Jelani Remy, Emily Skeggs, and More Will Lead THE APPLE BOYS Industry Reading
THE APPLE BOYS, a new fast-paced musical comedy set in Gilded Age Coney Island, with book by Jono Lyons and music and lyrics by 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient Ben Bonnema, will have industry presentations on Monday, September 23 and Tuesday, September 24 in Manhattan at Ripley Grier 38th St. Studios.
Park Avenue Armory Presents BLOOM By Nao Bustamante This September
Chicana performance and visual artist Nao Bustamante prototypes a new vision for feminist autonomy in the second iteration of her project BLOOM, a cross-disciplinary investigation centered around the redesign of the speculum and history of the pelvic examination and rooted in both research and object-making, presented at Park Avenue Armory on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 3pm as part of the organization's Making Space public programming series.
THE FIBROID CHRONICLES Comes to The Tank
The Fibroid Chronicles is a solo comedy show about a black woman's sometimes cartoonish attempts to live with uterine fibroid tumors. Andrea Coleman is the creator and host of the popular live law comedy show, a?oeWack or Woke? Andrea Coleman Judges the Law.a??
New Poetry Collection Addresses Historic Wrongs
Between 1845 and 1849, the inventor of the speculum, James Marion Sims, experimented on enslaved women at his makeshift hospital in Mt. Meigs, Alabama, in his quest to conduct groundbreaking work in the field of gynecology. In his autobiography, The Story of My Life, Sims provides the names of only three of the at least eleven women he spent years conducting countless surgeries on—Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. These mothers were subjected to his experimentations in hopes of being cured from fistula (severe vaginal tears) suffered during difficult childbirth—without anesthesia, without the ability to consent, and without a voice of their own. Until now.
2018 Titles Announced For University Press Of Kentucky New Poetry And Prose Series
The University Press of Kentucky and Centre College are pleased to announce the latest titles to be selected for the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series-Mend: Poems by Kwoya Fagin Maples and Amreekiya by Lena Mahmoud. These two selections will be published in the fall and mark the third year for the series. They were selected from hundreds of submissions and represent some of the most innovative and powerful work in contemporary American writing. Previous books in the series include Make Way for Her: And Other Stories by Katie Cortese, A Girl's A Gun: Poems by Rachel Danielle Peterson, The Price of Scarlet: Poems by Brianna Noll, and Insurrections: Stories by Rion Amilcar Scott, which won the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.
Six Emerging Artists Named 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant Recipients
The American Theatre Wing announced today that the 2017 Jonathan Larson Grants recipients are Ben Bonnema (book, music and lyrics), Maggie-Kate Coleman & Erato A. Kremmyda (music and lyrics), Ty Defoe & Tidtaya Sinutoke (book, music and lyrics), and Michael R. Jackson (book, music and lyrics).
Musical Video Game PETER PANIC, Starring Emily Skeggs & Gideon Glick, Out Now
Adult Swim Games released Tuesday the second act of Peter Panic, a musical video game starring Emily Skeggs (Fun Home) and Gideon Glick (Significant Other). The musical theater app, out now for iOS and Android, follows aspiring director Peter (Remy Germinario) as he attempts to save his local theatre from an ancient evil (Mykal Kilgore).