Frankie Faison News

STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS, a collection of short plays written for marriage equality to benefit Human Rights Campaign, Marriage Equality New York and New York Theatre Workshop will take place on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the Angel Orensanz Center, 172 Norfolk Street in New York City, between Houston and Stanton Streets. Dancing and a glamorous wedding reception will follow.

On Monday, May 3rd, 2010 Reading/Performance will be held of American Fiction: Loved, Banned, and Mythologized. The performance will benefit Elevator Repair Service theater company.

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This event will celebrate ERS's success with Frances McDormand (Burn after Reading, Fargo), Lili Taylor ('Six Feet Under'), Fred Armisen ('Saturday Night Live'), Frankie Faison ('The Wire'), and ERS company members in a one night only performance of loved, banned and mythologized American fiction. Authors include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe. Readings will be accompanied by ERS's unique signature sound design.

On Monday, May 3rd, 2010 Reading/Performance will be held of American Fiction: Loved, Banned, and Mythologized. The performance will benefit Elevator Repair Service theater company.

Ordained minister, producer, actor, and stand-up comedian are the credentials held by the performer to take the stage at Lincoln Amphitheatre this summer as Frederick Douglass and Moses.

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Luna Stage (Montclair, NJ) to 59E59 Theaters with the New York City premiere of THE MAN IN ROOM 306, written by and starring Craig Alan Edwards and directed by Cheryl Katz.

A perplexing love story filled with entwined complexities and a very unique challenge develops in the heartfelt romantic comedy Adam, debuting on DVD February 2, 2010 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

A perplexing love story filled with entwined complexities and a very unique challenge develops in the heartfelt romantic comedy Adam, debuting on DVD February 2, 2010 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The New Jersey Repertory Company located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch is proud to present the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Seth Rozin's Two Jews Walk into a War. December 10, 2009 through January 10, 2010.

The New Jersey Repertory Company located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch is proud to present the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Seth Rozin's Two Jews Walk into a War. December 10, 2009 through January 10, 2010.

With a commitment to developing new work and cultivating the next generation of playwrights, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founder/Artistic Director, Lauren Schmiedel, Managing Director) is proud to kick-off the season highlighting some of the towns top playwrighting talent including La'Chris Jordan, Robert Karmon, Gino DiIorio, John Walch, Lydia R. Diamond, Lydia Stryk, William Orem, Kit Williamson & Stanton Wood.

With a commitment to developing new work and cultivating the next generation of playwrights, Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founder/Artistic Director, Lauren Schmiedel, Managing Director) is proud to kick-off the season highlighting some of the towns top playwrighting talent including La'Chris Jordan, Robert Karmon, Gino DiIorio, John Walch, Lydia R. Diamond, Lydia Stryk, William Orem, Kit Williamson & Stanton Wood.

Learning through an Expanded Arts Program, LeAp, presents the first ever NYC August Wilson Monologue Competition. The 16 winners from the preliminary rounds at Hillcrest High School, Curtis High School, Fordham High School for the Arts, and Gramercy Arts High School will perform soaring, lyrical monologues from revered playwright August Wilson's Century Cycle plays on April 6 at the Washington Irving High School Auditorium from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Luna Stage is planning its own special brand of Valentine?s Day magic. Artistic Director, Jane Mandel and her husband, actor Frankie R. Faison, are going to share the stage with each other on Saturday, February 14th. for a one-time only performance ? a staged reading of A.R. Gurney?s Love Letters.

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 25th Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition categories, the Festival presents films in five out-of-competition sections to be announced tomorrow. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah.

Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 25th Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition categories, the Festival presents films in five out-of-competition sections to be announced tomorrow. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15-25 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah.

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, in partnership with THE VIERTEL/FRANKEL/BARUCH/ROUTH GROUP and Leap (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program), announced today that Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson ('Law & Order', Come Back, Little Sheba), two-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominated actor Charles S. 'Roc' Dutton, Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio, Henry V) and Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow ('Third Rock from the Sun', Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) headline an impressive roster of Broadway luminaries lending time and support for Fidelity FutureStage, a comprehensive arts education initiative designed to bring professional theater into the classrooms of participating New York City schools.

The Signature Theatre Company 2006-2007 season productions of August Wilson's Two Trains Running and King Hedley II have been nominated for 16 AUDELCO Awards, which recognize excellence in black theatre. The winners will be announced on November 19 at a ceremony held at Aaron Davis Hall.