Tom Costello News

PHANTASMAGORIA, a spooky new play by Jack Horton Gilbert, will premiere at The Tank on February 12th as part of their Moonlight Series. Learn more about the staged reading here!

Atlantic Acting School is on the road this summer and wants to meet you! Come join us at an Open House in Prague, London, or Copenhagen.

Keen Company has announced details for the 2023 Keen Teens Festival of New Work. The festival features three world premiere commissioned one-acts that star New York City highschoolers.

Mayo Performing Arts Center's annual Starlight Ball fundraising gala returns to The Park Savoy Estate in Florham Park on Friday, November 12 at 6 pm

F*It Club, the New York Innovative Award-winning film and theatre company, will complete ten years of its annual series of short, commissioned world-premiere plays at the IRT Theater as part of their 3B Development Series in Manhattan's West Village with The Spring Fling: Happily Ever After.

The holiday season just got a generous helping of second breakfast with the arrival of Christmas in Middle-Earth, a fan-made parody Christmas album by Brendan Dalton, adapted from the stage show by the same name.

Who says theater can't be competitive? The Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) along with longtime comedy co-producers Madeline Mahoney and Matt Stango present SHOW OF SHOWS, a new one-act play competition. The bracket-structured event will take place over four weeks of thrilling shows, as each winning playwright earns the change to stage the next segment of their one-act by audience vote. Six teams will compete to make it to the finals: a chance to stage the play in its entirety.

Pipeline Theatre Company (Natalie Gershtein, Producing Artistic Director) has announced a brand new artistic development program called PlaySpace.

New Victory announces the 2019-20 New Victory LabWorks Artists, a roster of NYC artists pursuing the creation of innovative, adventurous new work for young audiences. With the unique opportunity to hold invited rehearsals for New Victory Member families, New Victory LabWorks Artists garner invaluable responses and feedback from their target audience: kids.

Florida Studio Theatre (FST) presents Who Loves You: Musical Tribute to Frankie Valli and Beyond, an energetic, heartfelt music revue that pays homage to one of the most successful acts in music history.

The Drama League has announced an inaugural event: First Stage Festival, where new works take their first steps, featuring 10 resident directors who will have 10 hours to focus and manifest a particular moment or element of 10 new works, giving a glimpse into the future of the American Theater.

West Coast Players will present Bingo! The Winning Musical  by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid, David Holcenberg, directed by Tom Costello, by special arrangement with Samuel French.

The Drama League (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Executive Artistic Director) has announced the theater directors chosen to develop new plays and musicals as part of the 2019 Drama League Artist Residency Program. Public work-in-progress presentations of each residency will be held periodically throughout the year at The Drama League Theater Center, 32 Avenue of the Americas, in Tribeca. Schedules for the presentations, which are open to the public, will be available throughout 2019 at www.dramaleague.org or by calling (212) 244-9494.

Rule of 7x7 at The Tank announces Rule of 7x7: All-Stars, the second-ever 'best-of' edition of 7x7 today, November 17, 2018 at 8pm at The Tank Theater, 312 W 36th St, NYC. Seven of the strongest pieces in 7x7 history are back for one night only! Tickets are $13 advance / $15 at door, and include one free beer.

Rule of 7x7 at The Tank announces Rule of 7x7: All-Stars, the second-ever 'best-of' edition of 7x7 on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 8pm at The Tank Theater, 312 W 36th St, NYC. Seven of the strongest pieces in 7x7 history are back for one night only! Tickets are $13 advance / $15 at door, and include one free beer.

Pipeline Theatre Company will kick off of its 10th anniversary season with a one-of-a-kind benefit for the company: Pipeline's Amazing Race, taking place Sunday, October 21. Pipeline is also pleased to announce that Caileigh Scott has joined the company in the new role of managing director.

West Coast Players will present Gemini by Albert Innaurato, directed by Tom Costello, June 1-17.

 Fresh Ground Pepper (FGP), a New York City based arts incubator in its 10th season of instigating and presenting new work, is proud to announce its first ever multi-week emerging arts festival at The New Ohio Theatre from April 10 through 21, 2018. The inaugural FGP Festival will present art parties, new works-in-progress, and workshop productions that span genre, form, and interactivity, including new works of performance, visual art, comedy, music, immersive theatre, board gaming, and literature.

Atlantic for Kids (Atlantic Theater Company Artistic Director, Neil Pepe; Atlantic Theater Company Managing Director, Jeffory Lawson; Atlantic Acting School Executive Director, Mary McCann; Atlantic for Kids Artistic Director, Alison Beatty) has added two public performances of This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, a play by Finegan Kruckemeyer with original music by Nate Weida. Directed by Alison Beatty and Tom Costello, performances will now conclude on Sunday, March 11th, 2018 at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The wild project has announced its current and upcoming productions for fall. Scroll down for details!