| Public Obscenities with the original cast directed by Mr. Shayok Misha Chowdhury, after a successful run at SoHo Rep in 2023, now plays at TFANA, January 17-February 18, 2024 and are offered as part of Under the Radar Festival at TFANA (Theatre for a New Audience) Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn NY. |
| Featuring: Tashnuva Anan, Debashis Roy Chowdhury, Abrar Haque, Golam Sarwar Harun, Gargi Mukherjee, NaFis, Jakeem Dante Powell. www.utrfest.org |
Hiroshi-Me-Me-Me by Natalie Menna, directed by Roger Hendricks Simon is a comedy of obsession in which three peoples’ lives revolve around a coffee shop in Manhattan where self-service coffee coincides with self-serving behavior. Performances are January 18-28 at TNC, 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Street), Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM and Sundays at 3:00 PM. The running time is 70 minutes. The Jan. 18 show is a preview. www.theatreforthenewcity.net
Atlantic for Kids is proud to present the new bi-lingual musical El Otro Oz, with a book by Mando Alvarado and Tommy Newman, music & lyrics by Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman, choreography by Alessandra Valea, and directed by Melissa Crespo. Performances begin January 13 through Sunday, February 18 at Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2 (330 West 16th Street). www.atlantictheater.org
PlayCo and WP Theater today announced the cast of their world premiere co-production of Corinne Jaber’s Munich Medea: Happy Family, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, January 30 – February 25 (opening Monday, February 12) at WP Theater (4th Floor, 2162 Broadway, New York). A trio of interwoven monologues, Jaber’s bracing new work sees three characters giving voice to devastating secrets. With chilling directness, the playwright burrows into the abilities of theater and storytelling to manipulate and obscure, as well as illuminate and process, harrowing truths. Cast includes Crystal Finn, Heather Raffo, Kurt Rhoades. Tickets can be purchased here.
This unique theatrical experience described by No Proscenium as “a deliciously diabolical combination of afternoon tea, cult ceremony, and puzzle-solving mayhem” is created by Shuai Chen and Arlo Howard and directed by Arlo Howard. Opening is set for February 18.
THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN SCRIBE: INITIATION TEA runs February 10 – March 30 with performances Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00am. Caveat is located 21A Clinton Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. More information and tickets are available at www.orderofthegoldenscribe.com
The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO), in collaboration with the Philadelphia-based Greenfield Foundation, has selected playwright Deepa Purohit as the winner of the 2024 Hermitage Greenfield Prize (HGP). Purohit is an award-winning playwright who made her Off-Broadway debut in the Atlantic Theater Company’s 2022-23 season with the world premiere of her play Elyria (2023 Drama League Award Nominee for Outstanding Production of a Play, 2017 NEA Commission, and 2019 Jerome Foundation support with Ma-Yi Theater Company).
The Hermitage Greenfield Prize is awarded annually, rotating between the fields of theater, music, and visual art. Purohit will receive a six-week Hermitage Fellowship and a $35,000 commission to create a new work of theater, which will have its first public presentation in Sarasota in 2026.
