Rachel Lampert

Kitchen Theatre Company's Board of Directors have announced the appointment of Emily Jackson as the next Producing Artistic Director beginning July 1, 2024. A familiar face to Kitchen patrons and the Ithaca theater community, Ms. Jackson brings a wealth of experience and passion to her new role.

The 2023-2024 Kitchen Theatre Company season continues with SCHEISS BOOK, written and performed by Liba Vaynberg*. Performances in the Percy Browning Performance Space run from Wednesday, November 8, through Sunday, November 19, 2023.

The 2023-2024 season continues at Kitchen Theatre Company with tick, tick...BOOM! by Jonathan Larson, the famed writer of RENT. Learn more about the musical here!

Things are cooking again at Kitchen Theatre Company as the 33rd season sizzles to life with MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA. Written by Christian St. Croix and directed by Rachel Lampert, this haunting tale will play from September 20 to October 1.

Kitchen Theatre Company has announced the 2023-24 Mainstage Season. Ithaca's bold, intimate, and engaging 98-seat Equity theater enters its 33rd year with an exciting lineup of plays. 

For theaters across the country, the post-pandemic time has brought critical challenges. The 2022-23 Kitchen Theatre Company season was strategically planned with the expectation of moderate increases in ticket sales and individual gifts. As is true at many other theaters, audiences have not returned in significant enough numbers to meet costs, and emergency government funding has been sunset. 

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a Tony Award-winning national leader in the creation of innovative theatre, has announced the second cohort of its transformative fellowship program in partnership and with a lead gift from the Miranda Family Fund, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s family philanthropic fund.

Opera Ithaca presents Mozart's genius comedy, The Marriage of Figaro, at Hamblin Hall at the Community School for Music and Arts on April 8 at 7:00 PM and April 10 at 2:00 PM.

The Kitchen Theatre Company finishes out the streaming portion of its 2020-2021 Season, The Journey to 30, with Bloom Where You're Planted: A Twenty Year Artistic Journey, a film by Artistic Director Emerita Rachel Lampert and former Associate Producing Director, Lesley Greene.

The Kitchen Theatre Company will launch the first act of four in its 2020-2021 season, The Journey to 30, with an archival stream of their February 2020 production of Molly Smith Metzler’s, Cry It Out.

From Saturday, December 18 through Sunday, December 27, the Hangar Theatre Company will host a virtual experience, Seasonal Story Jam & Hootenanny. This family-friendly event features holiday music from The Burns Sisters streamed from the Hangar Theatre & Hangar artists performing a variety of both classic and contemporary short stories and poems.

The Kitchen Theatre Company, Central New York's Off Broadway theatre, is excited to announce plans for it's 2020-2021 season. a??The Journey to 30: A Celebration of KTC's Past, Present and Futurea?? will offer twenty hybrid and online events and culminate in one live, World Premiere production in June of 2021.

The Hangar Theatre Company will present its lively summer theatre series for young audiences, KIDDSTUFF, from June 13 to July 25, 2020. All will be presented live and virtually. Each show will be directed by Hangar Drama League Directing Fellow alumni, and performed by the 2020 Virtual Lab Company, a troupe of rising artists from across the nation.

Fitz&Startz Productions, Theater for All Ages presents Emmett & Ella: A Doggone Mystery book & lyrics by Rachel Lampert, music by John Coyne at the Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West MLK/State Street stage, on Saturday February 8 at 11am and 1pm and Saturday, February 15 at 11am and 1pm. Four performances only. Tickets are available online at kitchentheatre.org or fitzandstartzproductions.org, or by phone at 607 272-0570. Adults $12, children (under 14) $8.

Opera Ithaca has announced that it has been awarded a $45,000 grant over two years from the New York State Council on the Arts and Regional Economic Development Council to amplify and diversify the Apprentice Artist Program. The company is looking forward to welcoming its first class in the revised program starting with the upcoming 2020-2021 season.

Fitz&Startz Productions, Theater for All Ages presents Aunt Mae Comes to Town, book & lyrics by Rachel Lampert, music by John Coyne at the Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West MLK/State Street stage, on Saturday October 26 at 11am and 1pm and Saturday, November 2 at 11am and 1pm. Four performances only. Tickets are available online at kitchentheatre.org or fitzandstartzproductions.org, or by phone at 607 272-0570. Adults $12, children (under 14) $8. 

Fitz&Startz Productions, Theater for All Ages presents Aunt Mae Comes to Town, book & lyrics by Rachel Lampert, music by John Coyne at the Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West MLK/State Street stage, on Saturday October 26 at 11am and 1pm and Saturday, November 2 at 11am and 1pm. Four performances only. Tickets are available online at kitchentheatre.org or fitzandstartzproductions.org, or by phone at 607 272-0570. Adults $12, children (under 14) $8.

Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre Presents the World Premiere of Michelle Carter's BETTER September 12 a?" 22

Kitchen Theatre Company, Central New York's Off Broadway theatre, announces its 2019-20 season: seven exciting productions that explore what it means to be part of a family, and finding both our inner and outer strength. This season begins with a Broadway hit and finishes with an energetic, engaging world premiere. The Kitchen Theatre's 29th season runs from September 8th, 2019 to June 21st, 2020. Single tickets and subscriptions are on sale now!