Edgar Lee Masters News

In honor of this historic Presidential race, McCasland recently debuted a piece inspired by the life of suffragette Alice Paul. Just in time for Election Day, actress Kristen Gehling has brought the monologue to life.

The award-winning East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May, NJ has announced complete casting for S. N. Behrman's effervescent 1932 comedy, Biography.

Acclaimed playwright Steven Carl McCasland (Little Wars, What Was Lost, neat & tidy) has debuted his new online anthology of monologues,The Bone Orchard Monologues. Inspired by the classic Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, McCasland has combined his love of history and monologues for this new anthology.

The award-winning East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May, NJ has announced complete casting for S. N. Behrman's effervescent 1932 comedy, Biography.

SOULPEPPER - Toronto's largest and most celebrated theatre company, marking its 20th anniversary season as the most populous city in Canada's leading producer of revivals and new works - will make its U.S. debut next summer during a 4-week engagement Off-Broadway at The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 W 42nd St, in New York City, it has been announced by Albert Schultz, SOULPEPPER'S Founding Artistic Director, and Leslie Lester, Executive Director.  This festival of plays and musical performances - entitled SOULPEPPER ON 42ND ST.: CANADA CROSSES THE BORDER- will be presented June 29 through July 29, 2017.

On Monday, February 29, 2016, the Broadway at Birdland concert series will be presenting Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as a benefit concert. With music by Janet Hood, lyrics and additional text by bill Russell, the piece is comprised of songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. To get the inside scoop on the upcoming star studded concert, I chatted with Russell and director Jill Sapenoff.

Articulit Readers Theatre presents an afternoon of tea and poetry on Friday, February 5, at 1 pm, at High Tea with Gerri, 144 Old McHenry Road in Long Grove.

Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text by Bill Russell. The work features songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. Each of the monologues is written from the perspective of characters who have died from AIDS and the songs represent the feelings of friends and family members dealing with the loss.

Athol Fugard's THE WOMAN WITH A BABY ON HER BACK will come to Alexander Bar's and Cafe's Upstairs theatre in a run split over two weeks this April and May. This

?Tickets are now on sale for a West End revival of the song cycle Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, taking place at the Criterion Theatre on Sunday 31 May 2015.

Kenan Fellows studying arts and education with Lincoln Center Education will present their work this weekend, January 29 - 31, 2015 at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center Education, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Rose Building, 7th Floor.

Kenan Fellows studying arts and education with Lincoln Center Education will present their work from January 29 - 31, 2015 at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center Education, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, Rose Building, 7th Floor.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce everyone, an exhibition of multimedia work by British artist Gillian Wearing. The exhibition debuts two new videos - We Are Here and Fear and Loathing - the latter of which is the artist's first work produced in the United States. In addition to videos, the show will also feature photographs and sculptures. This will be Wearing's fourth solo presentation at the gallery. The show will run today, December 13, 2014 - January 24, 2015. Opening Reception: Tonight, December 13, 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

Regen Projects is pleased to announce everyone, an exhibition of multimedia work by British artist Gillian Wearing. The exhibition debuts two new videos - We Are Here and Fear and Loathing - the latter of which is the artist's first work produced in the United States. In addition to videos, the show will also feature photographs and sculptures. This will be Wearing's fourth solo presentation at the gallery. The show will run December 13, 2014 - January 24, 2015.

Attendance at the third annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival (September 18-27) grew by 20% in 2014, topping last year's 50,000 by an estimated 10,000 people, say Fringe organizers.

The 2014 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival runs today, September 18-27, 2014, in and around downtown Rochester's East End. Fringe 2014 will include more than 380 shows of all genres in 28 venues that range from parked cars to the return of the Magic Crystal Spiegeltent.

There will be unique and creative performances aplenty at the 2014 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival this September 18 - 27, including Canada's spectacular CIRCUS ORANGE. But among this fast-growing, multi-arts festival's more than 380 shows and events at 25+ venues will be one stand-out performance art project: Spoon River Rochester.

The First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival announced its third annual lineup this morning for the September 18-27, 2014 event in and around downtown Rochester's East End. Fringe 2014 will include more than 380 shows of all genres in 28 venues that range from parked cars to the return of the Magic Crystal Spiegeltent.

An anthology is a collection of stories with a connecting theme-subject, period, style, etc. They usually allow the reader to sample a wide variety of writing styles without committing to a novel. In that vein, Edgar Lee Masters' SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, allows the audience to sample a variety of stories about the residents of Spoon River. These stories twist and tell the story of the town in a sort of diary form without committing to a central plot about a few characters like you would in a normal play. Add to that the addition of musicians on-stage who play guitar and banjo providing musical interludes for the actors, audiences are treated to a unique experience in a traditional theater setting.