Nominees Announced for 2021 Drama League Awards, Honoring Digital and Socially-Distanced Theatre Across the Country
The Drama League has just announced the 2021 Nominees and Special Recognition Honorees for The 87th Annual Drama League Awards. Keeping in the tradition of honoring the outstanding accomplishments of the theatrical community, as they have since 1935, this year the organization has established five unique categories to honor the extraordinary achievements of artists across the nation who created digital and socially-distanced theatrical productions during this challenging year of suspension for live arts.
DTC Awarded $30k from National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $30,000 to Dallas Theater Center (DTC) to support the upcoming world-premiere production of Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.
Previews Begin Saturday Night for Charles Mee's SOOT AND SPIT at New Ohio Theatre
The Archive Residency, a collaboration between New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater (likeminded neighbors in the historic Archive Building in the West Village), is a vital incubator for New York City's most electrifying independent theater companies. Now in its fourth year, the two-year residency offers each company an artistic home -- space, support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. Each residency culminates with a world premiere production.
Piehole Presents World Premiere of OLD PAPER HOUSES, Now thru 3/14 at Irondale Center
The theater collective Piehole will present the World Premiere of Old Paper Houses, an original performance piece with texts by poet Bernadette Mayer(Winner of the 2014 Shelley Memorial Award), directed by Tara Ahmadinejad (New York Theatre Workshop '2050 Fellow') February 27-March 14 at the historic Irondale Center (85 South Oxford Street between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn).
Piehole to Present World Premiere of OLD PAPER HOUSES, 2/27-3/14 at Irondale Center
The theater collective Piehole will present the World Premiere of Old Paper Houses, an original performance piece with texts by poet Bernadette Mayer(Winner of the 2014 Shelley Memorial Award), directed by Tara Ahmadinejad (New York Theatre Workshop "2050 Fellow") February 27-March 14 at the historic Irondale Center (85 South Oxford Street between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn).
Columbia Stages to Present OLD PAPER HOUSES, 3/26-29
Columbia Stages presents the new play OLD PAPER HOUSES, created by Piehole - the Brooklyn-based ensemble. Directed by the company's Artistic Director, Tara Ahmadinejad, OLD PAPER HOUSES cycles through faith and doubt to ask: how do we find things to believe in?
Piehole Presents 2 STORIES THAT END IN SUICIDE 8/31-9/4
Piehole presents their newest multimedia production, 2 Stories That End in Suicide. Piehole's story of repression, censorship and rebellion in the Internet age opens at SoHo's HERE Wednesday, August 31 and runs through Sunday, September 4, 2011.
Piehole Presents 2 STORIES THAT END IN SUICIDE 8/31-9/4
Piehole presents their newest multimedia production, 2 Stories That End in Suicide. Piehole's story of repression, censorship and rebellion in the Internet age opens at SoHo's HERE Wednesday, August 31 and runs through Sunday, September 4, 2011.
MoMA Presents CREATIVE CAPITAL 4/30-6/6
Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that the New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, The Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of 37 original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded and nurtured over the past 11 years.
MoMA Presents CREATIVE CAPITAL 4/30-6/6
Recognizing the extraordinary contribution that the New York-based nonprofit organization Creative Capital has made to sustaining art of the highest quality in the United States, The Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of 37 original, impassioned, and rebellious films and videos that Creative Capital has funded and nurtured over the past 11 years.
AMERICAN IDIOT Garners 12 SF Critics Circle Noms.
This year's Critics Circle Awards, sponsored by Actor's Equity Association, today announced is nominees for excellence in San Francisco Bay area theater. Berkeley Rep's production of American Idiot, which played in the fall of 2009, leads with 12 nominations and will open on Broadway this spring.