Photo Flash: First Look at UP Theater's AN AMERICAN DRUM CIRCLE
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2016
Northern Manhattan's UP Theater Company celebrates its sixth season with, AN AMERICAN DRUM CIRCLE written by Washington Heights playwright, Vanessa Shealy. Vanessa's previous plays include Tea in the Afternoon (Theatre Row), One, Two, Whatever you do... (FringeNYC) and Inside Information (co-written by Rick Younger) which was just accepted to the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
UP Theater to Present AN AMERICAN DRUM CIRCLE
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 20, 2016
Northern Manhattan's UP Theater Company celebrates its sixth season with, An American Drum Circle written by Washington Heights playwright, Vanessa Shealy. Vanessa's previous plays include Tea in the Afternoon (Theatre Row), One, Two, Whatever you do… (FringeNYC) and Inside Information (co-written by Rick Younger) which was just accepted to the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. Melissa Attebery, who has directed for Primary Stages, The Abingdon, and Queens Theatre in the Park, directs. Vanessa and Melissa have collaborated on various projects since they met at the Actors Studio Playwright and Director Workshop over ten years ago.
The Ivoryton Playhouse's OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY Begins 4/17
by Kelsey Denette - Apr 4, 2013
Corporate takeovers and romantic comedy make unlikely bedfellows in this though-provoking, fast-talking, satire of the excesses of the 80s, opening in Ivoryton on April 17th Though this play premiered in 1989, it's themes of passion, loyalty , betrayal and greed are sadly, just as relevant today. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Jerry Sterner's brilliant script skewers not only corporate raiders but all of us in our comfortable New England world. What is more important, our community or our pockets?
Edward Kassar and More Star in OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY at Ivoryton Playhouse, 4/17-5/5
by BWW News Desk - Mar 28, 2013
Corporate takeovers and romantic comedy make unlikely bedfellows in this though-provoking, fast-talking, satire of the excesses of the 80s, opening in Ivoryton on April 17th. Though this play premiered in 1989, it's themes of passion, loyalty , betrayal and greed are sadly, just as relevant today. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Jerry Sterner's brilliant script skewers not only corporate raiders but all of us in our comfortable New England world. What is more important, our community or our pockets? The answer may surprise you.
i-ACT Raises $25,000 at “One Strong Kick” Fundraiser, 5/12
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2012
Katie-Jay Scott Stauring, Director of Community Programming for the Redondo Beach-based i-ACT, a non-profit grassroots activist organization, announced today: "i-ACT raised $25,000 at our fundraiser held on Saturday evening, May 12, 2012 to benefit 15 team members and five alternates players to support our Darfur United All-Refugee Soccer Team on their journey to compete for the coveted Nelson Mandela Trophy in the Viva World Cup Soccer Tournament in Iraqi Kurdistan this June."
