James Parenti News

Playhouse on Park kicks off its 6th season with the American masterpiece Angels in America: Part 1: Millennium Approaches. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, the first part of Tony Kushner's epic depicts life in America during the 1980s.

Resident co-founder/co-artistic director Sean Harris will be directing the American masterpiece Angels in America: Part 1: Millennium Approaches to kick off Playhouse on Park's sixth season. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, the first part of Tony Kushner's epic depicts life in America during the 1980s. Touching upon the provocative topics of politics, religion, and the AIDS epidemic, Angels in America has been hailed as 'a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama' (New York Times) and 'the most ambitious American Play of our time' (Newsweek). This production is recommended for audiences sixteen and up.

Playhouse on Park kicks off its 6th season with the American masterpiece Angels in America: Part 1: Millennium Approaches. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, the first part of Tony Kushner's epic depicts life in America during the 1980s.

Dare Lab presents the new verse play 'May Violets Spring' in which James Parenti cleverly rewrites Hamlet to make Ophelia a central and active character.

New York City actor and musician James Parenti has nurtured a love of verse all his life, and May Violets Spring is his first outing as an adapter and playwright. In 2011, while preparing to play the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Parenti became frustrated by Ophelia's limited place in the story. Dreaming of a production of Hamlet that gave Ophelia a voice, over the next three years Parenti adapted the material himself. The result is a love letter to classical heroines slighted by the narratives of our past and too often in productions of the present.

New York City actor and musician James Parenti has nurtured a love of verse all his life, and May Violets Spring is his first outing as an adapter and playwright. In 2011, while preparing to play the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Parenti became frustrated by Ophelia's limited place in the story. Dreaming of a production of Hamlet that gave Ophelia a voice, over the next three years Parenti adapted the material himself. The result is a love letter to classical heroines slighted by the narratives of our past and too often in productions of the present.

Turn to Flesh Productions presents the world premiere of Cupid & Psyche: A New Play in Blank Verse written and directed by Emily C. A. Snyder running at The Barrow Group Theatre beginningFebruary 13th. The cast features James Parenti, Erin Nelson, Laura Hill, Gwen Sisco, Parker Madison, Stanley Burturla, Laura Iris Hill, Kelly Zekas, Patrick Marran and Jon Adam Ross.

American Globe Theatre will end the run of its William Shakespeare tragedy TITUS ANDRONICUS on March 21st. The production is a part of the Globe Theatre's 21st Season.

American Globe Theatre celebrates its' 21 season as Times Square's longest running classical theatre with TITUS ANDRONICUS, the revenge tragedy by William Shakespeare.

American Globe Theatre celebrates its' 21 season as Times Square's longest running classical theatre with TITUS ANDRONICUS, the revenge tragedy by William Shakespeare.

BareShakespeare presents a new production of Shakespeare's late romance, /Cymbeline/. Featuring one of the Bard's most outrageous plotlines, the play concerns two young lovers separated by a stubborn King, his evil Queen, her half-witted son, an Italian womanizer, a sleeping potion, a stolen bracelet, a mistaken corpse, kidnapped princes and a war with the Roman Empire.

BareShakespeare presents a new production of Shakespeare's late romance, /Cymbeline/. Featuring one of the Bard's most outrageous plotlines, the play concerns two young lovers separated by a stubborn King, his evil Queen, her half-witted son, an Italian womanizer, a sleeping potion, a stolen bracelet, a mistaken corpse, kidnapped princes and a war with the Roman Empire.