The Laramie Project/The Trevor Project – Donna Murphy/Victoria Clark – Arthur Miller Foundation/Leslie Odom Jr & Kara Young – Jaime Lozano/Florencia Cuenca/Frigid Festival – MasterVoices/The Frogs – King of the Jews/HERE
Acclaimed Mexican husband and wife duo Jaime Lozano and Florencia Cuenca will headline FRIGID New York’s 2nd annual Days of the Dead Festival with their show Mi Ofrenda, Mis Canciones, a magical night of music and song, at The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003) on Sunday, October 22 at 8pm. Tickets ($25) are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance, which is also available to livestream, will run approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.
Tony Award Winners Julie White and Brandon Uranowitz will join Tony Nominee Ato Blankson-Wood (Hamlet, Slave Play) for a one-night-only benefit staged reading of Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project’s The Laramie Project, directed by Dustin Wills (Wolf Play, Wet Brain). The event, which will raise funds to support the work of The Trevor Project, will take place on Monday, October 16th at 7:00 PM at Peter Norton Symphony Space, and is being produced by District Productions. Additional casting is soon to be announced. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-the-laramie-project-a-benefit-staged-reading
Abingdon Theatre Company is delighted to announce two-time Tony Award winners Donna Murphy and Victoria Clark will join the performers honoring Tony & Obie Award winner V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Obie Award winner & Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Peil at their 31st Anniversary Gala on October 23 at Edison Ballroom. Cocktails, dinner, live performance. www.abingdontheatre.org
The Arthur Miller Foundation (AMF) announces the fifth annual Arthur Miller Foundation Honors will be Monday, November 6, 2023, at City Winery NYC (25 11th Avenue). Hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young, the Arthur Miller Foundation will honor Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok, Philanthropists Jerre & Mary Joy Stead, and NYC Public School Theater Teacher Talia Jaime. AMF believes arts education is the right of every public-school student. To honor the legacy of Arthur Miller and his New York City public school education, AMF is a not-for-profit organization that provides theater teachers with certification, training, and critical resources to build and sustain quality in-school theater programs impacting over 52,000 public school students in all 5 boroughs of NYC and in Bridgeport Public Schools in Connecticut, one of the most underserved districts in the country. For more information on the Arthur Miller Foundation, please visit: www.arthurmillerfoundation.org
MasterVoices opens its 2023-24 season on November 3 and 4 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, with three performances of a concert staging of Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove’s The Frogs, as adapted by Nathan Lane. Ted Sperling, celebrating his tenth season as MasterVoices’ Artistic Director, directs and conducts the 120–member MasterVoices chorus, an 18-piece orchestra, and an all-star cast of MasterVoices favorites. In addition to the two performances initially announced for Saturday, November 4, MasterVoices has added a third performance on Friday, November 3, at 8 PM.
Based on his controversial but acclaimed 1979 novel, Leslie Epstein’s King of the Jews will get its Off Broadway debut this fall, beginning October 24, opening October 28, and running through November 19 at HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013). This production is being presented by Parkman Productions.
One night after curfew in the Astoria Café, a group of waiters and cooks and entertainers, along with a spare rabbi or two, are forced by the German occupiers to form a Judenrat, a group of self-governing Jews who will thenceforth govern the lives—and determine the deaths—of their co-religionists in the ghetto that surrounds them. The cast includes Richard Topol, Rachel Botchan, David Deblinger, John Little, Daniel Oreskes, Allen Lewis Rickman, JP Sarro, Dave Shalansky, Jonathan Spivey, Erica Spyres, Wesley Tiso, Robert Zukerman. visit here.org.
