Sheila Dabney News

The Living Theatre, the oldest experimental theatre group still producing in the United States, continues its 2009-10 season with world-premiere of Anne Waldman's RED NOIR. Directed by Judith Malina

The Living Theatre, the oldest experimental theatre group still producing in the United States, continues its 2009-10 season with world-premiere of Anne Waldman's RED NOIR. Directed by Judith Malina

Acclaimed puppet artist and director Theodora Skipitares presents her world-premiere play THE TRAVELING PLAYERS - a play-within-a-play focusing on four international female activists who, while enacting excerpts from Euripides' TROJAN WOMEN, share moments from their own struggles -- with previews beginning October 8, prior to an official opening on October 11 at La MaMa Annex in Manhattan.

Acclaimed puppet artist and director Theodora Skipitares presents her world-premiere play THE TRAVELING PLAYERS - a play-within-a-play focusing on four international female activists who, while enacting excerpts from Euripides' TROJAN WOMEN, share moments from their own struggles -- with previews beginning October 8, prior to an official opening on October 11 at La MaMa Annex in Manhattan.

Acclaimed puppet artist and director Theodora Skipitares presents her world-premiere play THE TRAVELING PLAYERS - a play-within-a-play focusing on four international female activists who, while enacting excerpts from Euripides' TROJAN WOMEN, share moments from their own struggles -- with previews beginning October 8, prior to an official opening on October 11 at La MaMa Annex in Manhattan.

The idea of families in Darfur being torn apart, wives from husbands, children from mothers, deeply moved Hollywood film producer Doug Claybourne ('Nights in Rodanthe,' 'North Country,' 'Fast and the Furious,' 'The Mask of Zorro') and playwright L.D. Napier. Knowing that women and children were being raped and brutally killed as they go for firewood each night, stopped them cold. They were forced to ask themselves a hard question - 'What can we do - just one individual?' The answer led Claybourne to put his 28 year producing career on hold and Napier to write a play.

In honor of Black History Month, La MaMa e.t.c. is proud to present Beatrice Manley's Conjur Woman, a dramatic folk opera chillingly sung by Obie-Winner Sheila Dabney and directed by George Ferencz, a resident director at La MaMa. Original music for Conjur Woman is composed by La MaMa Founder & Artistic Director Ellen Stewart along with Sheila Dabney, Harry Mann, Jasper McGruder and Yukio Tsuji, and is played on a cornucopia of instruments including a harmonica, washboard, jug, acoustic guitar, bass and percussion…think 1800s music of the slave. Performances take place January 31 to February 10, 2008 in a limited engagement at La MaMa's Annex Theater in NYC.

In honor of Black History Month, La MaMa ETC. is proud to present Beatrice Manley's Conjur Woman, a dramatic folk opera chillingly sung by Obie-Winner Sheila Dabney and directed by George Ferencz, January 31-February 10.

Acclaimed puppet artist and director Theodora Skipitares presents The Exiles--a new adaptation of the Orestes/Electra myth about a brother and sister who avenge the murder of their father and become outcasts in their own city--at La MaMa Annex this March

On September 18th, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2006 award recipients at a exceptional evening hosted by Tony-nominee Charles Busch

On July 17, 2006, the IT Awards (New York Innovative Theatre Awards), the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, announced the 2006 nominees at the Ukrainian National Home