Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has received $1.45 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to launch a new program for audience and community engagement, Audience (R)Evolution. Building off of the success of TCG's twelve-year New Generations: Future Audiences program, the program will study, promote and support successful audience engagement models across the country. Unfolding over three years, Audience (R)Evolution will include four components to achieve these goals: research and assessment, a convening, grant-making and widespread dissemination of audience engagement models that work.
Love, secrecy and their consequences are the subject of Cloudlands, a new SCR-commissioned musical drama by Octavio Solis and Adam Gwon, directed by Amanda Dehnert.
As part of its year-long Discovery Series exploring the arts of Australia and New Zealand, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present OrigiNation: A Festival of Native Cultures on April 14-15. The free, weekend-long outdoor celebration is offered in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of Native Trails and the 25th anniversary of Sunday A'Fair, with support from Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau.
As of March 28, 2012, NYTW will have two shows running on Broadway: Once, which opened on March 18 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre to superb reviews, and Peter and the Starcatcher, which begins previews March 28 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Additionally, Rent, which originated at NYTW, is enjoying a successful off-Broadway revival at New World Stages. Both Once and Rent received their world premieres at NYTW, while NYTW presented the New York premiere of Peter and the Starcatcher.
Theatre Bay Area and the research firm WolfBrown will present the findings contained in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, March 21 from 9am-12pm.
Yale Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of THE REALISTIC JONESES by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Will Eno, directed by OBIE Award winner Sam Gold. THE REALISTIC JONESES plays April 20-May 12 at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street). Opening Night is Thursday, April 26.
The Denver Center Theatre Company is pleased to present the World Premiere of GREAT WALL STORY by Lloyd Suh, which plays The Ricketson Theatre March 16 - April 22 (opening night Thursday, March 22). The play was read at the 2011 Colorado New Play Summit and selected for production. Tickets can be purchased now, by calling 303.893.4100 or www.denvercenter.org.
Elizabeth Wilson, one of America's most successful career actors and a Theatre Hall of Famer, will be saluted with the Jerome Lawrence Award, in a small Kansas town that celebrates a hometown playwright.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) has announced that the New York premiere of An Iliad, by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, based on Homer's Iliad translated by Robert Fagles, directed by Ms. Peterson, will extend for one week through Sunday, April 1, at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue. Mr. O'Hare and Stephen Spinella will continue to alternate performances of the play.
Joyce SoHo is set to present its Spring/Summer '12 season featuring a riveting line-up of the dance world's most innovative choreographers and companies.
New York City Opera announces that VOX, the company's workshop for new American operas, will be presented in conjunction with OPERA America's New Works Forum for New York City Opera's 2012-13 season. Composers are invited to submit works-in-progress or completed, previously unproduced works to this year's showcase, which will have a public performance on November 8 (eligibility requirements are listed below, with further details still to be announced). Since 1999, composers Mark Adamo, Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, John Zorn, and Stephen Schwartz are among those who have had pieces presented in VOX that have gone on to redefine the American opera genre. VOX, described by the New York Times as an "invaluable showcase," gives American composers and audiences the opportunity to hear professional performances of excerpts of new operatic works, unstaged and read by members of the New York City Opera orchestra and soloists. As the only program in the country that gives composers the opportunity to hear their new works and works-in-progress with full instrumental ensembles and professional soloists, VOX continues to be a vital part of the fabric of American opera.
The Brooklyn Arts Exchange presents Salón by Mariangela Lopez May 11-13 as part of the BAX's Artist-In Residency program. Salón investigates the personas we inhabit 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 we include or exclude ourselves in a social experience. Salón explores the social need of dance, proposing an avenue where we can expose each other, accessing an exchange that is animistic and vital.
Theatre Bay Area and the research firm WolfBrown will present the findings contained in Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, March 21 from 9am-12pm.
Texas Performing Arts presents WE ARE ALL GOING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS: A John Cage Celebration featuring So Percussion with special guests: Cenk ergün, composer, Beth meyers, viola. This performance will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 & 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm at McCullough Theatre.
Texas Performing Arts presents WE ARE ALL GOING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS: A John Cage Celebration featuring So Percussion with special guests: Cenk ergün, composer, Beth meyers, viola. This performance will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 & 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm at McCullough Theatre.
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that the New York premiere of An Iliad, by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, based on Homer's Iliad translated by Robert Fagles, directed by Ms. Peterson, will open this week at NYTW, 79 East 4 Street, between Bowery and Second Avenue. Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella alternate performances of the play. Mr. O'Hare opens Tuesday, March 6; Mr. Spinella Wednesday, March 7.
The Denver Center Theatre Company is pleased to present the World Premiere of GREAT WALL STORY by Lloyd Suh, which plays The Ricketson Theatre March 16 - April 22 (opening night Thursday, March 22). The play was read at the 2011 Colorado New Play Summit and selected for production. Tickets can be purchased now, by calling 303.893.4100 or www.denvercenter.org.
Beneath Bethlehem's soil lies the stories of citizens who lived through the Civil War. Touchstone Theatre and Moravian College Theatre have unearthed these stories to share and honor them with today's community as part of Historic Bethlehem Partnership's yearlong commemoration of the war's 150th anniversary. Over the course of three days (April 13th, 14th &15th, 2012) and at eight different Bethlehem venues, Touchstone will connect the citizens of today to the spirits of those passed through panel discussions, guest lecturer and its feature play, A Resting Place, written by Alison Carey.
The Hunter College Art Galleries will present Notations: The Cage Effect Today, on view through April 21, 2012. As 2012 marks the centennial of John Cage's birth, this exhibition commemorates the widespread effect of the artist's six decades of assiduous and relentless inventive creation on subsequent generations of artists.
BAX, described as 'a multi-faceted performing arts center, recognized citywide and nationally for its dedication to supporting the development of emerging artists and providing a home for groundbreaking dance and theatre,' is now accepting applications for its Space Grant program as well as its Artist In Residence program.
