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Kathy Gail MacGowan serves as a director and dramaturg for new work, and has ushered over 12 plays to production and helmed many developmental readings. She has worked at 59E59, 14th Street Y, The Sheen Center, Symphony Space, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Here Arts, WorkShop Theater, among others. This October 2020, she is directing a life-streamed evening of songs and monologues for to benefit the Artists Relief Fund and Nuyorican Poets Cafe-which will include new work by Neil LaBute, Cheryl Davis, Crystall Skillman and Romy Nordlinger. She has worked as a guest director with The New York Company at NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Stella Adler Studio) and is a Drama League Directing Finalist. She holds a MFA in directing from The New School.

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Reading of SANCTITY Comes to American Theater Group This Month


American Theater Group (ATG), Central NJ’s professional theater company, will present the legal drama Sanctity by Kerr Lockhart as part of its free Monday Night Play Reading Series on Feb. 26th at 7pm at Hamilton Stage in Rahway, NJ.  

29th Street Playwrights Collective New Works Series Presents PARK SLOPE QUARTET


29th Street Playwrights Collective presents PARK SLOPE QUARTET, a staged reading by Catherine Rogers. Harry Michaels hires a poetry tutor, Elsie, as he prepares for the end of his life, leading to an age-defying love affair with life and death. Directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan.

American Theater Group Hosts Social Media Talk Back after Thursday Performance of RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN


American Theater Group (ATG), Central Jersey’s professional regional theater company, will host a panel discussion on Social Media Power and Control following its 7pm performance of the new play Right to Be Forgotten on Thursday, June 8th at JCC MetroWest in West Orange. 

Cast Revealed For American Theater Group's RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN


 American Theater Group (ATG) has announced the cast of its next production -- Right to Be Forgotten -- a searing new drama by Sharyn Rothstein.  The show will run June 8-10th at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ and June 15-18th at the Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge. 

American Theater Group Presents Searing Drama RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN  At Sieminski Theater & JCC MetroWest


Following the success of its season opening production of Parade, American Theater Group (ATG), Central Jersey's professional regional theater company, has announced its next production -- Right to Be Forgotten -- a searing new drama by Sharyn Rothstein.  The show will run June 8-10th at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ and June 15-18th at the Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge. 

Broadway Buying Guide: April 17, 2023


Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, April 17, 2023.

Photos: Inside Rehearsals For EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHATALET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT At The Flea


Broadway World received an exclusive first look into rehearsals for the upcoming New York Premiere of Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan.

Cast Announced for Lauren Gunderson's EMILIE NYC Premiere at The Flea Theater


Duende Productions will present the New York Premiere of Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson at The Flea Theater, April 6-30. 

Lauren Gunderson's EMILIE; LA MARQUISE DU CHATALET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT to Have NYC Premiere at The Flea


Duende Productions will present the New York Premiere of Emilie; La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson at The Flea Theater April 6-30. 

Primary Stages Announces an Encore Presentation of THE NIGHT WATCHER and ESPAfest Spring 2021


PRIMARY STAGES has announced an encore presentation of The Night Watcher by Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Charlayne Woodard (In Real Life), which was previously streamed in November 2020. 

Neil LaBute and More Featured in Online Benefit for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Artists Relief Fund


On Wednesday, October 21st, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Romy Nordlinger will present NYSEEING 2020: a benefit to raise funds for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe & The Artists Relief Fund.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Romy Nordlinger Present NYSEEING 2020


Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Romy Nordlinger present NYSEEING 2020: a livestreamed benefit to raise funds for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe & The Artists Relief Fund.

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Presents Livestreamed Reading Of LIPSHTICK By Romy Nordlinger


The Nuyorican Poets Cafe presents LIPSHTICK, Tuesday June 30th at 8 pm. LIPSHTICK is a dark comedy directed by Kathy Gail MacGowan and performed by Alisha Spielmann, Christine Verleny, Linda S. Nelson, Renee' Flemings, Annalisa Hill Loeffler, Sevrin Anne Mason, Emily Cordes & Romy Nordlinger.

Photo Coverage: Project Shaw Presents WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS By James M. Barrie


Gingold Theatrical Group continued the 15th Season of Project Shaw, a special series of evenings of plays that embrace human rights and free speech, with What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie for one night only on Monday February 24th (7pm).

Project Shaw Will Continue 2020 Season with WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS by J. M. Barrie


Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Artistic Director) will continue the 15th Season of Project Shaw, a special series of evenings of plays that embrace human rights and free speech.

AMERICAN TRANQUILITY Returns To NYC At The East Village Playhouse


AMERICAN TRANQUILITY Returns to NYC, January 31st to Feb 8th at the East Village Playhouse

Photo Coverage: Project Shaw Presents THE STEPMOTHER


Gingold Theatrical Group continued the 14th Season of Project Shaw, Art as Activism: A Theatrical Survival Guide, with one of the groundbreaking feminist plays of the early 20th Century, The Stepmother by Githa Sowerby.

Project Shaw Continues The 2019 Season With THE STEPMOTHER


Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Artistic Director) is proud to continue the 14th Season of Project Shaw, Art as Activism: A Theatrical Survival Guide, a special series of evenings of plays that embrace human rights and free speech. All of GTG's programming, inspired by the works of George Bernard Shaw, are designed to provoke peaceful discussion and activism.

Sheen Center Theater Festival To Feature Broadway's Brenda Braxton, Ken Jennings, Tina Fabrique & More


The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street, at the corner of Elizabeth Street, NYC) has announced casting for the upcoming third annual Sheen Center Theater Festival taking place June 20 - 23.

3rd Annual SHEEN CENTER THEATER FESTIVAL Celebrates The Voices of Catholic Playwrights


The third annual Sheen Center Theater Festival takes place June 20 - 23 at  The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street, at the corner of Elizabeth Street, NYC). Celebrating the voices of established Catholicplaywrights in staged reading presentations, this year's full-length plays feature works by playwright Caridad Svich(OBIE Award Winner), Nathan Yungerberg (Cherry Lane mentee under Stephen Adley Guirgus), William Baer (Guggenheim Fellowship recipient), and Erik Ehn (Whiting Award winner).

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