#59e59 theatre

[ssamorganhotchner]

yalllll 3 min till I see my HUSBAND on stage 💕

for the second time 😉

[therogerclarkfanclub]

ROGER CLARK as Chris in:

In Your Image • By Rob Benson • Directed by Deborah Wolfson

In Your Image was performed at 59E59 Theaters in New York in 2011

Summary: In a small town just outside Manchester, England, a man dies alone in his rubbish-strewn flat. His two sons, forced to pick over the remnants of his life, must confront the ghosts of their past before they can lay him to rest.  "In Your Image" is a tautly drawn drama about the bond between two brothers broken by the father they never knew.

[honorrollplaywrights]

Broadway World on The Invisibility Project: Women on the Verge

THE INVISIBILITY PROJECT: WOMEN ON THE VERGE Festival to be Presented at Polaris North

Performances run November 15-17

By: Chloe Rabinowitz Nov. 15, 2024

"The Invisibility Project: Women on the Verge" is a New York play festival produced by Rose-Marie Brandwein that will have performances on Friday, November 15, 16 and 17 at Polaris North (245 W. 29th Street) starting at 7 pm, with a Sunday Matinee at 3 pm.

This festival, which launched on November 14, is co-sponsored by Honor Roll!, a grassroots program that advocates for women+ playwrights over 40.

The Invisibility Project was conceived to provide female playwrights over the age of 40 with greater visibility and an opportunity to give voice to their creativity. Their works collectively and individually honor the female spirit of resilience, passion and determination.

https://79ab01ed62760c74c50aff1a643da15d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html Rose-Marie Brandwein says, "As female playwrights, theatre is no longer as welcoming- rendering many of us invisible with limited opportunities to see our works staged. The Invisibility Project turns that around."

The five playwrights in the festival are D-Davis ("What's What"), Hortense Gerardo ("Winds of Change), Pamela Kingsley ("Sleepwalking'), Vita Patrick Morales ("The Gift"), and Tracie E. Morrison ("Bare Chicken").

The cast includes Ange Berneau*, Carol Carter*, Ms. D, Mary Keefe*, Kassie Kole, Lucy McMichael*, Vivian Meisner*, John L. Payne*, Alexis Schreiber, William Shuman*, Barbie Seigle, and Diane Tyler* (*Members, AEA).

Plays are directed by Eric Diamond, Edgar Chisholm, John L.Payne and D.B. Smith.

https://79ab01ed62760c74c50aff1a643da15d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html Producer Rose-Marie Brandwein received her M.F.A. in professional writing from the University of Southern California where she studied playwriting and screenwriting. She studied playwriting with Larry Carr,Jack Gelber, David Scott Milton and Walter Hadler at Roundabout Conservatory Theatre's Playwriting Unit and with directors Andrew Leynse and Tyler Marchant of Primary Stages. This is her third festival at Polaris North. Her full length play "Expiration Date" was first performed as a staged reading at Stage Left Studio's Women at Work Festival before going onto productions at the East of Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 Theaters and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She's a member of the Dramatists Guild.

HONOR ROLL! is a grass-roots group whose members self-initiate actions to increase our inclusion in theater. Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over 40 as well as our women+ over 40 allies. The term "women+" refers to a spectrum of gender identification. Honor Roll members are the generation excluded at the outset of their careers because of sexism, now overlooked because of ageism. The organization celebrates diversity in theater and works to eliminate age discrimination as it intersects with sexism and other biases including those based on race, gender identity, ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, disability, and sexual orientation in the American Theater and beyond.

Admission to The Invisibility Project: Women on the Ledge" is free. For reservations, email: WomenHRFEST@outlook.com

[frontmezzjunkies]

#59E59Pair

#frontmezzjunkies posts a review by #DennisW #PairPlay @No11productions d: #RyanEmmons w/ #StevenConroy #JulieCongress #EmilyBautista #No11Pair @59E59 #Theatres

Is #59E59's #Pair an Entertaining Pear or an Iconic Spoon with a Cherry on Top?

https://frontmezzjunkies.com/2023/11/09/is-59e59s-pair-an-entertaining-pear-or-an-iconic-spoon-with-a-cherry-on-top/

(via Is 59E59's "Pair" an Entertaining Pear or an Iconic Spoon with a Cherry on Top?)

