The Museum of Chinese in America To Performance CATCHING SILHOUETTES: Street Performance
The Museum of Chinese in America will present a unique outdoor interactive performance program, “MOCA Performs – Catching Silhouettes: An Oral History Street Performance,” to bring oral histories and personal stories to life in the streets of Chinatown in May to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.
Downtown Urban Arts Festival Announces 2020 Finalists
In Spring/Summer 2020, the Downtown Urban Arts Festival (DUAF) will return for its 18th annual season with Reg E. Gaines, Tony-nominated for Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk, back as its Artistic Director. After his evaluation of scripts from a new crop of emerging playwrights from around the world, DUAF is has announced its 2020 finalists.
PaperKids Theater Company Revives John Cariani's LOVE/SICK
The inaugural production of PaperKids Theater Company will be a revival of acclaimed playwright's John Cariani compilation of varied romantic entanglements, Love/Sick is a set of nine short plays ranging from love at first sight to long-time marriage. a?oeThe audience watches as couples in realistic situations are disrupted by absurdist impulses, acts of confession, and devilish desires.
Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT Comes To The Latea NYC Theater
At a time where civil liberties are under assault, there is a need to look into our past and explore how great artistic works and our history can shed light on our path forward. A new production of As You Like It takes a classic work and revisits another period of great unrest in America. The production explores societal divides and offers an opportunity for rebirth and creativity.
Hook & Eye Theater Presents World Premiere Of SHE-SHE-SHE
Hook & Eye Theater is proud to present the world premiere of She-She-She, a vibrant new devised play with writing by Cynthia Babak that centers on six women whose lives intertwine across generations against the backdrop of one great mountain. Directed by Chad Lindsey, She-She-She is inspired by the real-life friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and leading black activist Pauli Murray.
JACK Presents THE PANELS, a New Play by OBIE-Winner Rick Burkhardt
OBIE-winner Rick Burkhardt (Three Pianos, The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving) conjures an America in which the government sends its teenagers to camps to undergo rigorous education in sexual experience. The Panels is a public discussion featuring campers and counselors sharing memories and dispelling myths around this successful (some would say controversial) public health initiative. By showing us what we aren't, Burkhardt - in the great tradition of Wallace Shawn, Caryl Churchill and others - shines a light on what we are, tickling at other possibility.
LAM -ANG - THE JOURNEY OF A HERO at The Midtown International Theatre Festival
Two NY International Fringe Festival 2015 alumni - The Ally Artists Group, which produced 'Behind the Wall - An Autism Performance Piece' and Jeremy Rafal who performed an autobiography of his life through his one-man show, 'The Boy From Bantay' has joined creative forces to present an epic play, 'Lam-ang - the Journey of a Hero' for The Midtown International Theatre Festival Directed by an Award winning Director, Nelson Eusebio, Co-directed by Nathaniel Caridad. Performances are Mon 8/01, 7:45pm; Thurs 8/04, 6:00pm; Sat 8/06, 4:45pm at The Workshop Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York City.
Clare Barron's I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN to Run 2/24-3/19 at Bushwick Starr
The Bushwick Starr is proud to present Obie Award-winning playwright Clare Barron's newest work, the world premiere of I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN (a chamber piece), part concert and part archaeological dig about first love, first heartbreak, and how those formative teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives. I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN is created from Barron's actual teenage diary and performed by a chorus of downtown's finest. We track the emotional ups-and-downs of 'Clare' as she goes through her very first relationship. It's a chance to spend some time in a real-life teenage brain and with real-life teenage artifacts (drawings from Clare's journals, the actual purple iridescent choir robes from her high school, her baby teeth...) but the goal is to jog the audience's memories and inspire their own personal reflection. Do you remember your first cup of coffee? Or how intense it was the first time you took your pants off with someone? Or all the things you promised yourself before you got distracted by the Adult World?