(10/23/2017) - The Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie) has launched its 46th Season in the newly-renovated theater with a production of THE OLD SETTLER, written by Brooklyn-born playwright John Henry Redwood and directed by Tony Award nominee Michele Shay, October 20 - November 19.
(10/16/2017) - Academy Award & Tony Award-nominee and Golden Globe Award-winning actress & director Kathleen Turner headlined The International Human Rights Art Festival on Sunday, October 15 at 7:30pm at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn
(10/13/2017) - Green Lite Productions' new, immersive experience CURIOSITIES officially opens its doors tonight, Friday, October the 13th, in Brooklyn. The 1930s underground piece is currently slated to run through November 26th at its custom home The Menagerie. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(10/13/2017) - The Anderson & Bert Cade Fulton Foundation, Andrea J. Fulton, Founder & Producer, in association with the Jamaica Performing Arts Center/JPAC, presents the return of August Wilson's TWO TRAINS RUNNING. Ms. Fulton first presented TWO TRAINS RUNNING in the summer of 2016 as a free community offering to 40-seat audiences in Bed-Stuy's Fulton and Von King Parks as part of 'August in August,' an arts initiative created by the Fulton Foundation in partnership with Joseph Grant, Jr., the Arts and Cultural Ambassador of Councilman Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.'s Office in the 36th District in Brooklyn. Scroll down for a look at that production!
(9/13/2017) - Joining the explosion of fully immersive theater, Green Lite Productions presents CURIOSITIES, an intimate multi-sensory theatrical experience in which visitors traverse the tunnels of an illegal 1930s sideshow world full of bootleggers, deviants, performers, and misfits. Grab a first look at the shadowy great depression era jazz club of CURIOSITIES below!
(8/28/2017) - Ten Bones Theatre Company is currently in rehearsals for the World Premiere of Peter McElligott's dark comedy In a Little Room, directed by Patrick Vassel (Associate Director for Hamilton on Broadway). BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company below!
(7/31/2017) - New York Classical Theatre's MACBETH opens tonight in a free production at The Battery/Brooklyn Bridge Park, and BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in costume below! The show runs through August 27.
(7/13/2017) - The Gallery Players present a new production of William Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR directed by James Dean Palmer, and featuring Erin Anderson, Elyana Aronow, Patricia Black, Erin Capistrano, Russell Linzy Carpenter, Sergio Fuenzalida, David Glover, Jenny Jarnagin, Drew Ledbetter, Bibi Mama, Cory McCants, Kevin McGuire, Victoria Morales, Elisha Mudly, Philip Schneider, Griffin Sharps and Eric Ryan Swanson. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(7/6/2017) - 18 performers from Cirque du Soleil's OVO, now playing at Barclays Center in Brooklyn through this Sunday visited Top of the Rock yesterday, fully decked out in their fantastic insect costumes. Scroll down for photos!
(6/10/2017) - Smith Street Stage's production of Richard III opened last night in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. This marks the company's eighth year of presenting free outdoor Shakespeare-under-the-stars. The show plays through June 25. Admission is free, no tickets are required.
(5/1/2017) - Over 50 of author and famed messenger poet Kurt Boone's photos of New York City buskers or street performers - which appear in his recently released photography book - Subway Beats (Schiffer Publishing) were on display at the launch event for the 'MUSIC IN THE TUNNELS' exhibit at Quimby's Bookstore NYC in Brooklyn, NY. Scroll down for photos!
(4/18/2017) - 866059After directing The Tank's critically acclaimed production of The Offending Gesture, director Meghan Finn returns to helm the world premiere of CHARLESES by Carl Holder. Part of The Tank's Save & Print series, CHARLESES runs through Saturday, April 29. The performance schedule isMonday, Wednesday - Sunday at 8 PM. Please note, the performances on Saturday, April 29 are at2 PM & 6 PM. Performances are at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue, at Lorimer). Tickets are $25 for general admission. ($15 for students with a valid ID.) To purchase tickets, visit www.thetanknyc.org.
(3/23/2017) - Geva Theatre Center presents Private Lives, Noel Coward's hilarious comedy of manners.Private Lives is directed by Mark Cuddy and will be performed in the Wilson Stage from March 21 to April 16.
