In an era of austerity, recession, and rising nationalism, two friends are torn apart when the Nazi regime infiltrates their friendship and families to devastating effect. Based on the bestselling book, which was written as an anti-fascist call to arms and banned in 1930s Germany for dramatically exposing the threat of Nazism, ADDRESS UNKNOWN is a timely warning of how humanity can fail in the face of extreme ideology.
City Parks Foundation proudly announces the 21st edition of the beloved late summer jazz favorite, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. In the world of modern music, few figures loom as large or cast as long a shadow as saxophonist Charlie Parker, best known as "Bird" (short for "Yardbird") to generations of musicians. He was born in 1920, and almost sixty years since his death in 1955, he is universally celebrated for single-handedly inventing bebop and bringing jazz into the modern era.
100 years after the story was originally written, David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson's spectacular reinvention of a literary masterpiece, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, returns to the Lyric Hammersmith for a limited time following sell-out runs in 2006 and 2008.
100 years after the story was originally written, David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson's spectacular reinvention of a literary masterpiece, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, returns to the Lyric Hammersmith for a limited time following sell-out runs in 2006 and 2008.
Seattle-based playwright Yussef El Guindi, author of numerous plays including Our Enemies (Osborn Award), Back of the Throat, and Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, has been selected to receive the 2010 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award. Honorable mentions went to playwrights Nastaran Ahmadi, Denmo Ibrahim, Ken Kaisser, Mona Mansour, and Heather Raffo.
The prize, which is granted every other year to an American writer of a Middle Eastern background by a consortium composed of San Francisco's Golden Thread Productions, New York's Lark Play Development Center, and Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project, comes with a $10,000 commission to write a new play of the author's choice, artistic development support for two years and possible productions at both Silk Road and Golden Thread.
The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, the largest and most renowned theater company in Israel, brings their production of RETURN TO HAIFA, based on Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani's beloved novella of the same name and adapted by Israeli playwright Boaz Gaon, to Theater J this January. RETURN TO HAIFA tells the heart-rending saga of Sa'id and Saffiyeh, who return to the home they fled during the conflict preceding Israel's War of Independence, and learn the fate of the baby they left behind.
The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, the largest and most renowned theater company in Israel, brings their production of RETURN TO HAIFA, based on Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani's beloved novella of the same name and adapted by Israeli playwright Boaz Gaon, to Theater J this January. RETURN TO HAIFA tells the heart-rending saga of Sa'id and Saffiyeh, who return to the home they fled during the conflict preceding Israel's War of Independence, and learn the fate of the baby they left behind.
NICU'S SPOON is pleased to announce their production of A Kite Cut Loose In The Middle Of The Sky, directed by Russell Waldman. A Kite Cut Loose In The Middle Of The Sky will play its World Premiere in a three-week limited engagement at the Spoon Theater (38 West 38th Street, 5th Fl.) Performances begin Wednesday, October 8th and continuing through Sunday, October 26th. Opening Night is Saturday, August 10th.
The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.
Doubt, Twelve Angry Men, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage and Norbert Leo Butz take home awards.
The Drama League is pleased to announce the nominees for The 71st Annual Drama League Awards, which will be presented at its annual luncheon and ceremony on Friday, May 13, 2005.
A novel once described as 'the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction' is adapted for the stage.
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