La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced staged readings of CUL-DE-SAC by Leslie Gauthier and HOUSE GYALZ by Abigail C. Onwunali, this year's Morgan Jenness Experiments in Playwriting Fellows.
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has announced the winners of the 13th Annual MUAHS Guild Awards, which include San Francisco Opera's The Monkey King and Frankenstein at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Check out the full list of nominations and winners here.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be presented live in concert for the first time in a world premiere event at London's Eventim Apollo next year, marking the film's 35th anniversary.
On Sunday, May 25, The National Memorial Day Concert will air live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, featuring performances from Tony-nominee Mary McCormack, The Greatest Showman's Loren Allred, and more.
TOSOS announced the return of Doric Wilson's iconic LGBTQIA+ play STREET THEATER, running from October 3-22 in NYC. The play captures the spirit of the early LGBTQIA+ rights movement.
La MaMa is launching a new year-long fellowship for NYC playwrights, offering a residency at the renowned theatre to foster and develop their craft. Learn how to apply!
Celebration Theatre will host its annual awards gala Saturday, March 23rd, 2-5 pm, to celebrate its arts community’s creative heroes and raise critical funds during an entertaining afternoon of special appearances and festivities.
Laurie Anderson and Harvey Fierstein will be celebrated at La MaMa ETC’s 62nd season Gala on October 26, 2023 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre. Learn more about the Gala and how to get tickets here!
The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, just announced the winners of the 12th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards
The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the nominees for the 12th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2022-2023 season.
Robert Patrick, aka Robert Patrick O'Connor, writer of poems, lyrics, short stories, novels, and a pioneering playwright known for his contributions to Off-Off Broadway and the Caffe Cino has passed away at the age of 85. He died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on April 23, 2023 (407 years to the day after Shakespeare's death).
Celebration Theatre, one of the world's longest-running LGBTQ+ theatres, is hosting an awards gala Saturday, March 11th, 2-5pm, to celebrate its arts community's creative heroes during an entertaining afternoon of special appearances and social festivities that will become an annual tradition.
Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, who has been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.
La MaMa ETC has announced a $250,000 matching grant from the actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, one of La MaMa's most beloved and iconic artists, to help complete the renovation and historic restoration of La MaMa's landmark building at 74 East 4th Street. The gift was announced by Mary Fulham, La MaMa's Managing Director.
A while back. I was in an audience of theatre fans watching an onstage conversation between Frank Rich and Stephen Sondheim and the subject of unauthorized changes made in regional and amateur productions came up. The composer/lyricist mentioned that he had heard of a production of Company that ended with Bobby committing suicide by shooting himself.
Each of the writers worked independently to generate dialogue and/or actions for two performers, one playing a 7-year-old and the other a 77-year-old. The non-linear tale that emerges is developed in collaboration with creative technologists, embodied by performance artist Agosto Machado and a puppet by Tom Lee, performed by Leah Ogawa and Maria Camia, and will explore interactivity and connection with the online audience.
Sharing views not only on the current Broadway and Off-Broadway scenes, but offering an appreciative spotlight to Off-Off Broadway artists and other lesser-known entertainers who are just as important in making New York the nation's live performing arts capital. To encourage rather than critique.
Zed Fest Film Festival 2021 has announced their opening night line-up. The 12th Annual Film Festival Runs November 11 Through November 13, 2021 Laemmle Noho 7, Noho Arts District, Ca.
Starting on November 2nd and for 8 consecutive weeks on Zoom, New Stages will feature the class Queer Theater: From the Freaks to the Geeks, taught by Mark Salyer and with special guests including playwright Robert Patrick (Kennedy's Children) talking about Caffe Cino and director Randee Trabitz (“The Mystery of Irma Vep”, “Blacktop Highway”, “The Solid Life of Sugar Water”) who will discuss the plays of Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theater.
The Tony Award-winning theatre has announced a fresh season of work – on its various stages in the East Village - that explores new rituals of our time from a multiplicity of perspectives and speaks to the epic changes of the 21st century.
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