Karen Malpede

The Segal Theatre to Host Book Talk with Avra Sidiropoulou Next Week

The Segal Theatre will host a book talk with theatre scholar and director Avra Sidiropoulou discussing her latest publication Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Τheatre, Politics, and Global Crisis (Routledge 2022).

Karen Malpede's TROY TOO is Coming to HERE in May

Theater Three Collaborative in New York and Persona Theater Company in Athens, two companies known for their social justice work, will present the world premiere of Karen Malpede’s Troy Too.

Segal Theatre Announces Spring 2023 Line Up

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will host live events and Segal Talks, comprised of conversations, readings, workshops, screenings, and book talks with and by New York and global theatre artists this March through June. After two and a half years of hibernation, The Graduate Center CUNY has finally reopened for public events

La MaMa to Pay Tribute to Late George Bartenieff with COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES Featuring Kathleen Chalfant & More

George Bartenieff – actor, director, and co-founder of Theater for the New City – will be remembered at one of theatres he called home, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Bartenieff’s life and work will be celebrated at Coffeehouse Chronicles #166 on October 1, 2022 at 3pm, at the Ellen Stewart Theatre.

Avra Sidiropoulou​o and Frank M. Raddatz​ to Hold Discussion on Sidiropoulou's New Book During the SEGAL BOOK TALK Series

The Segal Book Talk series continues December 15 at noon, with a conversation with Avra Sidiropoulouo (Greece) and Frank M. Raddatz​ (Germany) about Sidiropoulou​'s new book: Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis. The conversation will be moderated by Frank Hentschker, Director, MESTC, The Graduate Center CUNY

BLUE VALIANT Starring Kathleen Chalfant and George Bartenieff to be Released

“Blue Valiant,” stars two of America’s most respected, multiple-award-winning actors, Kathleen Chalfant, and George Bartenieff and introduces Millie Ortiz. Written and directed by Karen Malpede and filmed on location at Farm Arts Collective, with a score by Arthur Rosen and horse projections by photographer Ellen Lynch.

BWW Interview: Kathleen Chalfant Shares Details About Dorothy Lyman's New Play WE HAVE TO HURRY, Streaming Live in May

Stage legend Kathleen Chalfant is set to star in Dorothy Lyman's new play, We Have To Hurry, which will be streamed live for two performances only, Saturday, May 1 at 8pm and Sunday, May 2 at 3pm. Chalfant stars alongside Elliot Gould in this poignant play about two people learning to take a chance on life and love in their later years.

Kathleen Chalfant and George Bartenieff to Star in World Premiere of BLUE VALIANT

THEATER THREE COLLABORATIVE, in association with Farm Arts Collective, has announced the world premiere production of Karen Malpede’s BLUE VALIANT. Directed by Malpede and starring George Bartenieff and Kathleen Chalfant, BLUE VALIANT will play two LIVE performances only at Farm Arts Collective.

SEGAL TALKS Week 25 Presents Simon Dove & Megha Ralapati

CEC ArtsLink. He co-curated the Crossing the Line Festival, the annual trans-disciplinary fall festival in New York City from 2008 to 2018.. He was previously Executive and Artistic Director of Dancing in the Streets in NYC, and Professor of Practice and Director of the School of Dance at Arizona State University.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week 25

New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World.

Beth Malone, George Bartenieff and More to Star in Reading of OTHER THAN WE

Andrew Revkin, founding director of a new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute, is hosting a Sunday Brunch Reading of Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative's cli-fi eco-feminist fable OTHER THAN WE, written and directed by Karen Malpede.

Burning Coal Theatre Company Will Present the 19TH AMENDMENT PROJECT

Burning Coal Theatre Company has announced that it will present The 19th Amendment Project, a collection of short plays written by some of the most accomplished women and/or non-binary playwrights working today. Performance dates are August 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 & 29 at 7:30 pm.

Photo Flash: First Look at Karen Malpede's OTHER THAN WE

La MaMa in association with the Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative opened their new cli-fi eco-feminist fable OTHER THAN WE, written and directed by Karen Malpede for a two-week limited engagement at The Downstairs at La MaMa (66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003) on Saturday, Nov 23rd at 7:00pm. $25 tickets at http://lamama.org/other-than-we/.

OTHER THAN WE Adds Talkbacks At La MaMa ETC

La MaMa in association with the Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative's upcoming production of Karen Malpede's cli-fi fable, Other Than We will be presenting three interactive post-show discussions with notable guests who are experts in the fields of eco-art, climate science, consciousness and sexuality.

OTHER THAN WE Announces Award-winning Cast at La MaMa

La MaMa in association with the Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative announce their exciting cast for new cli-fi eco-feminist fable OTHER THAN WE, written and directed by Karen Malpede. It is their first play to take place in the future and an utterly original work from Theatre Three Collaborative. Other Than We will play a two-week limited engagement at The Downstairs at La MaMa (66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003). Performances begin Thursday, November 21st and continue through Sunday, December 1st, 2019. Opening Night is Saturday, Nov 23rd at 7:00pm. $25 tickets at http://lamama.org/other-than-we/.

La MaMa in Association with the Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative Presents OTHER THAN WE

La MaMa in Association with the Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative presents the new cli-fi eco-feminist fable OTHER THAN WE, written and directed by Karen Malpede. Other Than We will play a two-week limited engagement at The Downstairs at La MaMa (66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003). Performances begin Thursday, November 21st and continue through Sunday, December 1st, 2019. Opening Night is Saturday, Nov 23rd at 7:00pm.

La MaMa Announces Season Featuring Works by Estelle Parsons Evan Yionoulis and More

La MaMa announces its 58th season, featuring more than twenty world and US premieres, and dozens of artists, playwrights, choreographers, directors, award-winning theater companies and composers, including Philip Glass, Andrei Serban, Estelle Parsons, Germaine Acogny, Evan Yionoulis, Theodora Skipitares, Anne Bogart, Charlotte Brathwaite and many more.

In Spring Concert, Boston Gay Men's Chorus To Give Voice To Black Lives Tragically Lost

Theater for the New City takes you to the past where theater ghosts enlighten the present in Ghost Light Now & Then, a new play by Barbara Kahn.

Kathleen Chalfant, Dee Pelletier, and George Bartenieff to Feature in IMAGINE: YEMEN AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS

Imagine: Yemen - An Evening of New Short Plays featuring Tony Award nominee and two-time Obie Award winner Kathleen Chalfant (For Peter Pan on Her Seventieth Birthday, Angels in America, Wit), Dee Pelletier(August: Osage County), Drama Desk and four-time Obie Award winner George Bartenieff (Zoo Story, Krapp's Last Tape) plays one-night-only, Monday, June 25 at 7PM at The Irene Diamond Stage, The Pershing Square Signature Center

Kathleen Chalfant To Receive Obie Award For Lifetime Achievement

The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice announce that Tony Award-nominated and three-time Obie-winning actress Kathleen Chalfant will receive a special Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 63rd Annual Obie Awards.