Michael Gardner News

Summer starts at Cape Rep's Outdoor Theater on June 28th with our Summer Children's Show Series. 

Point of Origin is an immersive theatre experience. It starts with a leg of lamb being placed in an oven on stage. As the aromas fill the theatre, the cast figures out how to tell three stories - about a shape-shifting hag witch from Finland; a slimy con artist from Greece; and their descendants, an Australian woman and an American woman who find themselves in New York. Sometimes these stories are told with words, other times through dance, but most deliciously they are told through food. The audience receives tastes of food throughout the performance and share in the leg of lamb at the end of the play.

Playwright Francis Weiss Rabkin and company Tight Braid Group present the interdisciplinary play Won't Be a Ghost. Growing out of several years of development, Won't Be a Ghost entwines the stories of two queer truth-tellers: Magnus Hirschfeld, early sexologist and gay rights advocate, and US Army whistleblower, Chelsea Manning. Taking structural cues from Ancient Greek tragedies, a chorus guides the audience from the gardens of Hirschfeld's Weimar-era Institute for Sexual Science to a US Army base in Iraq, where Manning tells her story via instant messenger.  Refusing martyrdom, they find grace in the unjust through rituals of healing.

Cape Rep Theatre is celebrating its 31st season with an exciting line up of plays and musicals, including two Cape Cod premieres, one fresh from Broadway.

Secret Theatre Musicals and Richard Mazda, Producer, present the legendary Broadway musical A CHORUS LINE at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, opening tonight, January 28, for a three-week run.

Secret Theatre Musicals and Richard Mazda, Producer, will be presenting the legendary Broadway musical A CHORUS LINE at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, opening January 28 for a three-week run.

The Exponential Festival, Brooklyn's new multi-week festival promoting theatrical performances created in New York, begins today. The festival kicks off with the opening of Banana Bag & Bodice's highly anticipated LongYarn at The Bushwick Starr.

In 2012, Dr. Charles Scarborough's medical license was revoked, and he was arrested for 821 counts of insurance fraud. Held on half a billion dollars' bail, and at 77 years old, his family thought he would spend the rest of his life in jail. 

Secret Theatre Musicals and Richard Mazda, Producer, will be presenting the legendary Broadway musical A CHORUS LINE at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City, opening January 28 for a three-week run.

Due to popular demand, Target Margin Theater has added two performances to the encore presentation of REREAD ANOTHER, based on Gertrude Stein's 'Reread Another A Play To Be Played Indoors or Out I Wish to Be a School.'

Target Margin Theater, who last year dedicated their season to the exploration of works created by the great American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein, will launch their 2015-2016 Season with an encore presentation of Reread Another based on Gertrude Stein's 'Reread Another A Play To Be Played Indoors or Out I Wish to Be a School.'  Directed by David Herskovits, the three member cast will feature Clare Barron, Purva Bedi, and Ugo Chukwu.  Performances begin tonight, September 24, 2015 for a limited engagement through Saturday, October 17, 2015 at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn).   Opening night is set for Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Isreali-Palestinian YTheater Project Jerusalem (www.ytheater.org) present TAKE AWAY, running October 12 - 15, 2015.

Los Angeles-based actress Rachel Keller is making her New York premiere as 'Olga' in the production of Marius von Mayenburg's FIREFACE this month at The Brick. The production runs tonight, August 26, through September 5, 2015, directed by Benjamin Viertel. 

Due to a scheduling conflict, Michelle Veintimilla will be replaced as 'Olga' by Los Angeles-based actress Rachel Keller, who is making her New York premiere with the production of Marius von Mayenburg's FIREFACE this August at The Brick. Additionally, Tony Award-winning actor Billy Porter of KINKY BOOTS has signed on to the team as Executive Producer. 

Target Margin Theater, who last year dedicated their season to the exploration of works created by the great American novelist, poet and playwright Gertrude Stein, will launch their 2015-2016 Season with an encore presentation of Reread Another based on Gertrude Stein's "Reread Another A Play To Be Played Indoors or Out I Wish to Be a School."  Directed by David Herskovits, the three member cast will feature Clare Barron, Purva Bedi, and Ugo Chukwu.  Performances begin Thursday, September 24, 2015 for a limited engagement through Saturday, October 17, 2015 at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn).   Opening night is set for Monday, September 28, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.

Artists accepted into The Brick Resident Artist Program have demonstrated the highest level of excellence and invention in the New York theater scene.  These are the artists you have only just begun to hear of; presented alongside pedigreed artists who have already won your hearts.  They will change your expectation of Off-Off Broadway and they will reinvent the experimental and non-traditional theater world as you know it.

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Ran Xia present [ai] as part of THE BRICK RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM.

Artists accepted into The Brick Resident Artist Program have demonstrated the highest level of excellence and invention in the New York theater scene.  These are the artists you have only just begun to hear of; presented alongside pedigreed artists who have already won your hearts.  They will change your expectation of Off-Off Broadway and they will reinvent the experimental and non-traditional theater world as you know it.

Third Space is thrilled to announce the New York premiere of Marius von Mayenburg's Fireface this August at The Brick.