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Edward Einhorn Appointed New Artistic Director Of The Rehearsal For Truth Theater Festival


by A.A. Cristi - June 22, 2023

The Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival honoring Václav Havel has announced that Edward Einhorn will be taking over the job of Artistic Director for its seventh season of work. ...

REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL Announces 2023 Lineup


by Blair Ingenthron - May 02, 2023

The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association will present the 2023 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival honoring playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel. From June 2 to June 14, the Bohemian National Hall will feature award-winning performances from ...

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre to Reprise AUDIENCE in September


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 22, 2022

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will reprise its 2021 marionette production of 'Audience' by Vaclav Havel, translated and directed by Vit Horejs, September 1 to 3 at 7:30 pm and September 4 at 3:00 pm at the Bohemian National Hall....

CABARET IN CAPTIVITY Comes to The Triad Theater, May 1


by A.A. Cristi - April 06, 2022

Cabaret in Captivity, an annual cabaret produced by Untitled Theater Company No. 61 in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, will perform both live and livestreamed on Sunday, May 1, at 2pm.  ...

The Romanian Cultural Institute & Red Monkey Theater Group Present a Free Staged Reading of Scenes from Newly-Published EXILE IS MY HOME Collection


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 28, 2022

The Romanian Cultural Institute, in co-production with Red Monkey Theater Group, the world premiere of 'Exile Is My Home', a free showcase of scenes based on four plays by award-wining feminist author and educator Domnica Rădulescu, one of the most accomplished Romanian-American writers....

Czech Center New York Presents REQUIEM 2021


by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2021

Czech Center New York in collaboration with Harmony Foundation and Czech Consulate General in New York will present Requiem 2021, a multimedia project commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ...

Rehearsal For Truth Theater Festival Announces The 2021 Edition: Embracing The Inexplicable


by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2021

The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association are pleased to present the 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival as it returns to in-person format. ...

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre to Present AUDIENCE By Vaclav Havel


by A.A. Cristi - May 26, 2021

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will unveil a new marionette production of 'Audience' by Vaclav Havel, translated and directed by Vit Horejs, June 23 and 29 at 8:00 PM in Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, as part of the 2021 Rehearsal for Truth Festival. ...

Past Shows

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: The Best Child in the World


The story of the Roma girl who discovers at a very young age the differences of race and environment. She manages to make her way ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: POOL


POOL is a collaborative fusion of performance, visual art, and documentary that explores the male gaze, self-objectification, and the way power shifts as we move ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: on the other side


A dance performance as a form of somatic protest and viscous disobedience in the light of the current aggression of the Russian government. Russian artists ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: The Mystic Shimmer


A hallucination, a dream, a life, a performance: conjectures and reflections on temporal efforts and their significance. What holds? What resists the bite of time? An ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: The Astronaut


STAGE READING | Through a series of monologues offering advice to his son—a silent figure dressed in an astronaut suit—a Czechoslovakian refugee of the 1968 ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Present Perfect


Set in a museum of our collective memory, the play’s design invites the audience to explore a collection featuring valuable artifacts that commemorate alternative versions ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: The Story of a Book


Emerging from thousands of stories of people and objects forever lost, The Story of a Book portrays a nearly century-long history of the Strachs, a ...

Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Bowie in Warsaw


The women of Warsaw tremble with the rumor of a strangler on the prowl. Behind their fear, unspoken secrets and traumas begin to surface. Set ...

Audiece
Audiece
9/1 - 9/4/2022


This production of"Audience"is Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's version of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play, starring live actors and traditional marionettes. Havel's one-act playfollows Ferdinand Vanek, a ...

Rehearsal for Truth 22: Hungarian Acacia


Re-enactment of societal activities in Hungary, with musical performances and recited political speeches that surround the absurd exploitation of acacia, an indigenous American tree that ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Body as a Weapon


A dance and multimedia solo performance that examines the cultural and historical context of Eastern European socialist propaganda through the use of female body as ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Stones of Tiananmen


STAGE READING, TALKBACK | A story of commitment to change, Stones of Tiananmen follows Chinese writer and philosopher Liu Xiaobo (the 2010 Nobel Peace Laureate) ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey


A familys home life turns upside down when a tiger suddenly appears in their bathroom. As more and more absurd characters invade their home (Scientist, ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Radio 477! – In Concert


Inspired by the 1929 Ukrainian avantgarde jazz musical, "Radio 477!" has original songs and text by New York City-based Yara Arts Group in collaboration with ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Shelves


An absurd drama taking place in a supermarket of the future in a society where everyone is under surveillance. Reason, truth, and compassion are seemingly ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Our Will to Live, Art and Music in Terezin


A program commemorating the creative spirit of the Terezin artists who perished in the Holocaust. Mark Ludwig, director at the Terezin Music Foundation, will reveal ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2022: Permeation


Can a robot write a play that reflects the world in its current state? Find out at the stage reading of a play created fully ...

