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New York Theatre Workshop Reveals 2050 Fellows, New Company-in-Residence and Artistic Department Expansion


New York Theatre Workshop has announced the artists selected for the 2023/24 Season 2050 Artistic Fellowship.

New York Theatre Workshop Announces 2022/23 2050 Artistic Fellows


New York Theatre Workshop has announced the playwrights and directors selected for the 2022/23 Season 2050 Artistic Fellowship. The 2022/23 Artistic Fellows are Miranda Cornell, Thaddeus McCants, Aileen Wen McGroddy, Attilio Rigotti, Andrew Rodriguez and Minghao Tu.

MARIE AND BRUCE Comes to JACK Brooklyn


Today, Marie decides to leave her husband: 'Let me tell you something. I find my husband so God damned irritating that I'm planning to leave him. And that's a fact.' But in Wallace Shawn's 1978 American masterpiece, facts are slippery things. In this radical re-imagining at JACK, two multi-disciplinary artists play the combative titular couple and head up the design team. Joined by an ensemble of some of Brooklyn's sharpest comedic voices, Gordon Landenberger (Bruce) and trans actress Theda Hammel (Marie) double as the set and sound designers, respectively, for this hilarious and timely new production. 

JACK Presents MARIE AND BRUCE By Wallace Shawn


Today, Marie decides to leave her husband: 'Let me tell you something. I find my husband so God damned irritating that I'm planning to leave him. And that's a fact.' But in Wallace Shawn's 1978 American masterpiece, facts are slippery things. In this radical re-imagining at JACK, two multi-disciplinary artists play the combative titular couple and head up the design team. Joined by an ensemble of some of Brooklyn's sharpest comedic voices, Gordon Landenberger (Bruce) and trans actress Theda Hammel (Marie) double as the set and sound designers, respectively, for this hilarious and timely new production.

NYTW Launches 2050 Fellowship for Aspiring Theatre Administrators


New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) has announced the launch of the new 2050 Administrative Fellowship Program for aspiring theatre administrators.

Photo Coverage: NYTW Celebrates Opening Night of NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM


New York Theatre Workshop presents NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM, written by NYTW 2050 Fellow Nathan Alan Davis (Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea) and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian (The Convert). It features Phillip James Brannon (Bootycandy) as 'Nat Turner' and Rowan Vickers(The Sensuality Party) as 'Thomas R. Gray.'

NYTW's 2050 Fellowship Program Seeks Applicants for 2017-18 Season


New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is currently accepting applications for the 2017/18 season of its 2050 Fellowship program for emerging playwrights and directors. Applications are due October 17, 2016 at 5pm EST.

New York Theatre Workshop Names 2050 Fellows for 2016-17 Season


New York Theatre Workshop has announced the playwrights and directors selected for the 2016/17 Season 2050 Fellowship. The playwrights are Beto O'Byrne, Ming Peiffer, and Francis Weiss Rabkin and the directors are Danny Sharron, Stevie Walker-Webb, and Mo Zhou.

WON'T BE A GHOST to Run 4/14-23 at The Brick


Playwright Francis Weiss Rabkin and company Tight Braid Group present the interdisciplinary play Won't Be a Ghost. Growing out of several years of development, Won't Be a Ghost entwines the stories of two queer truth-tellers: Magnus Hirschfeld, early sexologist and gay rights advocate, and US Army whistleblower, Chelsea Manning. Taking structural cues from Ancient Greek tragedies, a chorus guides the audience from the gardens of Hirschfeld's Weimar-era Institute for Sexual Science to a US Army base in Iraq, where Manning tells her story via instant messenger.  Refusing martyrdom, they find grace in the unjust through rituals of healing.

Francis Weiss Rabkin and Tight Braid Group Close Dixon Place Residency with WON'T BE A GHOST This Week


Playwright Francis Weiss Rabkin and their company Tight Braid Group present the culmination of a four-month residency at Dixon Place, with a performance of their interdisciplinary play WON'T BE A GHOST, today and tomorrow, September 3 & 4, 2015.

Francis Weiss Rabkin and Tight Braid Group to Close Dixon Place Residency with WON'T BE A GHOST


Playwright Francis Weiss Rabkin and their company Tight Braid Group present the culmination of a four-month residency at Dixon Place, with a performance of their interdisciplinary play WON'T BE A GHOST, September 3 & 4, 2015.

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces PRELUDE 2014 Full Schedule


The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to announce the full lineup of its eleventh annual PRELUDE Festival. Dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre and performance, PRELUDE 2014 features an array of artists working in theatrical and interdisciplinary performance.

Segal Center at CUNY Announces PRELUDE 2014 Artists; Festival Set for This September


The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) presents PRELUDE 2014, an annual three-day festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre and performance.

Rachel Dickstein, Jeremy Bloom & More Chosen for Drama League's 2014 Artist Residency Program


The Drama League (Gabriel Shanks, Executive Director; Roger T. Danforth, Artistic Director) has announced the ten artists and theater ensembles chosen to develop new plays and musicals as part of the 2014 Artist Residency Program. The development of these works, which include two 2014 Artists In Residence, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time and Jeremy Bloom/Rady&Bloom, will be held at The Drama League Theater Center (32 Avenue of the Americas) in Tribeca from March-July 2014.

Smith + Tinker Presents Limited Engagement of LADDER TO THE MOON at HERE, Now thru 11/2


The collaborative writers' group, Smith + Tinker, will present two bills of short works in Ladder to the Moon. The limited engagement will play today, October 30 - Nov 2, 2013, with four performances in HERE's Mainstage Theatre. (145 Sixth Ave, one block south of Spring St).

Smith + Tinker to Present Limited Engagement of LADDER TO THE MOON at HERE, 10/30-11/2


The collaborative writers' group, Smith + Tinker, will present two bills of short works in Ladder to the Moon. The limited engagement will play October 30 - Nov 2, 2013, with four performances in HERE's Mainstage Theatre. (145 Sixth Ave, one block south of Spring St).

The Bushwick Starr Theater Presents COVERS , 9/6-9/9


The Bushwick Starr and Katy Pyle present Covers, by Katy Pyle with Jules Skloot. In this evening length cabaret of forms, Pyle and Skloot shape-shift through a series of queered archetypes in a continual effort to see and be seen through layers of shame and loneliness. Performing beneath quilts, they cover and transform songs, dance styles, and contemporary performance tropes, inhabiting and discarding roles in an amorphous landscape of shifting identity and perception. Text by Francis Weiss Rabkin. Music contributions from Erica Livingston, Margot Bassett, and Katie Workum.

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