Culture Project News

Culture Project's Women Center Stage will present the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber.

The New School for Drama has announced that Drama Desk Award-winning actor Kathleen Chalfant will be the distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Cymbeline is back! Two sold-out weeks last January for Fiasco Theater's production of Cymbeline wasn't nearly long enough to satisfy the demands of a theatre-going public hungry for, as Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote, 'the comedy, poignancy and unlikely magic of Cymbeline.'

Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director and Surflight alum Roy Miller and Executive Producer Timothy Laczynski, present A.R. Gurney's Love Letters for six performances only from July 14 through 17.

This week, New York's premiere home for socially-conscious theatre, Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director), celebrates its fifteenth year of presenting groundbreaking, engaging and essential theatre.

Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director and Surflight alum Roy Miller and Executive Producer Timothy Laczynski, present A.R. Gurney's Love Letters for six performances only from July 14 through 17.

Molina starred in the 2005 hit Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd and the Broadway production of ROCK OF AGES. Off-Broadway credits include, Henry, Sweet Henry (The York), Meet Me in St. Louis and Just So Stories (National Tour, Theatreworks/USA). Pianist Scott Bradlee enlisted the help of Molina, bassist Adam Kubota, and drummer Allan Mednard, put together a jazzy cover of Britney Spears' Till the World Ends. Check it out below!

Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director and Surflight alum Roy Miller and Executive Producer Timothy Laczynski, present A.R. Gurney's Love Letters for six performances only from July 14 through 17.

Culture Project's Women Center Stage just opened the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber. Performances began at the Ailey Citigroup Theater at The Joan Weill Center for Dance (405 West 55th Street, NYC) on June 30th and will continue through July 24th, 2011, for 22 performances only.

New Georges (Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director; Sarah Cameron Sunde, Associate Director; Jaynie Saunders Tiller, Managing Director), the OBIE Award-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, will present 'THE GERM PROJECT,' featuring the work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry). The four 'germs' of full-length plays of scope and adventure commissioned by New Georges for this project will be presented together, fully produced, in a cohesive and satisfying ninety-minute intermission-less evening. There will be a connective thread to the pieces that will take place with visuals and storytelling. 'THE GERM PROJECT' will be performed at 3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street (just south of Rector). Previews will begin on June 11, and the official Opening Night will be Monday, June 20 at 8:00 p.m. Performances will run through July 9.

According to Deadline.com, Broadway director Jason Moore has signed on to direct Universal and Gold Circle Films' 'Pitch Perfect.' As described by Deadline, the film is 'a musical comedy set in the world of college a cappella groups.'

Culture Project's Women Center Stage will present the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber.

La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

Following a critically acclaimed season which included the World Premiere of Lynn Nottage's hit comedy, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Second Stage Theatre has announced three of the four mainstage productions in the company's upcoming 33rd season.

Culture Project's Women Center Stage will present the New York premiere of MoLoRa, the stunning Farber Foundry production based on the ancient Oresteia Trilogy, adapted and directed by Yael Farber.

MANIPULATION, a world-premiere play by Victoria E. Calderon about one woman's struggle for freedom and self-discovery, begins previews on June 21, prior to an official Off-Broadway press opening on June 28 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Will Pomerantz directs.

DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. are pleased to announce that SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, will play DeVos Performance Hall, for one week only, June 21-26, 2011.

Broadway veteran Lauren Molina has just released a cover of 'She Loves You' for Beatles Complete on Ukulele. Check it out by visiting: www.thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com. Molina said of the recording: 'I wanted to take a very different approach to the song, with a female voice, taking out the pop, and making it much more moody, layering cellos, and driving drum machine beats.'

The Private Theatre's Summer Scene Intensive consists of 6 rigorous weeks of class. It is designed to work through three genres of scene study: Classical (Shakespeare, 15th Century drama, etc.), 19th & 20th Century (Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, etc.), and Contemporary scenes. Everyone will work during every class and it is expected that everyone rehearse outside of class. The final class will be open to the public.

MANIPULATION, a world-premiere play by Victoria E. Calderon about one woman's struggle for freedom and self-discovery, will resume previews on June 21, prior to an official press opening on June 28 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan.