Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Martha Lavey announced today the 2012/13 Subscription Season, including a Steppenwolf-commissioned world premiere and the work of fifteen ensemble members. The season begins in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre with David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, directed by ensemble member K. Todd Freeman. Up next, ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro directs The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis. In the Upstairs Theatre, ensemble member Austin Pendleton directs The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. In April 2013, ensemble member Tina Landau directs the Steppenwolf-commissioned world premiere of Head of Passes by ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney, their first collaboration since the widely-praised The Brother/Sister Plays (2010). The season concludes with Belleville by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffmann.
This June Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its commitment to Chicago's next generation of theater artists with the second annual NEXT UP: three productions presented in rotating repertory June 5 - 24, 2012 in The Steppenwolf Garage (1624 N. Halsted St.).
Off-Broadway's Page 73 Productions - a company dedicated to producing and developing works by early-career playwrights - will be accepting applications for its 2013 Development Programs, which include the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, it has been announced by the company's Executive Directors Liz Jones and Asher Richelli.
Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) has announced that it will present Too Much Too Soon, an evening of short plays by Nikole Beckwith, Dean Imperial, Nick Jones, Melissa Ross, Emily Schwend, and Ken Urban, beginning Thursday, September 29 and running through Sunday, October 9 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, between 9 and 10 Streets.
In the center of the New York City Theater District, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones, in association with LOT-EK® Architects, True Love Productions and Times Square Arts, presents "Theatre for One", a four foot by eight foot portable theater with one performer playing to one audience member.
Marin Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette are pleased to announce the winners of MTC's two national new American play prizes.
PlayPenn, Philadelphia's professional new play development organization, will hold its seventh annual New Play Development Conference from July 8 - July 24 at both the Adrienne Theater and the Playground (2030 Sansom Street) in Philadelphia. The Conference will feature two weeks of intensive work on six works-in-progress by Lisa Dillman (American Wee-Pie); Jacqueline Goldfinger (Slip/Shot); Brian Quirk (Nerine); Lauren Yee (A Man, His Wife and His Hat); John Yearley (Another Girl); and Stefanie Zadravec (The Electric Baby).
Playwright Emily Schwend has been named ACT's 2011 New Play Award winner for her play South of Settling. Two FREE staged readings will be presented in ACT's Bullitt Cabaret on March 12 at 8:00 p.m. and March 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Playwright Emily Schwend has been named ACT's 2011 New Play Award winner for her play South of Settling. Two FREE staged readings will be presented in ACT's Bullitt Cabaret on March 12 at 8:00 p.m. and March 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Marin Theatre Company is proud to announce that 9 Circles by Bill Cain and Splinters by Emily Schwend are finalists for the 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
Playwright Emily Schwend has been named ACT's 2011 New Play Award winner for her play South of Settling. Two FREE staged readings will be presented in ACT's Bullitt Cabaret on March 12 at 8:00 p.m. and March 13 at 2:00 p.m.
ACT-A Contemporary Theatre-skips into springtime with a fabulous musical, more new work from emerging artists, and some returning favorites. This month, ACT's Mainstage play series continues with ACT and The 5th Avenue Theatre's production of VANITIES: A NEW MUSICAL, the life-affirming journey of three women, three decades, and one friendship. The Central Heating Lab at ACT keeps things simmering with returning favorites, including the Young Playwrights Festival, the 2011 ACT New Play Award, and TheFilmSchool's popular Caught in the ACT. The Central Heating Lab at ACT also welcomes new theatre partners ReAct Theatre and Pratidhwani presenting Mother in Another Language by Taniya Hossain. Additionally, The Moisture Festival, Seattle's infamous springtime celebration of comedy, varietè and burlesque, returns to ACT for a fifth year!
Page 73 proudly announces that JANINE NABERS is the recipient of the 2011 'P73 Playwriting Fellowship,' an annual award that provides an early-career playwright with a $5,000 cash grant along with along with a year of development support for one or two projects, it has been announced by Liz Jones and Asher Richelli, the artistic directors of the Off-Broadway theatre company Page 73.
FGP Presents TWENTY! an epic two-minute-play festival Twenty New Plays Each Only Two Minutes Long Presented at The Tank 354 W. 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan
FGP Presents TWENTY! an epic two-minute-play festival Twenty New Plays Each Only Two Minutes Long Presented at The Tank 354 W. 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan
Acclaimed performer REGGIE WATTS and up-and-coming bands SAVOIR ADORE and HOORAY FOR EARTH join forces and perform on Tuesday, June 22 at the 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street) as part of PAGE 73's benefit for the company's development programs (the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, I-73 writing group, and the Yale Summer Residency). Playwright TOMMY SMITH serves as the master of ceremonies.
Acclaimed performer REGGIE WATTS and up-and-coming bands SAVOIR ADORE and HOORAY FOR EARTH join forces and perform on Tuesday, June 22 at the 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street) as part of PAGE 73's benefit for the company's development programs (the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, I-73 writing group, and the Yale Summer Residency). Playwright TOMMY SMITH serves as the master of ceremonies.
Marin Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette are pleased to announce the winners of MTC's two American Play Prizes.
Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: SOUTH OF SETTLING by Emily Schwend, directed by Davis McCallum. The cast includes Justin Adams, Craig Bockhorn, Kate Forbes, Mariann Mayberry and Jake O'Connor.
Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of: SOUTH OF SETTLING by Emily Schwend, directed by Davis McCallum. The cast includes Justin Adams, Craig Bockhorn, Kate Forbes, Mariann Mayberry and Jake O'Connor.
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