9

EgoPo Classic Theater's world premiere adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's revolutionary novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, has launched a vibrant discussion about race both locally and nationally. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Presents Iris String Quartet Tonight

Metropolitan Playhouse presents the Iris String Quartet in a concert comprising Brahms, Gershwin and contemporary American composers tonight, March 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM at Metropolitan Playhouse 220 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B, New York City. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Announces Lineup for 2013 East Village Theater Festival, 4/15-5/5

Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Presents 8 New Works and More in Founders Festival, 1/14-27

Metropolitan Playhouse, Obie Award winner for exploring American culture through theater, hosts The Founder's Festival, the theater's eighth annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of the individuals who helped to shape America. The Festival is a collection of eight new works by artists and companies from near and far taking their inspiration from the Founding Father's public and private lives. Each new work is presented four times over the festival. (Project descriptions and schedule follow.) Several evenings will be complemented by readings of salient documents. (more...)

James McEachin Releases TELL ME A TALE: A NOVEL OF THE OLD SOUTH

While Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis have presented Abraham Lincoln in the film Lincoln, and Quentin Tarrantino and Jamie Foxx brings us Djamgo Unchained, actor/author James McEachin (who once wrote a screenplay with Spielberg) offers a uniquely different story of emancipation in his powerful novel Tell Me a Tale; a novel of the Old South. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Presents 8 New Works and More in Founders Festival, Now thru 1/27

Metropolitan Playhouse, Obie Award winner for exploring American culture through theater, hosts The Founder's Festival, the theater's eighth annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of the individuals who helped to shape America. The Festival is a collection of eight new works by artists and companies from near and far taking their inspiration from the Founding Father's public and private lives. Each new work is presented four times over the festival. (Project descriptions and schedule follow.) Several evenings will be complemented by readings of salient documents. (more...)

Iris String Quartet Comes to Metropolitan Playhouse in March

Metropolitan Playhouse will present Iris String Quartet in a concert comprising Brahms, Gershwin and contemporary American composers. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse to Present Iris String Quartet, 3/5

Metropolitan Playhouse presents the Iris String Quartet in a concert comprising Brahms, Gershwin and contemporary American composers on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM at Metropolitan Playhouse 220 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B, New York City. (more...)

Iris String Quartet Comes to Metropolitan Playhouse, 3/5

Metropolitan Playhouse will present the Iris String Quartet in a concert comprising Brahms, Gershwin and contemporary American composers on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 8:00 PM at Metropolitan Playhouse 220 East 4th Street between Avenues A and B, New York City. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Founders Festival to Present YOUR COLONEL, Beginning 1/18

The world premiere of YOUR COLONEL, presented as a part of the Metropolitan Playhouse Founders festival, begins January 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 East 4th Street, between Avenues A and B. (more...)

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, THE MATRIX, & More to Be Added to National Film Registry

The excitement of national football; the first black star of an American feature-length film; the visionary battle between man and machine; and an award-winning actress born yesterday are part of a kaleidoscope of cinematic moments captured on film and tapped for preservation. The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named 25 motion pictures that have been selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. These cinematic treasures represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Presents 8 New Works and More in Founders Festival, 1/14-27

Metropolitan Playhouse, Obie Award winner for exploring American culture through theater, hosts The Founder's Festival, the theater's eighth annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of the individuals who helped to shape America. The Festival is a collection of eight new works by artists and companies from near and far taking their inspiration from the Founding Father's public and private lives. Each new work is presented four times over the festival. (Project descriptions and schedule follow.) Several evenings will be complemented by readings of salient documents. (more...)

Richard Waits Stars in ORCHID at The Pleasure Garden

Richard Waits stars in Miami's new sensationally sensuous musical phenomenon, ORCHID, which is the huge, multi-dimensional show at the heart of Miami's newest destination point called The Pleasure Garden that has been erected at the gateway to the Miami Design District. (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Announces BOTH YOUR HOUSES, Opening 9/22

Tickets are $25 general; $20 students/seniors; $10 children, and may be purchased at www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/tickets or 212 995 5302. (more...)

Library of Congress Announces 2012-13 AMERICAN VOICES Season

The 2012-2013 Concerts from the Library of Congress season offers a packed lineup of 40 concerts, lectures, film screenings, master classes and workshops, all celebrating the rich tapestry of the nation's musical heritage. Concerts kick off Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m., with a performance by the Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir. (more...)

THE HERETIC, THE JESUS FUND and More Set for Burning Coal Theatre's 2013-14 Season

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC announces its 2013/2014 season of plays. In its 17th season, the theatre, which is housed in the historic Murphey School auditorium at 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC, will present the American premiere of The Heretic by Richard Bean, directed by Jerome Davis (September 9 - 26, 2013), William Shakespeare's (Three Man) Tempest, adapted and directed by Randolph Curtis Rand (December 5 - 22, 2013), the world premiere of Terry Milner's The Jesus Fund, directed by Beth Gardiner (January 30 - February 16, 2014) and Goodrich and Hackett's modern classic The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Abdelfattah Abusrour (April 3 - 20, 2014). (more...)

Metropolitan Playhouse Kicks Off 2013 East Village Theater Festival, Now thru 5/5

Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity. (more...)

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