Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the TRU Producer Boot Camp: Weekend Intensive for Showcase Producing, on Saturday and Sunday, May 30 - 31, 2015 from 10am - 6pm. Location to be determined.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) just announced the fourth annual Roundabout Underground Reading Series, a five-night event that includes nightly readings of new plays written and directed by emerging artists, curtain speeches by Roundabout Underground artist alumni and post-show receptions.
New Brooklyn Theatre has dedicated its 2015 season to the past, present, and future of African-American women playwrights. In 2014, the company staged a series of readings of historic but neglected African-American plays from the 1850s to the 1930s with the promise that audiences would help the company select one for a full production. In 2015, the company will fulfill that promise by producing audience favorite Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimke.
Monday, April 13th, 2015 - Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will present the WNY premiere of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning (for Drama) Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes, opening Friday May 1st.The drama will star Anthony Alcocer, Monish Bhattacharyya, Rosa Fernandez, Jonathan Foreman, David Hayes, Sara Kow-Falcone and Victoria Perez. Support for the production is sponsored by The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, and Horizon Health Services.
Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, announces its 2015 season, the professional Equity company's 38th at its home in Stony Point (Rockland County), New York.
Bay Street Theater has announced changes to the 2015 Mainstage Season including a special added production. Both new plays are East Coast premieres!
?The New York Virtuoso Singers Presents Distinguished Queens College Composers Past and Present Concert on April 25 at Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall
The rarely staged G & S collaboration The Gondoliers will be the final production of The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' milestone 40th Anniversary Season --- playing a limited engagement May 15th - 17th at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place). Produced by America's preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company (NYGASP) , the production will feature a full cast and 28 piece orchestra.
Milstein Science Series: Sea Turtles Sunday, May 3, 11 am–4:30 pm Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Free for Members or with Museum admission Sea turtles are simply astounding: they lived alongside dinosaurs 150 million years ago, and still survive today. Playing a crucial role in our oceans' ecosystems, this incredible animal group is now endangered due to climate change, poaching, habitat destruction, and accidental capture in fishing gear. Learn more about these resilient aquatic creatures and the conservation efforts in place to protect them with Eleanor Sterling, chief conservation scientist for the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation; Wallace J. Nichols, scientist and New York Times-bestselling author of Blue Mind; Michael Coyne, executive director of seaturtle.org and moderated by Curator Mark Siddall. The event includes a live music performance by Bash the Trash, playing instruments made out of reused and repurposed materials.
Dixon Place's new dance commission and the feath3r theory's production of, COLOR ME, WARHOL, will have its world premiere tomorrow, April 10th. Conceived, choreographed and directed by Raja Feather Kelly, this piece is the latest installment of an ongoing series jump-started by Mr. Kelly's interest in Andy Warhol, pop culture, and identity.
Dixon Place's new dance commission and the feath3r theory's production of, COLOR ME, WARHOL, will have its world premiere tonight, April 10th.
This week's THEATER TALK looks at the outrageous, funny and incisive new play, Robert Askin's Hand to God, which just opened to critical acclaim at Broadway's Booth Theatre, and 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company, a New York theatrical home for Sabbath-Observant Jews.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the April panel, Secrets of Successful Not-for-Profits: How to Keep Your Theater Company Going and Growing, on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7:30pmat The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, 3rd Floor Loft Theatre, NYC. Doors open at 7pm for networking and refreshments; roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm.
This week's THEATER TALK celebrates composer George Gershwin and his 1928 symphonic poem, An American in Paris, now coming to Broadway as an adaptation of the 1951 Academy Award-winning film. THEATER TALK welcomes musical theater historian Robert Kimball (author of the bestselling coffee-table book The Gershwins), and Rob Fisher, musical director of the show, to discuss the composer and how his work is being adapted anew.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will present sneak-preview screenings throughout April and June for upcoming new releases.
CORRESPONDENCE presents works by forty visual and performing artists inspired by letters and postcards written to Steve Clorfeine, the creator and curator of the exhibition, over a period of fifty years. The exhibition will be on view at the Westbeth Gallery from May 2 through 17, 2015.
This week's THEATER TALK celebrates composer George Gershwin and his 1928 symphonic poem, An American in Paris, now coming to Broadway as an adaptation of the 1951 Academy Award-winning film. THEATER TALK welcomes musical theater historian Robert Kimball (author of the bestselling coffee-table book The Gershwins), and Rob Fisher, musical director of the show, to discuss the composer and how his work is being adapted anew.
Artist Peggy Ahwesh's City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square's signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that 17-year-year senior at Repertory Company High School Darleny Suriel will pen a world premiere play for the ninth annual Student Production Workshop, under the mentorship of Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz
Geva Theatre Center presents The Mountaintop - a soul-stirring reimagining of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last night on earth by playwright Katori Hall, directed by Skip Greer. The Mountaintop begins performances tonight, March 31, opens April 4 (the anniversary of Dr. King's assassination), and runs in the Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage through April 26.
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