Donna Spector News

Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 150 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 25th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts.

With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 150 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers for its 25th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, which will be mounted virtually for the first time May 22 to 24, 2020.

The Warner Theatre will present its 6th Annual International Playwrights Festival held in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre October 13 and 14, 2017.

'Songs of the Harlem River: Forgotten one acts from the Harlem Renaissance' is a collection of one-acts written between 1920-1930 including works by Marita Bonner, Rafe M. Coleman, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Willis Richardson and Eulalie Spence as well as the poems of Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes and others. The evening is directed and choreographed by Shela Xoregos and will have its world premiere August 30 to September 6 in Theater for the New City's 2015 Dream Up Festival.

The Xoregos Performing Company is proud to present Harlem Remembered: A Tribute to the Harlem Renaissance, a series of free performances throughout Black History Month spotlighting the drama, music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, at various venues in New York City and Westchester and Orange counties. The program features theatrical events as well as music, dance, storytelling and poetry. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast below!

The Old Opera House Theatre Company is delighted to announce the winners of the 11th Annual New Voice Play Festival.

The Old Opera House is proud to announce the winners of the 11th Annual New Voice Play Festival. Each year this one-act playwriting competition attracts some of the country's most gifted new playwrights; and this year over 60 playwrights sent us their work.

The 7 th Annual 7 th Inning Stretch: 7 10-minute plays about baseball Playwrights: William Burton Henline (MFA playwriting candidate at Rutgers University) Rand Higbee (alt. to National Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center) Robin Rice Lichtig (Lincoln Center Director's Lab, New Georges) Jay Rehak (Inspirato Festival in Toronto, Knutsford Theater Festival in England)Donna Spector (Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002, Pushcart Prize Nom) Heather Woodbury (Kennedy Center Grantee, OBIE winner)

Manhattan Oracles' members Liz Amberly, Chris Cragin Day, James McGuire, Robin Rothstein and Brian Quirk are the featured playwrights in this breezy and eclectic evening of new and published short works.