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MIX NYC: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival Returns For 2024
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 3, 2024

MIX NYC, the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, is set to return in 2024, showcasing innovative and diverse queer cinema.

Queer Operetta 'G' By Mur to Premiere At Wild Project
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 1, 2024

Wild project will present the world premiere of G, an autobiographical operetta by nonbinary artist Mur, exploring a dark and comedic journey after a drug-facilitated assault, featuring diverse queer characters and themes of self-love. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Performance Space New York Unveils Spring-Summer 2024 Programming Featuring Experimental Theater, Works-in-Progress & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 20, 2023

Performance Space New York has revealed its exciting Spring/Summer 2024 programming. Stay tuned for a diverse lineup of performances and events.

Jeremy Stolle Joins YES! THE MUSICAL at IAMT
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 25, 2023

Jeremy Stolle will headline an educational workshop of Yes! The Musical at the Institute for American Musical Theatre, with performances from November 2-4, 2023. Get all the details about this exciting musical event.

Performance Space New York Reveals Fall 2023 Programming For Themed Series Invisible Cultures
by Stephi Wild - Sep 26, 2023

Performance Space New York has announced its Fall 2023 programming for Invisible Cultures, its latest series of thematically coalescing interdisciplinary work. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Pittsburgh CLO Announces The Cast Of TICK, TICK...BOOM!
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 1, 2023

Pittsburgh CLO has announced the smash hit tick, tick… BOOM! will be the first show to light up the stage at the renovated, new-look Greer Cabaret Theater, Sept. 22-Oct. 22. The Pittsburgh CLO has announced casting for this exclusive engagement, which also marks the return of the Kara Cabaret Series.

Korie, Davis & Schulman's SHIMMER To Have First Industry Workshop At Yale Schwarzman Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 18, 2023

It's been twenty years in the making, but it's time for audiences to meet SHIMMER. An industry workshop of the new musical will take place in the newly-refurbished Dome at Yale University's Schwarzman Center on June 1st from 7pm-10pm.

Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes Launch The Tent Theater Company, Dedicated to Supporting Elder Playwrights
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 20, 2023

Tim Sanford, former artistic director of Playwrights Horizons, and Aimée Hayes, former producing artistic director of Southern Rep, have launched The Tent Theater Company.

Provincetown Theater Names Gary Garrison as New Managing Director
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 13, 2023

On the cusp of its 60th Anniversary Season, the Provincetown Theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts has announced that Gary Garrison has joined the Cape Cod nonprofit institution as managing director, effective April 1, 2023.

Performance Space New York Presents A Marathon Reading Of Late Activist + Writer Urvashi Vaid's VIRTUAL EQUALITY
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 10, 2023

Performance Space New York presents a marathon reading of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation, a vital document—rare in its detail—of the movements within late 20th century queer American activism by Urvashi Vaid.

Executive Artistic Director Jenny Schlenzka to Depart Performance Space New York
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 30, 2023

Performance Space New York Executive Artistic Director Jenny Schlenzka will depart the organization in Summer 2023, after six years of groundbreaking leadership, in which she has reimagined the institution’s relationship to its artists and community—in constant collaboration with them.

Industry Pro Newsletter: UK Extends Tax Relief, Room Won't Come to Broadway
by Alex Freeman - Mar 20, 2023

While the UK grapples with unruly audiences (not an issue unique to the West End by any means), one critic makes the case that the way we are discussing unruly audiences doesn’t have the best interest of the art form in mind - that it gives it a sense of snobbishness that doesn’t invite more audiences in to enjoy a show.

Mid-Career Playwrights Struggle to Get Support in Youth-Focused Industry
by Cara Joy David - Mar 20, 2023

Theater is often focused on the young. One would think this is only true on the stage—actors and appearance receive the bulk of attention. But behind-the-scenes it is that way too. With a few exceptions for established writers like Tom Stoppard, emerging writers are given way more attention than older ones.

Spring Play Dates Reading Series Kicks off 2023 Season at Provincetown Theater
by Stephi Wild - Mar 10, 2023

Following on the creative path of the 24-Hours Plays last weekend, the new play development mission of the Provincetown Theater will present a succession of one-night presentations, free-to-the-public, over the next two months of new works in their annual new play reading series, Spring Play Dates.

MacDowell Awards Spring-Summer Fellowships to 142 Artists
by Stephi Wild - Mar 2, 2023

MacDowell will welcome 142 artists from 23 states, Washington, D.C., and 11 countries for spring and summer residencies. These Fellowships at the nation’s first artist residency program were granted from a pool of 1,822 applications from 54 different countries and every state except Hawaii.

Performance Space New York Presents a Public Reading of a 1984 Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
by Stephi Wild - Jan 13, 2023

Performance Space New York presents a special First Mondays event: a reading of a never-published-in-full, rousing conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, edited for the occasion by acclaimed poet, essayist, playwright, and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine.

Harlem Stage Announces Spring 2023 Programming Featuring THE VICKSBURG PROJECT World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 13, 2022

Harlem Stage has announced full programming for Spring 2023, continuing its Black Arts Movement: Examined series examining the 1960s/70s cultural movement led by Black artists, activists, and intellectuals.

TEMAN's RENT Ignites the Air with Artistic Fire and Communal Warmth
by Rakaputra Paputungan - Dec 2, 2022

TEMAN (Teater Musikal Nusantara) did what many Indonesian thespians thought impossible: bring Jonathan Larson’s 1996 RENT to the country. The show’s themes — which proved to be just as relevant in 2022, if not more so — were powerfully brought to life through effective direction, heartrending performances, and delightful production design.

Performance Space New York Announces Spring 2023 Season of its HEALING SERIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 1, 2022

Performance Space New York has announced the Spring 2023 season of its Healing Series, the second part of its year-long reflection on the political potency of healing and the role performance plays in it, in the midst of what feels like a momentous shift in art-making to foreground modes and practices of care.

Santino Fontana, Celia Keenan-Bolger & More to Take Part in KEEN ON NEW WORK Reading Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 21, 2022

Keen Company has announced details for Keen On New Work. Launched in October of 2013, The Keen Playwrights Lab brings together three playwrights in mid-career to develop new work through an environment of camaraderie and support. Santino Fontana, Celia Keenan-Bolger and more will be taking part.