Lavinia Roberts News

Theater for the New City and Crystal Field (Artistic Director) present To Dream of Trees as part of the 2013 Dream Up Festival. To Dream of Trees is an imaginative piece of storytelling set in an apocalyptic world.

The Secret Theatre is undergoing a big change as they close their old Little Theatre, and open a brand new Little Secret Theatre. The first thing to grace the stage of the New Little Secret will be the first annual UNFringed Theatre Festival, 5 unique new plays, on a brand new stage, in a brand new festival. The month of August will be all about fresh theatre, in every sense of the word!

Follow your Odysseus. This August, Brooklyn's Exquisite Corpse Company brings you Odd.A.See. An ambitious retelling of Homer's classic, Odd.A.See explores how the memories of violence haunt us, and how we struggle to find the courage to go home. The audience follows Odysseus through a labyrinth of worlds collaboratively re-imagined and brought to life by a company of nearly 50 artists - including writers, musicians, installation artists, actors, and designers.

From August 18 to September 8, 2013 Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its fourth 'Dream Up Festival,' a festival of adventurous theater featuring new works from across the country and abroad. Curated by the theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price, the festival offers 24 plays, of which 23 are world premieres and one is an American premiere.

The Secret Theatre is holding their first annual UNFringed Theatre Festival from August 15th-September 1st, dedicated to giving the stage to unique new works. With multiple performances and each show receiving prime slots, UNFringed strives to give each work the visibility it deserves. Five Shows have been selected for the UNFringed Festival:

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) opened on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 with sold-out performances of The Rules of the World, written by Lavinia Roberts, and The Last Day of Oscar Wilde's Life, written by Adam Esquenazi Douglas. DUTF playwrights in attendance at the Opening Night Playwrights Reception included Anselmo Coy Martinez, Adam Esquenazi Douglas (pictured), Lavinia Roberts (pictured), Nelson Diaz-Marcano, Keelay Gipson, D. L. Siegel, Dana Tarantino and Jo Shui. Check out photos below!

For its 11th Annual season, Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) declares, 'our superheros are the writers' through a groundbreaking campaign that features vibrant and ingenious illustrations of the playwrights by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez of Studio Edgardo. This much-anticipated season will keep audiences on The Edge of their seats with theatrical works that effortlessly swing through urban landscapes ranging from Brooklyn, USA to the Ukraine to intimate stories about Oscar Wilde to hip hop alien abduction ... and much more. DUTF rolls into HERE in SoHo, NYC for three weeks, today, February 27 through March 16, 2013.

For its 11th Annual season, Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) declares, 'our superheros are the writers' through a groundbreaking campaign that features vibrant and ingenious illustrations of the playwrights by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez of Studio Edgardo. This much-anticipated season will keep audiences on the edge of their seats with theatrical works that effortlessly swing through urban landscapes ranging from Brooklyn, USA to the Ukraine to intimate stories about Oscar Wilde to hip hop alien abduction ... and much more. DUTF rolls into HERE in SoHo, NYC for three weeks, February 27 through March 16, 2013.

John Chatterton and The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) have announced the Third Annual Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival, from Feb. 4 through 24, 2013. The Festival will take place at Roy Arias Studios' Stage 2, 300 W. 43rd St. 4th fl. Tickets (from $13 to $18, depending on a play's length; no discounts for seniors or students) are available at www.smartTix.com (search by play title or follow the link provided below) or by calling 212/868-4444.

Now in its 11th year, the Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) is becoming New York's premiere winter/spring theatre event showcasing independent theatre artists looking to bring their work to wider audiences while offering them the resources they require to succeed. The three-week festival, produced by Creative Ammo, Inc., rolls into HERE Mainstage in SoHo, NYC February 27 through March 16, 2013 with its unique brand of urban theater that provides writers from America's burgeoning multicultural landscape the opportunity to share their stories that interpret our history and our times.

Next year will mark the much-anticipated 11th annual season of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) and from 120 submissions, DUTF has narrowed it down to 24 finalists. The decisions were extremely difficult due to the amazing plays received from gifted emerging writers who hail from across the U.S. and internationally from Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom.

Having read through all 700 entries, Papatango Theatre Company has announced the long list for this year's Papatango New Writing Competition in association with the Finborough Theatre. The standard of this year's entries was extremely high and cutting it down to just 26 was a very hard but rewarding task. This year's selection represents a truly eclectic mix with playwrights from all over the UK as well as successful international entrants from Ireland, the United States and New Zealand. Papatango thanks everybody who entered and congratulates the 26 playwrights that have made the longlist.

The READY FOR OUR CLOSE-UP Weekend Event will take place August 26 - 28, 2011, in Hollywood, California, and celebrates the diversity of women in the performing arts, and the empowerment of their unique differences as individuals.

The READY FOR OUR CLOSE-UP Weekend Event will take place August 26 - 28, 2011, in Hollywood, California, and celebrates the diversity of women in the performing arts, and the empowerment of their unique differences as individuals.

The READY FOR OUR CLOSE-UP Weekend Event will take place August 26 - 28, 2011, in Hollywood, California, and celebrates the diversity of women in the performing arts, and the empowerment of their unique differences as individuals.

The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) is presenting three winning scripts from the 2011 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest, selected from over 150 entries including from U.S., Italy , New Zealand, Africa and the UK.

The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) is presenting three winning scripts from the 2011 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest, selected from over 150 entries including from U.S., Italy , New Zealand, Africa and the UK.

The Castillo Theatre (Dan Friedman, artistic director, Diane Stiles, managing director) is presenting three winning scripts from the 2011 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Contest, selected from over 150 entries including from U.S., Italy , New Zealand, Africa and the UK. The plays are being directed by distinguished theatre professionals. They will be presented on Monday, August 1, 8, 22 at 7:00 p.m.