Greetings NYCPlaywrights
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
SOCIAL DISTANCE
The R&B Musicl
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 7:00PM
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
Between West 3rd & Bleecker Streets
New York, NY 10012
Social Distance is a R&B Musical that follows the days amidst the Coronavirus where four American friends of different ethnicities unite via technology while self quarantining. In spirit of Lieber and Stoller, Ain't Misbehavin, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Songs for a New World, Social Distance is a sung through musical.
**proof of vaccination will be required for entry for anyone over the age of 12
***entry into the theatre involves a small flight of stairs and restrooms are located downstairs in the basement. There is no elevator.
*** PRIMARY STAGES ***
STARTING NEXT WEEK: Fall 2021 Online Classes at Primary Stages ESPA!
New and time tested favorite classes begin next week! Start a First Draft, focus on Dramatic Structure, learn the Tools of Dialogue, or create your Artistic Statement. Faculty includes CARIDAD SVICH (Obie Winner for Lifetime Achievement), MELISA ANNIS (Faculty, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing Program), MICHAEL WALKUP (Artistic Director, Page 73), and many other award-winning writers who provide practical skills and expert guidance in a collaborative atmosphere. Classes begin mid-September.
Flexible, artist-friendly payment plans available. http://primarystages.org/espa/writing.
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The 2021 KIT International 10-minute play series
Inaugurated in 2019, Kairos Italy Theater, the Italian theater company in NY, the series is dedicated each year to a specific anniversary in the arts or in society. In 2021, It celebrates the 100th birthday of Leonardo Sciascia, author, playwright, journalist and philosopher dedicated to themes regarding politics and society.
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The University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance is excited to announce our ninth annual 10-Minute Play Festival for spring of 2022.
This festival is open to all applicants, amateur or professional. One selected external submission from this call will receive aproduction as a part of this festival.
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American Renaissance Theater Company – a developmental and producing organization founded in 1974 and based in New York City – seeks to expand its already diverse membership by inviting applications from Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander playwrights.
A dynamic community of theater professionals, ARTC's membership includes actors and directors as well as writers who encompass the full range of gender, age and sexual orientations. We want to extend a welcome to the voices of all writers who believe they would benefit from the supportive process of our weekly workshop.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** 9/11 + 20 ***
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of one of America's darkest days, the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
As municipalities plan for their memorial events the Know Theatre is offering its own tribute with their production of 'The Guys', set less than two weeks after the attacks.
Like many New Yorkers, artistic director of the Know Theatre, Tim Gleason, said 9/11 left a deep scar.
"I was living in Manhattan at the time," said Gleason, "A day that strikes me still as fresh as if it were coming this September 11th. Sad day, a lot of people who just thought they were going to work, never got to go home."
An event that two decades later is still just as raw, the play 'The Guys' offers a poignant perspective.
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On Saturday, September 11, Battery Dance and Irish Repertory Theatre will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, respectively, with a live and an audio-stream performance.
At 8:46 am, the exact time the first plane hit the North Tower, five performers from Tribeca-based Battery Dance will mark the date by gathering on the traffic island bordered by West Broadway, Varick and Franklin Streets, dancing to the strains of a solo violin. This year’s tribute to the victims of 9/11, symbolizing resilience and healing, harkens back to September 2001, when the Company emerged from its loft in the Frozen Zone below Canal Street and Tadej Brdnik danced a solo accompanied by four musicians on that same traffic island, in view of the empty sky corridor that had previously been punctuated by the Twin Towers.
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COME FROM AWAY was conceived after writers Irene Sankoff and David Hein, at the suggestion of Michael Rubinoff, went to Gander for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when a reunion was taking place. Sankoff and Hein interviewed many of those involved, locals and visitors. After staying a couple of weeks, they realized they wanted to do a musical. Many of those original stories and people were incorporated into the musical, other characters were combined. Twelve actors play dozens of roles on a relatively bare stage.
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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Meron Langsner, AG11, overslept “a little,” as he recalls in his autobiographical one-act play, Bystander 9/11. As he rode the subway to his job in New York’s financial district, the play’s Narrator acknowledges with the breezy confidence of youth, “OK, so I was late for work again.”
But as he exited the train under the World Trade Center, any notion of routine was shattered. Rushing through the turnstile was a “screaming mass of people headed right at you. But that was only the beginning.”
A plane had just crashed into one of the towers above.
Langsner made a possibly life-saving decision to board an uptown train, getting off a few blocks away. As he joined panicked crowds streaming north, he began to grasp what was happening: Terrorists had slammed two planes into the World Trade Center's twin towers as part of a series of attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
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It has been 20 years since the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and inflicted lasting trauma on the country.
In Montclair, a theater company is helping to continue the healing process, through drama and spoken word.
Apricot Sky Productions will present a series of one-act plays and monologues this week at the Grove Street Theatre, with two performances on Sept. 10 and 11.
Eric Alter, Apricot Sky’s founder and executive producer, who is one of the featured playwrights, said that the plays also mark a return to live theater. After a year and a half of little to no live theater of any kind in Montclair or elsewhere in the region, he said, he was hopeful that many people would want to come to the show. “I think people were so cooped up and ready to get out and do something,” he said.
Two of the plays, “Catch the Morning” and “The Grieving Pool,” were previously featured in “Capsule,” a showcase of one-act plays that Apricot Sky presented for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in 2011.
“Catch the Morning,” written by Alter, follows a conversation between a father and daughter as they come to grips with the attacks. “The Grieving Pool,” also by Alter, is the story of two strangers who meet at the 9/11 Memorial reflecting pool in New York, and end up sharing stories about loved ones lost in the attacks.
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Great Performances and The Metropolitan Opera present a special live performance of Verdi’s “Requiem” commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the concert features performances by the Met orchestra, chorus and soloists Ailyn Pérez, Michelle DeYoung, Matthew Polenzani and Eric Owens. Hosted by world-renowned ballerina Misty Copeland from nearby the site of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the special includes footage from the archives of the museum as well as New York City’s Tribute in Light, a commemorative public art installation featuring two beams of light that reach up to four miles into the sky, echoing the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers, every year from dusk to dawn on the night of September 11. Great Performances – Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 premieres Saturday, September 11 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) and will live stream in select markets. The concert will be available to stream on demand on pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app the next day.
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https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/great-performances-verdis-requiem-the-met-remembers-9-11-about/12951/
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On September 11, 2021, Eiko Otake will perform at 7am and 6pm at Belvedere Plaza in Battery Park City by the Hudson River, directly west of where the Twin Towers once stood.
Marking 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, this free public event will be presented in partnership with NYU Skirball, Battery Park City Authority, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC).
Eiko & Koma were artists-in-residence in the North Tower throughout the year 2000. In 2002, on this very plaza, they premiered Offering: A Ritual of Mourning with David Krakauer, a composer and clarinet player. Offering was later presented with free admission in parks throughout Manhattan and in many cities around the world.
Created specifically for this occasion and this site, Eiko’s new piece, Slow Turn, centers on a monologue of her personal memories of that day and its aftermath. She has invited David Krakauer to perform short solo pieces to bookend her monologue, with Iris McCloughan as a dramaturg.
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