Joseph Megel News

Voyage Theater Company will present SAY GAY PLAYS, an evening of queer theater to benefit New Alternatives For Homeless LGBT Youth on Monday, May 13 at NYU Skirball.

The West Coast premiere of Howard L. Craft’s Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green begins November 12, 2023, at the Fountain Theatre. Joseph Megel directs this one-man outing starring J. Alphonse Nicholson. J. Alphonse made some time out of his rehearsals to answer a few of my queries.

The Fountain Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green, a timely and timeless theatrical journey written by Howard L. Craft, directed by Joseph Megel, and starring J. Alphonse Nicholson. Learn more about the show here!

Azuka Theatre will close their 2022/2023 season with the World Premiere of Galilee written by Christine Evans and directed by Azuka's Co-Artistic Director Rebecca May Flowers.

Silhouettes of Service, a play created and performed by Gregory DeCandia, Artistic Director of DreamWrights Center for Community Arts, will be produced at DreamWrights for one night only on Veteran’s Day, November 11th. It was created from interviews with soldiers from World War II through the present.

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents a production of StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance What: PRC2 presentation of Temples of Lung and Air; written and performed by Kane Smego, directed by Joseph Megel When: August 22 to 26, 2018; Opening Night August 22 Where: Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art, 120 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill, NC Tickets: Regular: $35; Students: $10 with valid UNC photo ID. All tickets general admission.

PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly kicks off its 2018/19 season 'Shifting Ground: Theatre that Moves' with the world premiere of Temples of Lung and Air. Carolina alumnus Kane Smego, an international poet, musician, and educator, presents an electric, personal, spoken-word ode to hip-hop that explores race, language, and identity. Temples of Lung and Air is the first offering in PlayMakers' exciting PRC2 Kenan Stage series and is a production of StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, founded in Chicago and now based in Chatham County. The production is directed by Joseph Megel, Artistic Director of StreetSigns and Director of the Process Series, a new works incubator at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Playwright and performer Taylor Mac once said: "Theater reminds an audience of the things they've forgotten, dismissed, or buried or that others have buried for them. It unearths. It brings the conversation you aren't having with yourself into the room." Such is the case with Raleigh Little Theatre's world premiere ensemble version of Blood Done Sign My Name. The play by Mike Wiley, adapted from the memoir by Timothy Tyson, looks the "brutal history" of Oxford, NC in the eye during a time when the quaint town became a battleground for racial equity and social justice. Just as Hamilton informed how people have come to understand American History, Wiley's Blood Done Sign My Name moves audiences to face North Carolina's past in a way that is palatable, accessible, and thought-provoking, which is good, because this is one history lesson you don't want to miss.

On Sunday, October 29, immediately after the 2:30 pm matinee of 'FREIGHT: the five incarnations of Abel Green,' New Federal Theatre will host a discussion among Artistic Director Woodie King, Jr., playwright Howard Craft and actor Alphonse Nicholson about incarnation, playwriting, and acting.

From tonight, October 19, to November 19, Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre, in association with Castillo Theatre, will present the Off-Broadway debut of 'FREIGHT: the five incarnations of Abel Green' by Howard L. Craft, directed by Joseph Megel, starring J. Alphonse Nicholson, at Castillo Theater, 543 West 42nd Street.

From October 19 to November 19, Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre, in association with Castillo Theatre, will present the Off-Broadway debut of 'FREIGHT: the five incarnations of Abel Green' by Howard L. Craft, directed by Joseph Megel, starring J. Alphonse Nicholson, at Castillo Theater, 543 West 42nd Street.

???????Marjorie Moon, Executive Director Emeritus of Brooklyn's esteemed Billie Holiday Theatre, has joined the team of Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre (www.newfederaltheatre.com) as Administrative Consultant.  

Written by Howard L. Craft and presented by StreetSigns, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Green tells the story of an African American male who exists in five different dimensions of the same universe at different points in American history.

Written by Howard L. Craft and presented by StreetSigns, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Green tells the story of an African American male who exists in five different dimensions of the same universe at different points in American history.

The Process Series at UNC will feature an engaging new work by an acclaimed playwright in November. Commissioned by the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Lauren Yee's King of the Yees will be performed tonight and tomorrow, November 6 and 7, 2014, at 8:00pm in Studio 6 of Swain Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill. The performance is free and open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.

The Process Series at UNC will feature an engaging new work by an acclaimed playwright in November. Commissioned by the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Lauren Yee's King of the Yees will be performed November 6 and 7, 2014, at 8:00pm in Studio 6 of Swain Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill. The performance is free and open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.

The Process Series at UNC kicks off its 2014/15 season with Dolly Wilde's Picture Show, a new work-in-progress by alumna playwright Rebecca Nesvet, tonight and tomorrow, August 21 and 22, in Studio 6 of Swain Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Process Series at UNC kicks off its 2014/15 season with Dolly Wilde's Picture Show, a new work-in-progress by alumna playwright Rebecca Nesvet, on August 21 and 22, in Studio 6 of Swain Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Tonight, December 18th, NewFilmmakers presents its annual Christmas Screening Series.

On Wednesday, December 18th, NewFilmmakers presents its annual Christmas Screening Series.