2022 Drama League Directors Project Recipients Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2022
The stage directors receiving the fellowships, assistantships and residencies of the 2022 Drama League Directors Project: NJ Agwuna, Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui, Jennifer Chang, Andrew Coopman, Justin Emeka, Nadia Guevara, Emily Hartford, Susanna Jaramillo, Ibi Owolabi, Logan Gabrielle Schulman, Noam Shapiro, Jessica Natalie Smith, and Kendra Ware.
5th Annual JAGfest Presents An Evening Of Radio Plays On Love!
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 29, 2021
Every winter JAG Productions invites 30-50 artists to the snowy mountains of Vermont to develop full-length plays at their new works festival of Black Theatre, JAGfest. They put up 5 companies of early-career theatre-makers in cozy dwellings for one week to support the development of audacious and alluring works that illuminate black life and black aesthetics.
Lineup Announced For the 4th Annual Festival Of New Plays At JAG Productions
by Stephi Wild - Jan 8, 2020
Every February for the past three years, JAG Productions has invited African-American theatre artists to spend a week in White River Junction, Vermont to further the development of a new play or solo performance. Over the course of the one-week residency, three to five projects receive an intensive workshop, constructive feedback, and a staged reading for the public at Briggs Opera House. This year we are excited to announce a new partnership with the Hopkins Center for the Arts, where we will be concluding our festival with our final reading at the Bentley Theater!
Main Stage Live Presents A CURIOUS THING By Jeremy O'Brian
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 17, 2019
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts /Main Stage Live is thrilled to announce the workshop production of a curious thing; or superheroes k'ain't fly, written by jeremy o'brian and directed by Nigel Semaj B.
Athena Theatre Announces 2018 Playwrights
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 22, 2018
Developing world premieres of off-beat and irreverent psychological dramas and dark comedies that challenge traditional stereotypes. Athena produces theatre that entertains, informs, enlightens, questions and deepens audience awareness of vital modern issues.