Tuesday, August 26, 2025
(Bob Shuman’s ‘Little Jewel: In the Plagues and Throes of Love’ is one of the shows in the 2025 Dream Up Festival.) Time Out says (August 11/2025) The lucky 13th edition of TNC’s di…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:02PMMonday, August 4, 2025
(via Jonathan Slaff) THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY SETS ITS THIRTEENTH DREAM UP FESTIVAL WHERE AND WHEN: August 24 to September 14, 2025 Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. (at E. 10th Stree…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AMThursday, July 31, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: Bob Shuman/Stage Voices [email protected] THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, CRYSTAL FIELD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TO PRESENT DREAM UP FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:20PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
(via Jonathan Slaff) Theater for the New City’s 2025 Street Theater tour will be “Home Sweet Home, or a Life In New York.” Rip-roaring musical tours City’s streets, parks and p…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:57AMMonday, June 23, 2025
STAGE VOICES PRODUCTIONS BOB SHUMAN, PLAYWRIGHT-PROD.; FRANK FARRELL, PROD. MGR.-DIR. Key Details Auditions: Manhattan, NY Open Casting Call Jun 29, 2025 Visit for more info: https://www.bac…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 03:08PMWednesday, May 21, 2025
(Timberlake Wertenbaker’s article appeared in the Guardian, 5/15/2025; Photo: ‘She had the courage to decide that people were people’ … Emily Dobbs, Sophie Scott, Olivia Poulet a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:12AMSaturday, May 17, 2025
(via Jonathan Slaff) THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY Crystal Field, Director – 155 First Ave., NYC 10003 – (212) 254-1109 www.theaterforthenewcity.net LOWER EAS…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:11PMFriday, May 16, 2025
(via The press Room. Photo: Broadway World.) Charles Strouse, 96, the celebrated and multi-award-winning American film, television, and Broadway musical composer, responsible for such leg…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:36AMFriday, May 2, 2025
(From France24.) New evidence uncovered by the Literary expert and Shakespeare ‘sleuth’ Professor Matthew Steggle, has upended the long established narrative that William Shakespeare lef…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:06PMThursday, May 1, 2025
(Via Emily Owens; Megan Hill Photo credit: Maria Baranova.) OPEN by Crystal Skillman Directed by Jessi D. Hill Starring Megan Hill Press Previews July 10 & 11 Opening Saturday, Jul…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:00AMThursday, April 24, 2025
Listen on BBC Radio 4 Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great figures in world literature. The French playwright Molière (1622-1673) began as an actor, aiming to be a tragedian…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:04PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Ashley Liang Dance Company performs in Lower East Side Festival of the Arts 2023. Photo by Joe Bly. (via Jonathan Slaff.) OVER 200 ACTS SET FOR TNC’S 30th LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE A…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:18PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian 4/17. Either hiding or have hidden … Victoria Smurfit as Helena and Rhashan Stone as Anderson in Ghosts. Photograph: Helen Murray) Lyric …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:22PMFriday, April 11, 2025
(from the Record Herald April 10) SSCC Theatre Company–in Hillsboro, Ohio–is set to present “Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond,” playing Tuesday, April …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:37PMThursday, April 10, 2025
(via Emily Owens PR) New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater is back–taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, May 5-19 at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU (24 W …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:22PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
(via Jonathan Slaff) THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY Crystal Field, Director – 155 First Ave., NYC 10003 – (212) 254-1109 www.theaterforthenewcity.net – for immediate release Theater for the…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:37AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
(Michael Natale’s article appeared in Popular Mechanics, AOL, 4/4.) This story is a collaboration with Biography.com William Shakespeare is undeniably one of the most famous writers in hu…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:54AMFriday, April 4, 2025
(via News from the Press; Photo: Elizabeth McGovern as Ava Gardner in AVA: The Secret Conversations. © Jeff Lorch.) AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS WRITTEN BY AND STARRING ELIZABETH McGOVER…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:56PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Aristotle/Alexander In 342 BC, in the northern wilds of Ancient Greece, the greatest scientific mind to grace the ancient world collides with the most formidable conqueror history will ever …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:07AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
(Tim Byrne’s interview appeared in the Guardian 4/1/2025; Photo: ‘All these stories and no one had told me’ … Bernie Dieter, the alter ego of Jen Byrne, Australian-German Weimar caba…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 11:27AMMonday, March 31, 2025
(From msn; story by Peter Leborah M.Sc. Politics; Photo: ©pixabay.) Berlin, Germany : Reviving the Berliner Ensemble In the heart of Berlin, the historic Berliner Ensemble is undergoing a…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:22PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
(Via Jonathan Slaff) Theater for the New City to present “That’s (Not) All She Wrote… because after 50, she’s got A LOT to say” –a rare window into the mind of women playwrights …
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:44AMThursday, March 27, 2025
(Chris Wiegand’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/17. Photo: From left: Jordan Scowen (Eteocles), Mark Strong (Oedipus), and Lesley Manville (Jocasta) in Oedipus. Photograph: Manuel Har…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:44PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
(Published on London Theatre Direct, March 24, 2025.) Every year on the 27th March, theatre lovers around the world take a bow for World Theatre Day – a global celebration of the magic, ma…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:35PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
(Charles McNulty’s article appeared in the Los Angeles Times, 3/10/ 2025. Photo: Playwright Athol Fugard in 1996; Photo: (Keith Beaty / Toronto Star via Getty Images.) W.H. Auden, meditati…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:50PMSaturday, March 22, 2025
THOMAS MIDDLETON, JACOBEAN PLAYWRIGHT Listen on BBC RADIO 4 In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most energetic, varied and innovative playwrights of his time. Thomas Mid…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:58PMFriday, March 21, 2025
(Alyson Krueger’s article appeared in The New York Post, 3/20. Photo above: Next to the Dunkin Donuts at Port Authority sits a tiny jewel box theater. Olga Ginzburg for NY Post; Photo belo…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:27PMThursday, March 20, 2025
(via Jonathan Slaff.) THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY Crystal Field, Director – 155 First Ave., NYC 10003 – (212) 254-1109 www.theaterforthenewcity.net – for immediate release THEATER F…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:54AMSaturday, March 8, 2025
Dream Up Festival 2025 In 2010, the inaugural Dream Up Festival offered 25 shows consisting of 23 World Premieres and 2 American Premieres. The festival had reviewers from NY Times, NY Press…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:25PMMonday, March 3, 2025
(Clare Brennan’s article appeared in the Guardian, 3/2/2025. ‘Their connection radiates from the stage’: Peter Mooney as Jim and Gareth John as Alan in Housemates, at the Sherman theat…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 12:05PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
(Arifa Akbar’s article appeared in the Guardian, 2/19; Photo: Nifty dance moves … Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston in Much Ado About Nothing. Photograph: Marc Brenner.) Theatre Royal Dr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 01:49PM