Chuk Obasi News

Burning Coal Theatre Company has announced its production of Being Chaka, created by Téa Artistry, written by Tara Amber, Chuk Obasi, and Nalini Sharma, directed by Chuk Obasi and Vieve Radha Price.

Director John Gould Rubin will bring a wildly reimagined new translation of Ibsen's A DOLL HOUSE to the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research in collaboration with The Private Theater. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Inis Nua Theatre Company, Philadelphia’s home for contemporary Irish plays, is presenting the regional premiere of a new adaptation of  John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. Get a first look at photos.

Inis Nua Theatre Company has announced the regional premiere of a new adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, by acclaimed writers Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle.

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater's Archive Residency world premiere of TÉA Artistry's BEING CHAKA opens tonight, and runs through May 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

With over eight million people and as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, it's up to the people to keep their culture shining bright. This past Saturday, People's Theatre Project celebrated the world premiere of an original play – developed by immigrant artists and starring a majority-immigrant cast.

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater present the Archive Residency world premiere of TEA Artistry's BEING CHAKA, running May 6 - 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City.

With over eight million people and as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, it's up to the people to keep their culture shining bright. This April, People's Theatre Project will present the world premiere of an original play – developed by immigrant artists and starring a majority-immigrant cast.

With over eight million people and as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, it's up to the people to keep their culture shining bright. This April, People's Theatre Project will present the world premiere of an original play - developed by immigrant artists and starring a majority-immigrant cast.

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater will present the Archive Residency world premiere of TÉA Artistry's BEING CHAKA, May 6 - 27, 2023 in a limited engagement at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher St.) in New York City. Previews begin May 6 for a May 8 opening.

Vida Tayebati will star in Diamond, People's Theatre Project latest play. Diamond is written by Christin Eve Cato, and directed by Chuk Obasi, will run at Pregones theatre in March-April, 2023 and will be touring in NYC in September, 2023 - May, 2024.

Playwright and noted  social justice warrior and one of the original members of Ralph Nader's first legal advocacy group in Washington, Samuel A. Simon, has announced that his hit show about transformative love, The Actual Dance, will return to APAP 2023 (taking place at The Midtown Hilton Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas) this January, as the annual conference resumes in-person performances for the first time in over three years. 

The second annual Collab24 is a 24-hour devised theatre festival seeking to bring together artists of all disciplines with the goal of strengthening our artistic community through a shared process of creating and presenting devised theatre.

The Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre has announced that the 29th annual Ice Factory Festival will be a hybrid model that includes live in-person performances, as well as live-streamed and on-demand.

The Obie Award-winning New Ohio Theatre has announced that the 29th annual Ice Factory Festival will be a hybrid model that includes live in-person performances, as well as live-streamed and on-demand.

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater's Archive Residency work-in-progress presentation of A Burning Church, with a book and direction by Alex Hare and Zhailon Levingston, music by Nehemiah Luckett and lyrics by Zhailon Levingston, begins performances on May 20 at New Ohio Theatre (154 Christopher Street) in New York City.

New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater will present the Archive Residency world premiere of iNegro, a rhapsody, written and performed by Kareem M. Lucas, and production concept by Stevie Walker-Webb, and a work-in-progress presentation of A Burning Church.

On Sunday, March 13th, from 4-7pm, The Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) is teaming up with socially engaged storytelling project The Ships in the Night to co-host a participatory gathering that offers a glimpse into some of the invisible personal moments that occurred during this time.

The season will open with the world premiere of Doña Mañana, the final chapter in a theatrical trilogy investigating and celebrating the immigrant experience. The play, created and performed by The PTP Company, will premiere on the weekend of September 17-19 at The Riverside Theatre.

In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, Ma-Yi Theater Company has announced several programs and initiatives that not only strengthen Ma-Yi’s role in leading the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today, but expands the diverse communities that Ma-Yi champions and supports.