Stephanie Janssen News

THE UMBRELLA PLAYS closes Sunday, April 10 at the Tank.

After a sold-out and critically acclaimed run at The New York International Fringe Festival, the award-winning The Umbrella Plays is back, for a limited engagement at The Tank, March 31st - April 10th.

Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they work their ways through inclement weather of the literal and figurative variety, searching for shelter in whatever form it can be found. The smallest and most common-place of objects, the simple umbrella, becomes the entry point into these stories, reminding us that there is more than meets the eye in the most innocuous-seeming pieces of a life, and the most fleeting of moments. Storms crash in and leave their marks, lovers are sought and lost and found again, ambitions jump the tracks and hopes get renewed, and in the swirl of these six stories, an umbrella is never, ever just an umbrella.

Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You [At All Times]), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they work their ways through inclement weather of the literal and figurative variety, searching for shelter in whatever form it can be found.

Written by Stephanie Janssen and directed by Daniel Talbott (art. dir. Rising Phoenix Rep, Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times)), The Umbrella Plays connects six snap-shot-sized plays, each offering a glimpse into the lives of a disparate (and sometimes desperate) cast of characters, as they work their ways through inclement weather of the literal and figurative variety, searching for shelter in whatever form it can be found. The smallest and most common-place of objects, the simple umbrella, becomes the entry point into these stories, reminding us that there is more than meets the eye in the most innocuous-seeming pieces of a life, and the most fleeting of moments. Storms crash in and leave their marks, lovers are sought and lost and found again, ambitions jump the tracks and hopes get renewed, and in the swirl of these six stories, an umbrella is never, ever just an umbrella.

Map of Heaven receives its first full production after being read at the Colorado New Play Summit in February 2010. Michele Lowe explores the dynamics of relationships and what happens when those dynamics shift, the choices the characters make and the ripple effect it has on those around them.

Monday November 29th, 7:30pm GERTRUDE - THE CRY by HOWARD BARKER with F. MURRAY ABRAHAM • DAVID BARLOW, STEPHANIE JANSSEN • BRENT LANGDON, ROBERT EMMET LUNNEY • JAN MAXWELL AND MORE

Monday November 29th, 7:30pm GERTRUDE - THE CRY by HOWARD BARKER with F. MURRAY ABRAHAM • DAVID BARLOW, STEPHANIE JANSSEN • BRENT LANGDON, ROBERT EMMET LUNNEY • JAN MAXWELL AND MORE

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY, Artistic Director, Melanie Moyer Williams, and curator, Dominic D'Andrea will end its run of +30NYC on March 21st.

The Red Fern Theatre Company presents seven new plays imagining the New York of 30 years from now with angst and wit.

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY, Artistic Director, Melanie Moyer Williams, and curator, Dominic D'Andrea are pleased to announce the world premiere production of +30NYC in a three-week limited engagement at Center Stage NY (48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor).

RED FERN THEATRE COMPANY, Artistic Director, Melanie Moyer Williams, and curator, Dominic D'Andrea are pleased to announce the world premiere production of +30NYC in a three-week limited engagement at Center Stage NY (48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor).

Actors on four continents and in 18 countries will join together to perform the work of British playwright Howard Barker in an event called '21 for 21,' a celebration of the 21st birthday of Barker's theatre company, the Wrestling School, that will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Middlebury College affiliated PTP/NYC, an off-Broadway theatre company, will participate with its own sold-out production of Barker's 'Judith, a Parting from the Body' just a few days later on Oct. 26 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea. PTP/NYC co-director Richard Romagnoli will direct Jan Maxwell, Alex Draper and Stephanie Janssen in the production.

Actors on four continents and in 18 countries will join together to perform the work of British playwright Howard Barker in an event called '21 for 21,' a celebration of the 21st birthday of Barker's theatre company, the Wrestling School, that will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Middlebury College affiliated PTP/NYC, an off-Broadway theatre company, will participate with its own sold-out production of Barker's 'Judith, a Parting from the Body' just a few days later on Oct. 26 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea. PTP/NYC co-director Richard Romagnoli will direct Jan Maxwell, Alex Draper and Stephanie Janssen in the production.

The Potomac Theatre Project, currently presenting their 22nd repertory season, have added two additional performances of Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution, which features Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP.

The Potomac Theatre Project (PTP) proudly presents its 22nd repertory season (and its second consecutive in NY) that includes Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution (featuring Broadway star Jan Maxwell in her 3rd collaboration with PTP), Sarah Kane's Crave, and the NY Premiere of Neal Bell's Somewhere in the Pacific.

Red Bull Theater continues their 'Revelation Readings' series on Monday January 21 at 7PM with The Cardinal by James Shirley and directed by Carl Forsman.

The New York premiere of the new play by Israel Horovitz is beautiful and good, but vaguely unsatisfying.

Israel Horovitz is an undisputed master of the short play format, and in this new collection, he does not disappoint.