SITI Company Announces Final Details for Legacy Plan Including a Living Archive & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 14, 2022
The award-winning SITI Company has announced the final details for the SITI Legacy Plan. This includes the SITI Living Archive - a robust physical and digital archive, the book SITI Company: This Is Not A Handbook, transition grants for ensemble artists totaling $180,000, and the appointment of Brad Carlin as Managing Director.
Collide Theatrical Dance Company Presents FRANKENSTEIN
by Stephi Wild - Sep 7, 2021
The ultimate story about a human's need for motherly love and connection. Author Mary Shelley, an unmarried pregnant teen, wrote the infamous science-fiction novel not long after the death of her first child during a period of immense loss and personal suffering. Her remarkable journey is told in parallel with the classic novel through a mix of theatrical dance styles.
Cast Announced For FRANKENSTEIN at the Southern Theater
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 30, 2021
The ultimate story about a human need for motherly love and connection. Author Mary Shelley, an unmarried pregnant teen, wrote the infamous science-fiction novel not long after the death of her first child during a period of immense loss and personal suffering.
Clubbed Thumb Announces New Directing Fellowship
by Tyler Peterson - Oct 26, 2015
Five time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb has launched a new artistic program aimed at supporting the development of early-career directors. The new directing fellowship is under the mentorship of Obie Award-winning directors and Clubbed Thumb affiliated artists Anne Kauffman (Belleville; Detroit; Clubbed Thumb's Dot, among others) and Ken Rus Schmoll (The Invisible Hand, Iowa, Clubbed Thumb's Card and Gift, among others). The program will be run in partnership with Playwrights Horizons Theater School, where Clubbed Thumb is currently in residence.
Ripe Time to Bring Gertrude Stein's THE WORLD IS ROUND to the Stage, 4/17-30
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 5, 2014
Ripe Time, the Brooklyn-based company led by Rachel Dickstein, has garnered acclaim for creating physically charged, visually powerful adaptations of classic and contemporary stories by authors raging from Edith Wharton to Jhumpa Lahiri. Conceived, written and directed by Dickstein, the play The World is Round epitomizes the company's work, creating from Gertrude Stein's book a fable (for grownups and mature children) full of original, live music by Heather Christian and aerial movement choreographed by Nicki Miller. Ripe Time's first new show since its celebrated Mrs. Dalloway adaptation Septimus and Clarissa (2011), The World is Round makes its world premiere April 17 - 30 at BAM Fisher (Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn).
Photo Flash: Joanna Coles, Rosie O'Donnell and More at Women's Project Theater's 2013 Women of Achievement Gala
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013
Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles, Senior Vice President/Publishing Director of The Cosmopolitan Group Donna Kalajian Lagani, President of HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins, Broadway League Executive Director Charlotte St. Martin and the late Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Helen Gurley Brown are Women's Project Theater's 2013 Women of Achievement who were inducted at its 28th Annual Gala Celebration at the Three Sixty°,10 Desbrosses Street, on May 13, 2013. Scroll down for photos from the event!
Women's Project Publishes Anthology of Plays by Young Female Playwrights
by BWW
News Desk - Dec 3, 2010
Out of Time and Place: An Anthology of Plays by Members of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Volumes 1 & 2, the long overdue anthology of plays by a group of contemporary female writers, will go on sale after a free reading by eight of the playwrights at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, Friday, December 3, at 5:00pm.
Women's Project Publishes Anthology of Plays by Young Female Playwrights
by Gabrielle Sierra - Dec 1, 2010
Out of Time and Place: An Anthology of Plays by Members of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Volumes 1 & 2, the long overdue anthology of plays by a group of contemporary female writers, will go on sale after a free reading by eight of the playwrights at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, Friday, December 3, at 5:00pm.
terraNOVA Collective Presents Their 2010 Annual Benefit 4/13
by BWW
News Desk - Apr 13, 2010
Celebrating the theatrical playground that is terraNOVA Collective, this special evening will begin with a Welcome Reception at 7pm in the upstairs theater at Performance Space 122 with appetizers and drinks. The Mainstage Performance will begin at 8pm.
terraNOVA Collective Presents Their 2010 Annual Benefit 4/13
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 2, 2010
Celebrating the theatrical playground that is terraNOVA Collective, this special evening will begin with a Welcome Reception at 7pm in the upstairs theater at Performance Space 122 with appetizers and drinks. The Mainstage Performance will begin at 8pm.
'Groundbreakers' Reading Series Closes 3/8 at terraNOVA
by BWW News Desk - Mar 8, 2010
terraNOVA Collective will present three new plays from its 2009 Groundbreakers Playwrights Program February 22nd and March 1st & 8th at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at 9th Street). All readings begin at 7pm. Admission is open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.
terraNOVA Presents 'Groundbreakers' Reading Series, 2/22 - 3/8
by BWW News Desk - Feb 22, 2010
terraNOVA Collective will present three new plays from its 2009 Groundbreakers Playwrights Program February 22nd and March 1st & 8th at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at 9th Street). All readings begin at 7pm. Admission is open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.
terraNOVA Presents 'Groundbreakers' Reading Series, 2/22 - 3/8
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 1, 2010
terraNOVA Collective will present three new plays from its 2009 Groundbreakers Playwrights Program February 22nd and March 1st & 8th at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at 9th Street). All readings begin at 7pm. Admission is open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.
NEA: Not Funding Women's Project Playwrights Lab this Year
by Jessica Lewis - Nov 11, 2009
Rocco Landesman and the NEA have angered many a woman today with the news that they will not be funding the Women's Project's Playwrights Lab this year. According to a report in Time Out New York, part of the reason is because the NEA, which has steadily supported the Women's Project for many years, is no longer supporting general operating budgets. Instead they are underwriting specific projects.