Katharine Pettit News

The eleventh season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series continues on Monday, April 16, 2018 with pre-premieres of two new musicals: Anne of Green Gables and A Story No One Knows. Theatre Barn's eleventh season will explore 'Foreign Cultures and Fractured Fairy Tales.'

The eleventh season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series launches on Monday, February 5th, 2018 with pre-premieres of 2 new musicals: Crossing Over and Alice, Wendy, Dorothy. Theatre Barn's eleventh season will explore 'Foreign Cultures and Fractured Fairy Tales.' Casting for both shows is by Eisenberg/Beans Casting (Daryl Eisenberg,CSA; Ally Beans, CSA).

The eleventh season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series launches Monday, February 5, 2018 at The Cell with pre-premieres of two new musicals: Alice, Wendy, Dorothy and Crossing Over. Four more new musicals follow throughout the spring season. The eleventh season of the New Works Series will explore Foreign Cultures and Fractured Fairy Tales .

The tenth season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series concludes on Monday, December 4, 2017 at The Cell with pre-premieres of two new musicals: Oswald and Question 1.

The tenth season of New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series concludes on Monday, December 4, 2017 at The Cell with pre-premieres of two new musicals: Question 1 and Oswald.

The Steps Beyond Foundation, Steps on Broadway's non-profit arm that connects artists and community through dialogue, performance, and artistic collaboration, announces Choreography in Uncertain Times, the follow-up to last month's panel discussion, Art in Uncertain Times.

Nasty Women Unite Fest, a multi-day arts festival focused on intersectional feminism, begins its run with an opening night party at William Hallet in Astoria.

New York Theatre Barn will present a concert of the new all-female musical The Belle of Tombstone on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

The fourth season of New York Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab launches on Monday, February 20, 2016 at The Cell. The Choreography Lab is the only curated choreography platform where choreographers and writers collaborate to develop movement for new musicals during incubation.

The Season 4 finale of Joel B. New's musical theatre podcast 'Something New' took to the stage in the form of a livestream concert on Saturday, October 8th. An audio recording of the event has been exclusively released to BroadwayWorld on October 24th and will be available on all podcast platforms starting October 31st.

The Season 4 finale of Joel B. New's musical theatre podcast 'Something New' will take to the stage in the form of a livestream concert today, October 8th at 7pm EST.

The Season 4 finale of Joel B. New's musical theatre podcast 'Something New' will take to the stage in the form of a livestream concert on Saturday, October 8th at 7pm EST.

' I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. To some people, this empty room symbolizes something profound, mysterious, and terrifying: the task of starting with nothing and working your way toward creating something whole and beautiful and satisfying.' This passionate verse from Twyla Tharp's book 'The Creative Habit' initially spawned the idea for the concept of Manhattan's annual event, The Choreographers Canvas. Now itn its ninth year, The Canvas is a platform for emerging and established choreographers to showcase their work Off-Broadway to industry professionals and the general public. This year Canvas will perform in one of New York's most prestigious venues for dance, the 92nd Street Y.

New York Theatre Barn, which incubates, develops, and produces new musicals that tell untold stories, today announced that the company will present 'We Have Apples' and 'I Could Never Love Anyone' on Monday, July 18 as a part of its New Works Series.

' I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. To some people, this empty room symbolizes something profound, mysterious, and terrifying: the task of starting with nothing and working your way toward creating something whole and beautiful and satisfying.' This passionate verse from Twyla Tharp's book 'The Creative Habit' initially spawned the idea for the concept of Manhattan's annual event, The Choreographers Canvas. Now itn its ninth year, The Canvas is a platform for emerging and established choreographers to showcase their work Off-Broadway to industry professionals and the general public. This year Canvas will perform in one of New York's most prestigious venues for dance, the 92nd Street Y.

In Episode 403 of 'Something New' -- a podcast that interviews theatre artists and premieres original songs -- award-winning musical theatre writer Joel B. New sat down with director/choreographer Katharine Pettit.

'Your Name on My Lips,' a musical written and composed by Eric Sirota and directed by Katharine Pettit, explores the way love can inspire and sustain us.

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) presents the world premiere of the musical Your Name on My Lips, as part the Dream Up Festival, with 10 performances from August 30 to September 18.   With book, music & lyrics by composer/writer/physicist Eric Sirota, it is directed by Katharine Pettit (Susan Stroman's SDC Observer on Bullets Over Broadway).  The show explores the way love can inspire and sustain us. With a classically influenced driving contemporary score, "Your Name on My Lips" will transport the audience back to when love was earnest, feelings deep, and romance unabashedly unapologetic.

'Day of Wrath' a new musical by Eric B. Sirota, based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, will be presented this coming tonight and Monday (July 18 & 20), as an Official Selection of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Reading Series. 

'Day of Wrath' a new musical by Eric B. Sirota, based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, will be presented this coming Saturday and Monday (July 18 & 20), as an Official Selection of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Reading Series.