Gabrielle L. Kurlander News

Meet Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Hamlet, Ophelia, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertolt Brecht, talk show host Sally McNally, part of a virtual parade of 76 characters - famous, infamous and fictional - all played by a talented and spirited ensemble of five actors. This startling theatrical montage with 17 songs and rap, is the Castillo Theatre's latest foray into material by Heiner Müller, the East German playwright/poet who enraged the authorities before the Berlin wall came down, but never defected or repudiated communism. There will be a Special Marathon performance (all three acts) on Sunday, December 5th at 2:00 p.m.

Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Muller- An all-Black cast presents Heiner Muller's avant-garde classics playing 20th century historical figures from Stalin to Hitler and Muller himself

The All Stars Project presents Breakthrough Breakfasts: Women on the Verge: Creating Socially Relevant Culture on Wednesday, November 10th at 8:30 am at the All Stars Project, 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th & 11th Avenue).

Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Muller, An all-Black cast presents Heiner Muller's avant-garde classics playing 20th century historical figures from Stalin to Hitler and Muller himself

The All Stars Project presents Breakthrough Breakfasts: Women on the Verge: Creating Socially Relevant Culture on Wednesday, November 10th at 8:30 am at the All Stars Project, 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th & 11th Avenue).

Castillo Theatre Presents Playing with Heiner Muller, An all-Black cast presents Heiner Muller's avant-garde classics playing 20th century historical figures from Stalin to Hitler and Muller himself

The Castillo Theatre announces its twenty seventh season of experimental, political theatre entitled Where We Are and How We Got Here.

The Castillo Theatre announces its twenty seventh season of experimental, political theatre entitled Where We Are and How We Got Here.

On September 30th through October 3rd, 500 artists, activists, young people, educators, scholars, practitioners and business people from 31 countries, all who use performance in their work as a new way of relating to, transforming and understanding the world, gathered at the All Stars Project headquarters at 543 West 42nd Street for the Performing the World Conference; Can Performance Change the World?

The All Stars Project, the American pioneer for development and developmental learning, is launching UX - a unique development institution, free of cost, forward-thinking and open to people of all ages and backgrounds.

The president and CEO of the All Stars Project, Gabrielle L. Kurlander, announced the appointment of Dan Friedman, Ph.D. as the artistic director of the Castillo Theatre on Sunday, April 4. Friedman was preceded in this position by Fred Newman, who held it from 1989 through 2005, when he retired; Newman remains artistic director emeritus.

The Task will close on March 7th. The Task is written by Heiner Müller and translated by Carl Weber, with music & lyrics by Fred Newman, and directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander.

The Task has been extended through March 7th. The Task is written by Heiner Müller and translated by Carl Weber, with music & lyrics by Fred Newman, and directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander. The show runs through March 7, 2010

The promise of revolution comes to Jamaica in 1799, as the timeless themes of love, loss and betrayal collide in The Task by acclaimed German avant-garde playwright, Heiner Müller. The Task, performed by an all-Black cast opens Friday, January 22 and runs through February 21 at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street.

The Task by Heiner Müller, translated by Carl Weber, with music & lyrics by Fred Newman, directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander. Opens January 22, 2010

The Task by Heiner Müller opens at Castillo Theatre on January 22, and runs through February 21.

The promise of revolution comes to Jamaica in 1799, as the timeless themes of love, loss and betrayal collide in The Task by acclaimed German avant-garde playwright, Heiner Müller. The Task, performed by an all-Black cast opens Friday, January 22 and runs through February 21 at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street.

The Task by Heiner Müller, translated by Carl Weber, with music & lyrics by Fred Newman, directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander. Opens January 22, 2010

The Task by Heiner Müller opens at Castillo Theatre on January 22, and runs through February 21.

Echoing last week's headlines about the sex trade in South Korea, the off-Broadway Castillo Theatre will present Fred Newman's Coming of Age in Korea,co-directed by Gabrielle L. Kurlander and Desmond Richardson, which tells the story of three GIs, who fall in love with South Korean prostitutes, one of whom is brutally raped and killed. Coming of Age in Korea opens Friday, January 16th and runs through March 1, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m., at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 42nd Street. TDF accepted; group rates available. For tickets call 212-941-1234.