Dominique Morisseau News

The Lark Play Development Center announced the 2011-12 Playwriting Fellows receiving residencies in its eleven-year-old Playwrights' Workshop program.

The Lark Play Development Center announced that seven plays-in-development have been chosen for its 18th annual Playwrights' Week, which will kick off on Tuesday, September 20 at 8pm with the Meet the Writers event and reception, where writers will read excerpts from their work.

The Made At Horse Trade Series will feature two works developed through Horse Trade Theater Group's The Fire This Time Festival, Yusef Miller's Breakfast and Kelley Nicole Girod's Ambrosia, playing as a double feature August 10-29 at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery), Monday & Wednesday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

The Made At Horse Trade Series will feature two works developed through Horse Trade Theater Group's The Fire This Time Festival, Yusef Miller's Breakfast and Kelley Nicole Girod's Ambrosia, playing as a double feature August 10-29 at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery), Monday & Wednesday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Theaterlab (Co-Artistic Directors Carlo Altomare and Orietta Crispino) will host She's Got the Beat, Yeah!, a benefit party celebrating Rwandan poet, director and writer Odile Gakire Katese Monday, July 18th at its Manhattan studios (137 West 14th Street).

Theaterlab (Co-Artistic Directors Carlo Altomare and Orietta Crispino) will host She's Got the Beat, Yeah!, a benefit party celebrating Rwandan poet, director and writer Odile Gakire Katese Monday, July 18th at its Manhattan studios (137 West 14th Street).

Examiner.com reports that Premiere Stages, which is celebrating its seventh year as the professional theatre in residence at Kean University, will premiere FOLLOW ME TO NELLIE'S by Dominique Morisseau this July.

Premiere Stages, celebrating its seventh year as the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, announces the premiere of Follow Me to Nellie's by Dominique Morisseau.

The Made At Horse Trade Series will feature two works developed through Horse Trade Theater Group's The Fire This Time Festival, Yusef Miller's Breakfast and Kelley Nicole Girod's Ambrosia, playing as a double feature August 10-29 at The Red Room (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery), Monday & Wednesday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Women's Project, the 34-year-old non-profit theater dedicated to producing plays written and directed by women, will present its 2011-12 season of new American plays featuring 20 women theater artists, Julie Crosby, Producing Artistic Director announced.

Premiere Stages, celebrating its seventh year as the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, announces the premiere of Follow Me to Nellie's by Dominique Morisseau.

Examiner.com reports that Premiere Stages, which is celebrating its seventh year as the professional theatre in residence at Kean University, will premiere FOLLOW ME TO NELLIE'S by Dominique Morisseau this July.

Fuel | We Power Change today announced that seven women writers in the Off Broadway theater will convene this Wednesday May 25th at 3:00PM EST for "The Dream At Work," a live webcast discussion addressing the question, "Nearly 48 years after 'I Have a Dream,' how has the American theater fared in its pursuit of gender and racial equality?"

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes) will continue its popular series of free staged readings of new plays by the Emerging Writers Group, beginning Wednesday, June 1 and running through Tuesday, June 28 at The Public Theater.

Premiere Stages at Kean University will hold its annual Spring Readings on Thursday, March 17, Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 20th at 3:00 pm in the University Center Little Theatre, located on Kean's Central Campus, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J.

Premiere Stages at Kean University will hold its annual Spring Readings on Thursday, March 17, Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, March 20th at 3:00 pm in the University Center Little Theatre, located on Kean's Central Campus, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J.

The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL provides a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African-American descent to explore these new voices, styles and challenging new directions for 21st century performing arts, and move beyond common ideas of what is possible in "black theater."

Fourth Arts Block (FAB) and its member organizations are offering an alternative to pricey outings with 4 festivals and more than 25 performances for $20 or less, all opening in January 2011.

Fourth Arts Block (FAB) and its member organizations are offering an alternative to pricey outings with 4 festivals and more than 25 performances for $20 or less, all opening in January 2011.

The African American experience is not represented solely by one voice or one style. Horse Trade Theater Group (Erez Ziv, Managing Director, Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director) will present THE FIRE THIS TIME FESTIVAL, a platform for talented early-career playwrights of African-American descent to explore new voices, styles and challenging new directions for 21st century performing arts, and move beyond common ideas of what is possible in “black theater.