[thequeereview]

Theatre Review: Judy Gold in Yes, I Can Say That! (59E59 Theaters, New York) ★★★★★

Based on her on 2020 book—Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble—Emmy-winning veteran comedian Judy Gold’s thrillingly ambitious new one-woman show—Yes, I Can Say That!—examines stand-up comedy’s ability to speak truth to power, and the dangers of censoring and silencing comedians. Not only is it provocative, thought-provoking, and moving, it’s continually…

[citylifeorg]

Casting Announced for Roger Q. Mason’s THE PINK with Breaking the Binary Theatre in association with Primary Stages

Dominic Colón and Roger Q. Mason Monday, April 3 at 59E59 Theaters Casting has been announced for the developmental reading of THE PINK by acclaimed Black Filipinx playwright and Kilroys List honoree Roger Q. Mason, presented by Breaking the Binary Theatre in association with Primary Stages as part of the Creative Access Grant Reading Series with Primary Stages. The reading will take place…

[sapphires-and-gold-fics]

Daniel Portman recently finished up a run of Square Go at 59E59 in NYC and I got to see the final performance of this surprisingly moving interactive bop of a show. It was so great getting to see more of Portman’s range, hear his real accent, and participate in such a wild piece. Such a damn treat.

[k-l]

The Mad Ones as performed by Krystina Alabado and Emma Hunton at Philadelphia Theatre Company

[caroleditosti]

'The Sabbath Girl' by Cary Gitter, Directed by Joe Brancato at 59E59 Theaters

‘The Sabbath Girl’ by Cary Gitter, Directed by Joe Brancato at 59E59 Theaters

(L to R): Angelina Fiordellisi, Lauren Annunziata in ‘The Sabbath Girl, by Cary Gitter, directed by Joe Brancato at 59E59 Theaters (Carol Rosegg)

What happens when Jewish orthodoxy and strict mores find intermarriage with someone of another faith verboten? Depending upon the orthodoxy of the Jewish community, this may be a serious issue. Cleverly, Cary Gitter, under the superb direction of Joe…

[oldbaton]

i bought a cheap preview ticket to duncan sheiks whisper house because i love horror theatre and i really like 59E59 theaters

[writemarcus]

Black LGBTQ+ playwrights and musical-theater artists you need to know

These artists are producing amazing, timely work.

By Marcus Scott Posted: Friday July 24 2020, 4:56pm

Marcus Scott is a New York City–based playwright, musical writer, opera librettist and journalist. He has contributed to Elle, Essence, Out, American Theatre, Uptown, Trace, Madame Noire and Playbill, among other publications. Follow Marcus: Instagram, Twitter

We’re in the chrysalis of a new age of theatrical storytelling, and Black queer voices have been at the center of this transformation. Stepping out of the margins of society to push against the status quo, Black LGBTQ+ artists  have been actively engaged in fighting anti-blackness, racial disparities, disenfranchisement, homophobia and transphobia.

The success of Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Donja R. Love’s one in two and Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’—not to mention Michael R. Jackson’s tour de force, the Pulitzer Prize–winning metamusical A Strange Loop—made that phenomenon especially visible last season. But these artists are far from alone. Because the intersection of queerness and Blackness is complex—with various gender expressions, sexual identifiers and communities taking shape in different spaces—Black LGBTQ+ artists are anything but a monolith. George C. Wolfe, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Robert O’Hara, Harrison David Rivers, Staceyann Chin, Colman Domingo, Tracey Scott Wilson, Tanya Barfield, Marcus Gardley and Daniel Alexander Jones are just some of the many Black queer writers who have already made marks.

