Gene Frankel News

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will be among the performers featured at the “Ladies Night Comedy Show' a  live Women's History Month comedy showcase on Saturday, March 26, 2022  @  Comedy In Harlem in Manhattan. Rhonda will be joined at the 7:00pm show (doors @ 6pm)  by host Nicky Sunshine (The Nick Cannon Show) and fellow comics Shatara Curry  (Apollo Comedy Club), Peaches Rodriguez   ('The Latin Heavy Hitters of Comedy' film), Vicky Kuperman (Live From.Gotham)  and Meshelle (Nickelodeon's 'Search For Funniest Mom In America').

Constellations: Fate, Love, and the Power of Theatre. The Lambs hosts a discussion of the play 'Constellations' by Nick Payne, the Tony nominated Broadway romantic comedy. A revival of the show will run from April 6 through April 24 at The Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street, New York NY 10012).

In honor of Women’s History Month, the 7th Annual W.H.A.M. Festival of Manhattan will present Baggage From BaghDAD, a new solo play about the power of family and perseverance amid a harrowing past.

Based on a true story, it is written by Richard Roy (Richard III with Denzel Washington) and Eric C. Webb, directed by Thomas G. Waites (Awake and Sing! starring Frances McDormand, King Richard III starring Al Pacino), and stars Richard Roy and Dillon John Collins.

Actor / comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome, (SiriusXM “John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything”) will be among the performers featured at the “Ladies Night Comedy Show' a  live Women's History Month comedy showcase on Saturday, March 26, 2022  @  Comedy In Harlem in Manhattan.

A recreation of Eartha Kitt's brief speech at a White House event is the thrilling dramatic centerpiece of playwright/performer Dierdra McDowell's excellent solo play, Down To Eartha.

This month, Theatre Now is producing staged readings of new musicals Fountain of You and The Pelican, presented in repertory with their full developmental production of The Jury now running at the Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres.

In a first of its kind crossover event, Royal Oak weaves together the stories of seven individuals all vying for control of The House of Oak – the most iconic couture fashion house in America.

MPTP Productions Intl. in association with 24 Bond Arts Center present a return engagement of DOWN TO EARTHA, a one woman show written and performed by Dierdra McDowell (2-time AUDELCO Award nominee for Outstanding Solo Performance as Eartha Kitt), and directed by Marishka S. Phillips. In celebration of Black History Month, performances run February 23-27 at Gene Frankel Theatre.

On January 6 to 23, The new play Sugar Ray will have its theatrical premiere January 6 to 23, 2022 at Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, presented by 24 Bond Arts Center in association with Faith Steps Productions and performed by AUDELCO-winner Reginald L. Wilson. The theater's playing area will be transformed into a boxing ring for the production.

Sugar Ray by Laurence Holder will have its theatrical premiere January 6 to 23, 2022 at Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, presented by 24 Bond Arts Center in association with Faith Steps Productions and performed by AUDELCO-winner Reginald L. Wilson.  The theater's playing area will be transformed into a boxing ring for the production.

Jonathan Larson's posthumous success may be a unique story, but tick, tick... Boom! deals with a universal truth most artists must deal with sometime in their lives.

Special Offer - Three plays about the Varieties of Love and Holiness Adapted by Thomas Gordon from the Famous 4,000,000 Collection by O.Henry.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival announced today the 2022 summer season. The upcoming season will be the Festival's 31st summer of productions, and the final season led by Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy.

Added to the program will be the premiere of Posin's 'Postlude,' conceived when, according to Posin, 'the company gathered together to restage an earlier work, and late-stage pandemic ghosts came to haunt us in the Gene Frankel Theatre.'

The live show, which was made possible by a City Artist Corps grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts, will offer a rare and exciting look under the hood of audio drama -- with practical sound effects being performed on stage. But the show has been designed with theatre in mind.

Presented  by the City Artists Corps, admission to Rhonda's 45 - minute  'tragi-comedy' is free however RSVP's  and masks are  required.  The Off-Off Broadway Gene Frankel Theatre - located at 24 Bond Street - can  be reached by taking the #6 train to Bleecker Street or the 'F' to Broadway-Lafayette. 

“Siren's Den: A Rock Musical” will perform a free concert reading for the public on Monday, October 25th at The Cutting Room, sponsored by City Artist Corps. Writer/creator Rori Nogee is the recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant.

'A Connected Place', a new play by Youlim Nam just has been confirmed to reprise the show at the Kabayitos Theatre at the Clemente as a play reading on Oct 26th, 2021 at 8 pm.

Stage Director George Ferencz (1947-2021), passed away on September 14 following a long illness according to his wife of 35 years, Sally Lesser. For over a half century, Ferencz was a beloved fixture of New York’s Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatre scenes.