(3/15/2017) - Gallery Players' production of the acclaimed and timely Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, who returns to his home town as the companion of a once-was movie star. Sweet Bird of Youth opened Saturday, March 11th, and runs for only 12 performances through Saturday, March 26th, 2017 at 8 PM. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(2/22/2017) - THE NOSE, a whimsical new family musical by Kit Goldstein Grant, will play Brooklyn's famous Master Theater (formerly known as the Millennium Theater) for one night only following its sold-out premiere at the Workshop Theatre in Midtown Manhattan last summer. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
(2/9/2017) - The Assembly presents a remount of their hit play, New York Times Critics' Pick HOME/SICK, about the radical student activist movement of the '60s, devised and written collectively, directed by 2017 Lucille Lortel Award winner Jess Chayes, and featuring the original 2011 cast and design team. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(1/31/2017) - Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event to Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens through February 26. BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub - in an actual home. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the show!
(1/20/2017) - Welcome to Blankland, a fantastical world full of life-or-death learning opportunities. But don't be scared--like the old song says, 'When life gets spooky, get kooky!' So grab your plastic sheets and strap on your galoshes for a romp through Blankland, where the sun's always shining and the blood's always dripping. Play "What Makes You Die?" with Stab and Blank! Enjoy a cuppa with the Pippy Butts! You might even get a visit from one of the Seniors! The fun never ends when death is around every corner...
(1/12/2017) - Chroma Key is an existential gross-out comedy about a woman pulled through parallel universes, and the dangerous things she brings with her. From an uncomfortable drive through the woods to an out-of-control detective novel where the narration disobeys its own narrator, to a nightly news broadcast performed by vomiting preteens with excellent spelling, no story seems safe enough for her to stand at its center.
(12/13/2016) - The Most Miserable Christmas Tree, a new fun-filled family holiday musical, is getting its World Premiere this December at Bay Ridge's Narrows Community Theater, celebrating its 45th Anniversary Season. With book and lyrics by Tim Sulka and Debra Barsha (Radiant Baby), music by Barsha, orchestrations by Lena Gabrielle, music direction by Paolo C. Perez and direction and choreography by Michael Chase Gosselin, The Most Miserable Christmas Tree is being presented at The Fort Hamilton Army Base Theater (403 GenerAl Lee Avenue), now through December 18th, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
(12/6/2016) - Gary Sunshine's play about a passionate 19th-century forbidden romance will come to ART/NY's South Oxford Space Great Room, produced by Frayed Hemline Productions in collaboration with WEBroadway.
(11/22/2016) - The Most Miserable Christmas Tree, the new fun-filled family holiday musical, receives its World Premiere on December 2nd at Narrows Community Theater in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The cast features 45 actors from Brooklyn, who travelled into Manhattan on Saturday evening to see the new Off-Broadway hit musical A Taste of Things to Come. Scroll down for photos!
(11/14/2016) - Company XIV presents an adults-only revival of NUTCRACKER ROUGE, the sexy hit holiday show conceived, directed and choreographed by Drama Desk Award nominee Austin McCormick. NUTCRACKER ROUGE runs from November 21 - January 7 in a limited 7-week engagement as part of XIV's pop-up season at The Irondale Center, located at 85 South Oxford Street between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!
(10/11/2016) - HIDEAWAY brings its first dark, twisted circus to Brooklyn this fall with SLUMBER. Set in a gritty, neon-lit environment and underscored by electronic pop music, SLUMBER follows a breathtaking girl squad comprised of elite international circus performers and dancers on the last night of their lives. BroadwayWorld has photos from opening night below!
(9/22/2016) - Company XIV presents a 2016-17 pop-up season at The Irondale Center, featuring two adult-only shows: the world premiere of PARIS, and a revival of their sexy hit holiday show NUTCRACKER ROUGE, both conceived, directed and choreographed by Drama Desk Award nominee Austin McCormick. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in costume below!
