Arena Stage Announces New Virtual Classes For Winter Season
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces its lineup of Winter classes featuring classes catered to families, theater lovers, students, adults and emerging theater artists. The Voices of Now Mead Ensemble for young artists will begin this winter, meeting virtually to contribute to a new original film. Just in time for the holidays, this robust line of programming has something for everyone and makes the perfect unique gift for the theater lover in your family.
VIDEO: Phillipa Soo, Mary Beth Peil, Linda Emond Star in Short Film from Maureen Towey
Maureen Towey wrote and directed In The 8th Year of the Emergency, a short film that stars Broadway stars including Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), Mary Beth Peil (The King & I, Anastasia), Linda Emond (Cabaret, Death of a Salesman, Life x 3), Jeffrey DeMunn (K2), and Emmy nominee Marsha Stephanie Blake (When They See Us).
The Segal Center Announces Spring Season
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, located at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, announces its Spring 2018 season of public programs. The season features free public programs throughout the fall and winter, with contemporary theatre and performing artists from around the world.
Drama Critics Brian Eugenio Herrera and Chris Jones Receive 2015 George Jean Nathan Award
The George Jean Nathan Award Committee has chosen two recipients of the 2014-15 prize for the year's best work in dramatic criticism. Brian Eugenio Herrera is receiving the award for his book Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance (University of Michigan, 2015). Chris Jones has been chosen for his work as theater critic for the Chicago Tribune.
ERS Benefit Announces $30 Balcony Seats
Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This event will celebrate ERS's success with Frances McDormand (Burn after Reading, Fargo), Lili Taylor ('Six Feet Under'), Fred Armisen ('Saturday Night Live'), Frankie Faison ('The Wire'), and ERS company members in a one night only performance of loved, banned and mythologized American fiction. Authors include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe. Readings will be accompanied by ERS's unique signature sound design.
Metropolitan Playhouse Revives THE CONTRAST 10/2-11/1
THE CONTRAST, which was written in 1787, and was the first play by an American author to be produced in the new United States, will be given a contemporary revival in Metropolitan's home at 220 E 4th Street October 2nd through November 1st, 2009.
Metropolitan Playhouse Revives THE CONTRAST 10/2-11/1
THE CONTRAST, which was written in 1787, and was the first play by an American author to be produced in the new United States, will be given a contemporary revival in Metropolitan's home at 220 E 4th Street October 2nd through November 1st, 2009.
Metropolitan Playhouse Revives THE CONTRAST 10/2-11/1
THE CONTRAST, which was written in 1787, and was the first play by an American author to be produced in the new United States, will be given a contemporary revival in Metropolitan's home at 220 E 4th Street October 2nd through November 1st, 2009.
New York Theatre Workshop to Present 2008 Pre-Election Series
Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) will present its 2008 Pre-Election Series, a program of public readings and events timed to this year's historic presidential election.
BAM Presents Iceland Theatre's 'Woyzeck' in New Wave Festival
As part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, BAM presents the U.S. debut of Iceland's Vesturport Theatre in a critically-acclaimed production of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck. With haunting original music by cult rocker Nick Cave and Bad Seeds' Warren Ellis, this U.S. premiere is directed by rising-star Gísli Örn Gardarsson and is a joint production of Vesturport and The Reykjavik City Theatre. Woyzeck premiered at The Reykjavik City Theatre in 2005 and was presented at London's Barbican Theatre in 2005 as part of their Young Genius series where its sold-out run received critical acclaim. The production returned to the Barbican in 2006, traveled to Spain in 2007, and will tour to South Korea in May 2009.
'Year One of the Empire' Presents Talkback Series
A series of talkbacks and a free panel discussion will also be presented in conjunction with the premiere of Year One of the Empire. Directed by Alex Roe, performances begin February 29 at The Metropolitan Playhouse. Opening night is set for March 7th.