FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade/New York Madness present the third play in their MadLab Reading Series on Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 8pm: Painting with Lulu by Judith Leora at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery), directed by Michele Travis.
The theme for the May edition of New York Madness is 'The Fascist Playbook' Madness. The show will take place on Sunday, June 24th at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Cheryl Paley is co-producing the June edition of New York Madness and chose this month's theme.
The theme for the May edition of New York Madness is 'Who Holds the Leash?' Madness. The plays will explore the idea of who has power in our culture and what they are willing to do it keep it. The show will take place on Sunday, May 27 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). The lineup will include Gina Femia (Annie and the Fat Man, We Are a Masterpiece), Michael Hagins (Hit and Match, Michael is Black), Julienne Hairston (Fire This Time Festival, Born on Freedom's Road), Bruce A! Kraemer (what do you mean, Identity Paper), Judith Leora (Showpony, Elijah), Edmond Malin (1MPF, FringeNYC), Bara Swain (Critical Care, numerous plays in Best Ten Minute Plays)) and Richard Vertere (Lady Macbeth and Her Lover, One Shot, One Kill).
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade/New York Madness present the second play in their MadLab Reading Series on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 8pm: Born on Freedom's Road by Julienne Hairston (Project Y, The Fire This Time) at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery), directed by Illana Stein (A Midsummer Night's Dream/Queens Players, or what she will, FringeNYC'12/directing award).
The January edition of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, January 28 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). The lineup will include Matt Barbot (El Coqu Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom, Two River Theater), Jack Gilbert (Mea Culpa), C.J. Ehrlich (Zane to Gate 69, The Cupcake Conspiracy), Aleesha Nash (Lipstick/Cherry Lane), Judith Leora (Showpony, Next Stage/Capital Rep), Libby Emmons (SF Olympians), Madhuri Shekar (In Love and Warcraft/Alliance, Queen/Victory Gardens), and David Adam Gill (Providence at Roy Arias Stages),
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the 2017-18 season of New York Madness and their MadLab Reading Series on November 29, April 29, and July 29 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the 2017-18 season of New York Madness and their MadLab Reading Series on November 29, April 29, and July 29 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
New York Madness has announced the schedule for its 2017-18 season, their second in residence with FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
The June installment of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, June 25 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
The April edition of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, April 30 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
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.
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the November installment of New York Madness on Sunday, November 20 at 8pm with Featured Guest Playwright Mac Rogers (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Universal Robots; Webby Award winning podcast, The Message).
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the October installment of New York Madness on Sunday, October 30 at 8pm with guest playwrights Dennis A. Allen II (Won the 2010 Sam French Festival for The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi; Recipient of Atlantic Theater Company's inaugural 2014-15 Launch Commission), Maggie Bofill (Drawn and Quartered at INTAR, NY Times Critics Pick; Winners at EST, 2015), Nat Cassidy (2009 NYIT Award forThe Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots; 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Solo Performance), Shaun B. Fauntleroy (#SPEAKUP: The Street Harassment Plays with Flux Theatre Ensemble), Gina Femia (semi-finalist The O'Neill and The Princess Grace Award for Super, or, How Clark Graves Learned to Fly; Mahogany Brown and the Case of the Disappearing Kid at The Brick; Five-Sided Triangle at Dixon Place), Julienne Hairston (Ababuo and#Hashtag with Project Y; Coal Run Road in The 2015 Fire This Time Festival), Judith Leora (The Cookie Fight with Bristol Valley Theatre; Gideon with Ego Actus), Nilsa Reyna (founding Artistic Director of Chicago's Fusion Theatre; Legends of Texas with Lonestar Theatre), and Deborah Yarchun(Honorable Mention on The Kilroy's List for The Aleph Complex; EST/Sloan Commission for Tectonic Melange).
FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the October installment of New York Madness on Sunday, October 30 at 8pm with guest playwrights Dennis A. Allen II (Won the 2010 Sam French Festival for The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi; Recipient of Atlantic Theater Company's inaugural 2014-15 Launch Commission), Maggie Bofill (Drawn and Quartered at INTAR, NY Times Critics Pick; Winners at EST, 2015), Nat Cassidy (2009 NYIT Award forThe Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots; 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Solo Performance), Shaun B. Fauntleroy (#SPEAKUP: The Street Harassment Plays with Flux Theatre Ensemble), Gina Femia (semi-finalist The O'Neill and The Princess Grace Award for Super, or, How Clark Graves Learned to Fly; Mahogany Brown and the Case of the Disappearing Kid at The Brick; Five-Sided Triangle at Dixon Place), Julienne Hairston (Ababuo and#Hashtag with Project Y; Coal Run Road in The 2015 Fire This Time Festival), Judith Leora (The Cookie Fight with Bristol Valley Theatre; Gideon with Ego Actus), Nilsa Reyna (founding Artistic Director of Chicago's Fusion Theatre; Legends of Texas with Lonestar Theatre), and Deborah Yarchun(Honorable Mention on The Kilroy's List for The Aleph Complex; EST/Sloan Commission for Tectonic Melange).
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).
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere socially conscious-eco-friendly theatre festival, caps off its latest season with its annual awards ceremony on Sunday, August 14, at 7pm, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street.
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, the country's premier socially-conscious, eco-friendly arts festival, is proud to announce its eighth season of plays, musicals & staged readings, with all shows taking place at The Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th St, between 2nd Avenue & Bowery.
Lone Star Theatre Company will present THE POWER PLAYS: Six Plays about Strong Texas Women. The event includes six new one-act plays by Robert Askins Playwright Fellows Alan Charnock, Emily Comisar, Judith Leora, and Nilsa Reyna plus special guest playwrights Maxwell Martinez and Ryan Ramirez.
Judith Leora's SHOWPONY will receive it's first staged reading tonight for Lone Star Theatre Co as part of their on-going Texas Reads series. When a diverse group of women are randomly thrown together, they quickly realize that their cultural training has put them directly in opposition to each other, whether as workhorses, show-ponies or race-horses. Will they figure out how to get past their assigned roles and see each other as people?
Taking the gender parity problem head-on New York Madness is bringing to the stage a Special All-Women writers and directors edition of their short play festival, a mainstay of NYC's Indie Theater Community. NYMadness has produced at HERE Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studios Theatre, INTAR Theater, ESPA Primary Stages and many more across the city. Since inception six years ago NYMadness has been a leader on gender parity maintaining a 50/50 even split men/women on their roster. With a focus on emerging artists, NYM hosts a hot night of short plays all based on a Theme announced one week prior to the event. The Theme for this special edition is appropriately dubbed, SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY Madness.
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