Ethan Itzkow News

HIGH SCORE, an award-winning anti-racism social horror film, achieves worldwide distribution and makes its global premiere on January 6, 2024. The film showcases the power of cinema in addressing social issues and will be available to global audiences via Film Shortage.

JADE is a refreshing and uplifting film that gives an empathetic face to black fatherhood. Directed by NAACP Theatre Award winner Robert Manning Jr. and featuring Luke Tennie and Noam Shapiro, the film will have its East Coast premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival on Friday, October 13th.

Serena Ryen & Ethan Itzkow of Schmeh Films, the award-winning team behind the film “CASHED” (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) are thrilled to announce their new anti-racism social horror film, HIGH SCORE, makes its West Coast premiere at the Oscar®-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival on Monday, November 16, 2020.

HIGH SCORE, co-directed by Serena Ryen and Ethan Itzkow, is a serious and important contribution to our ongoing public conversation about hate, racism, and demonization in America. In the course of a sizzling 15-minutes, in what is aptly described as a a?oesocial horror film,a?? we are eyewitness to the combustible nature of these terrible forces. A brilliantly made short film. HIGH SCORE will have its world premiere at the Chelsea Film Festival and will screen online from October 15th - 18th.

What is the color of anxiety and desperation in the life of a New York City millennial? What does it mean and feel like to be depleted under the pressures of a fast moving and highly demanding metropolis? CASHED, Serena Ryen's 15-minute firecracker of a film, fleshes out the answers to these questions, dramatically and poignantly. In doing so, she has taken a large step in fulfilling her self-described commitment 'to making art that inspires empathy and ignites questions.'

Internationally award-winning, Golden Mask nominated* company that took Russia by storm, Journey Lab returns to New York City with an explorative four-day piece: Saudade (the presence of absence).

'Rocking Dead: Bedlam' is bringing its signature blend of interactive theater, survival horror and an adrenaline-fueled dance party to 42West this fall.

'Rocking Dead: Bedlam' is bringing its signature blend of interactive theater, survival horror and an adrenaline-fueled dance party to 42West this fall.

New York Shakespeare Exchange, creators of the acclaimed The Sonnet Project and ShakesBEER, NYC's original Shakespearean pub crawl, are thrilled to announce that their next mainstage production is Shakespeare's bloody brilliant early play TITUS ANDRONICUS, adapted and directed by NYSX Artistic Director Ross Williams.

Two men, two knives, one laptop. Back at the American Theatre of Actors by popular demand, Theft tells the story of Rich (Michael Bordwell), an emotionally turbulent man whose apartment is broken into in the middle of the night by an amateur burglar (James Harris, Jr.).

Two men, two knives, one laptop. Back at the American Theatre of Actors by popular demand, Theft tells the story of Rich (Michael Bordwell), an emotionally turbulent man whose apartment is broken into in the middle of the night by an amateur burglar (James Harris, Jr.).

The New York City premiere of Michael Slade's coming-of-age drama And a Child Shall Lead played at HERE Arts Center October 24-27, 2012. See production photos below!

The New York City premiere of Michael Slade's coming-of-age drama And a Child Shall Lead will run today, Oct. 24-27 at HERE Arts Center. Get a first look at the cast in rehearsal in the photos below!

The New York City premiere of Michael Slade's coming-of-age drama And a Child Shall Lead will run Oct. 24-27 at HERE Arts Center. Get a first look at the cast in rehearsal in the photos below!

InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of April Smallwood's Right As Rain-a moving exploration of sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty-directed by InnateVolution's Artistic Director, Toma Tavares Langston.

InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of April Smallwood's Right As Rain-a moving exploration of sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty-directed by InnateVolution's Artistic Director, Toma Tavares Langston.

InnateVolution Theater Productions presents the world premiere of April Smallwood's Right As Rain-a moving exploration of sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty-directed by InnateVolution's Artistic Director, Toma Tavares Langston.