Jenny Lyn Bader News

Luna Stage's 2019-2020 Season features bold new plays that examine the power of independence, the value of freedom, and what it means to be 'American.' Season Passes are now on sale for six-play season, which features two World Premieres, the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award-winner for Best New Play, and the launch of Luna's new American Voices Series.

This Is Not A Theatre Company is flattered to be included in Jonathan Mandell's list of Top 5 Immersive Theatres in NYC doing 'adventurous and groundbreaking work.' We are right up there with some of our favorite colleagues - Punchdrunk, En Garde Arts, Third Rail, and Woodshed Collective -- and we couldn't be more proud.

For one night only on May 15th, 2019, 7 actors will perform 7 short works by 7 emerging playwrights participating in Athena Theatre Company's Athena Writes 2019 Playwriting Fellowship. Proceeds from the evening will seed the further growth and development of Athena Writes fellows and their projects.

Luna Stage just released Season Passes for their 2019-2020 Season-with a twist. Luna will offer six shows-three on the MainStage and three in their newly renovated studio space dubbed Luna2-to their subscribers in the upcoming season. The calendar is set, and Luna will announce two plays in April, two in May, and two in June.

'Before This New Year,' a coming-of-age identity and right-of-first-passage love story by playwright Liana Sonenclar, will play a reading for industry on Monday, November 19th at 7 PM, at the Jerry Orbach Theater at the Theater Center at 210 West 50th Street, and will feature a notable cast. The play is helmed by director Kimberly Loren Eaton, who has been working on the development of the piece with Sonenclar the past several months through her creative development and production company Theatrum Mundi Productions.

This Is Not A Theatre Company is proud to present the reopening of Cafe Play this fall at the historic Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. The show had a successful limited run last fall Off-Off Broadway and now returns for six weeks, from September 16 to October 28. Tickets went on sale Wednesday.

For the first time ever, TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS (TTF) brings you readings and performances from Shakespeare juxtaposed against new verse theatre, with scenes from some of your favorite modern playwrights, in an evening called Tale As Old As Time.

The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) launched its 35th season, championing women and leading the conversation about gender parity in the American theatre, on Tuesday, September 26th, at the Players Club on Gramercy Park. Scroll down for photos!

This Is Not A Theatre Company's Caf Play explores everything from the customers to the waitstaff to the cockroach on the floor, offering a unique glimpse into the lives of New Yorkers in a cafe. Scenes run the gamut from the hilarious to the profound and transformative. Breakfast performances (10:30am) include coffee and a breakfast pastry; lunch performances (12:30pm) include a light lunch (salad); afternoon tea performances (3:00pm) include tea and a pastry; late night performances (10:30pm) include a glass of Cornelia Street's signature wine.

Ten stories about Flushing Meadows Corona Park will come to life in one production, Park Plays, performed from tonight, July 28 to August 6 at Queens Theatre, located in Queens' most iconic park.

Ten stories about Flushing Meadows Corona Park will come to life in one production, Park Plays, performed from July 28 to August 6 at Queens Theatre, located in Queens' most iconic park.  

The May edition of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, May 28 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

In This is Not a Theatre Company's Subway Plays, audiences ride the L, N, and 7 trains while listening to "Subway Plays," an app that can be downloaded to your smart phone for $2.99 from Apple or Android. 

The One Minute Play Festival returns to the New Ohio for the 3rd Annual New York City Indie Theatre One Minute Play Festival - with part of the proceeds to benefit the New Ohio's new play and artist residency programming.

On Monday, September 26, 2016, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization who for the past 12 years has been dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2016 recipients at its annual awards ceremony, The IT Awards. Hosted by a crowd favorite, Jason Kravits and directed by award winning director and sound designer, DeLisa White the ceremony took place from 7pm to 10pm at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present a new monthly play development series, New York Madness on the last Sunday of every month, beginning Sunday, September 25 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

This past weekend, playwright & producer Susan Merson presented IN HER NAME: A WEEKEND OF WOMEN'S STORIES as part of '365 WOMEN A YEAR: A Playwriting Project,' a festival of new plays at the 13th Street Repertory Theater (50 West 13th Street, NYC Friday night).

Theatre 167's YOU ARE NOW THE OWNER OF THIS SUITCASE, by Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, and Stefanie Zadravec, runs now through May 1, 2016 at the West End Theatre, conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

Before entering the theatre, we were asked to look at a map on the wall and mark a spot of our personal origin. I admit that I had to think a moment as to exactly how many dots to mark. So many of us come from different areas of the world and this process was fascinating to start with and put me immediately in touch with visions of my relatives past and present in my mind.