Nancy Quinn News

Writer and director Jim Findlay examines our complicated relationship to plant life in the creepy, futuristic black comedy Botanica.

Theater company Polybe + Seats is proud to announce the premiere of the first-ever English translation of Rene Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt's Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers.

Theater company Polybe + Seats is proud to announce the premiere of the first-ever English translation of Rene Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt's Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers. This sinister 1829 French melodrama, translated by Daniel Gerould and directed by Artistic Director Jessica Brater, with additional scenes by Libby Emmons, Avi Glickstein, and Katya Schapiro, will have a limited engagement of 16 performances only beginning Thursday, October 20th as part of the company's year-long residency at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, and to celebrate their tenth season Desipina & Co. - a fusion arts company focusing in film and theatre, dedicated to promoting cross-pollinations of artistic, political and cultural dialogues - will present BARRIERS, a play by Rehana Lew Mirza (THE GOOD MUSLIM) about a South Asian family's loss from the 9/11 attacks and the backlash they endure, featuring a cast that includes Pooja Kumar (Miss India USA 1995, 'Flavors') and Sunkrish Bala (ABC-TV's 'Notes from the Underbelly'). Previews of BARRIERS will begin Wednesday, September 7 prior to an official opening date of September 9 at HERE (145 6th Avenue, enter on Dominick, 1 block south of Spring Street) in Manhattan.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, and to celebrate their tenth season Desipina & Co. - a fusion arts company focusing in film and theatre, dedicated to promoting cross-pollinations of artistic, political and cultural dialogues - will present BARRIERS, a play by Rehana Lew Mirza (THE GOOD MUSLIM) about a South Asian family's loss from the 9/11 attacks and the backlash they endure, featuring a cast that includes Pooja Kumar (Miss India USA 1995, 'Flavors') and Sunkrish Bala (ABC-TV's 'Notes from the Underbelly'). Previews of BARRIERS will begin Wednesday, September 7 prior to an official opening date of September 9 at HERE (145 6th Avenue, enter on Dominick, 1 block south of Spring Street) in Manhattan.

The NYC Festival of Young Artists & Leaders a free outdoor festival featuring over 200 young artists, ages 12-21

La MaMa presents The Movement Theatre Company (back in the club space for a limited engagement of Hope Speaks.

La MaMa presents The Movement Theatre Company (back in the club space for a limited engagement of Hope Speaks.

Downtown Art joins the citywide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, bringing back The Waistmakers' Opera, an original rock opera performed by a company of 16 teen girls, for the final performance March 27.

Downtown Art joins the citywide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, bringing back The Waistmakers' Opera, an original rock opera performed by a company of 16 teen girls, for three final performances, March 20, 26, and 27.

La MaMa presents The Movement Theatre Company (back in the club space for a limited engagement of Hope Speaks.

La MaMa presents The Movement Theatre Company (back in the club space for a limited engagement of Hope Speaks. Hope Speaks is a devised story telling piece created by Hope Speaks ensemble [Chanel Carroll, Cherrye J. Davis, Eric Lockley, Jonathan McCrory, Kimberly Young, and Kisa Willis.] and directed/conceived by Jonathan McCrory. This play was developed through TMTC's Ladder Series in 2010 and since then it has toured in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD and is excited to be presented in the lower east side before it heads back on the road.

La MaMa presents The Movement Theatre Company (back in the club space for a limited engagement of Hope Speaks. Hope Speaks is a devised story telling piece created by Hope Speaks ensemble [Chanel Carroll, Cherrye J. Davis, Eric Lockley, Jonathan McCrory, Kimberly Young, and Kisa Willis.] and directed/conceived by Jonathan McCrory. This play was developed through TMTC's Ladder Series in 2010 and since then it has toured in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD and is excited to be presented in the lower east side before it heads back on the road.

Downtown Art joins the citywide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, bringing back The Waistmakers' Opera, an original rock opera performed by a company of 16 teen girls, for three final performances, March 20, 26, and 27.

Two of Stolen Chair's most acclaimed works, the gender-bent blank verse sex-farce, Stage Kiss, and the debaucherous childs-play cabaret, Kinderspiel, return to NYC for a 6-week repertory run: January 27-March 5.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), The Field, and Back Stage present the industry panel Funding: The Current Struggle on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30pm at Roy Arias Studios, 300 W. 43rd Street, NYC.

Two of Stolen Chair's most acclaimed works, the gender-bent blank verse sex-farce, Stage Kiss, and the debaucherous childs-play cabaret, Kinderspiel, return to NYC for a 6-week repertory run: January 27-March 5.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), The Field, and Back Stage present the industry panel Funding: The Current Struggle on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 7:30pm at Roy Arias Studios, 300 W. 43rd Street, NYC.

In a daring attempt to rival Moliere's greatest work and single-handedly revive the tradition of Commedia dell'Arte, Stolen Chair presents Commedia dell'Artemisia, a masked farce in rhyming couplets, satirizing the controversial rape trial of Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. As the teenage virtuosa Artemisia tries to escape the clutches of her miserly father, she becomes entwined with Agostino Tassi, a master painter and criminal who would rather screw than woo. Transforming these complex historical figures into commedia stock characters, Stolen Chair irreverently eviscerates history, hypocrisy, rape, romance, art and artifice. The piece has already played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim at Collective Unconscious, the Brick Theater, CBGB's, and Swarthmore College where it's been praised as 'dizzying and fun' (NYtheatre.com), 'smart, supple, and daring' (Clyde Fitch Report), and 'one of the most exquisite rapes in the history of theatre' (5th St Review).

In a daring attempt to rival Moliere's greatest work and single-handedly revive the tradition of Commedia dell'Arte, Stolen Chair presents Commedia dell'Artemisia, a masked farce in rhyming couplets, satirizing the controversial rape trial of Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. As the teenage virtuosa Artemisia tries to escape the clutches of her miserly father, she becomes entwined with Agostino Tassi, a master painter and criminal who would rather screw than woo. Transforming these complex historical figures into commedia stock characters, Stolen Chair irreverently eviscerates history, hypocrisy, rape, romance, art and artifice. The piece has already played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim at Collective Unconscious, the Brick Theater, CBGB's, and Swarthmore College where it's been praised as 'dizzying and fun' (NYtheatre.com), 'smart, supple, and daring' (Clyde Fitch Report), and 'one of the most exquisite rapes in the history of theatre' (5th St Review).