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Theatre East To Honor Tim Blake Nelson With Laurette Taylor Award
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 9, 2025

Theatre East Board of Directors will present Tim Blake Nelson with the 2025 Laurette Taylor Award. The event will include tributes, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and entertainment. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Theatre East Unveils Fifteenth Season Lineup Featuring World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 20, 2024

Theatre East has revealed its 2024-2025 Season, featuring the world premiere of Canaan Unremembered in March 2025. Learn more about upcoming programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Theatre East to Present Reading of FRIDAY THE 13TH At Court Square Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 28, 2024

Theatre East's Neighborhood Reading Series will return with a spooky adaptation of FRIDAY THE 13TH at Court Square Theater.

Theatre East to Present PLAY ROOM SERIES Starting Next Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 17, 2024

Theatre East will celebrate new plays with the Play Room Series beginning January 22.

Theatre East Unveils 15th Season Featuring the New York Premiere of LINO & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 21, 2023

Theatre East has revealed their 15th season in their new permanent home, Court Square Theater in Long Island City. The season kicks off with the New York premiere of LINO, followed by the 5X5 Drama Series featuring short plays with the theme NO FILTER. Don't miss out on the exciting lineup!

Theatre East Announces 2022-2023 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 11, 2022

Theatre East launches the season with the 5X5 Drama Series: The Empty Stage running Nov 30-Dec 3. The 5X5 Drama Series will feature five new short plays by five of Theatre East's writers-in-residence: Travis Tate, Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, Adam Kraar, Jeff Athey, and Oliver Palmer. Fulfilling Theatre East's core belief of making theatre accessible to all, tickets will be available by suggested donation.

Theatre East Announces World Premiere Of PROCESSING... By Petra Brusiloff
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 29, 2021

In PROCESSING...four high school seniors whose lives have been upended by the lockdown and sudden death of a beloved computer science teacher gather over a game of Monopoly on Discord to work through it all. The Playwright, herself a 2020 high school graduate, explores the loss and uncertain futures of students coming of age in a pandemic.

Lineup Announced For WET INK SERIES Launching November 9
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 5, 2020

Theatre East, a New York City based off-Broadway theatre company, in partnership with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University, will be launching the WET INK SERIES on Monday.

Theatre East Announces Innovative Partnership With SMU
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2020

Theatre East, a New York City based Off-Broadway theatre company, will be partnering with the Division of Theatre and the Meadows School at Southern Methodist University in Texas to virtually produce readings of new plays by student theatre artists this fall.

Theatre East's 5x5 Drama Series Begins Online Tonight
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 14, 2020

Beginning tonight, Theatre East's 5x5 drama series pivots to online streaming for their 2020 season through Sunday, July 19, 2020. Since 2016, the annual 5x5 series has presented 5 short plays, in 5 boroughs in 5 days, with 5 cast members.

5X5 Drama Series 2020 - Playwrights And Directors Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 10, 2020

Theatre East announces the five plays to be presented remotely for the 2020 5X5 Drama Series: THE DEAD CAN ZOOM by Dan O'Neil directed by Judson Jones, BYE CHARLIE, BYE LANE by Stephanie Fagan directed by Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy, KARULA'S DREAM SHOW LIVE by Julia Rae Maldonado directed by Bianca Puorto, TOGETHER by Shaun Bennet Fauntleroy directed by Benard Cummings and DIRECTOR DASH by Lori Fischer directed by Misti Wills. For more information visit www.theatreeast.org.

Theatre East Presents A Live Remote Reading Of LITTLE MACHINE
by A.A. Cristi - May 22, 2020

Theatre East presents a live remote reading of Julia Rae Maldonado's LITTLE MACHINE. It's hilarious, it's tragic, it's wonderfully irreverent, and it includes song. Space... a Martian transport carrying secret government cargo is hijacked by the cutest assassin in the universe.

Tim Blake Nelson's EYE OF GOD: Reading Starring Gene Jones
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 26, 2019

Tim Blake Nelson's powerful and soul-stirring play makes its return. Theatre East collaborated with Mr. Nelson on the New York premiere as part of its inaugural season just over 10 years ago and as the company looks to the future, they celebrate where they've been. Featuring Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men, The Hateful Eight, The Sacrament). Also featuring Corey Finzel, John D. Ivy, Lizzy Jarrett, Mikey McNulty, Oliver Palmer, Nick Piacente, Lauren Pisano, and Grayson Taylor.

Theatre East 5X5 Drama Series And World Pride Celebrate Pride Across NYC
by Julie Musbach - Jun 19, 2019

Theatre East announces the five casts of the 2018-2019 5X5 Drama Series: Lara Americo, Cara Feuer, Corey Finzel, Raguel Gabriel, Sam Gonzalez, Olivia Hartshorn, Christa Kimlicko Jones, Monique 'Orisha Love' Letamendi, Edward Mawere, Owen Grayson Schiller, Kesley Sheppard, Emily Verla, and James Yuhas. The 5 directors at the helm are Christa Kimlicko Jones, Judson Jones, Chelsea B. Lockie, Caterina Nonis, and Graham Schmidt.