En Garde Arts Launches Joan D. Firestone Fund for Mid-Career Theatre Artists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 14, 2022
Longtime En Garde Arts Chairperson and board member Joan D. Firestone is being honored with the creation of a fund in her name. En Garde Arts has raised $100,000 through a group of generous donors. This is a five year endeavor and every year one theatre artist will receive an $18,000 award and will have full freedom with how to use the funds.
La MaMa Announces Season Featuring Works by Estelle Parsons Evan Yionoulis and More
by Julie Musbach - Aug 14, 2019
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.
La Mama Presents COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES- MARIO MONTEZ
by Julie Musbach - Mar 16, 2018
LA MAMA presents COFFEEHOUSE CHRONICLES #146 "MARIO MONTEZ" -- Saturday March 24, at 3:00pm - 5:00pm?-- Located at, La MaMa, Downstairs (66 East 4th Street, NYC). Moderated by CONRAD VENTUR, Panelists include Brian Belovitch, Bibbe Hansen, Joe E. Jeffreys, Tom Kalin, Agosto Machado, and Lola Pashalinski.
ERS Benefit Announces $30 Balcony Seats
by Jeff Dennhardt - Apr 25, 2010
Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This event will celebrate ERS's success with Frances McDormand (Burn after Reading, Fargo), Lili Taylor ('Six Feet Under'), Fred Armisen ('Saturday Night Live'), Frankie Faison ('The Wire'), and ERS company members in a one night only performance of loved, banned and mythologized American fiction. Authors include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe. Readings will be accompanied by ERS's unique signature sound design.
League of Professional Theatre Women Announces New Officers
by Charlie Piane - Jul 3, 2009
The League of Professional Theatre Women, a non-profit organization committed to promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in the professional theatre, is pleased to announce its new slate of officers. These women will serve as leaders of the League for a two-year term, from July 1, 2009 until June 30, 2011.
Abraham, Pashalinski, Etc. Set for LES Festival of the Arts
by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2007
Coming off an acclaimed performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) will perform excerpts from the play on Saturday, May 26 at 10 p.m. at the 12th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between E. 9th and 10th Streets) in Manhattan.
Top Girls Reading, with Elliott, Etc., Begins 10/30
by BWW News Desk - Oct 30, 2006
The No Frills Company will kick off its new Monday night reading series at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) with Caryl Churchill's Top Girls on October 30 and November 6 at 8PM
Chalfant, Elliott, Etc. Set for No Frills Reading Series
by BWW News Desk - Sep 27, 2006
The No Frills Company will present a Monday night reading series, with such actresses as Kathleen Chalfant and Patricia Elliott, at the Cherry Lane Theatre beginning October 30 through December 11