What We're Seeing: The Voices in Your Head

Artistic Associate Ryan Dobrin (backstroke boys) is directing a brand new play with Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective this month. Tickets are extremely limited though, so act fast!

September 9 - October 6, 2024
St. Lydia’s
304 Bond Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

A Little About The Show

Over an hour-long meeting, eight New Yorkers of varying backgrounds exchange stories, escape the ridicule of the outside world, and build an oasis, even as individual needs test its stability. Staged for an audience of 20 each night at a cozy, storefront church, The Voices in Your Head offers an intimate, singular experience, and a haven for weird joy.

Cast:

• Christian Caro

• Marcia DeBonis

• Alex Gibson

• Tom Mezger

• Daphne Overbeck

• Jamila Sabares-Klemm

• Molly Samson

• Erin Treadway

• Jehan O. Young

Creative:

• Created by Grier Mathiot & Billy McEntee

• Directed by Ryan Dobrin

• Production Stage Manager: Debbie Holloway

• Movement Director: Carina Goebelbecker

What We're Seeing: Inspired By True Events

Our friend Ryan Spahn (Modern Rock) has written a marvelous new play called Inspired By True Events directed by Knud Adams (The Regulars, Modern Rock), starring Mallory Portnoy (God Save The Queer) and produced by Out of the Box Theatrics (home of our “(plays) In Previews.” workshop series) with Giselle Raphaela (backstroke boys) as ASM. Do not miss this extremely limited run!

July 10 - July 28, 2024
154 Christopher St, #1E
New York, NY 10014

A Little About The Show

In the green room of a community theater in Rochester, the Uptown Theater performers are getting ready to play to a full house after opening to rave reviews the night before. When their star actor arrives in a dangerously unhinged state, they must improvise on and off stage in ways they could not have imagined. By turns hilarious, harrowing, and horrifying, Inspired By True Events follows a tenacious group of show people who must determine at what cost the show must go on.

Inspired By True Events received development workshops with New York Stage & Film, The Vineyard Theatre and EST.

Cast:

• Jack DiFalco

• Lou Liberatore

• Mallory Portnoy

• Dana Scurlock

Creative:

• Written by Ryan Spahn

• Directed by Knud Adams

• Scenic Designer: Lindsay G. Fuori

• Costume Designer: Siena Zoë Allen

• Sound Designer: Peter Mills Weiss

• Lighting Designer: Paige Seber

• Prop Designer: Sean Frank

• Production Stage Manager: Jakob Plummer

• Assistant Stage Manager: Giselle Raphaela

What We're Seeing: cunnicularii

Our old friend and Artistic Associate Juan Arturo (The Oregon Trail, […] In The Time of Corona) is in a brand new play at the end of the month: cunnicularii by Sophie McIntosh. It only runs for 3 weekends so don’t wait until it’s too late!

June 28 - July 13, 2024
Alchemical Studios, Studio 1
50 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011

A Little About The Show

Mary is an expectant mother. Mary gives birth to a rabbit. Mary must adjust her expectations. A piercing fable about the wonder and brutality of motherhood, cunnicularii interrogates the crushing pressure new parents face and questions how much of ourselves we can truly give to our offspring.

Written by Sophie McIntosh, directed by Nina Goodheart, and produced by Good Apples Collective and Esmé Maria Ng, cunnicularii is an Equity Showcase and runs 90 minutes with no intermission. Content warnings for postpartum depression, grief, gore, body horror, and death. 

Cast:

• Jen Anaya

• Juan Arturo

• Benjamin Milliken

• Camille Umoff

Creative:

• Written by Sophie McIntosh

• Directed by Nina Goodheart

What We're Seeing: Stargazers

Page 73, one of our favorite companies in the city, has just opened up a brand new play and we are all sorts of excited. Do not miss Stargazers by Majkin Holmquist and directed by Colette Robert now playing downtown until May 10.

April 8 — May 10, 2024
Connelly Theater
220 E 4th St
New York, NY 10009

A Little About The Show

In Stargazers, a grieving mother contemplates selling her Kansas farm—guided, she says, by the ghost of her daughter. While her ex-husband and neighbors fight to keep the land, an East Coast developer hopes to build a progressive utopia that would alter the landscape forever.

