SPACE on Ryder Farm Announces Closure After 13 Years of Supporting Artists
SPACE on Ryder Farm, an organization founded in 2011 to provide a haven for artists, innovators, and changemakers, announced today that it will cease its current operations. The Board of Trustees has made the difficult decision to shut down the residency program and farming activities after fulfilling existing commitments through the end of 2024.
Interview: Theatre Life with Marcus Yi
Today’s subject Marcus Yi is living proof that you can do it all and succeed in the theatre. Currently he is living his theatre life as the book, music, and lyric writer of the World Premiere Musical The Dragon King’s Daughter. The show runs from November 18th through December 17th in the Family Theater at Kennedy Center.
St. Ann's Warehouse Extends MONSOON WEDDING for Three Weeks
St. Ann's Warehouse, responding to extraordinary demand for tickets, has announced a three-week extension of Monsoon Wedding, the Musical, Mira Nair's live theatrical adaptation of her landmark film. The new production, featuring actors and theater-makers from India and the global Indian diaspora, welcomes audiences inside the lavish wedding plans and frenzied leadup to an arranged marriage beset by modern tensions. Preview performances begin at the Brooklyn waterfront theater on May 6.
Britt Lower to Star in THE INCIDENT REPORT with Tom Mercier, Jean Yoon & Sook-Yin Lee
Britt Lower (Severance [recent 2022 Hollywood Critics Association’s Best Actress Award winner], High Maintenance), Tom Mercier (Synonyms, We Are Who We Are), Jean Yoon (Kim’s Convenience) and Sook-Yin Lee (Shortbus) will star in the drama/thriller/romance THE INCIDENT REPORT. The film is an adaptation of the novel written by Martha Baillie.
American Lyric Theater to Stage Three New One-Act Operas
American Lyric Theater (ALT) announced today InsightALT: Opera in Eden, a performance featuring three new one-act operas on themes of temptation developed by Resident Artists in the company’s nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program. ALT’s current Resident Artists (Composers Jasmine Barnes, Johanny Navarro, and Alex Weiser; and Librettists Joshua Banbury, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, and Marcus Yi) were selected from over 200 applicants to join the CLDP this season. Opera in Eden, which is the culminating event of the first year of these artists’ residency, will take place at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 at 7:00pm.
Cannes Classics 2021 to Screen THE KILLING FLOOR
Based on actual events and characters, the film's story is told by Frank Custer (Damien Leake), a southern Black migrant working on the 'kill floor' of a giant World War One Chicago slaughterhouse under the command of Foreman Harry (Dennis Farina) and struggling to earn enough to bring his wife (Alfre Woodard) and children to more freedom up north.
Sundance Institute Announces 2021 Screenwriters Lab Fellows
Fifteen emerging storytellers from Chile, India, Kenya, Tunisia and the U.S. will convene digitally for Sundance Institute’s January Screenwriters Lab, taking place online via Sundance Co//ab from January 11 -15, 2021. The Fellows will work to further develop twelve original projects, in collaboration with an experienced group of Creative Advisors.