OFF-BROADWAY THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 407

Long-time Broadway actor Bart Shatto (LES MISERABLES, War Paint) joins fellow actor and podcast host Patrick Oliver Jones to discuss how he handles his nerves onstage, deals with bad reviews, and almost lost his job with arena rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Ben Davis (Dear Evan Hansen), Ali Ewoldt (The Phantom of the Opera), and Kenita Miller (Once On This Island) will star in Play Reading Fridays' production of Donald Margulies' dark comedy a?oeDinner With Friendsa??, benefiting The Actors Fund.

Audible has announced  its latest Emerging Playwrights Fund class.

Members of New York City's music and theater communities came out Sunday morning to pose in solidarity to save our independent venues and live entertainment with the support of the newly-formed New York Independent Venues Association (NYIVA).

Vinny Pastore, from The Soprano's hit series and star of Bullets Over Broadway, will bring his band together 'Vinny Pastore's Gangster Squad' on August 30th (8pm) at Open Jar Studios to raise money for the Nick Cordero Fund.

New York Stage and Film announces the 2020 Artists/Projects-in-Residence: Shairi Engle, Morgan Green, Khiyon Hursey, Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Jian Jung, Ilya Khodosh, Sandra Tsing Loh, Molly Beach Murphy, Phanésia Pharel, Brian Quijada, Christina Quintana (CQ), Nygel D.

Indiggo Twins release new video EUREKA! from their off Broadway hit a?oeWicked Clone the Cinema Musicala?? a?" a unique blend of film and musical theatre, a fairy tale about the gift of Inspiration that has awakened thousands of hearts at the Davenport Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, Black Box

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (Folksbiene)-led by Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, and Dominick Balletta, Executive Director-continues its virtual entertainment series Folksbiene! LIVE with a 15-Minute Yiddish lesson led by Motl Didner on Tuesday (8/25) and, Zalmen Mlotek's weekly Living Room

Tomorrow, Harlem9, the Obie Award-Winning producing collective, begins the stream of their 10th Annual and 1st Digital Festival.

The Public Theater announced today that Saheem Ali and Shanta Thake have been named Associate Artistic Directors as part of an expanded and restructured artistic leadership team.

On Thursday, September 10th, 2020 at 7PM, Seth Bisen-Hersh, composer/lyricist of off-Broadway's Love Quirks will present a virtual concert featuring most of the original off-Broadway cast, some of its production team and a few performers from previous incarnations to raise money for the upcoming off

Award-winning playwright and Emmy-nominated TV producer Jason Odell Williams (Church & State, Brain Games) reunites with actor and host Patrick Oliver Jones to give the ins and outs of writing for the stage as well as shares how he's handled being out of work in television and having no theaters to

RED BULL THEATER today announced that the 2020-'21 Season will kick off on Monday, September 14th with the one night only benefit reunion reading of Red Bull's acclaimed production, The Revenger's Tragedy, featuring members of the cast of the 2005 Off-Broadway production.

The Lark has announced playwrights Zora Howard and Edison Ventura Mata Diaz have been selected as the 2020-21 Van Lier New Voices Fellows.

The Board of Directors of New York Theatre Barn has announced three new members joining its board: Laurie Toscano, Blair Russell and Adam Rei Siegel.

Since the pandemic began in March, comedian and syndicated columnist Billy Masters began twice-weekly broadcasts - basically to keep people entertained during quarantine.

Casting has been announced for Theatre for One: Here We Are, the first ever virtual experience from the globally acclaimed Theatre For One which brings together one actor and one audience member for a one-of-a-kind intimate theatrical experience.

Written by playwright and television writer Ed Napier with co-direction by Emmy winning television producer Jesse Green and actress/filmmaker Jodie Markell, the first episode of this love letter to New York launched on online on July 1st.

Award-winning director Will Nunziata (Miss Peggy Lee, Over Here!, Carnegie Hall) and award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist Billy Recce (A Musical About Star Wars, Balloon Boy) are at work on a stage musical about the infamous 1990s pop culture icon Heidi Fleiss, entitled Little Black Book

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield and Obie Award-winning director and WTF Artist-in-Residence Trip Cullman (Before the Meeting, The Rose Tattoo) met up in Williamstown for a socially-distant conversation.

Urban Stages has announced Urban Stagesa?? September Play Fest & Fundraiser, a series of virtual readings of plays by Urban Stagesa?? artists.

LIVING SMALL NYC, a new lifestyle show created and hosted by Kate Loprest, focuses on New York City's most talented, artistic, eccentric people and how they successfully live small in Manhattan and its boroughs.

New York Theatre Barn will host the 20th free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 at 7PM EDT, featuring excerpts from the new musicals Sean's Story: Part One | The Awakening and Cliquot.

Former Broadway producer/publicist, David Rothenberg will be taking his autobiographical play, NAMEDROPPING, to a laptop near you on Wednesday, August 19th at 7:00 pm.

Obie Award winner, Darius de Haas, will appear as the special guest on THE JIM MASTERS SHOW LIVE!.