Al Pagano News

Longtime New York commercial and short film director Jack Danini has finished his first feature film, an energetic, broadly appealing, Broadway-inspired musical called ODE TO PASSION. The film will have its world premiere at the Queens World Film Festival Saturday, March 21 at 4:45PM at the state-of-the-art Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) Redstone Theater, located at 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106 (718 777 6888) in Queens. ODE TO PASSION is one of only twenty curated feature narratives in the Festival program. Tickets are available here: http://bit.ly/2VidI5t.

Columbia University School of the Arts will present Mikhaela Mahony's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2019) production of As You Like It.

Columbia University School of the Arts will present Mikhaela Mahony's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2019) production of As You Like It.

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (PTE) announces that its winter rep will run from January 21 through February 14 with the world premiere of Glyn Maxwell's The Gambler based on the novella by Dostoevsky, and David Greig's dynamic version of Strindberg's Creditors, and a late-night production of Al Pagano's Filibusted, an irreverent view of the current US political mileau. All performances will be at the Wild Project @ 195 East 3rd Street in the East Village. 

What happens when today's leading political figures are forced to share a stage in front of a live audience with no moderator, no rules, and no limits to their insanity?  

Musicals Tonight presents Tovarich October 28 - November 9 McGinn/Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway between 76th & 77th Streets).

The Butterfly - adapted from Patricia Polacco's book of the same name by Charles Greenberg (Music) and Barbara Zinn Krieger (Book & Lyrics) and directed by David Schechter - will be presented by Making Books Sing, the New York-based company dedicated to turning culturally and historically significant books for young readers into musical works for the stage, with performances in the Bronx at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College from January 28 to February 1; in Brooklyn at the Goldstein Theatre at Kingsborough Community College from February 4 to 8; in Manhattan at Symphony Space from February 9 to 12; and in Queens at Laguardia Performing Arts Center at Laguardia Community College from February 14 to 15.

Lauren Glassberg, a features reporter and substitute co-anchor for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News - will read Patricia Polacco's book The Butterfly on Thursday, February 7th at 4:00pm at the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble (2289 Broadway at 82nd Street). This reading will give parents and children the opportunity to hear the work that has inspired the new family musical The Butterfly - adapted from Polacco's children's book, with Music by Charles Greenberg, Book & Lyrics by Barbara Zinn Krieger and Directed by David Schechter - before seeing it at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street) from February 9th through February 12th.

The world premiere of the new family musical The Butterfly - adapted from Patricia Polacco's book of the same name by Charles Greenberg (Music) and Barbara Zinn Krieger (Book & Lyrics) and directed by David Schechter - will be presented by Making Books Sing, the New York-based company dedicated to turning culturally and historically significant books for young readers into musical works for the stage, with performances throughout New York.

The LAByrinth Theater Company will present its Summer 2006 Master Class, Jamie Times Five: An Original Performance Piece, on Saturday, September 2nd from 5:00-6:00pm at Black Watch Stages