The Bulgarians have arrived! The Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks), in conjunction with The Present Company, present the American premiere of The Spider, the award-winning production from Bulgarian company Theatre B+, written and directed by Dimitar Dimotrov and Jordan Slaveykov, with music by Alexander Kalanov and Jordan Borisov, as part of the 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival - Fringe NYC, the first Bulgarian theatrical event in the 25-year history of the festival. The acclaimed Bulgarian cast will include Penko Gospodinov and Anastassia Liutova.
Horse Trade Theater Group will present Assurbanipal Babilla's play SOMETHING SOMETHING ÜBER ALLES (DAS JACKPOT) directed by David Cote (Otherland;The Scarlet Ibis) and performed by Robert Honeywell (Every Play Ever Written; The Lathe of Heaven), September 19-October 5 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A).
Red Tape Theatre (RTT) announces their 2013/14 Season, which marks their 10th Anniversary Season and first season under the direction of new Artistic Director, Brandon Ray. The season opens October 14th, 2013 with the world premiere of The Life and Death of Madam Barker by Brooke Allen, with music and lyrics by John Fournier and directed by Eric Hoff. Then, in January of 2014 RTT will present the US premiere of hamlet is dead. no gravity by Ewald Palmetshofer, translated by Neil Blackadder and directed by Seth Bockley. Concluding the season in May of 2014, RTT will present another US Premiere, Earthquakes in London, by Mike Bartlett and directed by Brandon Ray. Red Tape Theatre's 10th Season will be presented at its home in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, located at 621 W Belmont Ave.
Outside Inside returns to the New York International Fringe Festival with the world premiere of Michael Ross Albert's new play, For a Good Time, Call Kathy Blanchard.
TWO EVENTS THIS MONTH because we can't get enough of you, and also us. On Wednesday, August 21st, it's The How I Learned Series side project, 'BEST IN SHOW,' followed by 'HOW I LEARNED TO BREAK ALL THE RULES' on Wednesday, August 28th. Keep scrolling for more info than you even know what to do with. Then come out and see us.
HT Productions presents: CHILDHOOD, Mistakes Were Made, A Storytelling Show featuring Brad Lawrence on Saturday August 17th, 7pm at the Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street NY, NY 10002. No cover. Get a sneak peek at one of Lawrence's stories, 'The Last Pool Party', below!
Alzheimer's casts its long shadow over an already broken family in Joe Beck's poignant drama A Homecoming. Edited by Tom Philbin, directed by Troy Miller and presented by Adam Weinstock and Creative Concept Productions as part of the 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (Fringe NYC), A Homecoming will be performed at the Players Theater, located at 115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd St. & BleeckerSt. (Fringe Venue #17). The production will run Saturday, August 10 at 4:45pm; Friday, August 16 at 2pm; Tuesday, August 20 at 9pm; Thursday, August 22 at 1pm; and Friday, August 23 at 7pm.
Everyman Theatre has announced the directors attached to each of its six productions for the upcoming 2013/14 season. Renowned and award-winning director Walter Dallas will be making his Everyman debut with BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK next spring. Susanna Gellert, hot off of her work with the MY AMERICA project at Centerstage, will both be making their Everyman Theatre debuts this season. Founding Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi will direct the first and last shows of the season - THE GLASS MENAGERIE and TRIBES, respectively. And returning to Everyman will be two audience favorites - celebrated directors Donald Hicken and Derek Goldman.
BRENDA, a supernatural road-trip play written by EST Youngblood member and Yale graduate Cory Finley, will receive its world premiere in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Performances begin August 13 at the Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios.
The original play Track Twelve, written and presented by Emily Comisar will premiere this August as part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. This production will be directed by Josh Penzell and feature a cast of local actors: Leo Goodman, Keelie A. Sheridan, Sarah Sanders, and Charlie Gorrilla. Jay Levy is acting as stage manager and Vanessa Rae Garcia as assistant stage manager.
Preview of the Arts Presents BRADLEY COLE at Theater 80, St. Marks, August 10-23, 2013. This production is part of The New York International Fringe Festival. For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.com.
Nuclear apocalypse, world wide pandemics, being forced to wear your older sister's snow suit. Being a kid is not for the weak. Storyteller and Host Brad Lawrence leads you through the mine fields and school buses of pre-adolescence and shows how being a somewhat high-strung youngster makes you better than the A-Team with a MacGyver guest spot when it comes to turning anything into a weapon.
Among the 200 plays and musicals appearing at August's New York International Fringe Festival, there is one very unexpected production - a new Russian-language opera by the impressive 26-year old Russian composer Polina Nazaykinskaya.
Matthew Greene, a Brigham Young University graduate and practicing Mormon, is preparing for the New York City premier of "Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea," his new play that tackles the issues of Mormonism and marriage equality. After a sold-out and critically acclaimed world premier at Plan B Theatre in Salt Lake City, the production will transfer to the New York International Fringe Festival, playing August 9-15. Directed by Jerry Rapier, the production will feature Topher Rasmussen and Logan Tarrantino as its title characters.
Are you sick and tired of being constantly bombarded and harangued by the foibles of contemporary celebrities from all walks of life who, thanks to the immediacy of the internet, You! Tube 24-hour TV newscasts, and radio and TV interview/talk shows, invade our living rooms and bedrooms and even our halls of Congress and public schools with their brash and outlandish public displays of profanity and inanity. Are you fed up with todav's D-List celebrities - Snooki, the Kardashians, the Lohans, the reality show housewives, the PED-injected athletes, and even our shameless politicians?
This summer's New York International Fringe Festival will host the new futuristic rock musical BARCODE which features book, music, and lyrics by Debbie Andrews and Mike Blaxill of the New York indie quartet Gladshot, and Hair co-author James Rado as creative consultant. Joe Barros (director of the 2011 FringeNYC hit The Legend of Julie Taymor) directs and choreographs.
The 17th Annual New York International Fringe Festival Presents Milk for Mrs. Stone, A New Play by Charles Gershman, directed by Eli Taylor and featuring Broadway actors Justin Bohon and Colleen Wallnau. The show will run August 16-22, 2013 (5 Performances). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
EdibleBrains is pleased to announce that Molly Rydzel's Certifiable, directed by Mark Karafin, will be making its world premiere at the Connelly Theatre at 7pm on Sunday, August 11, 2013 as part of the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC). Check out a sneak peek below!
Coleavens Industries will present Lies We Tell Ourselves (when flamethrowers aren't enough) as part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. Premiering at FringeNYC, Lies We Tell Ourselves will be presented at The Players Theatre (115 Macdougal Street, Fringe venue #17).
Theater Accident, in association with Blue Coyote Theater Group, announces that THE ZEBRA SHIRT OF LONELY CHILDREN, written and performed by Minnesota native Matthew Trumbull and directed by Matthew Freeman, will make its Midwest premiere at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Both a 'Critic's Pick' and part of Fringe NYC's Encore Series, Zebra Shirt won the Overall Excellence-Solo Performance Award at the 2012 Festival.
