Ars Nova News

St. Ann’s Warehouse will again join forces with PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now to present the U.S. premiere of the sonically rich and visually arresting Book of Mountains & Seas, January 11-15, as part of the tenth anniversary PROTOTYPE Festival.

As part of its new Words Matter initiative, The Workshop Theater will be presenting four newly-commissioned one-act plays by Samantha Chanse, Caridad Svich, Ellen McLaughlin, and Rehana Lew Mirza on behalf of JALBCA.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced a robust slate of playwright commissions through Manhattan Theatre Club's new partnership with the Edgerton Foundation, as well as a new round of commissions supported by ongoing partnerships with Bobbie Olsen and other donors.

Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce that Ryan J. Haddad is the recipient of the 2021-22 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. Haddad will be presented with the award at The Vineyard's Emerging Artists Celebration on Friday, November 12 at 5:00pm at Broken Shaker Cocktail Bar at Freehand (23 Lexington Avenue).

Celebrated performer L Morgan Lee is the second guest artist to be featured in Series 2 of the video series Draw the Circle Wide, created by longtime collaborators Tom Gualtieri and David Sisco. Her episodes will be released on Thursday October 21 and 28 at 12 PM.

Tituss Burgess (he/him, Respect, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Guys and Dolls), Amber Gray (she/her), Telly Leung (he/him, Aladdin, Glee, Allegiance), and Tony Award Winner Daisy Eagan (she/they, Girls) join an all-star cast of Broadway performers on the upcoming musical theater pop album Place and Time. 

In 'The Dark Outside' by Bernard Kops, a birthday celebration for a one-armed East London tailor, who is in a life crisis, brings home his three grown children.

Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Latinx Playwrights Circle, and Pregones/PRTT announce the Second Annual Greater Good Commission and Festival, which will feature five short plays by Latinx-identifying playwrights: Dominic Colón, lily gonzales, Tavi Juárez, Phanésia Pharel, and Andrew Rincón. The selected works respond to The Greater Good Commission's charge to reflect the time and be innovative in form.

New York Stage and Film announced today that jeremy o’brian is the recipient of the 2021 Founders’ Award. New York Stage and Film has also announced that Elisa Bocanegra has been named the 2021 recipient of the Pfaelzer Award.

CHICKEN & BISCUITS officially opens on October 10, at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Meet the cast here and learn more about who is starring in this new play!

Repertorio Español has announced the winners of The 2021 Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition, an initiative to develop and promote Latinx plays that resonate with and accurately depict the Latinx experience. The competition is inclusive of all playwrights who are at least 18 years of age and residents of the US or Puerto Rico.

This event will also be available via livestream. This outdoor Hermitage event is presented in partnership with the Asolo Rep, which will host the regional premiere of Wohl’s play Grand Horizons starting in January of 2022. 

Baryshnikov Arts Center will present the world premiere of GhostFolk by Brooklyn-based comedian, musician, and writer River L. Ramirez. The presentation, part of BAC's Fall 2021 Digital Season, is free and available to watch on demand from Monday, October 18, at 5pm ET, until Monday, November 1, at 5pm, at bacnyc.org.

Today, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs announced three artist placements for the 2021-22 Public Artists in Residence program.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Gibney Company's process with Tony Award-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh as they prepare for their premiere season at The Joyce Theater.

Having a dream is like running with scissors. Harley, a singer-songwriter whose wife is expecting their first child, has decided to hang up his dream before it destroys his family. On the way to pawn his guitar, he stumbles across the bar where his musical hero, Floyd Whitaker, died. Upon entering, he finds an inhospitable bartender and a single surly customer who's strumming the blues on an old guitar. How could he resist an adventure like this?

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CRUSH, a VR puppet play by Krista Knight, is one of the winners of the inaugural Broadway on Demand Film Festival, a short film festival created to honor the groundbreaking ways creators approach theatre in a digital age and socially-distant world. The award-winning short film will be streamed on the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy OTT platform this fall. 

TFANA will reopen its doors for the 2021-2022 season with the New York premiere of Will Eno’s Gnit, his modern version of Henrik Ibsen’s sprawling, satirical, 19th century five-act play in verse, Peer Gynt, as a quick-paced contemporary tragicomedy. 

On Friday, October 1, 2021, singer-songwriter ANGELA SCLAFANI will release a brand new, four-track EP entitled, EDGE OF SEVENTEEN. The EP features interpretations of Grammy-nominated Stevie Nicks’ biggest solo hits of the 1970s and 1980s.