PLAYFRESH 2024 To Be Presented In September
The Playthings Theatre of New York announced PlayFresh 2024, honoring Jane Clementi of The Tyler Clementi Foundation. Hosted by Richard Ridge, the event features new LGBTQ+ works and performances by Broadway talents.
MYSTERY HOUSE Comes to Edinburgh Fringe
In 1884, following the death of her husband and child, Sarah Winchester purchased an unfinished farmhouse in Northern California. And then she started building: 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 38 years. The resulting mansion is known as the Winchester Mystery House -- one of the most haunted houses in America and one of the state's most popular tourist attractions.
Ars Nova Will Present Heather Christian's ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS Directed by Lee Sunday Evans This March
Ars Nova, under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Jason Eagan and Managing Director Renee Blinkwolt, has announced details for the world premiere commission of Oratorio for Living Things by Obie Award-winner and 2015 & 2016 Ars Nova resident artist Heather Christian. Directed by Obie Award-winner Lee Sunday Evans, the event fuses music and theater, surrounding the audience with 18 virtuosic singers and instrumentalists. Oratorio for Living Things runs March 10-April 12, 2020, at Ars Nova at Greenwich House (27 Barrow Street, Manhattan) with a press opening on March 30. Tickets are now on sale at arsnovanyc.com.
Joe's Pub Releases Upcoming Schedule
Literary cabaret House of Speakeasy is back at Joe's Pub with Nina Burleigh, James Geary, Maggie Paxson & Monique Truong, while This Alien Nation, a celebration of immigrant stories, returns with Julio Torres, Mohammad Ewaz, Seuketu Mehta and Fariha Róisín.
Jonathan Ritter Opens Tonight In New Harvey Milk Musical, HERE TO RECRUIT YOU
Jonathan Ritter ('Wicked,' 'Finding Neverland,' and 'Sweet Charity') portrays Harvey Milk in HERE TO RECRUIT YOU, a new play with music highlighting the little-known theatrical career of the gay political icon. Prior to becoming California's first openly-gay elected official, Harvey Milk lived - and loved - among a group of downtown bohemian artists on the verge of re-defining the Broadway musical. It was a time (the 1960s) and place (New York City) that informed his politics and inspired his activism. Beginning in 1964, HERE TO RECRUIT YOU chronicles Milk's quest to find love, success, and a purpose in life as he transitions from Wall Street businessman to Broadway producer and, finally, to a celebrated politician whose life was cut short by an assassin's bullet.
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon To Receive P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award
The Playthings Theatre, an LGBTQ+ Company in New York City, will be performing its gala concert PlayFresh on Monday, March 11th at 7:00pm. PlayFresh is an evening of new LGBTQ+ music performed by Broadway's finest. Playthings will be honoring Ricky Ian Gordon with The P.R.I.D.E. Performing Arts Award for his contribution to theatre and the LGBTQ+ community.
Eve Ensler Hosts Evening Featuring Evan Rachel Wood and More
On Tuesday, February 26, Eve Ensler, Tony award wining playwright and founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising, hosts an evening featuring best-selling author Naomi Klein; Westworld actor and domestic violence survivor/advocate Evan Rachel Wood; mother of Korryn Gaines, a young mother shot and killed by Baltimore Police Rhanda Dormeus; nationally recognized speaker Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D.; musicians, activists, and the renowned Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir of Middle Church on Tuesday, February 26 at 7 pm at Middle Collegiate Church (112 Second Ave, near E. 7th Street) in New York City. On the eve of Women's History Month, poets, composers and scholars celebrate all women and the intersectional issues they are addressing.
The New Harmony Project's 32nd Annual Spring Conference Kicks Off May 21
The New Harmony Project (Lori Wolter Hudson, Artistic Director; David Hudson, Executive Director), an organization dedicated to supporting writers whose work emanates hope, will kick off its 32nd annual spring conference on Monday, May 21 with ten writers in residence in the idyllic town of New Harmony, Indiana.
The New Harmony Project Announces Artists For 2018 Spring Conference
The New Harmony Project (Mead Hunter, Artistic Director; David Hudson, Executive Director; Lori Wolter Hudson, Incoming Artistic Director), an organization dedicated to supporting writers whose work emanates hope, is pleased to announce that ten writers will be in residence for their 2018 annual conference, which will take place from May 21-June 2 in the idyllic town of New Harmony, Indiana.
Playthings Theatre Announces Gala Concert PlayFresh 2018
The Playthings Theatre presents its annual gala 'PlayFresh 2018' A one-night only evening of new LGBT+ songs. Directed by Playthings Artistic Director Jason Brubaker. Music Direction by Mark Hartman (Avenue Q, Sondheim On Sondheim).