Scott Illingworth News

SOCIETY Theatre Collective hosts SPOOKY DAYS: Cheap Date Live on October 27 at Caveat, featuring The Incredible Drunkertons, short plays, and live performances to benefit the March 2026 premiere of Entangled by Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba.

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival at the Dobbins Conservatory of Southeast Missouri State University has new leadership: Co-Artistic Directors Charles Goforth and Tim Nicolai and Managing Director Lisa Fischel. Kenneth L. Stilson returns in the capacity of Founding Executive Director. Former Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie departs after shepherding the festival from an idea to five successful seasons and a national profile.

This summer, I spent six weeks in Florence, Italy studying Commedia dell’Arte with NYU Grad Acting Faculty. We studied verbatim theatre, Shakespeare, mask-making, neutral and character mask, and of course, Commedia dell’Arte. The program culminated in a devised and improvised final performance based on Molière’s text featuring popular songs by Billie Eilish, Fleetwood Mac, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Learn about the exciting collaborations and commissions announced by New Works Provincetown, featuring talented artists like Hannah Corneau, Douglas Lyons, and more. Find out what projects they will be working on and when you can catch these innovative performances.

New York City-based theater collective SOCIETY has announced that four women will join the company.

Little Known Facts is a weekly podcast hosted by stage and film actress Ilana Levine. Today's episode features Mona Monsour! Mona Monsour's THE VAGRANT TRILOGY made its New York City debut in April 2022 at the Public Theater, directed by Mark Wing-Davey.

New York City-based theater collective SOCIETY announced today that they will stage two new plays in repertory at New Ohio Theatre this June. Performances begin June 8th and are set to continue through June 25th.

The Public Theater will begin performances for the New York premiere of THE VAGRANT TRILOGY on Friday, April 8 with a Joseph Papp Free Performance, after the cancellation of the 2020 production just five days before the first performance and a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

NYC-based theatre collective SOCIETY will premiere the company's first two shows, Beginning Days of True Jubilation by Mona Mansour and The Strangers Came Today by Emily Zemba, in June 2022 at New Ohio Theater. The company will perform them in repertory.

The American Classical Orchestra has announced its 2021-22 season of all-live performances, beginning with a full orchestra Reunion program of Baroque music in Damrosch Park on September 22.

New York City-based theater collective SOCIETY announced today the Hawthorne Arts Community Grant will distribute an additional $50,000 to theater artists in the coming months, bringing the total grant amount to $100,000 since September 2020.

New York City-based theater collective SOCIETY announced today the Hawthorne Arts Community Grant. It will provide a total of $50,000 to theater artists between now and the end of 2020.

New Ohio Theatre's 27th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival opens tonight. The festival will be live-streamed online for the first time, and will feature four new works over four weeks, July 24 - August 15, 2020.

New Ohio Theatre has announced that the 27th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival will be live-streamed online for the first time, and will feature four new works over four weeks, July 24 - August 15, 2020.

Playwright Mona Mansour and director Scott Illingworth have announced the founding of the new theatre company, Society.

Today Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced his plans for Keen's Playwrights Lab, including readings from this year's participants as well as the playwrights for the 2020 Lab.

The Farm Theater in association with Stable Cable Lab Co. will present the Solo Show Festival: Three Award-Winning Solo Performances in residence at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington, third floor) from tonight, November 29, through December 10.

The Farm Theater in association with Stable Cable Lab Co. will present the Solo Show Festival: Three Award-Winning Solo Performances in residence at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington, third floor) from November 29-December 10.

Stable Cable Lab Co. will present a limited engagement of Padraic Lillis' solo show Hope You Get to Eleven, or What Are We Doing to Do About Sally? directed by Scott Illingworth at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, Buzzer 3B).

The Farm Theater announces their 2017 season, which will include the 3rd Annual College Collaboration Project with playwright Morgan McGuire, a co-production with the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, new installments of the popular bi-monthly Bullpen Sessions, and a new monthly Directors Roundtable series.