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Theatre East To Honor Tim Blake Nelson With Laurette Taylor Award
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 9, 2025

Theatre East Board of Directors will present Tim Blake Nelson with the 2025 Laurette Taylor Award. The event will include tributes, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and entertainment. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Theatre East Unveils Fifteenth Season Lineup Featuring World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 20, 2024

Theatre East has revealed its 2024-2025 Season, featuring the world premiere of Canaan Unremembered in March 2025. Learn more about upcoming programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Theatre East to Present Reading of FRIDAY THE 13TH At Court Square Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 28, 2024

Theatre East's Neighborhood Reading Series will return with a spooky adaptation of FRIDAY THE 13TH at Court Square Theater.

Theatre East's Improv Presents OPEN PLAY
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 25, 2024

Enjoy an evening of spontaneous comedy with top improv graduates from UCB, Second City, PIT, and BCC at Court Square Theater on July 27th.

Theatre East to Present PLAY ROOM SERIES Starting Next Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 17, 2024

Theatre East will celebrate new plays with the Play Room Series beginning January 22.

Theatre East Unveils 15th Season Featuring the New York Premiere of LINO & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 21, 2023

Theatre East has revealed their 15th season in their new permanent home, Court Square Theater in Long Island City. The season kicks off with the New York premiere of LINO, followed by the 5X5 Drama Series featuring short plays with the theme NO FILTER. Don't miss out on the exciting lineup!

Theatre East Presents The World Debut Of MUSES at New Court Square Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 17, 2023

The World Premiere of “Muses,” by award-winning writer and actor, Julia Rae Maldonado. The turbulent play focuses around Emily, a New York painter who discovers her husband has been in a relationship with 15-year-old Grace, when she shows up at her studio wanting to sit for a painting. The two unearth cataclysmic revelations that ignite the world around them. The universe shakes.

Theatre East's 5X5 Drama Series Returns This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2022

The 2022 5X5 Drama Series kicks off on November 30th. The series was founded in 2016 to bring great new plays beyond the footlights and into nontraditional spaces like breweries, rooftops, and taverns to provide an immersive and unique audience experience.

Theatre East Announces 2022-2023 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 11, 2022

Theatre East launches the season with the 5X5 Drama Series: The Empty Stage running Nov 30-Dec 3. The 5X5 Drama Series will feature five new short plays by five of Theatre East's writers-in-residence: Travis Tate, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Adam Kraar, Jeff Athey, and Oliver Palmer. Fulfilling Theatre East's core belief of making theatre accessible to all, tickets will be available by suggested donation.

Theatre East to Present the World Premiere of EDIE SAVES THE BIRDS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 16, 2022

Theatre East has announced the world premiere of Edie Saves the Birds, a play written by Stephanie Fagan. 13-year-old Edie, daughter of a single mom, granddaughter of an ailing grandfather, wakes up each day singularly focused on one thing - saving the birds.

Mother/Daughter Duo Present Their First Play DIGGING UP DADDY In A Workshop Reading
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2022

Established author Leanna Ellis has turned to the stage for her newest adventure. Joining teams with her daughter Caroline Jewell the pair are having their first premier of their play DIGGING UP DADDY in a workshop reading. Directed by powerhouse Christa Kimlicko Jones and featuring an all female cast; Caroline Jewell, Sara Hird and Samantha Ipema the workshop reading will premier on February 21st 2022 @ 7pm EST.

Theatre East Announces 5X5 DRAMA SERIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2021

Two exes in Queens, finding family in Brooklyn, cousins shooting a film in The Bronx, a job interview on Staten Island, friends memorializing a beloved bar in Manhattan. Come and celebrate our great city through these beautiful new borough-inspired short plays.

Reading of UNDER BIG PINEY to be Presented by Intiman Online
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 2, 2021

Intiman Online will present a reading of UNDER BIG PINEY Thursday, June 24th to benefit the Southern Poverty Law Center. Written by John Jiler and developed over the past year by the Actors Studio and with director Leah Gardiner, this online reading will be performed by an array of award-winning actors including Tim Blake Nelson and Gloria Reuben.

Lineup Of New Plays Announced For WET INK SERIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 17, 2021

Theatre East, a New York City-based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University will premiere their second installment of the WET INK SERIES on March 22nd & 23rd.

Theatre East Announces World Premiere Of PROCESSING... By Petra Brusiloff
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 29, 2021

In PROCESSING...four high school seniors whose lives have been upended by the lockdown and sudden death of a beloved computer science teacher gather over a game of Monopoly on Discord to work through it all. The Playwright, herself a 2020 high school graduate, explores the loss and uncertain futures of students coming of age in a pandemic.

Lineup Announced For WET INK SERIES Launching November 9
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 5, 2020

Theatre East, a New York City based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University, will be launching the WET INK SERIES on Monday.

Lineup Announced For WET INK SERIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 5, 2020

Theatre East, a New York City based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University, will be launching the WET INK SERIES on Monday. The series of readings will include 7 new short plays by SMU students with mixed casts of students and professional actors.

Theatre East Announces Innovative Partnership With SMU
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2020

Theatre East, a New York City based Off-Broadway theatre company, will be partnering with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University in Texas to virtually produce readings of new plays by student theatre artists this fall.

VIDEO: LET THE DARKNESS IN Explores The War On Science In The United States
by Stephi Wild - Sep 11, 2020

Muzzled and sidelined scientists. Dubious COVID-19 treatments. Politicians attacking protocols that keep citizens safe in a pandemic.

Virtual Theatre This Weekend: July 18-19- with Laura Benanti, Megan Mullally & More!
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 18, 2020

Today (July 18-19) in live streaming: Rizzos reunite, #SunshineSongs continues, and so much more!