Troy Anthony News

Award presenters for the 2021 Theatre Women Awards Virtual Gala, presented by the League of Professional Theatre Women on Monday, June 7 at 7pm, will include actress/director Martha Gehman; composer/director Troy Anthony; former League President Joan D. Firestone; Joe Barros, Artistic Director of The New York Theatre Barn and more.

The Shed, HERE, and Musical Theatre Factory will present Chronicle X by playwright, director, and performer Nia Witherspoon as part of Open Call at The Shed. Chronicle X is the first work in The Dark Girl Chronicles, a ritual-play cycle designed to crystallize in the collective memory the stories of Black women warriors against state violence.

The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation has announced the recipients of their 2021 Idea Awards for Theatre; three grants awarded to adventurous new voices in playwriting and musical theatre, as well the visionary playwrights who have inspired and blazed trails before them.

Open Call is The Shed’s large-scale commissioning program for early-career NYC-based artists. For its second iteration, 27 artists have been selected by interdisciplinary professionals and leaders in their fields, including artists and Shed staff, to present work starting this June through next year.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced online programming for April and May including the return of New Songs Now In Your Living Room, new episodes of MTA Radio Plays, and several public conversations. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced details for its March programming including new episodes of MTA Radio Plays. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists in new and meaningful ways.

New York Stage and Film has committed $100,000 to their new NEXUS Initiative that brings together 20 multihyphenate artists to explore the question “where does story exist at the intersection of stage and film?” Each participant receives $5,000 and will take part in a series of conversations focused on new and expanded forms of storytelling.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced details for new episodes of MTA Radio Plays along with several free online events in February. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists in new and meaningful ways.

The Abbey Theater of Dublin, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, will present an encore, on-demand streaming presentation of Troy Anthony Harris' adaptation and performance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail,' from Jan. 15 through 18, 2021.

New York City’s Institute for American Musical Theatre is moving forward with plans for its unique 2-year “Creators” program. Built and run by award winning lyricist-librettist Sam Carner (Island Song, Unlock’d), the new intensive and highly collaborative training will be guided by a faculty of New York theater professionals working at the highest levels of the business.

Goodspeed has released a new trailer for their upcoming virtual gala, Shakin' the Blues Away!

The second week of the 2020 Prelude Festival: Sites of Revolution, which runs until October 30. All events are free and take place completely online. Take a look at www.preludenyc2020.com for more information.

Broadway On Demand has announced that new episodes of the interview series, “The Hook, with Andy Einhorn” about the inner workings of successful musical theater composition, are now available on Broadway Access Pro.

James Snyder has created a video for Goodspeed inviting people to their upcoming virtual gala, Shakin' the Blues Away!

This week marks the first week of the 2020 Prelude Festival: Sites of Revolution, which runs until October 30.

The 2020 Prelude Festival, titled Sites of Revolution, will bring together artists, critics, activists, and producers from New York City and beyond to explore the many ways in which revolutions are taking place today. 

Goodspeed Musicals has announced that Broadway actor and Goodspeed's own Billy Bigelow, James Snyder (Goodspeed's Carousel; Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, In Transit, If/Then) will perform a special number during Shakin' the Blues Away: A Virtual Gala Concert for Goodspeed.

Playwrights Horizons today announced Natasha Sinha as its new Associate Artistic Director. Selected after a national search, Sinha, who is currently Director of Artistic Programs at Signature Theatre, will assume the position in January 2021.

Responding to the extreme precarity the artistic community is experiencing amidst a dire lack of government intervention, Soho Rep. Project Number One creates jobs to support artists in this moment and will be part of building a new path forward.

In celebration of the 158th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln issuing the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, the Abbey Theater of Dublin presents a live streamed performance of 'Emancipation' - an adaptation of the 1876 speech delivered by Frederick Douglass at the unveiling of The Freedmen's Monument at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.