ACT - A Contemporary Theatre's Mainstage switches from the farcical marriage comedy of Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch to the dark and haunting humor of Harold Pinter. The Hansberry Project also brings to the stage Seattle's second Multicultural Playwrights Festival. The Seagull Project presents their first in a series of Russian readings with The Great Soul of Russia, and in The Construction Zone, ACT will feature Steven Dietz and his new play, A Year Without Summer.
Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced additional casting for its 2012/2013 Season. Four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara and two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey join previously-announced Oscar and two-time Tony Award nominee Amy Ryan and Emmy Award nominee David Schwimmer for the Playwrights Horizons 2012/2013 Season at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street.
From tonight May 31 through June 16, 2012, The Kitchen presents the National Theater of the United States of America's The Golden Veil. The Golden Veil is written and directed by the NTUSA's Normandy Sherwood and James Stanley, respectively.
A multi-disciplinary performance piece created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph provokes audiences to re-envision the green movement and what it means to live green by considering critical social and environmental factors. red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), part of The Living Word Project, take place today May 30 - Jun 2 at the Intiman Playhouse as part of The Next Fifty in partnership with Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and Seattle Art Museum.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) last night honored New York Theatre Workshop Board Chair Barbara Warner Howard and Disney Theatrical Group and its president Thomas Schumacher at its 2012 Spring Gala at the Plaza Hotel. BroadwayWorld was ther for the festivities, and brings you full photo coverage below!
From May 31 - June 16, 2012, The Kitchen presents the National Theater of the United States of America's The Golden Veil. The Golden Veil is written and directed by the NTUSA's Normandy Sherwood and James Stanley, respectively.
Today, May 20 and Monday, May 21, 2012 at 8pm American Opera Projects (AOP) will present COMPOSERS & THE VOICE: FIRST GLIMPSE 2012, the first public presentation of compositions developed during this season's Composers & the Voice program. Audiences will hear songs written by five emerging composers - Sidney Marquez Boquiren, Mikael Karlsson, Robert Paterson, Rachel Peters, and Ronnie Reshef - and one composer/librettist team, Zach Redler and Sara Cooper, who were chosen by AOP to spend a year creating new works focusing on the operatic voice. The performances will be held at South Oxford Space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the home of AOP. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students/seniors and are available at www.operaprojects.org.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that Kathleen Chalfant will lead the cast of NYTW's production of Red Dog Howls, written by Alexander Dinelaris. Ken Rus Schmoll will direct the production, which opens the 2012-13 season, beginning performances September 4, 2012. Full casting will be announced at a later date.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo and Noor Theatre Artistic Director Lameece Isaaq, Executive Director Maha Chehlaoui, and Producing Director Nancy Vitale have announced that the world premiere of Food and Fadwa, written by Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader, and directed by Shana Gold, begins performances tonight, Friday, May 18, 2012, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue. The opening night is scheduled for Thursday, June 7. Food and Fadwa is a co-production with Noor Theatre, a company-in-residence at New York Theatre Workshop.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo just announced that the theatre will honor New York Theatre Workshop Board Chair Barbara Warner Howard and Disney Theatrical Group and its president Thomas Schumacher at its 2012 Spring Gala on Tuesday, May 22 at the Plaza Hotel.
A multi-disciplinary performance piece created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph provokes audiences to re-envision the green movement and what it means to live green by considering critical social and environmental factors. red, black & GREEN: a blues (rbGb), part of The Living Word Project, take place May 30 - Jun 2 at the Intiman Playhouse as part of The Next Fifty in partnership with Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and Seattle Art Museum.
The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces its 30th Rolling World Premiere: Caridad Svich's Guapa will receive three productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2012/13 season, the Network's 15th.
The Brooklyn Arts Exchange presents Salón by Mariangela Lopez today May 11 through may 13 as part of the BAX's Artist-In Residency program. Salón investigates the personas inhabited in a social event; the struggle and the need to interact with strangers; the urge to see and to be seen; the ways in which people include or exclude themselves in a social experience. Salón explores the social need of dance, proposing an avenue where people can expose themselves to other, accessing an exchange that is animistic and vital.
The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, has announced the winner of the 2012 Smith Prize for a new play on American political themes: George Brant's Grounded, the powerful, surprising story of an F-16 pilot who gets "repurposed" to fly drones following her unexpected pregnancy. In addition to upcoming development stints with the New Harmony Project and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Grounded will receive a staged reading at NNPN's Annual Conference at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO on June 8, directed by Artistic Director Cynthia Levin.
The Grammy®-winning Nashville Symphony performs at New York City's Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music festival, a high-profile celebration of adventuresome programming among leading North American orchestras. The Symphony is one of six ensembles scheduled to perform at Spring for Music's second annual event, opening tonight, May 7 and running through May 12, 2012. The Nashville Symphony's Saturday-evening performance at Carnegie Hall will conclude the six-day festival.
Residents of a small town that was wiped out by one of the largest tornados ever recorded take the stage in an original theatrical event inspired by their story of survival and recovery.
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces that digital-marketing pioneer and best-selling author Seth Godin will speak at the 22nd annual TCG National Conference in Boston from June 21 to 23, 2012. This multiday convening will bring 1,000 theater practitioners together from around the world to conclude TCG's year-long 50th anniversary celebration.
During May and June the Brooklyn Museum will present a wide array of public programs for adults, teens, families, and kids including art-making classes and workshops; talks and tours; Thursdays @ 7, a series of engaging adult programs that takes place every Thursday evening; and the return of the Audiophile concert series.
Texas Performing Arts continues a legacy of presenting world-class performances to the University of Texas at Austin and Central Texas audiences with the unveiling of its most ambitious and diverse season to date. The 2012-2013 season highlights talent from around the world in an eclectic mix of music, theatre, dance, and conversation.