Cast:

• Lizzy Brooks

• Baize Buzan 

• Andrew Garman

• Fernando Gonzalez

• Miles G. Jackson

• Keren Lugo

• Kelly McAndrew

Creative:

• Written by Majkin Holmquist

• Directed by Colette Robert

• Scenic Design: Lawrence E. Moten III

• Costume Design: Alicia J. Austin

• Lighting Design: Reza Behjat

• Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi

• Props Design: Caitlyn Murphy

• Intimacy Director: Judi Lewis Ockler

• Casting: Taylor Williams, C.S.A.

• Technical Supervision: Beacon Theatrical

• Production Stage Manager: Kate Croasdale

• Assistant Stage Manager: Carolyn Reich

What We're Seeing: Fish

Keen Company and Working Theater are two of our favorite companies in the city and they are teaming up in March to present the World Premiere of Kia Corthron’s Fish, and frankly, we cannot wait!

March 19 — April 20, 2024
Theater Four in Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

A Little About The Show

Between acting as guardian to her little brother and losing her best friend to the charter school on the upper floor, Tree is just trying her best to get through senior year at her underfunded public school. Ms. Harris, the new English teacher, has grown embittered over budget cuts and standardized testing – keeping every student afloat is proving easier said than done. When questions arise that no textbook can answer, both student and teacher will face their most challenging assignment to date. Kia Corthron's Fish is a frank, funny, and fearless new play about the everyday people who make up America’s education system.

Cast:

• Torée Alexandre

• Mikayla LaShae Bartholomew

• Josiah Gaffney

• Morgan Siobhan Green

• Rachel Leslie

• Margaret Odette

• Christopher B. Portley

Creative:

• Written by Kia Corthron

• Directed by Adrienne D. Williams

• Scenic Design: Jason Simms

• Costume Design: Mika Eubanks

• Lighting Design: Nic Vincent

• Sound Design: Michael Keck

• Props Design: Yudelka Heyer

• Dramaturg: Zachariah Ezer

• Production Stage Manager: Shane Schnetzler

What We're Seeing: The Cotillion

Artistic Associate Ryan Dobrin (backstroke boys) is producing a brand new play as a member of The Movement Theatre Company. Do not miss The Cotillion, written and directed by Colette Robert!

May 3 - May 27, 2023
Mezzanine Theater at A.R.T./New York Theatres
502 W 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

A Little About The Show

As six high-achieving debs interrupt their preparations to peek into the shimmering ballroom, The Harriet HollandSocial Club’s esteemed Madam President does her damnedest to ensure it all goes well. She needs no stumblestonight. No teary-eyed smudges, no unraveling lace, no unraveling ANYTHING. Because if she can’t control thesegirls, whatever will they think over at Table 4? Featuring an all-Black-women company and creative team, down to its three-piece band!

Cast:

• Caturah Brown

• Kayla Coleman

• Cherrye J. Davis

• Claire Fort

• Starr Kirkland

• Aigner Mizzelle

• Cristina Pitter

• Monique St. Cyr

• Portland Thomas

• Montria Walker

• Akyiaa Wilson

• Jehan O. Young

Creative:

• Written and Directed by Colette Robert

• Music and Lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney

• Additional Lyrics: Colette Robert

• Choreography: nicHi douglas

• Sets: Teresa L. Williams

• Costumes: Mika Eubanks

• Lights: Stacey Derosier

• Sound: Sadah Espii Proctor

• Hair + Wigs: Nikiya Mathis

• PSM: Gracie Carleton

• ASM: Keyana Hemphill

• Production Manager: Intuitive Production Mgmt

• Marketing Consultant: PennyMaria Jackson, ArtzVenture

• Press Rep: Matt Ross PR

• Make-up sponsored by M∙A∙C Cosmetics 

• Make-up Design: Fatima Thomas, M∙A∙C Senior Artist 

• Associate Director: Ibi Owolabi 

• Associate Choreographer: Nile Harris

What We're Seeing: Truckers

We got to catch Truckers at INTAR Theatre this past week starring our friends Yadira Correa (Democra) and Christine Bruno (Comfort Pet) and so should you!

February 25 - March 26, 2023
INTAR Theatre
500 W 52nd St (4th floor)
New York, NY 10019

A Little About The Show

Mayor, Lollipop, and Freckles don’t know when they’ll leave this truck stop with their unusual cargo, or where they’ll be directed to take it next, but what they DO know is that things are really starting to get weird tonight. Between unexpected guests, a strange rest stop clerk, and otherworldly energies, the less questions they ask the better. Right? Mariana Carreño’s darkly humorous new play expertly places madcap characters in a situation more bizarre than them in this World Premiere.

