“A starkly taut, clear cut drama painful in its insights, poignant in its subtleties.” – The New York Herald Tribune. Winner of the Obie Award in 1962, Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy gave his blessings on this upcoming revival before his recent passing: “Your persistence is flattering and wins my approval.” Albert Cobb…
The Award-Winning Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Cheryl L. Davis’s (2014 AUDELCO Playwriting Award winner for Maid’s Door), CAREFULLY TAUGHT, directed by Pat Golden (Assistant Director on Emily Mann’s Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams). CAREFULLY TAUGHT will play a limited engagement…
BOOKTRESS LLC has launched – and what better way to kick off the hottest new resource for working actors in NYC?! A launch concert party, of course. BOOKTRESS Offline is a concert party that will make you laugh, maybe make you cry, and take you through the “booking” stories (and “almost-booking” stories) of some of…
OVERVIEW: Led by award-winning theatre practitioner Leigh Fondakowski (Head Writer, The Laramie Project), this interactive workshop will help you learn how to make theatre out of real life stories. Throughout this workshop you will stage several short pieces based on real events. During Week 1 you will learn how to use a diverse array…
Beginning Monday, October 5th, Jennifer Diamond will assume the roles of Louise Lerman and Eve Allabout in RUTHLESS! The Musical at St. Luke’s Theatre in the heart of the Theatre District. She’s replacing Tracy Jai Edwards who is departing the show to appear in the new musical Gotta Dance, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell….
The Gallery at REDCAT becomes a platform for performances, screenings, concerts, philosophical meditations, conversations and other events throughout the three-month exhibition Hotel Theory, which explores the possibilities of theory as an art form. Over twenty artists participate with performances or performance documentation and video, audio, photographs, posters or other related ephemera that contextualize the time-based…
NewFest, in partnership with Outfest, today announced the lineup of their 27th annual celebration of the year’s best LGBT films from around the world. The program of nearly 100 narrative features, documentaries and shorts runs October 22-27 at the newly renovated Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas, and at the recently completed screening room at The LGBT…
Coming in the immediate wake of the historic renewal of U.S. – Cuba relations, Jenn Singer Gallery proudly presents Little Robot [Future Loading], a collection of new paintings by 28-year-old Miami-based, Cuban artist Juan Travieso. In the vanguard of Cuban artists injecting the richness of their art and culture into the American mainstream, Juan…
Hello Beautiful People, Recently I took to polling colleagues about films. I wanted to know, what are great films that high school kids should know – stories that they can learn from, stories that they can relate to, and classic pieces of cinema that would be useful to their repertoire. Here’s what they came up…
Award winning monologist Bob Brader’s new solo show, Smoker will have its World Premiere at the 6th Annual United Solo Festival on October 16th. The show is from the award-winning creative team, Bob Brader (writer/performer) and Suzanne Bachner (director/developer) whose previous work includes Bob Brader’s shows Preparation Hex and the multi award winning Spitting In…