Laurel Andersen News

The Fled Collective will collaborate with The 24 Hour Plays and The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) for additional programming this Spring, ahead of their inaugural season.

Today (March 5) in live streaming: Birdland takes over at Stars in the House, Irish Rep presents Belfast Blues, and more!

Coming soon, to a Facebook LIVE near you...The Drunk Texts is thrilled to present The Country Wife Swap!

The Flea Theater announced today SERIALS @ The Flea: ONLINE!, a spinoff of the organization's popular late-night episodic show will feature five all-new plays specifically created for digital viewing. SERIALS will be available on Saturday, April 25 at 9:00 PM on the Flea's Instagram and YouTube channels.

This February, rising indie Shakespeare company Match: Lit brings to its audience one of William Shakespeare's best-loved comedies in As You Like It. The production is directed by Laurel Andersen (Barefoot Shakespeare, Occupy Verona, Turn To Flesh Productions) and is produced by Match: Lit's Executive Artistic Director, Kristin Sgarro, who also serves as the production's composer and musical director. The production will open Thursday, February 13 and close Sunday, February 23.

This February, rising indie Shakespeare company Match: Lit brings to its audience one of William Shakespeare's best-loved comedies in As You Like It. The production is directed by Laurel Andersen (Barefoot Shakespeare, Occupy Verona, Turn To Flesh Productions) and is produced by Match: Lit's Executive Artistic Director, Kristin Sgarro, who also serves as the production's composer and musical director. The production will open Thursday, February 13 and close Sunday, February 23.

Casting has been announced for Match: Lit's mainstage production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, presented at the Access Theater Gallery in February 2020.

This fall, Match: Lit celebrates the dawn of its fifth season with a third round of BARDcore: fun cuts of Shakespeare's plays read over trivia and drinks at the cozy Q.E.D. in Astoria, NY.

This fall, Match: Lit celebrates the dawn of its fifth season with a third round of BARDcore: fun cuts of Shakespeare's plays read over trivia and drinks at the cozy Q.E.D. in Astoria, NY. Returning BARDcore director Laurel Andersen steps into the leadoff slot with her take on one of the Bard's bawdiest: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Artistic Director and Producer Kristin Sgarro is now joined by her fellow Match: Lit company members Victoria M. Fragnito, Nick Ritacco, and Rudi Utter as Associate Producers.

Fresh off the success of their Beyond the Ingénue project, TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS (TTF) is expanding their mission to create “New Shakespeare Plays” not only for womxn, but for all artists underrepresented in Classical Theatre.

Everyday Inferno Theatre Company is proud to announce the world-premiere production of A Short Life of Trouble: A Play with Appalachian Folk Music, which will play in a limited run from August 8th through August 18th, 2019.

TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS (TTF) kicks off their sixth NYC season, "Off the Pedestal, Onto the Page," with a slate of new epic plays, with roles written specifically for, by, and with womxn performers.

HENRY V: OCCUPY HARRY is an energetic, feminist telling of Shakespeare's classic history, reimagined in a post-civilization U.S.A., in which the ingrained forces of patriarchal power are challenged by a new, vibrant resistance embodied by its fearless and charismatic leader, King Harry. Through her struggle, the play explores the many obstacles to true revolutionary change, and the courage necessary to overcome them.

What happens when the sting of betrayal's flame is fanned by the heat of the Nile? MURDER! Agatha Christie's classic play Murder on the Nile, celebrates its 75th birthday this year having opened in Scotland at the Dundee Reparatory Theatre on January 17, 1944. Be Bold Productions has mounted a faithful production of her smoldering work Off-Broadway at the Player Theatre.

To celebrate their five year anniversary, TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS (TTF) is celebrating with FOUR new verse plays this October: a developmental production of The Other, Other Woman, and a staged reading of the entire Love and Death Trilogy: Persephone Rises, The Seduction of Adonis and Cupid and Psyche, all written and directed by foundress and playwright, Emily C. A. Snyder. Tickets are available now, including VIP seats with an open bar and pre-show salon for The Other, Other Woman, and an all-day picnic with the gods for The Love and Death Trilogy. Package deals are available.

To celebrate their five year anniversary, TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS (TTF) is celebrating with FOUR new verse plays this October: a developmental production of The Other, Other Woman, and a staged reading of the entire Love and Death Trilogy: Persephone Rises, The Seduction of Adonis and Cupid and Psyche, all written and directed by foundress and playwright, Emily C. A. Snyder. Tickets are available now, including VIP seats with an open bar and pre-show salon for The Other, Other Woman, and an all-day picnic with the gods for The Love and Death Trilogy. Package deals are available.

Barefoot Shakespeare Company ?and Occupy Verona ?are teaming up for "She Doth Persist," a season celebrating feminism and activism. First up is All One Forest, a new play that explores what happens when famous characters from Shakespeare's plays meet each other outside of their stories. All performances will be held at Summit Rock in Central Park and admission is free.

Barefoot Shakespeare Company ?and Occupy Verona ?are teaming up for "She Doth Persist," a season celebrating feminism and activism. First up is All One Forest, a new play that explores what happens when famous characters from Shakespeare's plays meet each other outside of their stories. All performances will be held at Summit Rock in Central Park and admission is free.

Gabrielle Sinclair's new play The Resolute about the formation of a women's baseball team on the campus of Vassar College in the 19th century plays Sept. 7-15 at Wyoming Theater Festival in Sheridan, WY. Colleen Britt directs. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

On May 31st at 9pm - for one night only! 'I Laugh To Keep From Crying' a solo comedy show written/performed by Becca Beberaggi and directed by Laurel Andersen will be performed at QED - A Place To Show And Tell.