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THE MONTH OF MODERNS 2021 to be Presented by The Crossing and the Annenberg Center The Month of Moderns 2021 opens with The Forest, The Crossing’s response to the limitations on group singing in the COVID-era.by BWW News Desk Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, has announced the return of its annual summer festival of new music, The Month of Moderns 2021, co-presented with the Annenberg Center from June 3-19, 2021. Each of the three outdoor programs, spread throu...

SPACE on Ryder Farm in Brewster Announces Residents for Its 2021 Season Written by SPACE on Ryder Farm Prev AUDIBLE THEATER AMONG THIS SEASON’S INSTITUTIONAL RESIDENTS WITH NEW COVID-19 SAFETY PROCEDURES IN PLACE, SPACE RECOMMITS TO SERVING ARTISTS AND INNOVATORS Yesterday, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the artist residency program and organic farm located in Brewster, New York, announced the participants for its 2021 residency season.   The SPACE team is thrilled that residents will onc...

An overhead net prevents pieces of the vaulted ceiling from crashing down on the floor, or on visitors.Juan Carlos Toro In 1838, just three months after the consecration of the newly completed cathedral in the southern Spanish city of Cádiz, the cleric Domingo González Villanueva raised the alarm. Referring to its brand new vaults, he warned officials in the cathedral chapter that “stone slabs and somewhat larger pieces are falling.” What should have been a glorious celebration ...

Hudson Reporter Art House Productions Announces Virtual Workshop Presentation of OPEN LINE ❯ Art House Productions is pleased to announce a workshop presentation of Open Line, conceived and performed by Max Reuben, and featuring artist Sally Chen, on Thursday, April 22 at 8:00pm EST on Zoom. Hi, there. How are you? Things have been kind of rough lately, huh? Well, why don’t you take a seat. Open Line is an experiment in long-distance intimacy and radical honesty. A tiny, temporary balm ...

Brittany K. Allen Brooklyn-based writer and actor Brittany K. Allen has been named the recipient of the 2021 Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award—presented by The Lark and producer Daryl Roth—for her play Happy Happy Joy Joy. The Creative Spirit Award, now in its 26th year, includes a year-long residency at The Lark, with access to its artistic resources and developmental support, valued at $10,000. “The Award was established to honor theatre artists who have extraor...

The Lark and producer Daryl Roth have announced Brittany K. Allen as the recipient of the 2021 Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award for her play Happy Happy Joy Joy. The Creative Spirit Award, now in its 26th year, was first given to director Michael Mayer in 1996. Presented annually, this $10,000 award includes a year-long residency at The Lark, with access to its artistic resources and developmental support. "The Award was established to honor theatre artists who have extraordinary vision, dedica...

Page 73 today announced a new playwright-supporting initiative: self-directed retreats, tailored to writers individual needs and preferences. In lieu of the organizations usual Summer Residency, this year Page 73 offers four playwrights in its community-current Page 73 Fellows Bleu Beckford-Burrell and Emma Goidel, two-time Interstate 73 member Amina Henry, and 2019 Interstate 73 member Jessica Huang-the opportunity to design their own week-long professional writing retreats, with Page 73 cover...

NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench. The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop t...

Ucross Launches Annual Music Fellowships With Rice University The exciting new partnership offers fellows from The Shepherd School of Music the gift of time and space at Ucross’s 20,000-acre Wyoming ranch.by BWW News Desk Ucross has announced the establishment of a new partnership with Rice Universitys Shepherd School of Music. An annual fellowship will award four weeks of Ucross residency time to accomplished artists and/or scholars in the field of music. This year, the inaugural fellowship...

Artists Rep Announces New Artistic Directing Fellow The inaugural fellow, Zi Alikhan, will collaborate with the company’s artistic director while also heading up ART’s new DNA: Oxygen initiative for BIPOC theater practitioners. By Fiona McCann 2/22/2021 at 10:30am Zi Alikhan, Artists Reps inaugural artistic directing fellow Artists Rep has announced Zi Alikhan as the inaugural artistic directing fellow, a new position that will include directing the company’s new DNA: Oxygen i...