Crystal Skillman News

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) has announced the hiring of a third full-time staff member. 

Voices Inside/Out in its sixth consecutive year, has awarded its one week playwrighting residency to Brooklyn writer Katharine Clark Gray. Katharine will travel to Danville, Kentucky this summer to teach a master class to the inmates at a local prison who participate in Voices Inside. Voices Inside is a year round playwrighting-in-prison organization founded by Robby Henson, filmmaker and Artistic Director of Pioneer Playhouse; Elizabeth Orndorff, playwright; and Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars.

Over the weekend, stars of stage and shop employees gathered for a night of stories and songs to celebrate and benefit the legendary Drama Book Shop at Feinstein's/54 Below. Check out photos from the night below!

The legendary shop has been much-talked about lately, after Lin-Manuel Miranda (of Hamilton fame) launched an internet campaign to bring sales into the flooded shop. And now, tonight, March 26th, stars of stage and shop employees will gather for a night of stories and songs to celebrate and benefit the legendary Drama Book Shop at Feinstein's/54 Below. The 7pm concert will feature many of the all-star Broadway talent who frequent the shop on a daily basis.

F*It Club, the New York Innovative Award-winning film and theatre company, continues its annual series of short, commissioned world-premiere plays at the IRT Theater as part of their 3B Development Series in Manhattan's West Village with The Spring Fling: Crush, six new short plays by  Kevin Artigue (The Forcings), Stephanie Del Rosso (Flee), Catya McMullen (Everything is Probably Going to be Okay), Seth Moore (Seawife), Gregory S. Moss (Billy Witch), and Ariel Stess (Heartbreak).

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: Natalie Douglas CD Release 'Human Heart'; Sondheimas; 54 Celebrates David Bowie; The Skivvies; and A Benefit for the Drama Book Shop.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond.

Manhattan Theatre Source will present the 16th EstroGenius Festival, a multimedia performance festival showcasing female voices from a variety of disciplines, today, March 9, through March 27 at 4th Street Theatre (83 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

The Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director) will present their annual FIRST FLIGHT New Play Festival from March 16th-19th, 2016. Five new full length plays will be featured with free public readings. The festival will take place at Studio 501 @ CAP21, 18 West 18th Street in New York City.

Tony Award-nominees Penny Fuller (Applause, A New Brain, Dividing The Estate) and Sally Mayes (Closer Than Ever, She Loves Me) have joined the starry line-up for a Feinstein's/54Below's benefit concert for The Drama Book Shop. Also joining the roster is Ali Stroker, who recently made her debut in Deaf West's revival of Spring Awakening, and composer Nancy Ford (I'm Getting My Act Together...).

(Un)Lucky In Love, a heroic romantic musical comedy by award-winning writers Crystal Skillman & Bobby Cronin, will receive a developmental reading this week with a starry cast led by Ali Stroker (Spring Awakening, 'Glee') in a role that would be a first in Broadway musical theatre history -- a lead character who is disabled played by a disabled actor.

Manhattan Theatre Source will present the 16th EstroGenius Festival, a multimedia performance festival showcasing female voices from a variety of disciplines, March 9 - March 27 at 4th Street Theatre (83 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

The Red Fern Theatre Company presents VOICES OF THE CITY - A Benefit Concert featuring the music of Kristen Lee Rosenfeld on Monday, February 29, 2016, at 7:30pm at the Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street).

The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop has been helping theatre artists for 99 years. Now, it needs their help after a recent water pipe burst caused extensive damage to the shop and half of its inventory. For more information on the shop and its famed history, please visit www.dramabookshop.com.

Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory are pleased to present the world premiere of SELKIE, or When I Look at the Ocean, I Feel Like I Belong, a new play inspired by Selkie mythology, written by Sarah Shaefer.

The Onyx continues its Tenth Anniversary Season with GEEK!, a celebration of nerdy fan culture written by Brooklyn playwright Crystal Skillman and directed by Producing Director Troy Heard.

Gallery Players presents 'TIL DEATH DO US PART, a New Musical by Bobby Cronin & Caroline Prugh, presented as part of the Overtures Series at the Gallery Players.

The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (LSTFI) with The Lee Strasberg Creative Center in collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Undergraduate Department of Drama will present two new works by playwrights, Crystal Skillman and Steve DiUbaldo, this year's recipients of The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, today, December 3, through December 5 and December 10-12 at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre in New York City. A gala will follow the December 5 and 12 performances.

Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory are pleased to present the world premiere of SELKIE, or When I Look at the Ocean, I Feel Like I Belong, a new play inspired by Selkie mythology, written by Sarah Shaefer.

terraNOVA Collective and IRT Theater present the New York Premiere of LAST CALL, by Terri Girvin. Directed by Drama Desk Award nominee Michael Leeds (Broadway's Swinging On A Star) with an integrated soundscape by Grammy nominated sound designer Phil Palazzolo (Broadway's Hedwig and The Angry Inch), previews begin tonight, October 9, at IRT Theater. Opening night is slated for Thursday, October 15.