Justin Phillips News

On Monday, July 23, 2018, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization who for the past 14 years has been dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2018 nominees at its annual event, The IT Party. Celebrating fourteen years and thousands of nominees at le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker Street.

Gallery Players will begin 2018 with William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain. It is an autobiographical musical exploring illness and the healing power of art. A New Brain features music and lyrics by William Finn; book by William Finn and James Lapine. The show started as a concert at The Public Theater in 1996, then premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center in 1998, directed by Graciela Daniele and featuring Malcolm Gets. In 2015 City Center presented A New Brain in their Encores! series with the cast headed by Jonathan Groff.

JULIET & ROMEO, will receive its New York premiere in the 2017 Shakespeare in the Theater Festival at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Gallery Players announces the final show of its 50th season with the critically acclaimed and timely, Ragtime.  At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing…and anything is possible.  Ragtime comes to Brooklyn, a show which Bloomberg News has hailed as "explosive, thrilling and nothing short of a masterpiece.

THE ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MUSKRAT, an experimental American epic, will receive its New York premiere in the 2016 Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre. Written by award-winning playwright John Kuntz, the premiere production by the Circuit Theatre Company in Boston was deemed 'an opportunity to see a theater company pushing dramatic boundaries in exciting new ways' by The Boston Globe. Performances began last night, July 13. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

THE ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MUSKRAT, an experimental American epic, will receive its New York premiere in the 2016 Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre.

On March 13th, The Flea Theater and Project1VOICE are teaming up for a one-night-only event to honor the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

The Flea Theater presents the New York premiere of Kristiana Colon's but i cd only whisper, directed by Resident Director David Monteagudo and featuring members of The Bats, The Flea's resident acting company. Previews start February 18, with opening night slated for Monday, February 29.

NAPIER, New Zealand - Inspired by the Maori legends about the Man-God Maui fished up in the North Island of New Zealand, author Colin Phillip Hayvice weaves an unforgettable tale of magic, mystery and adventure in 'The Makutu Stone' (published by Xlibris NZ).

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces tickets on sale Friday, March 6 for An Evening with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October appearing at 8:00 p.m. in the Alexis & Jim Theater on Saturday, June 13, 2015.

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces that tickets for Justin Townes Earle will go on sale December 12, 2014. Justin Townes Earle appears in the Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at 8:00 p.m. on February 17, 2015. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Dr. Phillips Center Box office at 844.513.2014 or by visiting the Box office at 445 Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801 between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. or online at drphillipscenter.org. Online and phone ticket purchases include handling fees.

You don't go into a show called The Annotated History of the American Muskrat without some very specific preconceptions. While you may have no idea what the piece is actually going to be about, you know it's probably safe to say that it isn't about to be your standard Tennessee Williams drama. The Circuit Theatre Company's production of this brand new show, written for them by Boston playwright John Kuntz, certainly fulfilled the preconceived notions that filled my head.

BIG Theatre Company will present Destiny is Judd Nelson as part of the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival, with performances on August 8-24. Humorous as it is poignant, absurd as it is profound, the play follows a group of New Yorkers searching for meaningful connections in a city where timing is everything. Tickets: $15-$18. For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org

2013 IRNE Nominations have been announced, as updated on the organization's Facebook page today, February 18, 2013. As of yet, no April date has been set for the awards ceremony. Scroll below for the full list of nominations!