Firebird's Outdoor SEAGULL To Fly In Brooklyn
This August, Firebird Players will invites audiences to join them in Park Slope for their outdoor production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. Set in the Hamptons in the late 1960s, this world premiere adaptation by Firebird literary director Zoe Senese-Grossberg interrogates the play's conception of power and gender by having the actors for Konstantin and Nina switch roles between Acts 2 and 3.
OBIE-Winning Theater Company Hoi Polloi Returns to JACK with WHITE ON WHITE
OBIE-winning theater company Hoi Polloi (Three Pianos; All Hands) returns to JACK with a peek inside the meeting of a white anti-racist group. As the members reckon with sacrifices they must make to live up to their principles, other forces begin to disrupt and unsettle their efforts. An uncanny ode to honesty, forgiveness, and accountability, this ensemble tour de force pulls the audience on a descent from the too-real to the sub-real.
Seth Garben's Intricate THE POTEMKIN PLAY Comes to HERE
When a modern-day theatre troupe in an unnamed totalitarian country mounts a searing satire of the Russian court under Catherine the Great, it becomes the target of intensifying government censorship, harassment, and violence. Bringing the curtain up could mean curtains for them all, and the company is left wondering: is freedom of speech really worth dying for?
The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation Announces Off-Off-Broadway Nominees
On Monday, July 23, 2018, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization who for the past 14 years has been dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2018 nominees at its annual event, The IT Party. Celebrating fourteen years and thousands of nominees at le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street.
THE CULT PLAY Makes World Premiere in February
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble announces the world premiere of Topher Cusumano's THE CULT PLAY which will begin previews on January 27 and will play through February 17, 2018 at The Paradise Factory Theatre at 64 East 4th Street (next door to La Mama) in NYC.
THE CULT PLAY Opens At NYC's Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
Phoenix Theatre Ensemble announces the world premiere of Topher Cusumano's (pictured) The Cult Play will begin previews on January 27 and will play through February 17 at The Paradise Factory Theatre at 64 East 4th Street (next door to La Mama) in NYC.