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Exquisite Corpse Company Reveals Spring Writers Lab Cohort

Exquisite Corpse Company will welcome playwrights Aliyah Curry, Ashley Lauren Rogers, Phillip Gregory Burke, Nelson Diaz-Marcano, Madison Wetzell, and Kaela Mei-Shing to the 2023 Writers Lab.
FLOATFEST Virtual Music Festival On Saturday, 2.27

25 DJs representing Float communities across the country will spin live on 4 concurrent stages, while standout performers from the Float family perform live on the mainstage. Add in some curated lounges for a virtual kickback and you've got an opportunity to dance and connect in the digital space like nothing experienced before.
Exquisite Corpse Company Returns To Governors Island with WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE...

In Exquisite Corpse Company's performative exhibition, Water, Water, Everywhere... step into the lives of people from the past, present, and future.
The Drama League Announces Its 2019 Directors-In-Residence

The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director) has announced the theater directors chosen to develop new plays and musicals as part of the 2019 Drama League Artist Residency Program. Public work-in-progress presentations of each residency will be held periodically throughout the year at The Drama League Theater Center, 32 Avenue of the Americas, in Tribeca. Schedules for the presentations, which are open to the public, will be available throughout 2019 at www.dramaleague.org or by calling (212) 244-9494.
Cape Rep Theatre Presents Cape Premiere of FUN HOME

Cape Rep Theatre continues its 2018 season with the 5-time Tonywinning Broadway musical Fun Home, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, music by Jeanine Tesori, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, September 19 through October 14: Tuesdays, Todays and Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm. There is no performance Sunday, September 23. Tickets are $35 and $40. Pay-What-You-Can-Night is the first Friday, September 21. Student Rush tickets also available. Call the box office for details. Cape Rep Indoor Theater. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster. 508.896.1888 or www.caperep.org.
Cape Rep Theatre Presents Cape Premiere of FUN HOME

Cape Rep Theatre continues its 2018 season with the 5-time Tonywinning Broadway musical Fun Home, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, music by Jeanine Tesori, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, September 19 through October 14: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm. There is no performance Sunday, September 23. Tickets are $35 and $40. Pay-What-You-Can-Night is the first Friday, September 21. Student Rush tickets also available. Call the box office for details. Cape Rep Indoor Theater. North Side Route 6A E. Brewster. 508.896.1888 or www.caperep.org.
Exquisite Corpse Company's THIS IS A DISTRACTION Continues With LILIYA + KILLJOY

THIS IS A DISTRACTION - Exquisite Corpse Company's festival of original work - returns this Thursday with round two of new plays. Alexis Roblan's LILIYA and Alisa Zhulina's KILLJOY hit the stage in previews August 16th, and open Friday, August 17th.
Photo Flash: First Look At Exquisite Corpse Company's THIS IS A DISTRACTION

Exquisite Corpse Company's month long festival of new work opened August 2nd and runs through August 26th.  The two plays currently running in rep (pictured here) include Phillip Christian Smith's The Chechens and Blake Bishton's Buffalo Buffalo.  The two plays run through August 12th.  Next to open include Alexis Roblan's Liliya and Alisa Zhulina's Kill Joy.
Exquisite Corpse Company Presents August Festival THIS IS A DISTRACTION

Exquisite Corpse Company is thrilled to announce upcoming festival, THIS IS A DISTRACTION. The festival, a culmination of the ECC's innaugural Playwrights-in-Residence cycle, offers up perspectives of distractions in our modern world. Presented within non-traditional performance space, The Parlour, the festival will feature an art gallery curated by ECC Artistic Director, Tess Howsam, and performances of four original one-act plays.
The New School's School Of Drama Presents Staged Readings At Cherry Lane Theater

The School of Drama at The New School's College of Performing Arts is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project for their 2018 Graduating Class. Cherry Lane will present public industry readings for the School of Drama's graduating MFA Playwrights: Karina Billini, Blake Bishton, Nikhil Mahapatra, and Erica Mann.
The New School for Drama Presents NEW VOICES Playwrights Festival

The New School's School of Drama's newest playwriting talent will be on display during the New Voices Playwrights Festival, featuring four original plays performed in repertory February 17-24 and April 21-28, 2018. Showcasing the work of this year's graduating playwriting MFAs, the festival also highlights Drama's MFA actors and directors.
Exquisite Corpse Company Presents: A RIBBON ABOUT A BOMB

This summer, Exquisite Corpse Company invites you to a wedding...or a funeral...in the surreal world of A Ribbon About a Bomb. Wander with Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington through the abandoned halls of a mansion on Governors Island. The show centers on, as the artists often queried in life, the duality of humanity, womanhood, and art. The captivating, sometimes terrifying, work of these three women intertwine, as each attempts to shape their own reality in the face of systematic oppression and entrenched social hierarchies.
Exquisite Corpse Company Presents: A RIBBON ABOUT A BOMB

This summer, Exquisite Corpse Company invites you to a wedding...or a funeral...in the surreal world of A Ribbon About a Bomb. Wander with Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington through the abandoned halls of a mansion on Governors Island. The show centers on, as the artists often queried in life, the duality of humanity, womanhood, and art. The captivating, sometimes terrifying, work of these three women intertwine, as each attempts to shape their own reality in the face of systematic oppression and entrenched social hierarchies.
The Habitat Presents HARRY & THE THIEF at the Robert Moss Theater Tonight

The Habitat presents HARRY & THE THIEF, written by Sigrid Gilmer and directed by Katie Lindsay, running tonight, May 19, through June 4 at the Robert Moss Theater. Travel back in time. Find Harriet Tubman. Don't f**k it up.
The Habitat to Present HARRY & THE THIEF at the Robert Moss Theater

The Habitat presents HARRY & THE THIEF, written by Sigrid Gilmer and directed by Katie Lindsay, running May 19 - June 4 at the Robert Moss Theater. Travel back in time. Find Harriet Tubman. Don't f**k it up.
Michael Cerveris to Lead THE GIRLS IN WHITE Concert at Feinstein's/54 Below

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents The Girls in White: Songs from the Show on Friday, April 22, 2016. Set in post-depression era Texas, The Girls in White is inspired by a true story about a group of incarcerated women who form a band and become an overnight sesantion through a prison-based radio program. In their newfound fame, they dream of being pardoned and set free. A story of hope and redemption, The Girls in White is 'Chicago' meets 'Orange is the New Black' with a country twang.
Exquisite Corpse Company's ODD.A.SEE Continues thru 8/25

Follow your Odysseus. This August, Brooklyn's Exquisite Corpse Company brings you Odd.A.See. An ambitious retelling of Homer's classic, Odd.A.See explores how the memories of violence haunt us, and how we struggle to find the courage to go home. The audience follows Odysseus through a labyrinth of worlds collaboratively re-imagined and brought to life by a company of nearly 50 artists - including writers, musicians, installation artists, actors, and designers.

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