Queens Theatre News

New York City is hosting the first-ever NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL (NAATF) from June 11-24, 2007, featuring more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists convening for two weeks of performances at venues throughout the city.

We talk to Rob Urbinati about what it's like to have two shows opening at the same time. Rob is the writer of 'West Moon Street' at Prospect Theatre Co. and the director of 'The President and Her Mistress.' at the Abingdon.

Queens College will present the first performances of Adam Kraar's Freedom High, a new play about the complexities of racism, from May 9th - 20th at Queens College and Queens Theatre in the Park.

New York City will be the setting for the first-ever National Asian American Theatre Festival from June 11-24, 2007 when more than 25 Asian American performing arts companies and solo artists from coast-to-coast -- Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, etc. -- convene for two weeks of performances at various venues throughout NYC.

The Vineyard Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park are presenting the New York premiere of History of the Word - a multi-cultural play about the urban high school experience

The Vineyard Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park will present the New York premiere of History of the Word - a multi-cultural play about the urban high school experience - written by Ben Snyder (New York Stage and Film, NYC's Hip Hop Theater Festival), and featuring the poetry/spoken word of NYC high school students.

Jessica Grové, Dorothy Stanley, David Furr and more will star in the Neil Berg musical 'Tim and Scrooge' in Queens

The Public Theater, in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' and Producer Bonnie Metzgar's 365 Days/365 Plays National Festival, have announced that 65 theater companies in New York City have been selected to participate in the year-long production of Parks' '365 Days/365 Plays'

A Passion Play is being performed at the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, in Essex, England

Jerry Hall joins the cast of Ian Talbot's production of Cole Porter's musical comedy High Society for West End transfer