Ars Nova News

Written by San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and based on his stage play, A House Tour of The Infamous Porter Family Mansion with Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry…At Home is a surreal and occasionally unreal audio journey through the former mansion of Hubert and Clarissa Porter, an infamous, ultra wealthy & highly eccentric couple.

Center Theatre Group’s Dorothy and Richard Sherwood Award will go to two artists – D’Lo and Mikaal Sulaiman. Center Theatre Group recognizes and celebrates this year’s finalists for their exceptional contributions to the Los Angeles theatre landscape and their work as innovative and adventurous artists.

Today, Wednesday, March 31st, Freestyle Love Supreme crew members Anthony “Two-Touch” Veneziale, Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan, Aneesa “Young Nees” Folds, and Andrew “Jelly Donut” Bancroft join Jan Friedlander Svendsen (Chief Creative Officer for the Charity Network) on the Broadway Gives Back Podcast.

'The Band's Visit' star Ari'el Stachel stars in the film, which is based on a viral Twitter thread by A'Ziah 'Zola' King.

The Drama League has just announced the 2021 Nominees and Special Recognition Honorees for The 87th Annual Drama League Awards. Keeping in the tradition of honoring the outstanding accomplishments of the theatrical community, as they have since 1935, this year the organization has established five unique categories to honor the extraordinary achievements of artists across the nation who created digital and socially-distanced theatrical productions during this challenging year of suspension for live arts.

The Tank announced today two upcoming co-productions for spring 2021. Hypokrit Productions and The Tank will present Islands of Contentment by Dipti Bramhandkar (American Rookie). The Tank, in partnership with RealTime Interventions' postal plays festival Post Theatrical, will present Capricorn 29 by Alex Hare and Julia Izumi.

Ars Nova has announced its fifth slate of 2021 programming including five events curated by Starr Busby as part the new Ars Nova Vision Residency program. All events will take place on Ars Nova Supra, a new streaming platform from Ars Nova.

IASNY Nuyorican Poets Café will present LIBERTY's DAUGHTERS, an afternoon of IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES presented by artists across generations and ethnicities. The event will take place at the storied (virtual) Nuyorican Poets Café, honoring WOMEN's HISTORY MONTH and WORLD THEATRE DAY in a live stream on Saturday, March 27, at 2 pm, EDT.

Southwark Playhouse announces new live stream show, Dave Malloy’s Preludes – which will be streamed live from The Little on 7 and 8 May 2021.

As the Playwrights Realm continues its pandemic pivot to being a full-time playwrights service organization, the company announces the 2021 edition of one of the Realm's long-standing programs: the INK'D Festival of New Plays, the culminating event of its Writing Fellowship Program, annually awarding four early-career playwrights nine months of financial and professional resources.

Today, Yale University announced the eight recipients of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The writers were honored for their literary achievement or promise, and each will receive $165,000 to support their work.

Actor-director David Edwards, host of the weekly 'Beyond the Green Room' discussion series on all things theatrical, welcomes Nicolas King, Karen Mason and Lisa St. Lou on Sunday, March 21 at 1 PM ET.

Tank-aret, a cabaret series at The Tank founded by musical theater writing team Ella Rose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn, and curated by composer Sam Kaseta, will feature performances from Janelle Lawrence and Kaseta for their Thursday, March 18, 2021 performance.

Page 73 today announced a new playwright-supporting initiative: self-directed retreats, tailored to writers’ individual needs and preferences. In lieu of the organization’s usual Summer Residency, this year Page 73 offers four playwrights in its community the opportunity to design their own week-long professional writing retreats.

NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time.

Ars Nova has announced its fourth slate of 2021 programming including four events from Tuçe Yasak, Tislarm Bouie, L Morgan Lee, and Emily Wells, curated by Obie-winning choreographer and director raja feather kelly as part of the new Ars Nova Vision Residency program.

Theater in Quarantine has announced a new series of live-streamed performances. Running March 5–May 20, the season features new work by playwrights Liza Birkenmeier and Julia Izumi as well as a new adaptation of Tristan Tzara’s The Gas Heart that marks the centennial of the Dada masterpiece. 

Spin Cycle and JCS Theater Company have announced an extension of the World Premiere of ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, a new play by Jake Shore (The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown, Holy Moly, and Down The Mountain And Across The Stream) conceived during the pandemic and created with Zoom theater in mind.

The winners of the 2021 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The winners are: The Monster by Chelsea Marcantel, Michael Mahler, and Alan Schmuckler, Oratorio for Living Things by Heather Christian, and TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix by EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn.

The winners of the 2021 Richard Rodgers Awards for Musical Theater were announced today by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each musical received a Studio Production Award.