Emily Ackerman News

Hosted by two-time Emmy nominee Jill Larson, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founder/ Artistic Director) and the Urban Stages Board, will honor the tireless work of the Urban Stages' Teaching Artist and their campers as they create the next generation of theatre professionals. Honorees include: Tim Connell, Cordis. Heard, Laura Lindsey, Heather Nielsen , Liz Parker, Meghan Santelli, Kathryn Swanson and J Lyn Thomas, tonight, May 13, 2013 at the historic Central Park Boathouse beginning at 6PM.

Hosted by two-time Emmy nominee Jill Larson, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founder/ Artistic Director) and the Urban Stages Board, will honor the tireless work of the Urban Stages' Teaching Artist and their campers as they create the next generation of theatre professionals. Honorees include: Tim Connell, Cordis. Heard, Laura Lindsey, Heather Nielsen , Liz Parker, Meghan Santelli, Kathryn Swanson and J Lyn Thomas, on May 13, 2013 at the historic Central Park Boathouse beginning at 6PM.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, and Blue Star Families, a national non-profit for military families, has announced that 85 theatres in 33 states have now joined the Blue Star Theatres program. In partnership between TCG and Blue Star Families, with support from MetLife Foundation, the Blue Star Theatres program connects a variety of theatre offerings to military personnel and their families across the United States. This initiative recognizes the profound contributions of service families and seeks to build stronger connections between theatres, military families and their communities.

Women's Project Theater's widely-acclaimed and packed-house production of Laura Marks's world premiere dark comedy Bethany, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, will close as scheduled Sunday, February 17, after the 2:30pm matinee to make way for Tina Benko in the North American Premiere of Jackie by Nobel Prize winner and author of The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Tea Alagic.

See the new trailer for BETHANY, written by Laura Marks and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, below. The show runs Jan 11-Feb 17, 2013. www.BethanyOffBroadway.com.

Urban Stages, in association with producer/director/lyricist Peter Napolitano, announces a series of musical evenings entitled WINTER RHYTHMS 2012, beginning tonight, December 4 and running through Friday, December 15, 2012 at Urban Stages Theatre (259 West 30th Street).

America Ferrera, joined by cast members Emily Ackerman, Kristin Griffith, Ken Marks, Tobias Segal and Myra Lucretia Taylor, begins rehearsals today for Women's Project Theater's world premiere dark comedy Bethany by Laura Marks. Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Ms. Ferrera stars as a financially-strapped woman who discovers just how far she'll go to regain what she has lost.

Urban Stages, in association with producer/director/lyricist Peter Napolitano, announces a series of musical evenings entitled WINTER RHYTHMS 2012, beginning on Tuesday, December 4 and running through Friday, December 15, 2012 at Urban Stages Theatre (259 West 30th Street).

The Civilians, the award-winning New York-based theater company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Death tonight, May 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette St.

The Civilians, the award-winning New York-based theater company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Death on May 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette St.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, will be presenting a TEDTalk at the upcoming TED2012 Conference.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, will be presenting a TEDTalk at the upcoming TED2012 Conference.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, CA introduces a bold new project with its first OFF CENTER FESTIVAL, a dizzying mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art taking place throughout the campus over nine days January 13 - 21. Every company and performer will be appearing at the Center for the first time.

The Civilians will present Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street, Part II. Following the company's first Occupy Wall Street cabaret at Joe's Pub, Civilians' artists continued to conduct interviews with demonstrators about the movement's recent events, including the mass police action that cleared the protests out of Zuccotti Park and what the movement's future holds.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street.