Purple Rep will present the revival of Mariah MacCarthy's sexual revolution, THE ALL-AMERICAN GENDERF*CK CABARET (which previously received a sold-out run at UNDER St. Marks in 2010), April 8-30 at The Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery) running in rep with Larry Kunofsky's The Un-Marrying Project, as part of Purple Rep's inaugural project, Gay Plays for Straight People (and also gay people).
UNDER CONSIDERATION is a 90-minute event featuring new one-act plays by members of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group including 2008 playwrights Chris Cragin and Pia Wilson, 2009 playwright Bridget Kelso, and 2011 playwrights Sevan Greene, Sukari Jones, Aaron Levy, Anna Moench, Jerome Parker, and Stella Fawn Ragsdale.
East West Players (EWP), the nation's premier Asian American theatre, continues its 45th Anniversary season, themed Shake It Up, with the world premiere hip hop musical, KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE, with book by Qui Nguyen, Lyrics by Beau Sia, Vocal Music by Marc Macalintal, Dance Music provided by Rynan Paguio and Jason Tyler Chong, Musical Direction by Marc Macalintal, and Choreography by Jason Tyler Chong.
James Earl Jones, Roger Robinson and Robert Joy will all perform in the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's First Light 2011 series of new plays about science and technology now through April 23 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street.
Gray Lady Entertainment presents the Off-Broadway premiere of JANIE CONDON: RAW & UNCHAINED! - a new play written and performed by Jane Condon - with previews set to begin April 4 prior to an official opening night on April 5 at St. Luke's Theatre (308 W. 46 St.) in Manhattan.
The Gallery Players (Heather Curran, Artistic Director; Neal Freeman, Executive Director) announced today that Broadway veteran Gregory Simmons will direct August Wilson's Jitney, running March 19 - April 3, 2011 at the organization's Brooklyn home (199 14th Street, Park Slope).
Gray Lady Entertainment presents the Off-Broadway premiere of JANIE CONDON: RAW & UNCHAINED! - a new play written and performed by Jane Condon - with previews set to begin April 4 prior to an official opening night on April 5 at St. Luke's Theatre (308 W. 46 St.) in Manhattan.
After a sold-out and critically acclaimed run at The New York
International Fringe Festival, the award-winning The Umbrella Plays is back, for a limited engagement at The Tank, March 31st - April 10th.
Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they work their ways through inclement weather of the literal and figurative variety, searching for shelter in whatever form it can be found. The smallest and most common-place of objects, the simple umbrella, becomes the entry point into these stories, reminding us that there is more than meets the eye in the most innocuous-seeming pieces of a life, and the most fleeting of moments. Storms crash in and leave their marks, lovers are sought and lost and found again, ambitions jump the tracks and hopes get renewed, and in the swirl of these six stories, an umbrella is never, ever just an umbrella.
ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER is pleased to announce the upcoming production of Galt MacDermot's (HAIR) musical, THE HUMAN COMEDY, with libretto by William Dumaresq based on the story by William Saroyan.
Gray Lady Entertainment presents the Off-Broadway premiere of JANIE CONDON: RAW & UNCHAINED! - a new play written and performed by Jane Condon - with previews set to begin April 4 prior to an official opening night on April 5 at St. Luke's Theatre (308 W. 46 St.) in Manhattan.
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Ego Actus Design with the NYC premiere of PLAY NICE!, written by Robin Rice Lichtig and directed by Joan Kane. PLAY NICE! ends performances on Sunday, March 27.
Casting has been announced for The Laguna Playhouse's production of Noël Coward's celebrated comedy, Private Lives that runs March 15 - April 10, 2011. Directed by Andrew Barnicle, the cast for Private Lives features Julie Granata as Amanda, Joseph Fuqua as Elyot, Winslow Corbett as Sybil, and Matthew Floyd Miller as Victor.
The OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, will present the world premiere of "THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G," written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker (with fight direction by Nguyen), when it begins performances on March 24 at Incubator Arts Project (incubatorarts.org), St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue).
The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) announces their Tenth Anniversary Season Gala honoring Hal Rosenbluth (Kaufman Astoria Studios) and Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. The Gala will feature a special performance entitled BEAUTIFUL MUSIC: 10 YEARS OF APAC, music directed by APAC Alum Jeffrey Campos and directed by APAC Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik.
Purple Rep will present the revival of Mariah MacCarthy's sexual revolution, THE ALL-AMERICAN GENDERF*CK CABARET (which previously received a sold-out run at UNDER St. Marks in 2010), April 8-30 at The Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery) running in rep with Larry Kunofsky's The Un-Marrying Project, as part of Purple Rep's inaugural project, Gay Plays for Straight People (and also gay people).