Play Dead, the new Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins announces a new performance scheudle effective immediately.
The Drama League Directors Project's New Directors/New Works Program presents an invitation-only reading of A Letter from Bataan an award-winning new play by Neal J. Freeman
Executive Producer/Creator Tom Diggs is pleased to announce Alex Wyse (Mrs. Sharpe, Bored to Death), Alex Brightman (Wicked), Allison Strong (Bye, Bye Birdie), Paul Cereghino (Tony and Tina's Wedding) and ARDEN MYRIN (Chelsea Lately, Mad TV) will join the cast of THE PERKS OF WRITING A MUSICAL, a new scripted musical web series to be launched this spring on blip.tv and YouTube.
DISGRACED PRODUCTIONS presents OUR GREATEST YEAR- A new play and comic by Robert Attenweiler and Scott Henkle as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival
June 2 - July 1 @ The Brick
Broadway's Leslie Kritzer returned to Joe's Pub in her all-new extravaganza Beautiful Disaster for three performances: May 1, 2 and 3. The all-new show co-written by Randy Blair (Fat Camp, Perez Hilton Saves the Universe, Spidermusical) and Kritzer featured a 4-piece band led by music director/pianist Vadim Feichtner (Spelling Bee, Elegies), and the music of Madonna, Guns n Roses, Alanis Morrisette, Katy Perry, Jane's Addiction, Snoop Dogg, Tori Amos, and Stephen Sondheim. Check out some of the concert below!
Award-winning actor/playwright Bill Connington will coach well-known Mexican actor Jorge Urzua in the solo play ZOMBIE. Connington penned the play, based on the novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates. Urzua will perform the play in Spanish on Friday, May 6th at 8 pm at 353 Studios, 353 West 48th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, 2nd floor. Urzua translated the play into Spanish, and a production is planned for Mexico City. The performance is an hour long, with an audience discussion to follow. It is free to the public. For reservations contact: billconnington@gmail.com.
The award-winning play ZOMBIE by Bill Connington, based on the novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates, will be presented as a free reading on Friday, May 6th at 8 pm.
Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year.
Award-winning actor/playwright Bill Connington will coach well-known Mexican actor Jorge Urzua in the solo play ZOMBIE. Connington penned the play, based on the novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates. Urzua will perform the play in Spanish on Friday, May 6th at 8 pm at 353 Studios, 353 West 48th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, 2nd floor. Urzua translated the play into Spanish, and a production is planned for Mexico City. The performance is an hour long, with an audience discussion to follow. It is free to the public. For reservations contact: billconnington@gmail.com.
The award-winning play ZOMBIE by Bill Connington, based on the novella by famous American author Joyce Carol Oates, will be presented as a free reading on Friday, May 6th at 8 pm.
FullStop Collective in association with The Drilling Company will present the World Premiere of a new musical by Patrick Shaw (Hamlettes; A Miracle Study), UNVILLE BRAZIL, June 1-11 at The Drilling Company Theatre (236 West 78th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway).
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will celebrate its 15th anniversary this summer.
Play Dead, the new Off-Broadway comic thriller co-written and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and co-written & performed by Todd Robbins will play its 200th performance on Wednesday, May 4.
After the massive success of They Call Me La Lupe, the one-woman show starring Dexter's Lauren Velez, Off-Broadway's prominent LATEA Theater is proud to present a rare glimpse into the lives of a Dominican-York family.
Broadway's Leslie Kritzer returned to Joe's Pub in her all-new extravaganza Beautiful Disaster for three performances: May 1, 2 and 3 at 9:30pm. Tickets are $30. For tickets, visit www.joespub.com or call (212) 967-7555.
Award-winning actor/writer Bill Connington attended the closing of the Boston International Film Festival, where his short film ZOMBIE was screened on April 17th.