BODAS DE BLOOD Announced At Teatro Circulo
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 10, 2025
First Maria Ensemble, in collaboration with Cambalache Theatre Company, will present 'Bodas de Blood,' by Federico García Lorca, from January 31 to February 16 at Teatro Circulo
Teatro Circulo's MACBETH Examines Politics of Power
by Julie Musbach - Nov 8, 2018
We live in an age where our leaders convince people that made-up things are really true. That's what witches do. So the Witches are the preoccupation of First Maria Ensemble's upcoming production of 'Macbeth,' directed by Celeste Moratti, to be presented December 6 to 21 at Teatro Circulo, 64 East 4th Street. The company made an auspicious debut in 2016 with 'Hamlet,' which Theater Pizazz (JK Clarke) called one of the season's best small-company productions of Shakespeare plays and Front Row Center (Holli Harms) added, 'Here is hoping that Celeste Moratti continues on this trajectory of directorial discoveries.'
HAMLET to Play Teatro Circulo, 3/4-20
by Tyler Peterson - Jan 28, 2016
To share an outstanding production of the 2013 Hamlet Marathon in Milan, Italy with a wider audience, First Maria LLC will present Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' directed by Celeste Moratti and performed by a mixed American-Italian company, March 4 to 20, 2016 at Teatro Circulo, 64 East 4th Street, Manhattan. The production trims politics out of the plot in order to emphasize each character's role as either a child or a parent, highlighting mistakes of mothers and fathers and the conflicts in children between filial duty and the emergence of conscience. The performance is entirely in English.
IU Press Receives Two Awards from the African Studies Association
by BWW News Desk - Dec 13, 2014
IU Press was doubly honored at this year'sAfrican Studies Association (ASA) meeting with book and service awards. During the ASA awards ceremony on Saturday night, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by Carola Lentz was named co-winner of this year's Melville J. Herskovits Award. Lentz shares the award with Allen and Barbara Isaacman, authors of Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique.
Feinstein Helps Raise Over $170,000 for Music Has Power
by BWW News Desk - Sep 25, 2007
New York music icon Michael Feinstein recently helped raise more than $170,000 to continue funding music therapy programs and support research initiatives of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function