Anita Keal News

LETTERS TO SALA, Arlene Hutton's stirring drama about a New York family coming to grips with the sudden disclosure of its matriarch's hidden Holocaust past will have two concert performances on May 15 at 12 P.M. and 3:30 P.M. at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Refugees takes place in the home of an Icelandic family in Hlin Agnarsdottir's highly relevant play from 2010. Vala returns to Iceland from New York to find her mother's house occupied by her two unemployed brothers, Bo and Dan, and Dan's Estonian girlfriend, Elena. It turns out that the brothers are not the only ones living off the goodwill of the mother; the granddaughter, Sara, is hiding refugees in the basement. The family's crises merge with both the Icelandic economic crisis and the international refugee crisis on many levels. But with a clever hint to the Old Testament's nativity of Jesus, this story may have a happy ending . . . 

American Renaissance Theater Company will present WinterWorks 2016: A Festival of New One Act Plays, three programs of intimate new plays in The Shop @Cap 21 from January 5 thru 18. The Festival offers eleven works running in rep that, each in its own way, deal with life's beginnings and endings and how they transform us.

Come join us for the reading of THE TAILOR's TALE, based on true events from Bodin Saphir's grandfather's life as a tailor in Copenhagen under WWII.

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, Bay Bridge Productions and Laura Wagner present Union Squared, (www.UnionSquaredTheComedy.com) a new play by David Singer. Union Squared runs Saturday, August 22nd at 3:45pm, Sunday, August 23rd at 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 26th at 3:15pm, Thursday, August 27th at 10:15pm, and Sunday, August 30th at 1:15pm at The Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane).

Finalists have been announced for the 2008 American Harmony Prize, a playwriting award sponsored by Stamford, Connecticut's Curtain Call, Inc., to spotlight new musicals that explore our country's many ethnic, religious and gender identifications. The second annual American Harmony Prize will showcase a new musical that dramatizes an aspect of the experience of Jewish Americans.

Penguin Rep, a suburban Equity house formed in 1977 as a community theater, is presenting 'The Goldman Project' in NYC.

The Penguin Repertory will open their critically acclaimed production of The Goldman Project' off-Broadway October 3 as a joint presentation with the noted Abingdon Theatre Company (312 West 36th Street).

From April 13th through May 6th, Peretz Hirshbein's The Amulet will run off-Broadway