Artists' Exchange Brings Annual One Act Play Festival Outdoors
by A.A. Cristi
- June 11, 2021
Artists' Exchange has announced the return of its 16th Annual One Act Play Festival running June 24th - 27th. This year, for the first time in festival history, the stage will be set outdoors in the heart of Rolfe Square!
Veanne Cox Nominated For Daytime Emmy For INDOOR BOYS
by A.A. Cristi
- May 21, 2020
Veanne Cox has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Digital Series for her role as the eccentric and charismatic Lenora in the critically acclaimed series Indoor Boys.
THE FAINTING ROOM to be Presented by The Irondale On Women Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- March 03, 2020
The Fainting Room is an explosive release of physical comedy, music, and candid confession. This raucous one-woman show explores how the mental/physical diagnosis of hysteria (a disease which continued to be recognized until 1952) has shaped our understanding of mental and sexual health today, examining the intersections of gender, mental health, sexuality and body positivity while celebrating self love and agency over the care of our own bodies. It follows the journey of a modern young woman who finds herself transported back in time to an 1890's medical treatment facility. There she encounters two different doctors, a midwife and an anthropomorphized vibrator as she is exposed to absurd medical treatments and anatomical misunderstandings of the past. Running time is 60 minutes with no intermission.
World Premiere Of MAYOR PETE Opens At Epic
by A.A. Cristi
- February 13, 2020
Epic Theatre Company is hoisting its flag high as it announces its annual Summer Season. This year's double-bill will feature two World Premieres, including Aaron Blanck's return to Epic in Aaron Blanck's Country Fried Fourth of July Election Spectacular and Kevin Broccoli's Mayor Pete, a one man show about one of the newest, high-profile politicians in the country. Epic has the distinction of being the first theater to produce a play set during our current election season, and both shows are sure to make electoral waves.
ON WOMEN FESTIVAL At Irondale Announced Today
by A.A. Cristi
- February 10, 2020
Irondale, Brooklyn's leading theatrical ensemble producing immersive and non-traditional performance, will present the On Women Festival, a three-week theater festival that places the feminine perspective in the spotlight, March 4-21. With two mainstage productions, To Moscow! A Palimpsest and Night Shadows - Or, One Hundred Million Voices Shouting, and two works-in-progress, England's Splendid Daughters and The Fainting Room, coupled with educational workshops and a special performance by the Young New Yorker's Women's Ensemble, the festival highlights Irondale's mission to present relevant and reflective works while tackling current issues facing the community.
ON WOMEN FESTIVAL At Irondale Announced Today
by A.A. Cristi
- February 10, 2020
Irondale, Brooklyn's leading theatrical ensemble producing immersive and non-traditional performance, will present the On Women Festival, a three-week theater festival that places the feminine perspective in the spotlight, March 4-21. With two mainstage productions, To Moscow! A Palimpsest and Night Shadows - Or, One Hundred Million Voices Shouting, and two works-in-progress, England's Splendid Daughters and The Fainting Room, coupled with educational workshops and a special performance by the Young New Yorker's Women's Ensemble, the festival highlights Irondale's mission to present relevant and reflective works while tackling current issues facing the community.
BWW Review: Exquisite AGNES OF GOD at Epic Theatre
by Andria Tieman
- February 09, 2020
Despite the fact that Norman Jewison's AGNES OF GOD has existed as both an award-winning play and later film, it doesn't seem to have been produced very often. That's all the more reason to rush out and see Epic Theatre's well-executed version of a play that is strange, fascinating and heartbreaking. Juxtaposing the mystical with legal is always good fodder for a thorny debate, and this solid cast delivers the layered and complicated humanity needed to make the story resonate.
WomensWork's Season Of Madness Continues With THE MADWOMAN IN THE VOLVO
by Stephi Wild
- February 02, 2020
WomensWork Theatre Collaborative continues its Season of Madness with a limited run regional premiere of a?oeThe Madwoman in the Volvoa?? by Sandra Tsing Loh, based on her acclaimed memoir of the same title. Not choosing to go quietly into her sixth decade, Sandra and friends set a destination for Burning Man, an annual event of half-nude artistic stoners, where she creates a spectacular midlife blow up. It's a candid, hilarious and enlightening take on one woman's journey as she navigates her way through her middle-age maelstrom.