Richard Saudek News

PhysFestNYC, New York’s Festival Dedicated to Physical Theaters, announces its line-up for January 5–14, 2024. Over 100 artists and companies will participate in the 10-day festival, featuring performances, workshops, panels, and community events.

One Year Lease Theater Company's world premiere of DEAD + ALIVE begins previews tonight. Conceived by Helen Hayes and Edinburgh Stage Award winner Richard Saudek, DEAD + ALIVE is co-directed by Pher [sic] and Saudek, with original live music by Benjamin Domask-Ruh.

Drama Desk Award nominee One Year Lease Theater Company presents the world premiere of DEAD + ALIVE, conceived by Helen Hayes and Edinburgh Stage Award winner Richard Saudek, and co-directed by Pher and Saudek, with original live music by Benjamin Domask-Ruh.

Audiences can mark the 51st anniversary of the U.S. landing on the moon July 20 when Hammer Theatre Center and One Year Lease Theater Company (OYL) partner for a special presentation of Pieces of the Moon, a timely and compelling new play by Nick Flint adapted for radio, making its World Premiere via live stream.

CollaborationTown is proud to present the New York premiere of Riddle of the Trilobites, a new musical with book and lyrics by Geo Decas O'Donnell and Jordan Seavey; music and lyrics by Nicholas Williams; and puppetry design by Amanda Villalobos. Directed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (In the Green, Dance Nation), Riddle of the Trilobites began performances at the New Victory Theater (209 West 42nd Street) on February 7, 2020 and will run through February 23, 2020.

Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (In the Green, Dance Nation) is currently directing Riddle of the Trilobites, now playing at the New Victory Theater through February 23! A new musical developed by CollaborationTown, Riddle of the Trilobites is an all-ages allegory about climate change, brought to life through eye-catching puppetry.

Described as 'a multimedia clown show', beep boop is a comic examination of technology's place in our lives.   Taking aim at phone addiction, the performative nature of social media and the perils of online dating, it asks, in a world where technology has brought us closer together, why do we still feel so lonely?

Ahead of bringing his darkly comic clown show, Beep Boop, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, physical comedian and clown, Richard Saudek, answers five questions for BroadwayWorld.

What happens when a man is left alone to his own devices? Beep Boop is a darkly comic clown show which gives witness to the full expression and logical outcome of our technology obsession and addiction. It's about the absurd and aching irony of the detachment brought about by the tools that are meant to help us connect. It is also one of the funniest shows about loneliness you are likely to see this Edinburgh Fringe...

NYC theater company COLLABORATIONTOWN and FLINT REPERTORY THEATRE are proud to announce the World Premiere of RIDDLE OF THE TRILOBITES, in a co-production presented at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, Michigan, March 1-10, 2019, in advance of a New York Premiere in 2020.

NYC theater company Collaborationtown and Flint Repertory Theatre are proud to announce the World Premiere of RIDDLE OF THE TRILOBITES, in a co-production presented at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, Michigan, March 1-10, 2019.

Crowded Outlet announces its production, beep boop, a multimedia clown show created by physical comedian Richard Saudek (Balls at 59E59), TV and film composer Jesse Novak ('BoJack Horseman,' 'The Mindy Project') and director Wes Grantom (Lone Star Spirits, Eager to Lose). beep boop will play a limited return-engagement at 14th Street Y (344 E 14th Street, New York, NY 10003; at 14th Street and 1st Avenue), performing Wednesday, February 6th through Sunday, February 17th.

NYC theater company COLLABORATIONTOWN and FLINT REPERTORY THEATRE are proud to announce the World Premiere of RIDDLE OF THE TRILOBITES, in a co-production presented at Flint Repertory Theatre in Flint, Michigan, March 1-10, 2019, in advance of a New York Premiere in 2020.

New Yiddish Rep, in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, shared with Broadway World a first look into their new production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot (Vartn Af Godot), translated to Yiddish by Shane Baker, and directed by Ronit Muszkatblit. Currently in previews at The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street at 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003) and performing through Sunday, January 27th, 2019. Official opening is Sunday, January 6th at 2:00 P.M.. Waiting for Godot performs in Yiddish with English super-titles.

Eli Rosen has stepped into the role of Vladimir in the New Yiddish Rep, in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, production of Waiting for Godot in Yiddish (Vartn Af Godot), translated by Shane Baker, and directed by Ronit Muszkatblit. Rosen replaces previously announced Rafael Goldwaser, who has departed the company due to unforeseen circumstances unrelated to the production.

New Yiddish Rep, in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, is pleased to present a fresh new production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot (Vartn Af Godot), translated by Shane Baker, and directed by The 14th Street Y's artistic director of Arts & Culture, Ronit Muszkatblit. Waiting for Godot will perform in Yiddish with English super-titles for a five-week limited engagement from Sunday, December 24th, 2018 through Sunday, January 27th, 2019 at The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street at 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003). Official opening is Sunday, January 6th at 2:00 P.M.. 'Beckett's play (which was originally produced in French) may finally have found its mother tongue.' -The New Yorker

Pioneer Theatre Company presents The Lion in Winter, a fascinating look at two of the most iconic figures in English history. The play premiered on Broadway in 1966 and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie. The production runs from January 4 -19, 2019.

New Yiddish Rep, in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, is pleased to present a first look at David Mandelbaum as Estragon and Rafael Goldwaser as Vladimir, in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Vartn Af Godot), translated by Shane Baker, and directed by The 14th Street Y's artistic director of Arts & Culture, Ronit Muszkatblit.

New Yiddish Rep, in association with The Theater at the 14th Street Y, is pleased to present a fresh new production of Samuel Beckett's masterpieceWaiting for Godot (Vartn Af Godot) and directed by The 14th Street Y's artistic director of Arts & Culture,Ronit Muszkatblit. 

Crowded Outlet proudly presents beep boop, a multimedia clown show created by physical comedian Richard Saudek now performing through Sunday, October 7th.