(9/13/2016) - HIDEAWAY brings its first dark, twisted circus to Brooklyn this fall with SLUMBER. Set in a gritty, neon-lit environment and underscored by electronic pop music, SLUMBER follows a breathtaking girl squad comprised of elite international circus performers and dancers on the last night of their lives.
(8/25/2016) - NYC Parks and Fairway Community Foundation are pleased to cut the ribbon on renovated handball courts at Chelsea Park in Manhattan and Coffey Park in Brooklyn. On Tuesday, August 23rd, Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP joined the Fairway Community Foundation and local elected officials to cut the ribbon at Chelsea Park, and today, Parks' Brooklyn Borough Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey joined the Foundation, as well as City Council Member Carlos Menchaca to cut the ribbon on Coffey Park. Scroll down for photos!
(8/8/2016) - Once Upon A Time, one of the leaders in educational theater for more than 40 years revives its wildly popular musical presentation designed for children but enjoyed by everyone, CHARLIE BROWN. This musical adaptation of a day in the life of Charles Schultz' beloved characters will have a special morning show as a 'try-out' for an extended run. Scroll down for photos!
(7/14/2016) - Ripped from the pages of real life, Mortified Live is a show where adults share their most embarrassing childhood letters, lyrics, journals, home movies and artwork...in front of total strangers. Check out a first look at Kimball Allen's Mortified Life below!
(6/10/2016) - This summer there will be more reasons than ever to take a trip to Coney Island thanks to a new collaboration between Thor Equities & Greenwood Park: Greenwood Beach at The Coney Art Walls located at 3050 Stillwell Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
(5/7/2016) - Stable Cable Lab Co. raised more than $6,000 to fund the company's upcoming world premiere of In the Event of My Death by Lindsay Joy, directed by Padraic Lillis at its 2016 Spring Soiree (#SoireeDeMayo) in tandem with its online crowd funding campaign on May 5, 2016 at The New Theater Building. The company's silent auction will continue online through May 19th, 2016 and features exclusive items including an evening with Andy Cohen of 'Watch What Happens Live' in the Bravo Clubhouse, a reading of a manuscript with a professional written evaluation from Lucy Childs of Aaron Priest Literary Agency, a custom monologue written by Lindsay Joy, private yoga and tennis lessons, and more. For more information and to bid visit www.stablecablelabco.org.
(3/30/2016) - Broadwayworld.com interviewed Jess Chayes, director of The Assembly's World Premiere play, 'I Will Look Forward to This Later.' The show will be on the New Ohio Theatre stage from April 4th to April 23rd.
(3/8/2016) - Letter of Marque Theater Company is pleased to present a first look at their innovative production of DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, directed by Andrew Borthwick Leslie. First published in 1727 by Lewis Theobald, new research indicates that DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, might have actually been written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. DOUBLE FALSEHOOD is currently in previews and plays through Saturday, April 9th, 2016 at The Irondale Center (85 S. Oxford St. Brooklyn, NY 11217). Opening Night is Saturday, March 12th at 7:30 p.m.
(3/5/2016) - Theater Reconstruction Ensemble (John Kurzynowski, Artistic Director; Reed Whitney, Producing Director) proudly presents the world premiere of Rhinbecca, NY, created and performed by Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, and conceived and directed by John Kurzynowski. Rhinbecca, NY runs from March 4 - 19, 2016 in a limited engagement at The Brick, located at 579 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Scroll down to see photos from the production!
(2/18/2016) - Made Real Vodka is hosting a cocktail and ricotta making class at Humboldt & Jackson in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Wednesday, February 24th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
(2/16/2016) - New York's avant-garde Faux-Real Theatre, which specializes in staging the classics of Greek theatre with an immersive abandon that closely approximates how these plays were first experienced thousands of years ago, is pulling out the stops with Euripides' THE BACCHAE. Returning to La MaMa, 74A East 4th Street, Faux-Real juices THE BACCHAE is filled with music, dancing, masks, and titillating gender and costume malfunctions galore. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below!
(2/15/2016) - Broadwayworld.com interviewed John Kurzynowski about Theater Reconstruction Ensemble (TRE) and the World Premiere of 'Rhinbecca, NY' at The Brick in Williamsburg from March 4th to March 19th.