"New City, New Blood" Play Reading Series Continues 9/21 With NEGROPHOBIA

For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning Theater for the New City has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its Emerging Playwrights Program.  In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings.

The NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD Reading will take place Monday, September 21, 7:00pm.  Wine and cheese will be provided for a $5 contribution. Audience members can come eat and drink while they meet the author.  NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD presents "NEGROPHOBIA "Or "How to fix a Millenium Minstrel Show" Or "No Beacon, no buffoonery, no bull****!" Or " Untitled. "by Arthur W. French III

 

NEGROPHOBIA is a satire on African-American life, and how some things considered by some so serious are funny. Sometimes we do not laugh at ourselves, and that is what the play is all about really.

Author Arthur W. French III has been writing plays since he was a teenager. His First play "Teens Today" was produced at Maxwell Glanville's American Community Theatre. The play was a finalist at the Annual Young Playwright's Festival in New York City. Mr. French's most recent production was "Third's World. A collection of his one act plays. The show included the award winning "Circuit Breakers" with was a winner in the Samuel French One Act play Festival. Mr. French's other play "Bitter Apples" was a finalist in the Strawberry One Act Festival. Both have been published. Mr. French has studied playwriting under Steve Carter (Playwright's Den), Leslie Lee (Frederick Douglass Writer's Workshop), and Henry Miller (James Baldwin Writer's Workshop).

 

This performance reading is directed by Arthur W. French III
Please rsvp to: literary@theaterforthenewcity.net
FUTURE NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD READINGS :
2009/2010 season will be announced soon. Stay tuned.

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York's most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC's Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, The Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Ma-Yi Theater Company, which won an OBIE Award for its 1996 TNC production, FLIPZOIDS. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company's 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 40 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.

 

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