Playwrights Horizons Holds STORIES ON 5 STORIES Fundraiser, 10/17
by Nicole Rosky
- Aug 16, 2011
Acclaimed theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced it will once again present its popular, annual benefit evening STORIES ON 5 STORIES. This year's event, set for Monday evening, October 17, will feature new works by seven of the theater's alumni writers: Tanya Barfield (Blue Door at PH), Bathsheba Doran (Kin at PH), Obie Award winner Daniel Goldfarb (The Retributionists at PH), Eric Overmyer (The Heliotrope Bouquet... at PH), Jonathan Marc Sherman (Sophistry at PH), Jeanine Tesori (Violet at PH) and Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy at PH). Each play will be performed in a different, unconventional space throughout all five stories of Playwrights Horizons' home at 416 West 42nd Street, and the entire evening will benefit the company's developmental programs and productions.
Second Stage Theatre Creates the Donna Perret Rosen Award
by Nicole Rosky
- Aug 16, 2011
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) announced today the establishment of The Donna Perret Rosen Award, an annual cash prize to be awarded to a promising composer/lyricist. The $10,000 award was established at the off-Broadway company's annual gala to honor Second Stage Theatre trustee Donna Perret Rosen in recognition of her long-standing commitment to young artists and new works. The award will be chosen by Tony Award-winners James Lapine, Susan Stroman, and Jack Viertel. The first 'Donna Award' will be awarded in 2012.
SEED Comes To The National Black Theatre in Harlem, Previews 9/6
by Gabrielle Sierra
- Aug 16, 2011
The OBIE award-winning Classical Theatre of Harlem (Ty Jones, producing director) in conjunction with Hip-Hop Theater Festival (Clyde Valentín, executive director and Kamilah Forbes, artistic director) will present the world and Off-Broadway premiere of SEED, an award-winning play written by Radha Blank and directed by Niegel Smith, at the National Black Theater in Harlem.
Playwright Edward Albee Receives MacDowell Medal 8/14
by Lauren Wolman
- Aug 14, 2011
The MacDowell Colony, one of the nation's leading artist residency programs, will present its 52nd Edward MacDowell Medal to renowned playwright Edward Albee on Sunday, August 14th. Since 1960, The MacDowell Medal has been awarded annually to an individual artist who has made an outstanding contribution to his/her field. The award is rotated among the seven artistic disciplines practiced at MacDowell; this will be the third time the Medal has been awarded to a playwright. Albee joins an impressive list of past Medal recipients, including playwrights Thornton Wilder (1960) and Lillian Hellman (1976), visual artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1972), composer Leonard Bernstein (1987), architect I.M. Pei (1998), filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1989), interdisciplinary artist Merce Cunningham (2003), and writer Alice Munro (2006).
Boiler Room Theatre Presents SPELLING BEE, 8/12 - 9/10
by BWW
News Desk
- Aug 12, 2011
The Boiler Room Theatre (BRT), Williamson County's original and longest-running professional theatre company, continues its 11th season with the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opening August 12
Playhouse South Announces INTO THE WOODS 8/12-21
by BWW
News Desk
- Aug 12, 2011
Playhouse South, A Community Theatre is excited to announce, Into The Woods coming to the stage at Northpark Amphitheatre in Springboro, OH on Aug 12-14 and 19-21, 2011 at 7:00 PM
BALD Theatre Company Presents A NEW BRAIN, 9/2-9/10
by Lauren Wolman
- Aug 8, 2011
the BALD theatre company presents A New Brain directed by Stephen Santa with music direction by Nancy Gordon Galluzzo. Starring Justin Zeno, Corey Nile Wingard, Arlene Merryman, Sara Barbisch, Jason Shavers, Rob James, Natalie Hatcher,Cara Walkowiak, and Dustin Wickett at The Grey Box Theatre in Lawrenceville.
Lifeline Theatre Presents FILLET OF SOLO FESTIVAL, Ends 8/7
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 7, 2011
Lifeline Theatre artistic director Dorothy Milne and festival curator, former Live Bait Theater artistic director Sharon Evans, are pleased to announce the 15th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival, produced by Lifeline Theatre, July 21-August 7.
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