With New York stages dark for the foreseeable future, we can’t know when we will be able to see live works by these artists again. It is likely, however, that they will continue to play major roles in the direction American theater will take in the post-quarantine era—along with many creators who are still flying mostly under the radar. Here are just a few of the Black queer artists you may not have encountered yet: vital new voices that are speaking to the Zeitgeist and turning up the volume.

Christina Anderson A protégé of Paula Vogel’s, Christina Anderson has presented work at the Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons and other theaters around the U.S. and Canada. She has degrees from the Yale School of Drama and Brown University, and  is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and Epic Theatre Ensemble; she has received the inaugural Harper Lee Award for Playwriting and three Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominations, among other honors. Works include: How To Catch Creation (2019), Blacktop Sky (2013), Inked Baby (2009) Follow Christina: Website

Aziza Barnes Award-winning poet Aziza Barnes moved into playwriting with one of the great sex comedies of the 2010s: BLKS, which premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017 before it played at MCC Theatre in 2019 (where it earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination). The NYU grad’s play about three twentysomethings probed the challenges and choices of Millennials with pathos and zest that hasn’t been seen since Kenneth Lonergan’s Gen X love/hate letter This Is Our Youth. Barnes is the author of the full-length collection of poems the blind pig and i be but i ain’t, which won a Pamet River Prize. Works include: BLKS (2017) Follow Aziza: Twitter

Troy Anthony Burton Fusing a mélange of quiet storm ‘90s-era Babyface R&B, ‘60s-style funk-soul and urban contemporary gospel, composer Troy Anthony has had a meteoric rise in musical theater in the past three years, receiving commissions and residencies from the Shed, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and the Civilians. When Anthony is not crafting ditties of his own, he is an active performer who has participated in the Public Theater’s Public Works and Shakespeare In the Park. Works include: The River Is Me (2017), The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) Follow Troy: Instagram

Timothy DuWhite Addressing controversial issues such as HIV, state-sanctioned violence and structural anti-blackness, poet and performance artist Timothy DuWhite unnerves audiences with a hip-hop driven gonzo style. DuWhite’s raison d’être is to shock and enrage, and his provocative Neptune was, along with Donja R. Love’s one in two, one of the first plays by an openly black queer writer to address HIV openly and frankly.  He has worked with the United Nations/UNICEF, the Apollo Theater, Dixon Place and La MaMa. Works include: Neptune (2018) Follow Timothy: Instagram

Jirèh Breon Holder Raised in Memphis and educated at Morehouse College, Jirèh Breon Holder solidified his voice at the Yale School of Drama under the direction of Sarah Ruhl. He has received the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, among other honors. His play Too Heavy for Your Pocket premiered at Roundabout Underground and has since been produced in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Des Moines and Houston; his next play, ...What The End Will Be, is slated to debut at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Works include: Too Heavy for Your Pocket (2017), What The End Will Be (2020) Follow Jirèh: Twitter

C.A. Johnson Born in Louisiana, rising star C.A. Johnson writes with a southern hospitality and homespun charm that washes over audiences like a breath of fresh air. Making a debut at MCC Theater with her coming of age romcom All the Natalie Portmans, she drew praise for empathic take on a black queer teenage womanchild with Hollywood dreams. A core writer at the Playwrights Center, she has had fellowships with the Dramatists Guild Fellow, Page 73, the Lark and the Sundance Theatre Lab. Works include: All the Natalie Portmans (2020) Follow C.A.: Twitter

Johnny G. Lloyd A New York-based playwright and producer, Johnny G. Lloyd has seen his work produced and developed at the Tank, 59E59, the Corkscrew Festival, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and more. A member of the 2019-2020 Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency, this Columbia University graduate is also a producing director of InVersion Theatre. Works include: The Problem With Magic, Is (2020), Or, An Astronaut Play (2019), Patience (2018) Follow Johnny: Instagram

