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Powerhouse Theater, a unique collaboration between Vassar College and New York Stage and Film, will enter its second quarter-century this summer, continuing its mission to offer a haven for world-class artists to gather and explore new material in an atmosphere that is both protected and challenging.
A world premiere, fully-staged production by John Patrick Shanley, the first professional production for playwright Tracy Thorne, and the newest musical project from the multi-award winning director Michael Mayer will be just a few of the many highlights of Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater season, June 25 - August 1, 2010.
Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, James C. Nicola; Managing Director, William Russo) have announced that they will co-produce THE SHAGGS: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD, a new musical with book by Joy Gregory; music by Gunnar Madsen; lyrics by Ms. Gregory and Mr. Madsen; and story by Ms. Gregory, Mr. Madsen and John Langs.
Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy presents a special evening of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Wednesday, July 14th (7PM) at the New York hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street ~between 5th & 6th Avenues).
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) will host 'Playwrights on Censorship,' an evening with four of America's most celebrated playwrights speaking about their own experiences of censorship and self-censorship. This special event for the NCAC Free Speech Leadership Council will be hosted on Wednesday, June 23, from 6:30 - 8:30PM by Jane Friedman (CEO, Open Road Integrated Media). Playwrights Edward Albee, David Henry Hwang, Terence McNally, and Adam Rapp will
THE OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE (OPC) is thrilled to announce its 2010 Season - 13th Annual program of playwrights, readings and special performances featuring some of the most talented, established and up-and-coming playwrights writing today.
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) will host 'Playwrights on Censorship,' an evening with four of America's most celebrated playwrights speaking about their own experiences of censorship and self-censorship. This special event for the NCAC Free Speech Leadership Council will be hosted on Wednesday, June 23, from 6:30 - 8:30PM by Jane Friedman (CEO, Open Road Integrated Media). Playwrights Edward Albee, David Henry Hwang, Terence McNally, and Adam Rapp will
Stars & stripes, Joy Behar, fireworks, and Darrell Hammond... What do they all have in common? Fourth of July weekend fun on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor! Two special performances with comic favorites Joy Behar and Darrell Hammond will kick off Bay Street's 2010 Summer Comedy Club over the holiday weekend.
Arden Professional Apprentice (APA) Class 17 concludes their 2009/10 season with the Apprentice Showcase Falling Into Place, featuring five short plays by Christopher Durang, David Ives, Shel Silverstein, and Sean Michael Welch, directed by Steve Pacek, the Arden's Mouse in If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
Arden Professional Apprentice (APA) Class 17 concludes their 2009/10 season with the Apprentice Showcase Falling Into Place, featuring five short plays by Christopher Durang, David Ives, Shel Silverstein, and Sean Michael Welch, directed by Steve Pacek, the Arden's Mouse in If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.
Polish actress Elzbieta Czyzewska has died in Manhattan at the age of seventy-two, The New York Times reports. The cause of death was esophageal cancer, according to Czyewska's friend Nancy Weber.
D.C. Arts Center, founded in 1989, is a nonprofit arts space dedicated to promoting the freshest, most under-recognized artists in the Washington metropolitan area. We encourage an ongoing dialogue between new artists and the greater art community, and assist artists in the business of production.
Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater is pleased to announce the casts of the two Martel Musicals presented during the 2010 season: BONFIRE NIGHT (July 16 - 18) and ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (July 29 - August 1).
When Isaiah Sheffer first walked into the dilapidated movie house on Broadway and 95th Street in the late '70s he saw some kind of makeshift boxing ring on the creaky stage. But what he envisioned was a great center for the arts on the Upper West Side that filled the wide cultural gap between Lincoln Center and Columbia University.
D.C. Arts Center, founded in 1989, is a nonprofit arts space dedicated to promoting the freshest, most under-recognized artists in the Washington metropolitan area. We encourage an ongoing dialogue between new artists and the greater art community, and assist artists in the business of production.
Vassar & New York Stage and Film is pleased to announce the casts for the free Readings Festival 1 (June 25 - 27), which opens the 26th annual Powerhouse Theater season on the Vassar campus.
RANDY HARRISON & NAT DEWOLF GUEST STAR ON CREIGHTON'S WEB SITCOM 'JACK IN A BOX' MICHAEL CYRIL CREIGHTON'S online sitcom about a down on his luck (former) theatre Box Office Manager, JACK IN A BOX, premieres its 14th episode and welcomes special guest stars NAT DEWOLF and RANDY HARRISON.
The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.
Southern Belle pokes fun at Tennessee Williams' old-fashioned metaphorical approach to discussing homosexuality. An Actor's Nightmare suggests you can accumulate lethal bad karma in your theater-obsessed dreams. Go. You'll laugh all evening.
ANNE CATTANEO is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab. A three term past president of Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, she is the recipient of LMDA's first Lessing Award for lifetime achievement of dramaturgy. She has worked widely as a dramaturg on classical plays with directors such as James Lapine, Robert Wilson, Adrian Hall, Robert Falls, Mark Lamos and JoAnne Akalaitis. As the director of the Playworks Program at the Phoenix Theater during the late 1970's, she commissioned and developed plays by Wendy Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic) Mustapha Matura (Meetings) and Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy). For the Acting Company, she created two projects: Orchards (published by Knopf and Broadway Play Publishing) which presented seven Chekhov stories adapted for the stage by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams, and Love's Fire (published by William Morrow) responses to Shakespeare sonnets by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Wendy Wasserstein. Her own translations of 20th Century German playwrights include Brecht's Galileo (Goodman Theater 1986 starring Brian Dennehy) and Botho Strauss' Big And Little (Phoenix production starring Barbara Barrie, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) She is currently on the faculty at Juilliard.
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