Theatre East's 5x5 Drama Series to Return This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 16, 2025
Theatre East’s acclaimed 5X5 Drama Series will return this week with five bold new short plays, each exploring what it means to connect with each other in today’s world.
Theatre East Presents The World Debut Of MUSES at New Court Square Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 17, 2023
The World Premiere of “Muses,” by award-winning writer and actor, Julia Rae Maldonado. The turbulent play focuses around Emily, a New York painter who discovers her husband has been in a relationship with 15-year-old Grace, when she shows up at her studio wanting to sit for a painting. The two unearth cataclysmic revelations that ignite the world around them. The universe shakes.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Comes to Smith Street Stage
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2022
SMITH STREET STAGE has announced their production of William Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, directed by Dan Hasse. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS will play June 8 - June 26 in Carroll Park (Carroll Stop off F & G). Performances begin Wednesday, June 8th and continue through Sunday, June 26. Opening Night is Friday, June 10th (7:00 p.m.). Press are cordially invited, Friday, June 10 (and any subsequent performance).
Theatre East to Present the World Premiere of EDIE SAVES THE BIRDS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 16, 2022
Theatre East has announced the world premiere of Edie Saves the Birds, a play written by Stephanie Fagan. 13-year-old Edie, daughter of a single mom, granddaughter of an ailing grandfather, wakes up each day singularly focused on one thing - saving the birds.
Theatre East Announces the World Premiere of PROCESSING…
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2021
Theatre East has announced another world premiere, “Processing…”, a play centered around four NYC high school seniors whose lives have been upended by the lockdown and sudden death of a beloved computer science teacher.
Photo Flash: First Look at LEAR: THAT OLD MAN I USED TO KNOW at A.R.T/New York Theatres
by Stephi Wild - Sep 7, 2019
Lear: That Old Man I Used To Know, a new play based on Shakespeare's King Lear, is currently in performances at A.R.T/New York Theatres - Gural Theatre - 3rd Floor (502 W. 53rd Street, between 10th and 11th) for a limited engagement through September 22. The opening is Sunday, September 8. Lear: That Old Man I Used To Know is adapted and directed by Beth Ann Hopkins (Enemy; The Tempest) with musical direction and arrangements by Elliot Roth (Our Sinatra; resident composer- Jeff Davis Dance), and is produced by Smith Street Stage.
LEAR: THAT OLD MAN I USED TO KNOW Will Play A.R.T/New York Theatres
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 7, 2019
Lear: That Old Man I Used To Know, a new play based on Shakespeare's King Lear, will play A.R.T/New York Theatres (502 W. 53rd Street, between 10th and 11th) beginning September 5 for a limited engagement through September 22, it was announced today.
Theatre East Celebrates Romulus Linney's Birthday Tomorrow with HOLY GHOSTS
by Julie Musbach - Sep 20, 2018
Theatre East's 2018-19 season kicks off on Friday, September 21, with a celebration of Romulus Linney's masterful play, Holy Ghosts on what would be his 88thBirthday. The play, set in present-day rural Tennessee, a group of broken, Pentecostal outcasts find solace, understanding, and strength in one another as they wrestle with their own serpents and discover their divinity.