Cast:

• Christine Bruno

• Jesse Castellanos

• Jorge Chapa

• Yadira Correa

• Jacqueline Guillén

Creative:

• Written by Mariana Carreño King

• Directed by Alfredo Narciso

• Scenic Design: Raul Abrego

• Costume Design: Harry Nadal

• Lighting Design: Dalia Sevilla

• Sound Design: Jimmy Kavetas

• Production Manager: Alejandra Maldonado Morales

• Production Stage Manager: Traci Bargen

• Assistant Stage Manager: Joseph Distl

• Technical Director: Christopher J Cancel-Pomales

What We're Seeing: Sancocho

Our friends at WP Theater are teaming up with the Latinx Playwrights Circle and The Sol Project to present Sancocho, written by Christin Eve Cato (End of the Line). We can't wait to see you uptown for this one!

March 11 - April 9, 2023
WP Theater
2162 Broadway (4th floor)
New York, NY 10024

A Little About The Show

Simmering between two Puerto Rican sisters is a family tension that finally comes to a boil. Forced to confront the reality of their father’s rapidly declining health, Renata and Caridad clash over cultural divides, unearth old wounds, and reveal long-buried secrets. As Caridad’s sancocho bubbles on the stove, will the two sisters reconcile their past resentments to face their uncertain futures – together? A searing Off-Broadway Premiere play by Christin Eve Cato.

Cast:

• Zuleyma Guevara

• Shirley Rumierk

Creative:

• Written by Christin Eve Cato

• Directed by Rebecca Martínez

• Set Design: Raul Abrego

• Costume Design: Harry Nadal

• Lighting Design: María-Cristina Fusté

• Sound Design: Germán Martínez

• Production Stage Manager: E Sara Barnes

What We're Seeing: The Trees

Our friends at Page 73 are teaming up with Playwrights Horizons to bring the World Premiere of The Trees to life next month and we couldn’t be more excited!

February 12 - March 19, 2023
Playwrights Horizons - Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

A Little About The Show

We say we're all in it together — but are we, all in the same way? In a dinky park next to their father's house, a brother and sister unwittingly establish a queer kind of society that tries to sustain itself in a mercenary world. Agnes Borinsky's The Trees investigates our dreams of stability and asks — who is it for, and at what cost?

Cast:

• Jess Barbagallo

• Marcia DeBonis

• Crystal A. Dickinson

• Sean Donovan

• Xander Fenyes

• Nile Harris

• Max Gordon Moore

• Pauli Pontrelli

• Ray Anthony Thomas

• Danusia Trevino

• Sam Breslin Wright

• Becky Yamamoto

Creative:

• Written by Agnes Borinsky

• Directed by Tina Satter

• Set Design: Parker Lutz

• Costume Design: Enver Chakartash

• Lighting Design: Thomas Dunn

• Sound Design: Tei Blow

• Puppet Design: Amanda Villalobos

• Original Music: Nazareth Hassan

• Production Stage Manager: Randi Rivera

• Assistant Stage Manager:Kayla Owen

What We're Seeing: The Venetians

If you can’t wait to see Matt Barbot’s work as part of our 2021 Irons in the Fire season, then you’re in luck! Oak Park Festival Theatre, in partnership with Kane Repertory Theatre, will present a live virtual production of The Venetians, a new play that brings together characters from several of Shakespeare's plays to address contemporary issues.

Live: May 8 at 7:00pm EST
On Demand: May 10 - 16

A Little About The Show

Othello, the Moorish general, wants to give his beloved Desdemona the beautiful secret wedding she deserves... but that means borrowing ducats. Unfortunately for him, the moneylender Shylock has spent too long among the terrible people of Venice to see this marriage as anything but a death sentence for Othello. Unbeknownst to Shylock, however, his own daughter has begun an illicit romance that may bring their whole world crashing down on all their heads. A crossover between Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and The Tragedy of Othello, The Venetians uses two classical outsiders to ask questions about immigration, assimilation, national identity and what “acceptance” truly means.

Cast:

• James Vincent Meredith

• Larry Grimm

• Ellen Campbell

• Shana Laski

• Jordan Arrendondo

• Andres Enriquez

• Matty Robinson

• Savanna Rae

• Bryant Hayes

• Christopher Wayland

• Mike Dailey

Creative:

• Written by Matthew Barbot

• Directed by Edward Torres

• Stage Manager: Leigh Barrett