The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center has announced the eighth weekly line-up of its new global series, SEGAL TALKS. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers and academics will talk daily for one hour with Segal Center's director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustanda?" the State of the World. The Segal Center is the only theatre institution in NYC and the US creating original content.
Niall Cunningham (Socrates, a?oeLife in Piecesa??) and Erin Wilhelmi (To Kill a Mockingbird, A Doll's House Part 2) will star in an industry reading of Trick of the Eye by Dennis Haseley, and directed by Jay Scheib (Bat Out of Hell) on Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 at Open Jar Studios (1601 Broadway).
Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced his plans for Keen's Playwrights Lab, including readings from this year's participants as well as the playwrights for the 2020 Lab.
Davey Green (Ben), Tommy Papaioannou (Max), Georgia Small (Hannah) and Nikitas Stamoulis (Karl) will star in the eagerly awaited European premiere of ZOMBOID! by the multi award-winning stalwart of the New York avant-garde, Richard Foreman.
The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of the riveting West Coast premiere of Noura by Heather Raffo (the award-winning 9 Parts of Desire, the opera Fallujah), a graduate of The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Loosely inspired by Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Noura received the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Original New Play and the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Directed by Johanna McKeon (Off Broadway's I Have Loved Strangers and Tokio Confidential), Noura begins performances September 20, 2019 and runs through October 20 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run September 20a?"25. Opening night is Thursday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m. Single tickets on sale now, starting at $30.00, and can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE [234-5623], or at the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
Previews begin tonight for the world premiere production of The Convent, a new play by critically acclaimed playwright Jessica Dickey (The Amish Project, Charles Ives Take Me Home), directed by Daniel Talbott.
Patrick Kennedy Phenomenological Theatre today announces FOREMAN AT FIFTY, a yearlong project at the New Wimbledon Theatre celebrating American avant garde theatre pioneer Richard Foreman's 50th anniversary as a theatre maker.
Weathervane Productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory, in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announce casting for the world premiere production of The Convent
Hunger & Thirst Theatre presents YOUR INVISIBLE CORSET, adapted from Bram Stoker's novel by Patricia Lynn and directed by Jacob Titus. YOUR INVISIBLE CORSET begins performances today, October 12 for a limited engagement through Saturday, October 27. Press Opening is Sunday, October 14 at 2pm. The performance schedule is Thursday at 7pm, Today - Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm. There is an additional performance on Saturday October 27 at 2pm. Performances are at Flamboyan Theater at The Clemente (107 Suffolk Street. between Rivington and Delancey; F/J/M/Z train to Delancey/Essex). The regular ticket price is $20; $12 tickets are available for all purchases before October 11. For tickets and more information, visit www.hungerandthirsttheatre.com.
Buran Theatre's inaugural CartHorse Fellow Cara Scarmack will see her play some higher glimmer in the landscape of flat premiere as a culmination of the fellowship. Under the direction of Sarah Hughes, the immersive and genre-defying work-straddling theatre, dance and music-will see a three-week run at The Collapsable Hole in the West Village from October 20-November 3.
Hunger & Thirst Theatre presents YOUR INVISIBLE CORSET, adapted from Bram Stoker's novel by Patricia Lynn and directed by Jacob Titus. YOUR INVISIBLE CORSET begins performances on Friday, October 12 for a limited engagement through Saturday, October 27. Press Opening is Sunday, October 14 at 2pm. The performance schedule is Thursday at 7pm, Friday - Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm. There is an additional performance on Saturday October 27 at 2pm. Performances are at Flamboyan Theater at The Clemente (107 Suffolk Street. between Rivington and Delancey; F/J/M/Z train to Delancey/Essex). The regular ticket price is $20; $12 tickets are available for all purchases before October 11. For tickets and more information, visit www.hungerandthirsttheatre.com.
HERE's Board of Directors announces that long-time Producing/Executive Director Kim Whitener will step down from HERE Art Center this fall to return to creative producing and consulting with her company KiWi Productions, where she will work with a range of US artists and companies primarily in the contemporary opera-theater and music-theater worlds.
Peak Performances kicks off its 2018-19 season with the world premiere of Hatuey: Memory of Fire, a rousing Afro-Cuban-Yiddish opera performed in English, Yiddish and Spanish, with music by Frank London, libretto by Elise Thoron, direction by Mary Birnbaum, and choreography by Maija Garcia.
Patrick Kennedy today launches The Phenomenological Theatre Company and a 50th anniversary production of Richard Foreman and Stanley Silverman's opera Elephant Steps.
Skidmore College and the University at Albany have joined forces to bring Skidmore alum Sara Juli back to the Capital Region for performances of her one-woman show, Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis, a comedic movement/theatre work about motherhood and bladder control. Juli will appear at Skidmore's JKB Theater on Saturday, February 3 at 8pm and then will perform at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on both Monday and Tuesday, February 5 & 6 at 7:30pm. Both engagements are made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Eboni Booth, Will Connolly, William Jackson Harper, Ben Horner, Cristin Milioti, David Pegram, and Teresa Yenque comprise the cast of the LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater production of After the Blast, a new play by Zoe Kazan, to be directed by Lila Neugebauer.