Jason Craig News

Trinity Repertory Company invites the public to celebrate the performing arts in Rhode Island and beyond as the host of the second annual season kick-off party,Saturday, August 27, 2016. Across two stages and six hours, over 20  theater and dance companies, musicians and independent artists will gather at Trinity Rep to share previews of upcoming work while re-connecting with loyal fans and introducing themselves to new ones. The party will also feature an interactive art installation by Tape Art, a variety of food trucks, tours of Trinity Rep's historic building and more. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.trinityrep.com.

? At an exclusive event last night for subscribers, donors and members of the press, Tony Award-winning Trinity Repertory Company, under the leadership of Richard L. Bready Artistic Director Curt Columbus announced their 2016-2017 season: Ghosts of the Past, Dreams of the Future.

Pipeline Theatre Company has announced the addition of Natalie Gershtein, Producing Director, to their leadership team. Gershtein joins Ari Schrier, who has served as the company's Artistic Director since 2012. In this newly created position, Gershtein will work collaboratively with Schrier to oversee the company's strategic and artistic growth, which includes the presentation of the New York premiere of Jason Craig and Dave Malloy's BEARDO in the 2016-2017 season.

This highly anticipated new work, LongYarn, listed in Time Out NY's 20 Best Theatre Shows in NYC in 2016, is an outrageous shaggy-dog folktale of the adventurous and long-lived 'Mother', a character based on strong, peculiar and compelling women from history. The outlandish poetic adventures of her youth include tales of riverboat piracy, a stint as a professional wrestler, lost days as a crack addict and being raised by a family of cows, spun through a tenor of joyful hopelessness.

The Bushwick Starr has just announced its 2015-16 Season of Programming. 

When two drifters arrive at Sistine's door, she offers them mismatched coffee cups and something called breakfast. Outside the dogs are barking. Probably dogs. The drifters are now lodgers. They meet the family. There's a house and people live in it. Vegetables in the garden. Board games. History. Stories. Rituals. Songs. Do we sing songs? We've lived this way for centuries. Or decades. Anyway, a long time. We know how to survive.

When two drifters arrive at Sistine's door, she offers them mismatched coffee cups and something called breakfast. Outside the dogs are barking. Probably dogs. The drifters are now lodgers. They meet the family. There's a house and people live in it. Vegetables in the garden. Board games. History. Stories. Rituals. Songs. Do we sing songs? We've lived this way for centuries. Or decades. Anyway, a long time. We know how to survive.

Variety writes that Linda Cardellini, Jason Lee and Craig Robinson have joined the indie comedy LOST IN AUSTIN, directed by Will Raee from a script he wrote with Brenna Graziano.

Statham and Chasman recetly completed filming HEAT under their banner SJ Pictures.

On May 6, EXIT Theatre received yet another award, this one from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. At their Gala awards ceremony, BATCC honored the blood, toil, tears and sweat behind EXIT - Artistic Director Christina Augello and Managing Director Richard Livingston - with the Paine Knickerbocker Award 'for continuing contribution to Bay Area theatre.'

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, and OBERON will host an epic reading of Beowulf in the original Old English - beginning at 12 noon, and preceding the evening performance of the Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, text by Jason Craig, music by Dave Malloy, co-directed by Rod Hipskind & Mallory Catlett.

BANANA BAG & BODICE presents the World Premiere of SPACE//SPACE. Text by Jason Craig. Directed by Mallory Catlett. Previews began June 8 at The Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg. Opening is tonight, June 14.

BANANA BAG & BODICE presents the World Premiere of SPACE//SPACE. Text by Jason Craig. Directed by Mallory Catlett. Previews begin June 8 at The Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg. Opening is set for June 14.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, today announced the 2012/13 subscription season, which includes the previously announced world premiere of Marie Antoinette and a bold new staging of Pippin.

Drama Desk nominated actress Christina Bianco will join nightlife host Marti Gould Cummings for the Easter edition of UnTucked and UnCensored at Vig27.

Drama Desk nominated actress Christina Bianco will join nightlife host Marti Gould Cummings for the Easter edition of UnTucked and UnCensored at Vig27.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance.