Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Founding Artistic Director) will kick off its 33rd season with the American Premiere of the award-winning drama Communion by celebrated Obie Award- winning, Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, who will direct the production. This limited engagement will run at Urban Stages (259 West 30th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues) opens tomorrow…
Tag: Art
The Muralist
In her latest novel, The Muralist (one of our November picks), B.A. Shapiro crafted another great piece of historical fiction about the art world. Goodreads offers the following description: “Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one…
HUGH JACKMAN: Dukale’s Dream
T H E F I L M The 7th Floor presents DUKALE’S DREAM a feature length documentary by Josh Rothstein about Hugh Jackman’s unlikely friendship with an Ethiopian coffee farmer named Dukale, who had grown up in poverty and was deprived of an education. After working on Dukale’s farm, Hugh realized that something as…
Collaborations + Celebrations
Hello Beautiful People, My dear friend Jennifer Ashley Tepper once said, “Theatre artists create moments and share them. Sometimes they live on in others’ hearts forever. Sometimes they live on out loud in magical reunion concerts. And if you’re REALLY lucky sometimes they even live on in the friendships we make.” And lately…I find myself…
A Write Teacher(s) Spotlight: 35mm
Hello Beautiful People, I grew up in New York. I grew up in the theater. I’ve seen more shows than I care to count. I’ve slept in the back rows of theaters where the light doesn’t quite reach…just to get a nap in. For fifteen minutes.When I was ten. And then fifteen. And then twenty-five…and…