The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, a new play by David Bertolino, directed by Jerry Douglas, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre (just east of Lafayette Street), beginning performances Friday, September 17th. Opening Night is set for October 10th.
American Theater Company (ATC) opens its 26th season with David Mamet's Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow in repertory for the first time ever. The productions are directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder and will run at American Theater Company, 1909 W Byron St, Chicago. Press opening for Speed-the-Plow and Oleanna is Monday, September 20 at 6:00PM and 9:00PM, respectively.
Penguin Rep Theatre closes its 33rd season with the New York premiere of MRS. MANNERLY, a comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher, October 1 through October 24 in Stony Point, New York. Directed by Penguin Rep artistic director Joe Brancato, MRS. MANNERLY stars Diane Ciesla and Mark Shanahan.
Canal Park Playhouse, an Intimate home for Theater and Cabaret Opening September 15th, 2010 is delighted to bring you the world premiere of Handbook For An American Revolutionary, written and performed by actor, playwright, and Puffin Grant Recipient Matthew-Lee Erlbach (Till the Break of Dawn, Culture Project), Directed by Stephen Brackett (Confidence Man, Woodshed Collective), Lighting by Vadim Ledvin, Costumes by Jessica Pabst.
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project is pleased to present a free lecture by Sara Schnadt, an internationally recognized, Chicago-based artist working in new media, installation and performance art. Schnadt will focus on her current project, Network, which explores the profound impact of the internet on our sense of special relationships, as it collapses geography and provides unprecedented access to an expansive network of information and relationships in our daily lives. "With the widespread adoption of mobile devices, we are increasingly gaining this access not just while on a computer, but at any time as we move through ordinary space. In this way we are, more and more, existing in ordinary and virtual space simultaneously," writes Schnadt. Network visualizes this idea of the infinitely expansive virtual space we now inhabit, using large quantities of electric yellow twine (tied in patterns based on both social network structures and Internet network infrastructure) and mirrors to suggest a 'virtual' network landscape cutting through an otherwise ordinary space. Since November 2009, site-specific versions of Network have been created in Chicago for an unused store front downtown, a gallery space at Hyde Park Art Center, and a house in Oak Park (What It Is project space), where it inhabited the entire space and extended out into the garden, and where the home's inhabitants lived with the work for a month, negotiating their routines around it. A version will also be presented this fall in a converted industrial space at MOCAD Detroit, and in the curated exhibition for Upgrade! Soft Borders, an international conference of new media artists in Sao Paolo in October. Sara Schnadt has shown her in work in Chicago at Hyde Park Art Center, Pop-Up Art Loop temporary gallery series, 12x12: New Artists New Work at the MCA Chicago, Looptopia,the Site Unseen Performance Festival, Balloon Contemporary, and at Antena Gallery. National and international shows include MOCAD Detroit, Exchange Rate public projection series in LA and New York, Upgrade! -Chain Reaction in Skopje, Macedonia, CINEA Paris, FreeManifesta in Frankfurt, and the Busan Biennale in Busan, South Korea. Sara co-curates the IN>TIME Performance Series and is co-founder and technologist for Chicago Artists Resource website at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. She also serves on the Artists Advisory Committee for the Chicago Artists Coalition. Sara holds an MFA in performance art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more about the artist, visit www.saraschnadt.com. Sara's talk at la Esquina about her own artwork follows a talk on Tuesday, September 28, 5:30-7pm at the Arts Incubator, 115 West 18th Street, sponsored by the 2010 Artist Entrepreneur Speakers Program and during which she will speak about her experience as Co-founder and Technologist for the Chicago Artists Resource. Sara's visit to Kansas City is sponsored by the 2010 Artist Entrepreneur Speakers Program, which brings experts from across the nation to Kansas City to discuss innovative ideas and opportunities for the diverse community of Kansas City artists. This series highlights experiences, lessons learned, opportunities, and the unique issues and challenges faced by artists of all disciplines in the business side of their work. TheArtist Entrepreneur Speakers Program is a program of KCArtistLink, a partnership among the Charlotte Street Foundation, the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, the UMKC Small Business Technology & Development Center, and U.S.SourceLink.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced a second extension today for the highly anticipated GATZ, the critically acclaimed theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Noor Theatre‘s inaugural season of Highlight begins on Monday, September 13th at 7:30 PM at The Fourth Street Theatre. This reading series of exciting plays by playwrights of Middle-Eastern descent runs once a month from September through December.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South, V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, in partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and The Women Donors Network, will host two special performances of SWIMMING UPSTREAM directed by Eve Ensler, in New Orleans on September 10th at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre and in New York on September 13th at the Apollo Theatre.
Producer Daryl Roth announces that following a sold out developmental run last spring, THE DIVINE SISTER, the new comedy written by and starring Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress, will transfer to the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street) featuring the entire original company: Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Walker, and Julie Halston.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced the line-up today for the 2010-2011 Public LAB season.
Noor Theatre‘s inaugural season of Highlight begins on Monday, September 13th at 7:30 PM at The Fourth Street Theatre. This reading series of exciting plays by playwrights of Middle-Eastern descent runs once a month from September through December.
BROKE WIDE OPEN is written and performed by Rock WILK. The show is directed by and developed with Tamilla Woodard and presented as a workshop production from SEPTEMBER 9 -26 @ The Medicine Show Theatre
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project is pleased to present YOU COMPLETE ME an exhibition of interactive audio and video installations by HACK.ART.LAB, a Wichita, Kansas-based collective of artists, programmers, and engineers
Joe's Pub has announced their upcoming events for September, 2010. For a full list of upcoming events, tickets, show times and other information, please visit joespub.com
Charlotte Street Foundation's Urban Culture Project is pleased to present Things to be Next To, an exhibition collaboration with threewalls, Chicago. Featuring recent and new work by Alberto Aguilar (Chicago), Peter Fagundo (Chicago), James Woodfill (Kansas City), and Warren Rosser (Kansas City), the exhibition will run September 4- October 15, 2010 in Kansas City at CSF's la Esquina (an Urban Culture Project venue), and at threewalls in Chicago, November 5-December 11, 2010.
POLITICAL SUBVERSITIES, an original musical sketch comedy cabaret, will play Joe's Pub on Friday September 3rd at 7:30 PM.
Joe's Pub has announced their upcoming events for September, 2010. For a full list of upcoming events, tickets, show times and other information, please visit joespub.com
Kansa Citta Pueblita is an exhibition of new work by Kansas City-based artist Maria Calderon in which she melds Kansas City's modern culture together with Peruvian folk traditions. In this solo show, opening at the Urban Culture Project Space on Friday, September 17, 2010, 6pm, Calderon presents the community of Kansas City as a pueblo or tight knit community, 'where the people, the places, and the atmosphere exist in a unique balance,' writes Calderon.
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South, V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, in partnership with Ashé Cultural Arts Center and The Women Donors Network, will host two special performances of SWIMMING UPSTREAM directed by Eve Ensler, in New Orleans on September 10th at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre and in New York on September 13th at the Apollo Theatre.
Christopher Larkin (who starred as Young Bruce Lee in last year's reading of the Broadway-bound musical Bruce Lee: Journey to the West), Rory Lipede, and Jon-Michael Reese will star in Harrison David Rivers' WHEN LAST WE FLEW, premiering in the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with performances from August 18th-August 29th.
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