John Carhart

One of the ways The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. (NEC) fulfills its mission to discover and nurture new, innovative works by skilled and creative artists is its NEC Cutting Edge Playhouse: Emerging Playwrights Competition, which will be mounted for the second time May 5 to 29, 2022.  

Scenes From Childhood, a new play by Ari Brand (My Name Is Asher Lev, Fosse/Verdon, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) now playing at the Theater at the 14th Street Y through January 25. Set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in New York City, Scenes from Childhood tells the story of a young actor who pieces together the life and death of his father, a concert pianist. Spanning both the 1980's and present-day New York, this theatrical memoir asks: Who gets to tell your story? 

Scenes From Childhood, a new play by Ari Brand (My Name Is Asher Lev, Fosse/Verdon, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) opens at the Theater at the 14th Street Y this January 10 - January 25. Set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in New York City, Scenes from Childhood tells the story of a young actor who pieces together the life and death of his father, a concert pianist. Spanning both the 1980's and present-day New York, this theatrical memoir asks: Who gets to tell your story?

It's Saturday night and you're deciding whether to go to a rock concert or see a comedy. You love indie music. But you're in the mood for laughter. What do you choose?

Emerging Artists Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Paul Adams, celebrates their 25th season by presenting their bi annual New Work Series. The series runs February 27 - March 17 at TADA Theater in the Flatiron District and features new works from a diverse group of artists. New musical, plays, solo-shows and dance pieces (in varies stages of development), will be presented.

No matter how old we become, our parents are still our parents: from high school to an engagement, to robbing our new apartment, our parents are pillars of love that we never wish to seen torn down. Now, if you're questioning why a couple's parents would collaborate to rob their children's first apartment, you wouldn't be the only ones. There is such an intriguing (and first of its kind that I have seen) backstory as to how four individuals, keen on getting their children out of an unsafe Brooklyn apartment, stage a robbery to expedite the process.

Do you remember your first apartment? There's a good chance you loved it - and that it had its share of flaws. A new play tells a story about a young couple moving into their first place - and what happens when well-intentioned parents create chaos, by trying to get them to move.

Do you remember your first apartment? There's a good chance you loved it - and that it had its share of flaws. A new play tells a story about a young couple moving into their first place - and what happens when well-intentioned parents create chaos, by trying to get them to move.

Do you remember your first apartment? There's a good chance you loved it - and that it had its share of flaws. A new play tells a story about a young couple moving into their first place - and what happens when well-intentioned parents create chaos, by trying to get them to move.

Medford, Mass.-native Jack Coggins has been cast to play David Lewis, the sculptor who designed the statue of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that stands in front of the JFK Hyannis Museum, in A Walk on the Beach.

Back in 2000, David Lewis, a sculptor in Cape Cod, designed a statue of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his son John Jr. both as men walking on the beach.

Medford, Mass.-native Jack Coggins has been cast to play David Lewis, the sculptor who designed the statue of John Fitzgerald Kennedy that stands in front of the JFK Hyannis Museum, in A Walk on the Beach.

Back in 2000, David Lewis, a sculptor in Cape Cod, designed a statue of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his son John Jr. both as men walking on the beach.

Normal Ave Productions opens their 2018 season exploring the ageless question: how do different people deal with grief while finding the strength to move on? The company hopes their Winter mainstage production, The Dream of the Burning Boy, by David West Read, will allow the audience to begin a dialogue on coping with death and grief. Death itself is difficult to make sense of, but as Read writes so eloquently in scene 2, 'you can try to make sense of how people are feeling about it.'

The Playwriting Collective is proud to announce the recipient of the first annual $1000 Ball Grant as playwright Antu Yacob. In keeping with the mission statement of The Playwriting Collective, this grant is expressly designed for a writer who identifies as living in or emerging from a lower economic status. Antu is an excellent playwright whose work exemplifies the type of artistic voice that The Playwriting Collective champions. Her work is nuanced, resonant, and worthy of support. Over 100 applicants sent their material and more can be read about the semifinalists and finalists at www.ThePlaywritingCollective.com/The-Ball-Grant.

The application deadline for the first annual Ball Grant has been extended to November 1st, 2017 at midnight! This grant is expressly designed for a writer who identifies as living in or emerging from a lower economic status. Fundamentally The Playwriting Collective believes playwriting is an incredible tool of expression that isn't nurtured in America's poorest communities. The company wants applicants to start a conversation with their letter of intent: playwrights should explain what they identify as a lower economic status and how this grant will help them.

The application deadline for the first annual Ball Grant has been extended to November 1st, 2017 at midnight! This grant is expressly designed for a writer who identifies as living in or emerging from a lower economic status. Fundamentally The Playwriting Collective believes playwriting is an incredible tool of expression that isn't nurtured in America's poorest communities. The company wants applicants to start a conversation with their letter of intent: playwrights should explain what they identify as a lower economic status and how this grant will help them.

KEYS is a fresh, absurdist, and darkly comic new play making its New York premiere August 9 at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.

KEYS is a fresh, absurdist, and darkly comic new play making its New York premiere August 9 at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.

This Is Not Normal is an arts festival at The Brick. Replete with plays, puppetry and performance works, as well as weekly cabarets and calls to action, the festival aims to remind us of the reality we live in and the reality we are moving towards.