David Rakoff News

The NYC Food Film Festival in association with the James Beard Foundation presents The World Premiere of Florent: Queen of the Meat Market on June 24, 2010 at the Altman Building on West 18th Street.

As she assumes the position of Artistic Director, Laura Kaminsky announces Symphony Space's 33rd year of diverse multidisciplinary arts programming, featuring an ever-expanding schedule of groundbreaking works by renowned musical artists, authors and performers. Primary to Kaminsky's artistic vision are a commitment to new and innovative work, internationalism, and creating an atmosphere of intimacy and access between artists and audience.

Symphony Space has a diverse set of Literature in Performance events coming up in the next few weeks:

SRO crowd includes stars in the audience as well as onstage

The last installment of Douglas Carter Beane's live soap opera The Cartells was performed on November 6th

Mia Dillon, Daniel Gerroll, and David Rakoff will read short fiction in Selected Shorts at the Westport Country Playhouse on Tuesday, November 14th at 7:30 PM.

Cheyenne Jackson has been announced to star in the final two installments of Douglas Carter Beane's The Cartells, A Prime Time Soap...Live, presented by the Drama Dept.

'Far Above Rubies,' the second installment of Douglas Carter Beane's live four-part primetime soap opera The Cartells, was presented at Comix on October 23rd

Tonight, October 23rd, acclaimed actress and comedian Julie Halston will guest star in the second weekly installment of the critically acclaimed Drama Dept. production of The Cartells, A Prime Time Soap…Live

Douglas Carter Beane's hilarious spoof of nighttime soaps combines bitchy drama, contemporary politics and the net-less tightrope walking excitement of intentionally under-rehearsed theatre

The first installment of Douglas Carter Beane's The Cartells was performed on October 16th by a starry cast

Joanna Gleason, Cady Huffman and other cast members of The Cartells recently posed for pictures at a rehearsal for the four-part live primetime soap

Elizabeth Berkley, Jason Butler Harner, Peter Frechette, Peter Hermann, Cady Huffman, Pedro Pascal and Kristen Schaal have joined the cast of the upcoming Drama Dept. and Comix co-presentation of The Cartells, A Prime Time Soap…Live

Brian D'Arcy James, Joanna Gleason and more will star in Douglas Carter Beane's 4-part soap satire The Cartells

Brian D'Arcy James and more will star in The Cartells, Douglas Carter Beane's 'Primetime Soap...Live'

Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman join The Civilian’s line-up of musical guests for PATRIOT ACTS: AN AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE a one-night-only benefit concert on Monday, May 8th.

Divas, Jewish divas, men playing divas, men playing pianos. They're all part of the festivities on a cabaret or concert stage in NYC.