The Lark has announced that Mary Hamilton, author of We Three, The Plan, One of the Women and The Building and Unbuilding of the Saxophone Sunset, will be the recipient of the Jerome New York Fellowship for 2015-2017.
About Face Theatre is pleased to announce its 20th Anniversary Season, featuring three productions new to the Chicago stage, plus a series of staged readings celebrating its two extraordinary decades in Chicago. The 2015-16 Season kicks-off with the world premiere romantic comedy LE SWITCH by Artistic Associate Philip Dawkins, directed by Stephen Brackett, presented by special arrangement with Doug Nevin. The season continues with the Chicago premiere drama after all the terrible things i do by A. Rey Pamatmat, directed by Artistic Director Andrew Volkoff. The mainstage season concludes next spring with the Chicago premiere of the dark comedy THE SECRETARIES by The Five Lesbian Brothers, directed by Bonnie Metzgar. About Face is pleased to announce all three productions will be presented at its new resident theatre, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago.
The Huntington Theatre Company will open its 2015-2016 season with the Tony Award-winning musical A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim's most romantic and popular work. Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois (after all the terrible things I do; Smart People; Rapture, Blister, Burn; and Becky Shaw) will direct. Performances will run September 11 - October 11, 2015 at the Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre.
Three abandoned but not lost souls find strength in each other in A. Rey Pamatmat's quirky but penetrating comedy EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM at Company One in Boston.
The Lark and Playwrights of New York (PoNY) are proud to announce that Martyna Majok, author of Ironbound, a Top Ten play for the 2014 Kilroys' list, will be the recipient of the 2015-16 PoNY Fellowship which provides over $100,000 in comprehensive career support.
Pandora Productions presents Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat,a serio-comedy that explores the resilience and wisdom of children who are tossed out or tossed aside.
Pandora Productions presents Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat,a serio-comedy that explores the resilience and wisdom of children who are tossed out or tossed aside.
The Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) 2015 season begins with the youthful, heartfelt play by A. Rey Pamatmat, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them opening on March 2, running through March 21 at the Thick House in San Francisco's Potrero Hill.
Crowded Fire Theater (CFT), one of the Bay Area's most innovative and critically acclaimed producers of new plays, today announced the hiring of Mina Morita as the new Artistic Director. Morita replaces Marissa Wolf, who resigned from her post in December 2014 to become Director of New Works at Kansas City Rep. Morita's hire is the result of a national search that saw applications from over 40 talented candidates. As Artistic Associate at Berkeley Rep, Morita helped establish and run The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep's Center for the Creation and Development of New Work. Mina also served as Board President of Shotgun Players for the past five years, during which she oversaw immense growth for the company. She will be leaving both positions to lead Crowded Fire in collaboration with longtime Managing Director and current Executive Producing Director Tiffany Cothran.
First Floor Theater (FFT) will continue their third season with the Chicago Premiere of EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM, playwright A. Rey Pamatmat's darkly comic and moving exploration of separation and the power of family. FFT Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel directs this powerful Chicago premiere, playing January 11 - January 31 at Collaboraction's Pentagon Theatre in The Flat Iron Arts Building. Tickets for EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM will be available at http://firstfloortheater.com/. The press opening is Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.
The Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) 2015 season begins with the youthful, heartfelt play by A. Rey Pamatmat, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them opening on March 2, running through March 21 at the Thick House in San Francisco's Potrero Hill.
The Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) 2015 season begins with the youthful, heartfelt play by A. Rey Pamatmat, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them opening on March 2, running through March 21 at the Thick House in San Francisco's Potrero Hill.
The Private Theatre, anchored in the core concept of delivering work '...that affects its audiences deeply, engaging them in encounters that make a profound and enduring impression,' The Private Theatre presents: The Winter Reading Series from today, December 9 - January 7, 2015 which will feature three new works including Kishinev by Max Sparber, Genoa by Michael Sargent, and The Shotgun Message by A. Rey Pamatmat.
The Private Theatre, anchored in the core concept of delivering work "…that affects its audiences deeply, engaging them in encounters that make a profound and enduring impression," The Private Theatre presents: The Winter Reading Series from December 9 - January 7, 2015 which will feature three new works including Kishinev by Max Sparber, Genoa by Michael Sargent, and The Shotgun Message by A. Rey Pamatmat. The reading series is FREE of charge and open to the public, each reading will be followed by a talk back with the creative team. R.S.V.P: rsvp@theprivatetheatre.org
Waterwell, one of the Village Voice's Best Arguments for Devised Theater and creators of GOODBAR and #9, continues its annual series of developmental workshop productions by commissioning a new play from Qui Nguyen (The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, She Kills Monsters) for its senior Drama Class of 2015 at the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS). To be directed by longtime collaborator, Robert Ross Parker (Goodbye Cruel World, co-artistic director of Vampire Cowboys), the piece will premiere at PPAS in April 2015.
First Floor Theater (FFT) will continue their third season with the Chicago Premiere of EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM, playwright A. Rey Pamatmat's darkly comic and moving exploration of separation and the power of family. FFT Artistic Director Hutch Pimentel directs this powerful Chicago premiere, playing January 11 - January 31 at Collaboraction's Pentagon Theatre in The Flat Iron Arts Building. Tickets for EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM will be available at http://firstfloortheater.com/. The press opening is Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 6:00 p.m.
Incredible, indescribable, infuriating, inflammatory, intense-These host of words attempt to define the Milwaukee Rep's World Premiere 'after all the terrible things I do' opening at the Stiemke Studio this fall in the Patty and Jay Baker Theatre Complex. Set in a Midwestern town beset with Midwestern sensibilities, A. Rey Pamatmat's play, his script, decimates an audience's perception of a culture, gender, race and sexual preferences that transcends discussions on merely being gay, a bully and young or simply a parent wanting to see their child survive.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2014/15 Stiemke Studio Season opens with the World Premiere of after all the terrible things I do. This gripping drama, a provocative piece from award-winning playwright A. Rey Pamatmat, will be directed by Milwaukee Rep Associate Artist May Adrales, who returns to The Rep after directing Katori Hall's The Mountaintop (2012/13) and Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman (2011/12). Check out a first look at the production below!
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2014/15 Stiemke Studio Season opens with the World Premiere of after all the terrible things I do. This gripping drama, a provocative piece from award-winning playwright A. Rey Pamatmat, will be directed by Milwaukee Rep Associate Artist May Adrales, who returns to The Rep after directing Katori Hall's The Mountaintop (2012/13) and Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman (2011/12).
Heading into its third season, First Floor Theater continues its commitment to visceral acting, immersive design, and collaborative dramaturgy with a new artistic process, refined mission statement and staff changes reflective of this new approach. This new process explores radical collaboration between actors and designers, where all are invited to define the world of the stories we stage.
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