Michael Hagins News

Planet Connections changes the landscape of New York theatre this year. The award-winning Planet Connections Theatre Festivity runs June 12 - July 9, 2017 at The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC. WWW.PLANETCONNECTIONS.ORG

The wild project has just announced its current and upcoming spring lineup. Scroll down for details!

Avant Media's Tangets Series, NY No Limits Film Series, The CURRENT SESSIONS, and Spotlight On fest included the East Village venue's April programming.

White Rabbit SEXCAPADES entices you with eight new works of love, lust, and dirty little secrets, passionately penned by eight funny, fear-free playwrights, the event will include original music by Christopher Palmer, lyrics by Andrew Rothkin, and choreography by Sarah Doudna.

White Rabbit SEXCAPADES entices you with eight new works of love, lust, and dirty little secrets, passionately penned by eight funny, fear-free playwrights, the event will include original music by Christopher Palmer, lyrics by Andrew Rothkin, and choreography by Sarah Doudna.

The Fools & Kings Project in collaboration with Riverbank State Park opens its free outdoor production of The Tempest on Today, September 10th at the Riverbank State Park Ampitheatre at 4:30pm (entrance at W. 145th and Riverside Drive). This marks the second production of the company's third season of outdoor Shakespeare. 

The Fools & Kings Project in collaboration with Riverbank State Park opens its free outdoor production of The Tempest on Saturday, September 10th at the Riverbank State Park Ampitheatre at 4:30pm (entrance at W. 145th and Riverside Drive). This marks the second production of the company's third season of outdoor Shakespeare. 

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.

Nine Theatricals in association with Engine Productions will present HAMLET at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in a special limited engagement, tonight, July 13, through July 24 (Wednesday - Saturday @8:00 p.m.; matinees: Saturday & Sunday at 3:00 p.m.). BroadwayWorld has a look behind the scenes below!

Nine Theatricals in association with Engine Productions will present HAMLET at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in a special limited engagement, July 13 - 24 (Wednesday - Saturday @8:00 p.m.; matinees: Saturday & Sunday at 3:00 p.m.). BroadwayWorld has a look behind the scenes below!

Step1 Theatre Project presents WHO AM I by Rodney Reyes, directed by Janelle Zapata, performing at The Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street, NYC, tonight, June 23rd at 9:15pm, Saturday, June 25th at 4:15pm, Wednesday, June 29th at 7:45pm, and Friday, July 8th at 5:35pm. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

Step1 Theatre Project presents WHO AM I by Rodney Reyes, directed by Janelle Zapata, performing at The Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street, NYC, Thursday, June 23rd at 9:15pm, Saturday, June 25th at 4:15pm, Wednesday, June 29th at 7:45pm, and Friday, July 8th at 5:35pm. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

Ghoulish goings on are expected for the monster month of October and Andrew Rothkin & Sara Minisquero of White Rabbit supply us with a whole cauldron full! The second annual White Rabbit Productions' Halloween event: SCREAM QUEENS AND CRAZED FIENDS. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the show, featuring some maccabre moments from the works of Christopher Sirota and Mohammed Saad Ali, members of Genesis Repertory's M Center Play-and-Screen Writers Workshop!

Ghoulish goings on are expected for the monster month of October and Andrew Rothkin & Sara Minisquero of White Rabbit supply us with a whole cauldron full! The second annual White Rabbit Productions' Halloween event: SCREAM QUEENS AND CRAZED FIENDS. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the show, featuring some maccabre moments from the works of Christopher Sirota and Mohammed Saad Ali, members of Genesis Repertory's M Center Play-and-Screen Writers Workshop!

Ghoulish goings on are expected for the monster month of October and Andrew Rothkin & Sara Minisquero of White Rabbit supply us with a whole cauldron full!

Directed by Ashley Gunsteens (WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW, FringeNYC 2013 'Best Ensemble'), the EVERSCAPE cast features: Phil Gillen* (last seen Off Broadway in A HAPPY END, and as 'Wilbur' in the National Tour of CHARLOTTE'S WEB), Michael Rehse, Ivy Croteau, Tim Heller, Meg Mark, Sean Dube, Ariel Cruz and Jacob Williams.

Jordi Coats and Ashley Gunsteens, in association with The Present Company, present the WORLD-PREMIERE of EVERSCAPE- Allan Maule's new action-packed dramedy about addiction to the world of online gaming - as part of the 19th Annual New York International Fringe Festival with five performances only, between August 18-29 at the Celebration of Whimsy Theater a.k.a. COW (21 Clinton Street) in Manhattan. EverScape is an Equity Approved Showcase.

Some of Broadway's most prominent players are donating their time to mentor the next generation of industry writers and those writers have been announced!

Final casting has been set for the 2015 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity's Playwrights For A Cause, set to take place at 7:30pm on Sunday, June 14, 2015 at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, on Sunday, June 14 at 7:30 pm. The evening, which will benefit the non-profit National Coalition Against Censorship, will showcase world premiere one-act plays by three acclaimed playwrights: Israel Horovitz's Breaking Phillip Glass and Erik Ehn's Her Speech, both directed by Planet Connections Theatre Festivity founder and PFAC Producing Artistic Curator Glory Kadigan, and Halley Feiffer's A Play About New Mexico, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.

C.A.G.E. Theatre Company presents Michael Hagins's Civil War drama The Long Rail North, where friendship grows out of a most unlikely situation. Directed by Emily DeSena, The Long Rail North will be performed on Sunday, June 21st at 1pm, Thursday, June 25th at 4:30pm, Tuesday, June 30th at 7pm, Saturday, July 4th at 4pm, Wednesday, July 8th at 8pm and Saturday, July 11th at 5pm in the Downstairs Theatre at The Paradise Factory, located at 64 East 4th Street, as part of the 2015 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.