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Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein today announced that The Keen Teens Festival of New Work will offer three new one-acts by C. Quintana, Bleu Beckford-Burell, and Stephanie Swirsky, featuring a cast of New York City high school students.
BEASTGIRL, a captivating new musical centered around three first-generation Dominican-American sisters, begins its world premiere at the Kennedy Center’s Studio K this month. Don’t miss your chance to see it.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced the full cast and creative team for Beastgirl, a Kennedy Center-commissioned world premiere for young adults based on the book Beastgirl and Other Origin Myths by New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo.
WET, a new musical by Janelle Lawrence, has its New York Premiere at Town Stages (221 West Broadway) in Downtown Manhattan on Friday, October 22 at 7pm. A Facilitated talkback follows the reading.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its 2021 – 2022 Performances for Young Audiences season with eight world premiere Kennedy Center commissions and co-commissions.
HAUS OF DUST, a bold and imaginative immersive production written and directed by Gabriel Torres, will make its world premiere in NYC beginning Thursday, June 17 for a limited engagement through Sunday, July 25. Press Opening is Sunday, June 20 at 3:30 pm.
The Tank has announced a full slate of programming for its annual PrideFest. Every year in June, The Tank opens the floor to a wide variety of performances and discussions surrounding the topics of sexuality, gender, and equality, old battles, and new ways of fighting them.
JACK has announced the nine artists selected for residencies at JACK. Chosen from an open call that drew 169 submissions, the artists include theater-makers Carolina Đỗ, Kedian Keohan, Drew Drake and Jadele McPherson, designers Itohan Edoloyi and Tuçe Yasak, composers Jaime Lozano and Sugar Vendil, and dance artist Nora Alami.
Janelle Lawrence, interdisciplinary Afro-Latinx artist, has announced their upcoming workshops Storyteller Session and Mapping Out Your Musical, each scheduled for Sunday, March 28, 2021. Storyteller Sessions offers a thorough and cohesive guide through writing or editing a play, screenplay, or book (musical).
Today (March 18) in live streaming: a Little House on the Prarie reunion on Stars in the House, Jackie Hoffman visits Backstage Live, and more!
Tank-aret, a cabaret series at The Tank founded by musical theater writing team Ella Rose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn, and curated by composer Sam Kaseta, will feature performances from Janelle Lawrence and Kaseta for their Thursday, March 18, 2021 performance.
Theatre Now New York, a non-profit artists service organization and theatre company dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers, has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation.
Theatre Now New York has established a new National Musical Writers Group which will bring together lyricists and composers from across the nation. The inaugural group members include: Jason Aguirre and Adam J. Rineer (Philadelphia); Mark Evan Chimsky (Portland, ME) and Zev Burrows (New York City); Ann E. Eskridge and Alton James (Detroit) & more.
Braata Productions joins a long list of arts organizations documenting this time in our history when a pandemic has changed us forever! Braata's Radio Play series Caribbean in Queens features 5 audio plays about 5 different Caribbean-American households in Queens as they navigate life as family, as immigrants, during a pandemic, and just life in general!
The Parsnip Ship (Artistic Director + Host, Iyvon Edebiri) has announced the line-up for the radio play and music series' sixth season, a selection of dynamic and powerful stories from LGBTQIA+ playwrights to be recorded in front of a live audience and streamed to listeners around the country.
Art imitates life when the Fountain Theatre presents Talking Peace, a new 10-minute, site-specific a?oeZoom-within-a-Zooma?? by acclaimed playwright France-Luce Benson.
This week SPACE on Ryder Farm, the non profit residency program and organic farm, has announced eight 2020 CSArt Featured Artists; Lindsey Bailey (Lindsey Swop Art & Illustration), Rachel Bonds (Sundown, Yellow Moon), Amyra León (WITNESS, Concrete Kids), Kylie Manning (Every Woman Biennial at La Mama Gallery), David McDevitt (Iowa Writers' Workshop), Natalia Nakazawa (MASS MoCA Artists Residency), korde arrington tuttle (graveyard shift) and Andy Van Dinh (Semi-Permeable at Live at the Archway).
Last week, the Mayor ordered a shutdown of all Cultural Arts Spaces in order to protect everyone's health and safety in response to Covid-19. Today the governor ordered that 100% of non-essential workers must stay home; effectively shutting down the city. We are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. However, this world, our one singular world, has been in crisis for some time, from sociopolitical & institutionalized oppression to the growing climate emergency.
Poetic Theater Productions has announced their annual festival of new poetic theater, Poetic License: Renewal. In honor of a new decade, and in celebration of 10 years of poetic theater, this year's festival will feature live performances from Wednesday, March 4th through Sunday, March 8th at the Wild Project, located at 195 East 3rd Street. The 2020 Poetic License festival will highlight poetry and theatrical collaborations that place an emphasis on this year's theme - renewal - evoking that which makes us new, fresh, or strong again.
Broad Views On Broadway is proud to present their annual Summer Fresh Festival! As we continue to face attacks on everyday human rights its important now more than ever to know we are not alone. Art is a pinnacle part of society in telling the stories of those affected most; Now is the time to come together and fight for what we believe in and Broad Views on Broadway is providing that outlet for art! The Summer Fresh Festival serves as a safe space to present some of your freshest work and receive feedback and development support! We are proud to present the artists showcasing their work this year:
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