John Simmons, Love On The Bus, 1967
Walnut Grove, Photo by Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1961.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
Greetings NYCPlaywrights
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
The Classical Theatre of Harlem
JULY 6-29, 8:30 PM
SEIZE THE KING
BY WILL POWER
With his country’s throne empty, Richard knocks down threats to his ascension, fueling his insatiable ambition and paranoia. Even if he can be stopped — who can ensure a tyrant won’t rise in his place? Award-winning playwright Will Power delivers a propulsive and timely modern reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard III that the San Diego City Beat described as “a sharp, lyrical script that blurs the line between the past and the present, while positing that ambition and depravity are not the province of merely one king, one country or one moment in time.”
RICHARD RODGERS AMPHITHEATER, MARCUS GARVEY PARK, NYC
(ENTER AT 124TH STREET & 5TH AVENUE, WALK SOUTH TO THE VENUE)
RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKETS
*** PRIMARY STAGES ***
STARTING NEXT WEEK: Summer 2021 Online Classes at Primary Stages ESPA!
Start a First Draft, keep working on Rewriting Your Draft, learn the techniques of writing 10-Minute Plays and One Acts, or write your own Romeo and Juliet. Faculty includes CARIDAD SVICH (Obie Winner for Lifetime Achievement), STEFANIE ZADRAVEC (Writer, The Electric Baby), KATE MOIRA RYAN (Writer, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother), ADAM KRAAR (Writer, Wild Terrain), and many other award-winning writers who provide practical skills and expert guidance in a collaborative atmosphere. Classes begin mid-June. Flexible, artist-friendly payment plans available. http://primarystages.org/espa/writing
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
It is that time of year again. We have chosen our artwork for the 2021 Playwrights and Artists Festival.
We will also be offering our prizes for these categories.
$300 for Best of Festival.
$200 for Artistic Merit.
$100 for Audience Favorite.
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Theatre Viscera podcast seeks plays about gender
We accept plays written by queer playwrights for a queer cast, about queer characters. You can send us full length plays, one acts, or a collection of shorter works. Total submissions should be 20 pages or longer. We are not accepting musicals at this time.
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Molecule accepts submissions of poetry, prose (fiction & non-fiction) plays, reviews and interviews in 50 words or less (including titles and interview questions).
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** DRAMA BOOK SHOP ***
The shop — like so many bookstores around the country — had brushes with death, caused not only by e-commerce but also by fire and flood, before encountering a rent hike it could not withstand, in 2018. The beloved institution, where students, artists, scholars and fans could browse memoirs and bone up for auditions, was in danger of closing.
Then came an unexpected rescue. Four men enriched by “Hamilton,” including the musical’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda; its director, Thomas Kail; its lead producer, Jeffrey Seller; and the theater owner, James L. Nederlander, bought the store from its longtime owners. Kail has a particularly close relationship with the shop — 20 years ago, just out of college, he formed a small theater company in its basement. After he teamed up with Miranda, the two worked on “In the Heights” there.
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Founded in 1917 by the Drama League, the Drama Book Shop became an independent book store in 1923 and since that time has been deemed a quintessential New York City cultural institution. Over the past 100 years, the Drama Book Shop has secured its reputation as the city’s best source for theatrical works, with over 8,000 plays regularly in stock. In 2011, the Drama Book Shop received a Tony Award® Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. Given since 1990, this award is bestowed upon individuals, organization, and institutions that have demonstrated profound achievement in the theatre but are ineligible in any of the established Tony categories.
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Watch a Sneak Peek of the Drama Book Shop's Reopening in NYC
Co-owner Thomas Kail and designer David Korins share the process and inspiration behind the beloved New York staple.
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Paris Review, 2015
Whenever you hear about the death of another specialty bookstore—RIP Mystery Bookstore! RIP Cookbook Store!—walk over to that unlikeliest bastion of hope, West 40th Street, and breathe a sigh of relief: the Drama Book Shop abides. And it’s not just that the store is a treasure trove of plays and scripts and monologues and a beloved nurturer of theatrical talent, with a Tony Award to prove it. The Drama Book Shop is a testament to one of the few areas where print still reigns supreme.
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From the Drama Book Shop blog, August 30, 2006
Book signings, parties, performances and workshops this fall including appearances by Simon Callow, David Lindsay-Abaire, Donna McKechnie, Marni Nixon and others. Visit our events page for a complete listing. For updates, please sign up for our Email Newsletter
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February 10, 2000
Arthur Seelen, a former actor who with his wife, Rozanne, owned the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan, the oldest performing-arts bookstore in the United States, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 76.
In 1958 Mr. Seelen bought the store from Marjorie Seligman, who founded it in 1923. Mr. Seelen and his wife, who survives him, were married in 1980 and ran the business together.
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June 7, 1931
The Brooklyn Eagle Magazine
"Effects sometimes precede their causes."
Seated at her desk to the rear of the Drama Book Shop, facing the interviewer from behind a hedge of spearpoints (the lances of a dozen Don Quixotes, carved in wood or molded in lead or glass, symbolizing the idealistic and adventurous if not the practical nature of their collector), Miss Marjorie Seligman speaks not of the mysteries of four-dimensional physics, the paradoxes of modern science. Prompted by inquiry, her thoughts have returned to the beginnings of the enterprise reprsented by the little 52d Street store of which she is manager - the modest beginnings, fifteen years ago, of the Dram Book Shop.
In 1916 it was a shelf of books in the offices of the New York Drama League, a convenience to members of that organization who desired for one reason or another to read their plays and see them, too. A small shelf - small because it was devoted to current literature of the drama only, and current literature of the drama was in those days negligible in bulk.
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