2022 Spring Stage Readings: Waif T's Private War


(stage reading, talkback) "Waif Ts Private War" focuses on two socially excluded women, the aged punk Tanya and her wheelchair-bound senior mum. Living in a ...

2022 Spring Stage Readings: Juliet


(stage reading, talkback) "Juliet" is a work of both real life and poetry: a story of a woman arrested and deported with her seven children ...

2022 Spring Stage Readings: Love, Bitches


(stage reading, talkback) "Love, Bitches" is a teen comedy tinged with horror and centered on a conflict between a punk and pop music band on ...

2022 Spring Stage Readings: Exile Is My Home


Excerpts from four plays Exile Is My Home, The Town with Very Nice People, House in a Boat with Food and No God, Crossings: A ...

2022 Spring Stage Readings: Kicking Down the Quilt


(Stage reading and talkback) Conceived as a dialogue for theater, "Kicking Down the Quilt" deals with the spiritual condition of our hyper-contemporary society. The protagonists ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Eletfa


Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Eletfa. Hungarian folk band Eletfa brings to life the rich music and dance traditions of rural Hungary. Consisting of ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Audience


Audience, performed by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, is a new production of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: The Madman and the Nun


Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival present Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewiczs "The Madman and the Nun" - the iconic 1923 play that explores the tyranny of society ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Czech & Slovak Tales with Strings


Marionette show for children. Internationally known Czechoslovak puppeteer, storyteller, and author Vit Horejs performs Czech & Slovak Tales with Strings, a one-man marionette show of ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: The Madman and the Nun


Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewiczs"The Madman and the Nun" the iconic 1923 play that explores the tyranny of society over the ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: The Tent


The Tent is set in a tiny rural town somewhere in South Africa. A mixed coupleRuth is white and Samson is blackpitch their tent alongside ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Audience


"Audience," performed by Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, is a new production of Vaclav Havels classic autobiographical play. Featuring live actors and traditional marionettes, the one-act play ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2021: Personal Speaker, Connection/less


Two one-act plays, winners of the Best Mini-Drama Student Contest, capture the devastating effects of our inability to communicate with one another. Playwrights: Abigail Henkin ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Audience


"Audience" centers on a meeting between brewery manager Sladek and employee Vanek. While the manager is clearly opening too many beers and inducing binge drinking, ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Truth


"Truth" exposes a lack thereof: an existence fraught with the absence of the sacred, devoid of any mystery, purpose or metaphysical worth. While the main ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Watch Now


Captivating dance performance that delves into the present-day issues of identity and loss of privacy. Accompanied by live music, Watch Now follows a couple undergoing ...

Rehearsal for Truth 2019: Woman Alone


Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival presents Woman Alone by Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Woman Alone unveils the story of Maria and ...

Spring Weekend: Hoped I Wouldn't Meet Myself Today


Sunday May 12 at 7 pm Puppenhaus.Treatment by Magda Fertacz, translated by Artur Zapalowski, directed by Zishan UgurluStage reading, Talk Back & After Party"Traitors to ...

Spring Weekend: Hoped I Wouldn't Meet Myself Today


Sunday, May 12, 3 pmUrn on an Empty Stage by Martin Cicvak, translated by Katarina Briggler, directed by Michael Piatkowski Stage reading, Talk Back & ...

Spring Weekend: Hoped I Wouldn't Meet Myself Today


May 11 at 8 pm Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today by Herta Muller, translated, performed, and directed by Simona MaicanescuFull production, Talk Back & ...

Spring Weekend: Hoped I Wouldn't Meet Myself Today


Saturday, May 11th at 8pm (Full Length Production): Hoped I Wouldnt Meet Myself Today by Herta MullerTranslated, Performed & Directed by Simona Maicanescu Performed in ...

Spring Weekend: Sunflower


Saturday, May 11 at 4 pm Sunflower by Andrea Pass, translated by Patrick Mullowney, directed by Adrian AleaStage reading, Talk Back & After PartyIn Sunflower, ...

Spring Weekend: Vanek Variations


Friday, May 10, 7pm: Vanek Variations--Stage Reading, Talk-back, And ReceptionAudience by Vaclav Havel, translated by Jan Novak; The Meeting by Edward Einhorn; Infiltration by Petr ...

Spring Weekend: Vanek Variations


Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival Presents: Spring WeekendA selection of European stage readings in NYCBohemian National Hall, May 10 - 12, 2019Friday, May 10th, 7pm--Vanek ...

Duke Oldrich & Washerwoman Bozena, the True Story: A Historical Comedye in Three Acts


As part of the Centennial Heritage Festival, this non-traditional staging of a 374 year-old marionette play is based on the story of love at first ...

Water Goblin, and other Czech and Slovak Tales


Vit Horejs performs a one-man show of Czech fairy tales (in English) replete with kings, clever village maidens, witches and spirits. His marionettes speak in ...

American Immersion: Georg Friedrich Haas - Talea Ensemble


On February 26, at 7:30 pm, the Talea Ensemble performs a program of Haas' compositions for large ensembles at the Bohemian National Hall (321 E. ...

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