Metropolitan Brings The East Village Up Close Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2023
Metropolitan Playhouse presents new solo-performances drawn from oral histories of East Village residents May 18 - June 4, 2023. Directed by Sidney Fortner and Alex Roe, performances will be in-person at the Playhouse home at 220A E 4th Street.
TFANA to Present Alice Childress's WEDDING BAND
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 31, 2022
TFANA will present Alice Childress’s Wedding Band. Director Awoye Timpo’s new staging, running April 23–May 15, brings Childress’s masterpiece to New York audiences for the first time since 1972, when it made its New York premiere in a production directed by Childress and Joseph Papp.
Metropolitan Playhouse Postpones SHE'S GOT HARLEM ON HER MIND Due to Covid
by Marissa Tomeo - Jan 29, 2022
SHE'S GOT HARLEM ON HER MIND, an evening of three award-winning one-act plays, was originally scheduled to run from February 3 through February 27, 2022. The pervasive spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, though waning in the New York City metropolitan region, still poses too great a threat to the health of artists and patrons to warrant attempting to stage the production.
Cast Announced for SHE'S GOT HARLEM ON HER MIND at Metropolitan Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 27, 2021
Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will revive three plays of influential Harlem Renaissance writer Eulalie Spence in an evening directed by Timothy Johnson: SHE'S GOT HARLEM ON HER MIND, playing a limited run from February 3 through 27, 2022, in person at the Playhouse: 220 E 4th Street.
New Perspectives Theatre Company Presents Next Reading In ON HER SHOULDERS Program
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 5, 2020
On Her Shoulders presentS staged readings of four short plays by Eulalie Spence: Episode, The Hunch, The Starter and Undertow on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The evening is directed by Arminda Thomas who also provides The Play in Context, situating the scripts in their historical time and place. Doors open at 6:45pm for a 7:00pm start with the PIC lecture, followed by the readings and a post-performance Q&A with refreshments.
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Xoregos Performing Company's HARLEM REMEMBERED
by BWW News Desk - Feb 12, 2015
The Xoregos Performing Company is proud to present Harlem Remembered: A Tribute to the Harlem Renaissance, a series of free performances throughout Black History Month spotlighting the drama, music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, at various venues in New York City and Westchester and Orange counties. The program features theatrical events as well as music, dance, storytelling and poetry. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast below!