Award-winning playwright, Suzanne Bachner returns to the United Solo Festival with the World Premiere of her new show The Good Adoptee. The solo show performed by Anna Bridgforth who has collaborated with Suzanne on numerous shows including, We Call Her Benny which premiered at the First-ever FRIGID New York Festival and later enjoyed a successful…
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COMING SOON: Street Theater
“Street Theater,” a play about Stonewall written by a playwright who was there, returns to The Eagle Bar*, 554 West 28th Street with 2-week run (Oct. 14-24, Weds-Sat, 7pm), presented by TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), New York City’s oldest professional LGBT Theater. Set in Greenwich Village June 28, 1969, shortly before the first…
A Write Teacher(s) Playlist: October Tunes
Hello Beautiful People, Another month, another playlist! Tonight’s the night for BOOKTRESS Offline: The Official Launch Concert Party – which will start at 6:40pm at Le Poisson Rouge. It’s an evening celebrating the new company Booktress LLC, a one stop shop for actors working in NYC, and features a cast of some of the best and…
Words & Music
As part of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s October 6 All for the Hall New York benefit concert, featuring Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Brad Paisley, Paul Simon and Carrie Underwood, the museum will bring its flagship education program, Words & Music, to New York City Public Schools. In an innovative partnership, the…
TWT TV Poll: #TGIT
Hello Beautiful People! Over here at The Write Teacher(s), we’re thrilled that #TGIT is back in session! But what I’d like to know from all of you is what’s your favorite pick on ABC’s Thursday Night Line Up: Grey’s Anatomy SCANDAL How To Get Away with Murder Tweet us your answers at @TheWriteTeach, and use…
October Bookshelf
“I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Hello Readers, The time for pumpkins and cider is upon us. Here are three books we are looking forward to reading this month: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (available (10/06/15) Razzle Dazzle by Michael…
COMING SOON: Who’ll Save the Plowboy?
“A starkly taut, clear cut drama painful in its insights, poignant in its subtleties.” – The New York Herald Tribune. Winner of the Obie Award in 1962, Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy gave his blessings on this upcoming revival before his recent passing: “Your persistence is flattering and wins my approval.” Albert Cobb…
COMING SOON: Carefully Taught at APAC
The Award-Winning Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Cheryl L. Davis’s (2014 AUDELCO Playwriting Award winner for Maid’s Door), CAREFULLY TAUGHT, directed by Pat Golden (Assistant Director on Emily Mann’s Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams). CAREFULLY TAUGHT will play a limited engagement…
COMING SOON: BOOKTRESS Offline
BOOKTRESS LLC has launched – and what better way to kick off the hottest new resource for working actors in NYC?! A launch concert party, of course. BOOKTRESS Offline is a concert party that will make you laugh, maybe make you cry, and take you through the “booking” stories (and “almost-booking” stories) of some of…
Jennifer Diamond joins RUTHLESS! The Musical at St. Luke’s Theatre
Beginning Monday, October 5th, Jennifer Diamond will assume the roles of Louise Lerman and Eve Allabout in RUTHLESS! The Musical at St. Luke’s Theatre in the heart of the Theatre District. She’s replacing Tracy Jai Edwards who is departing the show to appear in the new musical Gotta Dance, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell….