Paul Cohen News

Wide Eyed Productions will present the world premiere of DEAD SPECIAL CRABS, a comedy by Dan Kitrosser. Directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann, previews begin November 7 at TBG Theatre. Opening night is slated for Friday, November 14.

Empire Travel Agency (ETA) is a show comprised of performance events ('trips') presented at multiple locations across the city. Featuring a cast of over 20 of New York's brightest performers and musicians, it's designed to allow New Yorkers to experience the city anew by re-imagining diverse pieces of architecture as settings for a series of unexpected happenings. From the Bethesda fountain to the L train, from the Bowery to your bathroom, ETA allows you to travel out of the mundane and into the inspired.

Empire Travel Agency (ETA) is a show comprised of performance events ('trips') presented at multiple locations across the city. Featuring a cast of over 20 of New York's brightest performers and musicians, it's designed to allow New Yorkers to experience the city anew by re-imagining diverse pieces of architecture as settings for a series of unexpected happenings. From the Bethesda fountain to the L train, from the Bowery to your bathroom, ETA allows you to travel out of the mundane and into the inspired.

Drift In, Act Out will present the world premiere of Leah in Vegas, a new play by Kara Ayn Napolitano, with direction by Kristin Skye Hoffman (WINNER: Outstanding Direction FringeNYC 2012) as part of the 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC.

Grammy-winning, smoky-voiced Lila Downs, daughter of a Mixtec Indian woman who ran away from her village to sing in Mexico City cantinas and a Minnesota-born Scottish-American arts professor who fell in love with her there, comes to Jorgensen on Thursday, May 2, packing her eclectic world music bag of treats.

Vocalist Lila Downs and her band will come to Houston for one night only, Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in Wortham Center's Cullen Theater, as part of her Pecados y Milagros, tour presented by Society for the Performing Arts.

Wide Eyed Productions presents ANIMALS by Sam Byron, directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann, as part of the FringeNYC Festival 2012 at The Kraine Theatre, 85 E. 4th Street.

Wide Eyed Productions presents ANIMALS by Sam Byron, directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann, as part of the FringeNYC Festival 2012 at The Kraine Theatre, 85 E. 4th Street.

The Playhouse Creatures Theatre company closed out their 2011 season with a festival of original work featuring nine new short plays by nine different playwrights.

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Presents the First Annual From Page 2 Stage Festival of New Works featuring 16 actors, 9 playwrights, 5 directors & 6 performances.

MadLab presents The Downtown Job by Paul Cohen at 8:00, October 6th- October 29th, Fridays and Saturdays with a special opening night performance on October 6th, at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. 3rd St., Columbus.

MadLab will present The Downtown Job by Paul Cohen at 8:00, October 6th- October 29th, Fridays and Saturdays with a special opening night performance on October 6th, at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. 3rd St., Columbus.

Woodshed Collective has announced that because of strong notices and capacity crowds its production of the world premiere of The Tenant, which is performed free of charge at West-Park Presbyterian Church on the northeast corner of 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, will extend through Saturday, October 1.

It's inevitable that The Woodshed Collective's The Tenant, a site-specific theatrical interpretation of Roland Topor's novella via Roman Polanski's film adaptation, will be compared with the downtown hit, Sleep No More. Both require audience members to freely walk through several floors of rooms, exploring the contents and running into actors playing out scenes. But despite its less elaborate production values, I found The Tenant to be a far superior and much more entertaining experience.

The obligatory Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark spoof that everyone figured would be a part of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival obviously did not benefit from a series of workshops and readings before making its debut at the Bleecker Theatre. This one had to be a rush job.

MadLab will present The Downtown Job by Paul Cohen at 8:00, October 6th- October 29th, Fridays and Saturdays with a special opening night performance on October 6th, at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. 3rd St., Columbus.

The world premiere of The Tenant, which will be performed free of charge at West-Park Presbyterian Church on the northeast corner of 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue (entrance on 86th Street), begins performances Wednesday, August 10 at 8pm, and opens Wednesday, August 24 at 8pm. Conceived and produced by Woodshed Collective (Teddy Bergman, Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, Stephen Squibb, Artistic Directors), The Tenant is written by Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, and Tommy Smith with production dramaturgy by Stephen Squibb. The Tenant is directed by Teddy Bergman and Stephen Brackett and plays through Saturday, September 17.

The second Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival takes place this summer and some key dates are fast approaching. The application deadline for the festival is May 1.

The world premiere of The Tenant, which will be performed free of charge at West-Park Presbyterian Church on the northeast corner of 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue (entrance on 86th Street), begins performances Wednesday, August 10 at 8pm, and opens Wednesday, August 24 at 8pm. Conceived and produced by Woodshed Collective (Teddy Bergman, Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, Stephen Squibb, Artistic Directors), The Tenant is written by Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, and Tommy Smith with production dramaturgy by Stephen Squibb. The Tenant is directed by Teddy Bergman and Stephen Brackett and plays through Saturday, September 17.

Wide Eyed re-imagines Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, antiquity's most powerful play about the eternal tragedy of war.