Amelia Fowler News

Four local high school students will have their new plays read on May 30 by professional actors as part of the Stephen H. Grant Student Playwrights Festival presented by Penguin Rep Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.

Join in on Monday, January 3rd, 2022 at 8pm for a virtual fundraiser and improvised comedy show with 100% of funds benefitting No Kid Hungry. Every dollar, according to the charity, helps feed up to ten meals to hungry children around the world. Suggested donation is $20 but as little as $1 is appreciated and gains access to the show.

Casting has been announced for the upcoming reading presented at The Tank on October 24.

The Tank announced today the programming schedule for the City Artist Corps Grantee Performances. From now until October 31st, the Tank is presenting FREE in-person programming highlighting the work of 14 City Artist Corps Grantees.

The Outliners, in support of The Actors Fund, present Zoom with a VIew, an evening of Zoom plays.

After 56 weeks of online production EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH returns live with its interactive musical comedy revue improvised based on audience suggestions and participation.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced details for its March programming including new episodes of MTA Radio Plays. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists in new and meaningful ways.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced details for new episodes of MTA Radio Plays along with several free online events in February. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists in new and meaningful ways.

While current times have driven performers off the live stage, onto online platforms, the 'NEW NORMAL' also gives us a unique chance to bring together talented performers separated by time and distance. The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv is bringing back together players, many fan favorites from past and present, that helped put the company on the map. Everyone on the show were part of the troupe in 2010 or before.

Everyone's favorite boy wizard meets everyone's favorite Bard in Harry the First, The Boy Who Hath Liv'd! A Drunk Texts tradition, this year join them for a VIRTUAL birthday celebration and relive Harry and his BFF's first year at school like you never have before - in Shakespearean verse!

This summer, aliens are attacking and The Drunk Texts have got one thing to say...Welcome to Earth (in 2020). Re-visit all your favorite characters (and 90s one-liners) and celebrate a NEW Independence Day with The Drunk Texts at the world premiere performance of A Day of Independence - Levi Penley's brand new Shakespearean adaptation!

New Circle Theatre Company presents the third year of The Inferno Project, featuring world premieres of new short plays inspired by Dante's Inferno, at The Chain Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York City.  

Eight Is Never Enough presents LMAO Improv at LOL Times Square (711 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10016) Saturdays at 7:30 starting April 6, 2019. The 75-minute interactive musical comedy is improvised based on audience suggestions and participation.  Get tickets ($20 plus two drink minimum) and more information at www.newyorkimprovtheater.com. 

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, a nonprofit theatre company now in its 15th season, announces a unique-and unpredictable--evening of readings of new commissioned short plays about Charles Dickens on Saturday, December 15 at Downtown Arts, 70 E 4th Street, NYC. The world-premiere plays will be read impromptu by a group of assembled actors whose roles will be determined, regardless of age or gender, by drawing names out of a hat. Actors will be given their script and 5 minutes of prep time.

Rule of 7x7 at The Tank announces Rule of 7x7: All-Stars, the second-ever 'best-of' edition of 7x7 today, November 17, 2018 at 8pm at The Tank Theater, 312 W 36th St, NYC. Seven of the strongest pieces in 7x7 history are back for one night only! Tickets are $13 advance / $15 at door, and include one free beer.

Rule of 7x7 at The Tank announces Rule of 7x7: All-Stars, the second-ever 'best-of' edition of 7x7 on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 8pm at The Tank Theater, 312 W 36th St, NYC. Seven of the strongest pieces in 7x7 history are back for one night only! Tickets are $13 advance / $15 at door, and include one free beer.

The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit is a theatrical symphony in four movements that contemplates the legacy of violence against Black bodies in America. Inspired by the mysterious hanging death of 17-year-old Lennon Lacy in 2014 in Bladenboro, NC, this dystopic ghost play follows the interracial couple He and She into the world of The Station, a long ago abandoned rail station waiting room, an in-between place that houses Black souls who left the earth in violent ways and who constantly seek their way home. In 2015, Rose received NYU's Rita Goldberg Prize for The Danger -- an award recognizing the best play by a graduate or undergraduate student.

The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit is a theatrical symphony in four movements that contemplates the legacy of violence against Black bodies in America. Inspired by the mysterious hanging death of 17-year-old Lennon Lacy in 2014 in Bladenboro, NC, this dystopic ghost play follows the interracial couple He and She into the world of The Station, a long ago abandoned rail station waiting room, an in-between place that houses Black souls who left the earth in violent ways and who constantly seek their way home. In 2015, Rose received NYU's Rita Goldberg Prize for The Danger -- an award recognizing the best play by a graduate or undergraduate student.

Five time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Sarah McLellan, Managing Director; Michael Bulger, Associate Artistic Director) has announced the winners of the seventh Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. Playwrights Angela Hanks and Gabrielle Reisman will split the $15,000 award, each also receiving two years of development support. Three finalists were also named: Gracie Gardner, Daniel Glenn and Paul Cameron Hardy, each of whom will receive a $1,000 award and an opportunity to workshop their plays.

Improv Theatre LLC (LMAO, Eight Is Never Enough) is once again adding performances of its series, Improv 4 Kids, for the 2015 holiday season. In addition to its weekly schedule, Saturdays at 3pm, families can enjoy the show Sunday, December 27 through Wednesday, December 30 and Friday, January 1 at 3pm at the Broadway Comedy Club (318 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019).