Chris Van Strander

The Metropolitan Playhouse and Joe Trentacosta present the World Premiere of Edison's Elephant, a new play by Chris Van Strander & David Koteles, directed by David Elliott as part of the Metropolitan Playhouse Gilded Age Festival (running January 16- 25) The Metropolitan Playhouse is located at 220 East 4th Street. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by visiting www.metropolitanplayhouse.org. Check out a first look at the cast in rehearsal below!

Metropolitan Playhouse, Obie Award winner for exploring American culture through theater, hosts The Gilded Stage Festival, the theater's ninth annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of American writers and creators. The Festival is a collection of nine new works by artists and companies from near and far, taking their inspiration from the writings, causes, and lives that defined The Gilded Age. (Project descriptions and schedule follow.)

Ensemble Free Theater Norway (EFTN) announces the playwrights who will participate in Belarusian Dream Theater, an international performing arts event supporting freedom of expression in Belarus conceived and initiated by Brendan McCall, Artistic Director of EFTN.

New York Madness (NYM) is about to start its Third Season. With a focus on emerging writers, NYM hosts a hot night of short plays all based on a theme proposed by the more established Featured Guest. The Theme is announced one week prior to the event.

New York Madness (NYM) is about to start its Third Season. With a focus on emerging writers, NYM hosts a hot night of short plays all based on a theme proposed by the more established Featured Guest. The Theme is announced one week prior to the event.

THEATERSPEAK will present an installation of more than 70 award-winning and emerging playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, August 13th - September 1st, In each two-hour time slot, a different playwright will write their play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is visible to the street, opening their process up to the passerby on the street. Below, check out a video promo for the event, featuring J.Stephen Brantley of Hard Sparks writing a play

THEATERSPEAK will present an installation of over 70 award-winning and emerging playwrights writing new plays in the storefront window of the Drama Book Shop during store hours, August 13th - September 1st, In each two-hour time slot, a different playwright will write their play on a laptop, while the screen shot of their computer is visible to the street, opening their process up to the passerby on the street.

EndTimes Productions will present VIGNETTES FOR THE APOCALYPSE V, the 5th annual edition of New York's oldest and largest Sci-fi/Horror themed theater festival, beginning June 9 at The Kraine Theater.