Carla Ching's comedy Fast Company, about a family of Asian American con artists on the trail of a million-dollar comic book, begins previews for its New York premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, Wednesday, March 12, at 7:00pm for an opening Thursday, March 20, at 7:00pm (for a run currently scheduled through April 6). Robert Ross Parker of the Obie-winning troupe Vampire Cowboys directs.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the winners of the NYMF 2012 Awards for Excellence. Awards are voted on by the NYMF jury.
Filipino musical creators Romeo Candido and Carmen de Jesus' PRISON DANCER, a new musical loosely based on the five-year-old viral video featuring the dancing inmates of Cebu, Philippines' Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, won Excellence in Choreography for its director and choreographer, Jenn Rapp; Outstanding Ensemble Performance for its all-Filipino cast led by Broadway actors Jose Llana, Catherine Ricafort, and Albert Guerzon; and Outstanding Individual Performance for Filipino Canadian actor Jeigh Madjus, who plays Lola, a cross-dresser who teaches his fellow convicts how to dance, at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Awards for Excellence ceremony held last night at Hudson Terrace.
One of New York Musical Theatre Festival's fastest-selling shows, PRISON DANCER, an original screenplay turned into a web series turned into a stage musical by Romeo Candido (music, lyrics, and book) and Carmen de Jesus (book), veers away from the hugeness of its viral hit inspiration - a video uploaded to YouTube in 2007 that boasts around 1,500 male inmates of Cebu, Philippines' Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center dancing in sync with Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - by using its two-hour storytelling to explore more about the personal lives of a handful, fictitious prisoners instead, interspersed with a lively dose of Filipino cultural and religious quirks, and with a heavy R&B/club-ish score not often used for a musical.
New York City-based Leviathan Lab presents a free staged reading/talkback of actor, playwright and diversity advocate Christine Toy Johnson's ('Pacific Overtures', 'Merrily We Roll Along') new play 'Adventures of a Faux Designer Handbag', featuring Filipino American actors Ali Ewoldt ('Les Miserables'), Jaygee Macapugay ('Imelda', 'Honor') and other leading Asian-American actors, at the Center Stage NY (48 W 21st Street, 4th Floor, between 5th & 6th Avenues, New York City), today at 7:30 p.m.
Wide Eyed Productions in association with Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program Presents William Shakespeare's Henry VI part III. The show is directed by Adam Marple
Wide Eyed Productions And Columbia University Present HENRY VI PART III 7/1-24
Wide Eyed Productions And Columbia University Present HENRY VI PART III 7/1-24
Columbia University, School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program presents William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET. The show is directed by ADRIANA BAER and runs April 21-24, 2010.
Columbia University, School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program presents William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET. The show is directed by ADRIANA BAER and runs April 21-24, 2010.
Columbia University, School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program presents William Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET. The show is directed by ADRIANA BAER and runs April 21-24, 2010.
Columbia Stages announces its first fall presentation of the 2009-2010 season, Lifetime Fairytale-the collaboration of 2nd year MFA Playwright Zhu Yi and 3rd year MFA Director Marios Theocharous.
Columbia Stages announces its first fall presentation of the 2009-2010 season, Lifetime Fairytale-the collaboration of 2nd year MFA Playwright Zhu Yi and 3rd year MFA Director Marios Theocharous.
Columbia Stages announces its first fall presentation of the 2009-2010 season, Lifetime Fairytale-the collaboration of 2nd year MFA Playwright Zhu Yi and 3rd year MFA Director Marios Theocharous.
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