Playwrights Foundation Announces 43rd Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020 Dates
by A.A. Cristi
- Apr 6, 2020
The Playwrights Foundation's Executive Artistic Director Jessica Bird Beza announces the 2020 dates for the 43rd annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival July 17 - 26, 2020. a?oePlaywrights Foundation is committed to developing five playwrights' new, unproduced work at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020 in July...a?? remarks Jessica Bird Beza a?oeWhile there is hope that it will be possible to do so in person, we are actively developing plans to create a virtual aspect to the Festival, if necessary, due to COVID-19, to protect the health and safety of the artists, staff and audiences.a?oe
Magic Theatre Announces FAR APART ART Daily Podcast Series
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 30, 2020
Magic Theatre has announced a new Monday-through-Friday daily podcast series, Far Apart Art, beginning Monday, March 30 and lasting for four weeks. The series is composed of brief, daily audio journals from a host of Magic's family of playwrights.
Repertory Philippines' ANNA IN THE TROPICS Canceled; CAROUSEL Postponed
by Oliver Oliveros
- Mar 13, 2020
In light of President Rodrigo Duterte's public address regarding measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Repertory Philippines' (REP) has announced that tonight's opening and all performances of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics have been canceled.
Magic Theatre's 2020 Gala To Honor Loretta Greco And Kary Schulman
by A.A. Cristi
- Mar 4, 2020
Magic Theatre (Loretta Greco, Artistic Director and Kevin Nelson, Interim Managing Director) announced today that the Company's 2020 Gala Fundraiser, Magic Masquerade: Spring Forward, will be held at Gallery 308 (Fort Mason Center, Landmark Building A, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94123) on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.
TCG Publishes EXQUISITE AGONY By Nilo Cruz
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 18, 2020
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Exquisite Agony by Nilo Cruz. The play received its world premiere at Repertorio Español in New York in the summer of 2018.
Jennifer Packer is the 2020 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 18, 2020
The Hermitage Artist Retreat, in collaboration with the Greenfield Foundation, has selected New York-based artist Jennifer Packer as the winner of the 2020 Greenfield Prize, given this year in the field of visual art. Packer will receive a six-week residency at the Hermitage and a $30,000 commission for a new work, which will premiere in Sarasota in 2022 with the Hermitage's presenting partner, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
Mabou Mines Has Added a Free Film Screening and PROMENADE Concert Performance
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 13, 2020
Mabou Mines, the esteemed experimental theater company, and Weathervane Productions, in association with Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival, add free documentary film screening and Promenade concert performance, and announce complete casting for a unique upcoming celebration of legendary playwright and director María Irene Fornés. The February 21-March 7 engagement centers on the New York premiere of Philip Glass' transformation of her five-page play Drowning into an opera and a version of Fornés' acclaimed Mud. JoAnne Akalaitis directs these two intimate productions-both with new music composed by Glass-at Mabou Mines (150 First Avenue).
INTAR Theatre and Radio Drama Network To Present the World Premiere of BUNDLE OF STICKS
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 28, 2020
INTAR Theatre (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) and Radio Drama Network (Melina Brown, President) today announced the cast for the World Premiere of Bundle of Sticks, a new play by J. Julian Christopher, directed by Lou Moreno. Bundle of Sticks will play a special limited Off-Broadway engagement, beginning February 22nd and continuing through March 22nd only. Opening Night is set for Monday March 2nd.
ANNA IN THE TROPICS Comes To Classic
by Stephi Wild
- Jan 22, 2020
Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand, and a?oelectorsa?? are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The lector reads Anna Karenina as the play delves into desire, power, rivalry, secrets and love. As the lives of a Cuban immigrant family begins to intertwine with the scandalous lives of Tolstoy's characters, we ask what do we need to feel loved and alive?
Barrington Stage Company 2020 Season to Feature SOUTH PACIFIC, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 15, 2020
Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in Pittsfield, MA., in the heart of the Berkshires, and under the leadership of Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, has announced its 2020 season. BSC will present two World Premiere musicals and new productions of a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical classic, a Tony Award-winning musical revue, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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