Aysan Celik News

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Tom Fontana (OZ, Homicide, St. Elsewhere) has adapted and will direct a staged reading of Jane Austen's first novel, The Notorious Lady Susan, to benefit The Acting Company on Monday, April 12, 7 p.m.

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Tom Fontana (OZ, Homicide, St. Elsewhere) has adapted and will direct a staged reading of Jane Austen's first novel, The Notorious Lady Susan, to benefit The Acting Company on Monday, April 12, 7 p.m.

In celebration of its 15th Anniversary season, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will present theaterjam, a one-day festival featuring the work of many of the company's favorite playwrights, actors and directors. The event will take place at the Rattlestick Theatre (224 Waverly Place - off Seventh Avenue South between West 11th & Perry Streets) on Sunday, March 28th. Doors will open at 3:00pm. There is a $10 admission charge (cash only) for all day entry - and includes one free beer! There will even be a raffle drawing for amazing prizes. Patrons are free to come and go as they please and attend any - or all! - of the festival's many offerings.

Red Bull Theater presents Monday March 2nd, 7pm a staged reading of THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA by Cervantes with Emily Acherman, Aysan Celik, Santino Fontana, Eric Hissom, Christopher Mccann, Bobby Moreno, Alfredo Narciso, and more TBA. Directed by KJ SANCHEZ A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.

Red Bull Theater presents Monday March 2nd, 7pm a staged reading of THE SIEGE OF NUMANTIA by Cervantes with Emily Acherman, Aysan Celik, Santino Fontana, Eric Hissom, Christopher Mccann, Bobby Moreno, Alfredo Narciso, and more TBA. Directed by KJ SANCHEZ A devastating play about honor, sacrifice, and the last days of Numantia by the creator of Don Quixote.

The Queen's Company production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Rebecca Patterson. The play opened November 8th and continues through November 23rd at Urban Stages at 259 West 30 Street in NYC.

Theater Mitu breathes new relevance into Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman with a relentlessly physical style that seamlessly fuses vaudeville, Japanese Noh and Butoh, innovative object puppetry, Balinese masks, conceptual design, propelled by live original music, a resounding timeworn chorus and an ensemble of just four actors.

Theater Mitu breathes new relevance into Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman with a relentlessly physical style that seamlessly fuses vaudeville, Japanese Noh and Butoh, innovative object puppetry, Balinese masks, conceptual design, propelled by live original music, a resounding timeworn chorus and an ensemble of just four actors.

Michael Parva, Artistic Director of The Directors Company, announced today that the company will be presenting a special invitation-only reading of a new musical, Stoker, this Thursday, April 17th, at 311 W 43rd Street in Manhattan at 3:00 p.m.

The Public Theater announced complete casting and creative team today for The Civilians' Paris Commune, the third play of the inaugural Public LAB initiative.

LightBox and The Food Theater Project present the world premiere of Milk 'n' Honey - a new play about food and why we eat what we eat - with previews to begin October 21, prior to its official press opening October 28 at 3LD Art and Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street at Rector Street) in Lower Manhattan. Ellen Beckerman directs the play, which was collaboratively written by Madeleine George, Bray Poor, C. Andrew Bauer, Shawn Fagan, and Ms. Beckerman, based on their interviews with a wide range of people about food and their relationship to it.

One person's terrorist is another person's martyr in Betty Shamieh's skillfully written play that is deceptively cute, funny and entertaining without ever undercutting the seriousness of its issues of violence, heroism and gender.

New York Theatre Workshop has announced that The Black Eyed, written by Betty Shamieh, directed by Sam Gold, will begin performances Tuesday, July 17 at 8:00pm, at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery