HartBeat Ensemble Announces NEA Grant, Plus Artistic & Educational Expansion
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2022
HartBeat Ensemble announced today an educational and artistic expansion of the 21 year old theatre company. Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, HartBeat Ensemble welcomes Jeanika Browne-Springer to its staff in the newly-created educational role of Director of LifeLong Learning.
THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL Announces Week 4
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 19, 2021
The Exponential Festival presents and promotes experimental performances created by New York-based artists working across all mediums. The works will premiere this January on Exponential's YouTube channel for a suggested donation, with 100% of proceeds going to the artists.
HartBeat Ensemble Announces Entire Lineup of 2019 WTF! Festival
by Sarah Hookey - Apr 9, 2019
HartBeat Ensemble announces the complete lineup for 2019 WTF! (Women's Theatre Festival), a three-event series celebrating the artistic endeavors of women and non-binary playwrights. Joining the previously announced No Boxes Allowed by Tonille Simone Watkis are El Otro Lady del Destino (The Other Side of Destiny) by Wi-Moto Nyoka and School's Out, two one-act plays by Julia B. Rosenblatt.
First Ever FRESH GROUND PEPPER FESTIVAL Announced in NYC
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 19, 2018
Fresh Ground Pepper (FGP), a New York City based arts incubator in its 10th season of instigating and presenting new work, is proud to announce its first ever multi-week emerging arts festival at The New Ohio Theatre from April 10 through 21, 2018. The inaugural FGP Festival will present art parties, new works-in-progress, and workshop productions that span genre, form, and interactivity, including new works of performance, visual art, comedy, music, immersive theatre, board gaming, and literature.
The Playwriting Collective Announces Recipient of Ball Grant
by Julie Musbach - Jan 29, 2018
The Playwriting Collective is proud to announce the recipient of the first annual $1000 Ball Grant as playwright Antu Yacob. In keeping with the mission statement of The Playwriting Collective, this grant is expressly designed for a writer who identifies as living in or emerging from a lower economic status. Antu is an excellent playwright whose work exemplifies the type of artistic voice that The Playwriting Collective champions. Her work is nuanced, resonant, and worthy of support. Over 100 applicants sent their material and more can be read about the semifinalists and finalists at www.ThePlaywritingCollective.com/The-Ball-Grant.
JACK Presents Performance Installation SANCTUARY
by BWW News Desk - Apr 27, 2017
JACK presents Sanctuary, a performance installation by Wi-Moto Nyoka, Paul Leopold and Sadah Espii Proctor on May 20 - 21, 2017. Visceral, virtual, and meditative, Sanctuary is an interactive performance installation and an invitation for a ritual journey.
The Playwriting Collective Announces Its 2nd Annual Writers Group
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 10, 2017
Six talented writers are joining The Playwriting Collective in 2017! Starting in February Alex Rubin, Jeffrey James Keyes, John Carhart, Kate Garfield, Wi-Moto Nyoka, and Katie Fabel will meet for a 6-week period with Artistic Directors Joshua Young and Phillip Christian in an effort to create several new full-length plays. The Playwriting Collective puts the playwright first and cultivates work that is transmedia. This year the participating playwrights will be motivated to indulge their imaginations and tell stories that are armed with all the weapons of modern stagecraft.
One Catches Light Festival Kicks Off JACK's 2017 Season Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Jan 20, 2017
Brooklyn Gypsies presents the second-annual One Catches Light Festival, celebrating new solo work of five writers associated with the company, hosted by Olander 'Big O' Wilson. Icarus in the L.E.S. is a kaleidoscopic performance-poem by Nic Adams, with the wax-winged hero chasing his destiny and scouting out the divide between artistic achievement and personal happiness.
Brick Theater Presents THE COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL ISSUE #2, Now thru 6/29
by BWW News Desk - Jun 3, 2014
Comics are sometimes called 'sequential art' - stories that unfold across time over the course of multiple images. This definition also applies to the art of theater - and with so much in common, it makes sense that the two should team up. After a successful first installment in 2011, the Comic Book Theater Festival is coming back to The Brick for 'Issue #2' in June 2014. Get ready for a new crop of shows that explore the intersection of the panel and the stage, the live and the drawn, the ink and the actor.
Brick Theater to Present THE COMIC BOOK THEATER FESTIVAL ISSUE #2, 6/3-29
by Diana Heisroth - May 9, 2014
Comics are sometimes called "sequential art" - stories that unfold across time over the course of multiple images. This definition also applies to the art of theater - and with so much in common, it makes sense that the two should team up. After a successful first installment in 2011, the Comic Book Theater Festival is coming back to The Brick for "Issue #2" in June 2014. Get ready for a new crop of shows that explore the intersection of the panel and the stage, the live and the drawn, the ink and the actor.