Review: JADE at Chelsea Film Festival
JADE is a refreshing and uplifting film that gives an empathetic face to black fatherhood. Directed by NAACP Theatre Award winner Robert Manning Jr. and featuring Luke Tennie and Noam Shapiro, the film will have its East Coast premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival on Friday, October 13th.
HIGH SCORE Makes West Coast Premiere
Serena Ryen & Ethan Itzkow of Schmeh Films, the award-winning team behind the film “CASHED” (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) are thrilled to announce their new anti-racism social horror film, HIGH SCORE, makes its West Coast premiere at the Oscar®-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival on Monday, November 16, 2020.
BWW Review: Serena Ryen Scores High With HIGH SCORE ~ A Stunning Probe Into The Origin and Face Of Extremist Rage
HIGH SCORE, co-directed by Serena Ryen and Ethan Itzkow, is a serious and important contribution to our ongoing public conversation about hate, racism, and demonization in America. In the course of a sizzling 15-minutes, in what is aptly described as a a?oesocial horror film,a?? we are eyewitness to the combustible nature of these terrible forces. A brilliantly made short film. HIGH SCORE will have its world premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival and will screen online from October 15th - 18th.
BWW Review: CASHED ~ Serena Ryen's Poignant Portrayal Of A Day in the Uncertain Life Of An Urban Millennial
What is the color of anxiety and desperation in the life of a New York City millennial? What does it mean and feel like to be depleted under the pressures of a fast moving and highly demanding metropolis? CASHED, Serena Ryen's 15-minute firecracker of a film, fleshes out the answers to these questions, dramatically and poignantly. In doing so, she has taken a large step in fulfilling her self-described commitment 'to making art that inspires empathy and ignites questions.'
New York Shakespeare Exchange to Present TITUS ANDRONICUS
New York Shakespeare Exchange, creators of the acclaimed The Sonnet Project and ShakesBEER, NYC's original Shakespearean pub crawl, are thrilled to announce that their next mainstage production is Shakespeare's bloody brilliant early play TITUS ANDRONICUS, adapted and directed by NYSX Artistic Director Ross Williams.
THEFT Returns to the American Theatre of Actors, Now thru 2/9
Two men, two knives, one laptop. Back at the American Theatre of Actors by popular demand, Theft tells the story of Rich (Michael Bordwell), an emotionally turbulent man whose apartment is broken into in the middle of the night by an amateur burglar (James Harris, Jr.).
THEFT Returns to the American Theatre of Actors, 1/29-2/9
Two men, two knives, one laptop. Back at the American Theatre of Actors by popular demand, Theft tells the story of Rich (Michael Bordwell), an emotionally turbulent man whose apartment is broken into in the middle of the night by an amateur burglar (James Harris, Jr.).
InnateVolution Theater Productions Presents RIGHT AS RAIN
InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of April Smallwood's Right As Rain-a moving exploration of sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty-directed by InnateVolution's Artistic Director, Toma Tavares Langston.
InnateVolution Theater Productions Presents RIGHT AS RAIN
InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of April Smallwood's Right As Rain-a moving exploration of sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty-directed by InnateVolution's Artistic Director, Toma Tavares Langston.