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Rising Sun Performance Company Announces THE RITES OF SPRING Plays
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
The play lineup has been announced for the Rites of Spring, Rising Sun Performance Company's upcoming Virtual Theatre Festival. These talents come from Indie, Regional, and Off-Broadway theatre, and the plays will be presented as LIVE virtual performances on Saturday, March 13th at 8 PM and Sunday, March 14th at 5 PM.
LIFE IS DRAG Offers Live Pop-up Performance At The Cell
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre (Artistic Director Kira Simring) will host in-person street-side performances featuring the performers captured in Rachel Rampleman's exhibit LIFE IS DRAG. On Saturday March 13 at 5:00 PM Darlinda Just Darlindaand Mimi Silk will perform in the windows of the cell's space on 23rd street.
Immersive Van Gogh New Block of Tickets On-Sale Now!
by BWW News Desk - March 09, 2021
From creators of the blockbuster exhibit seen by over 2 million people in Paris, and after selling over half a million tickets in Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco and LA, the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit is making its mark at a secret location in the heart of New York!
Theater for the New City Announces Lineup for Upcoming OPEN 'THO SHUT
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2021
On March 13, 20 and 27, Theater for the New City will present a diverse roster of monologists, vocalists and instrumentalists in the 18th, 19th and 20th installments of 'Open 'Tho Shut,' its Saturday afternoon program of 'walk-by theater' that is staged in its set shop and visible from East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues.
LISTEN: YOUR PROGRAM IS YOUR TICKET Podcast Welcomes Marblehead Little Theatre's Julie Menard and Emily Black
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2021
'Your Program Is Your Ticket' has announced another episode of its 'Act II...Places' series featuring Board President Julie Menard and Executive Producer Emily Black of Marblehead Little Theatre in Massachusetts.
Theater in Quarantine's Spring 2021 Season to Feature Liza Birkenmeier, Julia Izumi, Tristan Tzara's THE GAS HEART & More
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2021
Theater in Quarantine has announced a new series of live-streamed performances. Running March 5–May 20, the season features new work by playwrights Liza Birkenmeier and Julia Izumi as well as a new adaptation of Tristan Tzara’s The Gas Heart that marks the centennial of the Dada masterpiece. 
Goddard Riverside Presents Week Two of Women History Artist Month Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Every March during Women's History Month, Goddard Riverside's Community Arts Program hosts an exciting month-long arts festival celebrating female artists and perspectives. All events are also written, directed, performed, or produced by women.
WILD WOMEN OF PLANET WONGO Invades The Front-Row Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
The 60s sci-fi immersive musical Wild Women of Planet Wongo, a wacky B-movie inspired sci-fi comedy about a planet of Amazonian women who first encounter men when two bumbling astronauts crash on their planet, is coming virtually to the Front-Row Fringe Festival after successful productions in New York City and Chicago.
FRONT ROW FRINGE FESTIVAL Brings A Lineup of Exciting Shows to the Digital Stage
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Taking place March 11th through March 14th, Front-Row Fringe Festival, a brand-new online festival, is giving theatre makers a socially responsible way to stage their shows. Led by the producers at Lahser Rd. Theatricals (Slave Play ,A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet) and  father/son writing duo Jacob and Jeff Foy (Emergency, One Night Only, The Z Team), this festival aims to help fill the void many theatre lovers are feeling during the pandemic.  
Broadway-Bound Emma Pittman Joins SCENES FROM THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Good isn't it? Grand isn't it? Great isn't it? These song lyrics from the musical Chicago epitomize one performer's journey to Broadway. Emma Pittman, an actress and graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island is the winner of Chicago on Broadway's The Search for Roxie Hart.
Theater For The New City Celebrates 50 Years With LOVE N' COURAGE Virtual Gala, March 22
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Theater for the New City, which turns 50 this month, will hold its annual 'Love 'N Courage' gala--a benefit for its Emerging Playwrights Program--virtually this year on Monday, March 22 at 7:00 PM. 
At Home Artists Project Presents FIRST BIRTHDAY: A Short Play Festival
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
At Home Artists Project's First Birthday: A Short Play Festival, features three short length plays. At Home Artists Project is a virtual space for new work, creating compelling live entertainment in order to fill the current cultural vacuum and promote a sense of community in a time of isolation, all while aiming to help support affected artists and philanthropic arts organizations.
Et Alia Theater & Aurora Nova Present WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Et Alia Theater, in association with Aurora Nova, presents: White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, produced by Luísa Galatti and Ana Moioli, performed by Giorgia Valenti. Will you participate? Will you be manipulated? Will you listen? Will you really listen?
