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The Actors Studio will complete its 75th Year Anniversary Season with the final installment of its ongoing “Actors Studio In Process” series. Presented Friday, June 9 and Saturday June 10 at 7PM at The Actors Studio.

In February, The Actors Studio will continue its 75th Anniversary celebration as the world’s most celebrated and influential membership association for professional actors, directors and playwrights.

The Collective NY  has announced their first full-length play publication, HURRICANE PARTY by David Thigpen. The title joins their previous publications of The Collective's nationally popular short play anthologies (C:10 Anthology Volumes 1-5).

The Collective NY is excited to announce their sixth annual ten minute play series, C:10, on the heels of a highly successful and extended run at NYC's oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater, Cherry Lane. The Collective NY's C:10 is a compilation of 14 different ten minute plays with 44 actors.

THE COLLECTIVE NY (Ross DeGraw and Sayra Player, Artistic Directors) is pleased to announce the extended run of David Thigpen's Hurricane Party. The production, which opened in early September has been a recent favorite to many New York influencers and will extend its run through October 21st at The Cherry Lane Theatre.

THE COLLECTIVE NY announces complete casting for the world premiere production of David Thigpen's THE HURRICANE PARTY, directed by Tony Award Nominee Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room). Previews begin on Wednesday, August 29 at the Studio Stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Opening night is set for Tuesday, September 11, with a limited engagement through Sunday, October 7, 2018.

The Board of Directors of The Collective NY announces the appointment of Sayra Player and Ross DeGraw as the company's next Co-Artistic Directors, effective immediately.

The Twelfth Annual Beaufort International Film Festival (BIFF) will host thousands of film lovers from around the world starting Feb. 21 and continuing to Feb 25 in the historic coastal town of Beaufort, SC.

Coming off of four previous sold-out festivals, The Collective NY returns for a 5th year of the wildly popular Collective:10 Play Festival, with 11 world premiere ten-minute plays in two programs. All of the plays presented, plus two additional selections, will be published in a fifth volume of the best-selling The Collective:10 Anthology.

The fifth year of the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience is in the history books, as the excitement came to a close on June 11th with its annual awards event at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa. The weeklong lineup kicked off on June 6th with an amazing Opening Night Reception that featured performances by the National Institute of Flamenco, and world renown, Grammy Award-winning, Native American musicians and dancers Shelley Morningsong and Fabian Fontonelle. In addition to an impactful lineup of independent and blockbuster films and opportunities to engage with filmmakers, actors and musicians, AFME was honored to have high participation from "The Dude" himself, Jeff Bridges, 13-time Grammy Award-winning artist T Bone Burnett, actress Ali MacGraw, acclaimed actor and producer Wes Studi, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlock, musician/Executive Producer Stevie Salas and many others.

The Collective NY launched VOL.4 of The COLLECTIVE:10 ANTHOLOGY with a reception at the Drama Book Shop in New York City on December 12, 2016.

On the heels of the fourth annual sold-out production of the Collective:10 short play festival, The Collective NY is back for one more week in December and proud to present three new plays plus two encores from past Collective:10 productions.

The Actors Studio's 70th Season will kick off with a revival of Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama Old Times, playing a limited engagement opening tonight, September 30th, and continuing through October 16th only. Studio member Beau Gravitte directs a cast that features Beth Manspeizer, Sayra Player & Chris Stack, all Studio members. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The Actors Studio has announced that the 70th Season will kick off with a revival of Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama Old Times for a limited engagement of twenty performances only, beginning September 22nd and continuing through October 16th.

Connecticut has almost an embarrassment of riches when it comes to seasoned performers who settle here while still finding opportunities to act close to home as well as in New York and Hollywood. One of our favorite couples is Beau and Debbie Gravitte (nee Shapiro), who add so much professionally to venues such as The Ridgefield Playhouse. If you are not from Connecticut, you ought to understand that The Ridgefield Playhouse is one of those places that are very special to performers as well as audiences. It is not a glorified school auditorium, but a professional venue with seating up to 500 people for film, theatre, and concerts with appearances from nationally popular, award winning performers and directors. The Gravittes' unwavering commitment to the playhouse and to the Ridgefield area is remarkable.

It's a special premiere event!  The ACTORS STUDIO will debut the new production of Harold Pinter's Old Times at The Ridgefield Playhouse before it heads to NYC for its Broadway run September 22 - October 15! 

 The famed ACTORS STUDIO comes to Ridgefield! Audience members will be treated to a "sneak peek" of this legendary acting troupes production of Old Times before it heads to NYC!  This is truly a unique collaboration between The Ridgefield Playhouse and the world-famous ACTORS STUDIO where theatre fans get to attend the premiere production of work developed during a two week intensive workshop here in Ridgefield. 

The Collective NY is launching VOL.2 of The COLLECTIVE:10 ANTHOLOGY today, December 16 at the Drama Book Shop. The anthology contains the 12 original short plays that premiered as part of the 2nd annual Collective:10 this past October. It also includes a special forward by Emmy-recognized actor and director Susan Aston (Actor and Director, The Actors Studio).

The Collective NY is launching VOL.2 of The COLLECTIVE:10 ANTHOLOGY on Tuesday, December 16 at the Drama Book Shop. The anthology contains the 12 original short plays that premiered as part of the 2nd annual Collective:10 this past October. It also includes a special forward by Emmy-recognized actor and director Susan Aston (Actor and Director, The Actors Studio).

The Collective NY presents the 2nd annual COLLECTIVE:10, two curated programs of new 10-minute plays. Performances begin today, October 8 at Teatro Circulo. Last year's inaugural Collective:10 performed to sold-out audiences and featured the talents of Ellen Burstyn and Elizabeth Kemp. This season's plays, selected from over 1000 blind submissions, will also be published as an anthology.