The SoHo Playhouse Presents PLAGUE DOCTOR By Charlotte Ahlin
by BWW News Desk - March 05, 2021
Presented by the SoHo Playhouse as part of their 'Best of SoHo Benefit Streaming Series,' and co-produced by Fat Knight Theatre and Lizardfolk, comes the new play by Charlotte Ahlin, PLAGUE DOCTOR, an almost irresponsibly loose retelling of, 'The Decameron', directed with humor and heart by David Huynh.
Chatillion Stage Company Launches Audio Play Podcast
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
Chatillion Stage Company has launched Project Mercury, a new anthology series of original audio plays, which takes its inspiration from Orson Welles' The Mercury Theatre on the Air. 
Chez Bushwick March RECESS Featuring New Work By MOHD
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
RECESS is Chez Bushwick's monthly salon space where both works-in-progress and established pieces can be shared in an intimate setting. Stewarded by Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, RECESS is a safe space for exploration and forging new artistic connections. It's an opportunity to engage performers, patrons, artists, and audience members in a night of performance and creative dialogue.
The Resident Acting Company Announces 2021 Titles for Play Dates With The RAC
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
The Resident Acting Company has just announced five dates in 2021 for it's extremely popular online series – Play Dates With The RAC.  Audience members read a play, and then join the company online for a 90 minute Zoom session. Hosted by Kate Farrington, Artistic Associate, these evenings explore the background of the play and playwright, audience members enjoy live performances by members of the Resident Acting Company as well as guest artists, and they always end with a Q&A session when the audience can join the conversation.  Tickets are already selling fast.
Rising Sun Performance Company Announces Creative Teams for RITES OF SPIRNG
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
Founding Artistic Director Akia Squitieri announced the Creative Teams for Rising Sun Performance Company's 'The Rites of Spring' Virtual Theatre Festival today. 'Rites of Spring' was co-conceived by the staff and creatives of Rising Sun Performance Company, featuring the talents of 60 Artists.
Spin Cycle and JCS Theater Company Extend the World Premiere of ADJUST THE PROCEDURE
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
Spin Cycle and JCS Theater Company have announced an extension of the World Premiere of ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, a new play by Jake Shore (The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown, Holy Moly, and Down The Mountain And Across The Stream) conceived during the pandemic and created with Zoom theater in mind.
Improv 4 Kids Is Back In Times Square April 2021
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
Starting April 10, 2021, Improv 4 Kids, the show that is fun for the whole family, is back in Times Square, Saturdays ay 3pm, at the Broadway Comedy Club (318 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019). CLICK HERE for Tickets ($25 in advanced via link, $40 cash at the door, no additional purchase required).
Barefoot Shakespeare Company and CreateTheater Present Virtual Performance of LADY CAPULET
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
After an initial 2019 run in New York City’s Central Park, LADY CAPULET performances move to a virtual tour, stopping at Goddard Riverside’s 6th Annual WHAM! Festival beginning March 25 at 7pm, followed by a live talkback with cast and creatives, and streaming through March 31.
Purdue University Fort Wayne Presents THE PENELOPIAD
by BWW News Desk - March 04, 2021
Tune in to WBOI Presents on 89.1 FM, to listen to a radio play performance of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. Filled with modern twists, The Penelopiad retells The Odyssey from the points of view of Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and her handmaidens.
BWW Review: Claustrophobic angst in the outstanding FRANZ KAFKA'S LETTER TO MY FATHER at M-34
by Joe Lombardi - March 04, 2021
At some point during the outstanding live stream performance of Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, yet another reference began swirling in my mind.  Lyrics from an old song from the late 1970's band Split Enz bizarrely came into focus.  'History never repeats / I tell myself before I go to sleep / There's a light shining in the dark / Leading me on towards a change of heart, ah.'  Both that song and Kafka's writing explore an anguished mental condition as a result of bitter relationships.
BAE Presents Livestream Featuring 60 WORDS from Bronx Based Composer Kamala Sankaram
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2021
BAE will celebrate Women's History Month with an online concert presentation featuring Bronx-Based composer Kamala Sankaram's composition '60 Words' and her unique band that blends the sounds of surf rock/cumbia/spaghetti-Western/Bollywood: 'Bombay Rickey.' 
New Comedy TILL THERE WAS YOU To Receive Virtual Reading March 12
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2021
Strange Bird Productions presents a virtual reading of TILL THERE WAS YOU a new romantic comedy with a twist by Raven Petretti, at 7:15pm on Friday, March 12th as part of the Front Row Fringe Festival. Tickets are available here, through Eventbrite.

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