Patricia Ione Lloyd In her luminous 2018 breakthrough Eve’s Song at the Public Theater, Patricia Ione Lloyd offered a meditation on the violence against black women in America that is often overlooked onstage. With a style saturated in both humor and melancholy and a poetic lyricism that evokes Ntozake Shange’s, the former Tow Playwright in Residence has earned fellowships at New Georges, the Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Realm, New York Theater Workshop and Sundance. Works include: Eve’s Song (2018) Follow Patricia: Instagram

Maia Matsushita The half-Black, half-Japanese educator and playwright Maia Matsushita has sounded a silent alarm in downtown theater with an array of slow-burn, naturalistic coming-of-age dramas. She was a member of The Fire This Time’s 2017-18 New Works Lab and part of its inaugural Writers Group, and her work has been seen at Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Playwright Playground and the National Black Theatre’s Keeping Soul Alive Reading Series. Works include: House of Sticks (2019), White Mountains (2018) Follow Maia: Instagram

Daaimah Mubashshir When Daaimah Mubashshir’s kitchen-sink dramedy Room Enough (For Us All) debuted at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2019, the prolific writer began a dialogue around the contemporary African-American Muslim experience and black queer expression that made her a significant storyteller to watch. She is a core writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis as well as a member of Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. Her short-play collection The Immeasurable Want of Light was published in 2018. Works include: Room Enough (For Us All) (2019) Follow Daaimah: Twitter

Jonathan Norton Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Norton is a delightfully zany playwright who subverts notions of post-blackness by underlining America’s obscure historical atrocities with bloody red slashes. The stories he tells carry a profound horror, often viewed through the eyes of black children and young adults. Norton’s work has been produced or developed by companies including the Actors Theatre of Louisville (at the 44th Humana Festival), PlayPenn and InterAct Theatre Company. He is the Playwright in Residence at Dallas Theater Center. Works include: Mississippi Goddamn (2015), My Tidy List of Terrors (2013), penny candy (2019) Follow Jonathan: Website

AriDy Nox Cooking up piping hot gumbos of speculative fiction, transhumanism and radical womanist expression, AriDy Nox is a rising star with a larger-than-life vision. The Spelman alum earned an MFA from NYU TIsch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and has been a staple of various theaters such as Town Stages. A member of the inaugural 2019 cohort of the Musical Theatre Factory Makers residency, they recently joined the Public Theater’s 2020-2022 Emerging Writers Group cohort. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Project Tiresias (2018) Follow AriDy: Instagram

Akin Salawu Akin Salawu’s nonlinear, hyperkinetic work combines heart-pounding suspense chills with Tarantino-esque thrills while excavating Black trauma and Pan-African history in America. With over two decades of experience as a writer, director and editor, the prize-winning playwright is a two-time Tribeca All Access Winner and a member of both the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and Ars Nova’s Uncharted Musical Theater residency. A graduate of Stanford, he is a founder of the Tank’s LIT Council, a theater development center for male-identifying persons of color. Works include: bless your filthy lil’ heart (2019), The Real Whisperer (2017), I Stand Corrected (2008) Follow Akin: Twitter

Sheldon Shaw A playwright, screenwriter and actor, Sheldon Shaw studied writing at the Labyrinth Theater Company and was part of Playwrights Intensive at the Kennedy Center. Shaw has since developed into a sort of renaissance man, operating as playwright, screenwriter and actor. His plays have been developed by Emerging Artist Theaters New Works Festival, Classical Theater of Harlem and the Rooted Theater Company. Shaw's Glen was the winner of the Black Screenplays Matter competition and a finalist in the New York Screenplay Contest. Works include: Jailbait (2018), Clair (2017), Baby Starbucks (2015) Follow Johnny: Twitter

Nia O. Witherspoon Multidisciplinary artist Nia Ostrow Witherspoon’s metaphysical explorations of black liberation and desire have made her an in-demand presence in theater circles. The recipient of multiple honors—include New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, a Wurlitzer Foundation residency and the Lambda Literary’s Emerging Playwriting Fellowship—she is currently developing The Dark Girl Chronicles, a play cycle that, in her words, “explores the criminalization of black cis and trans women via African diaspora sacred stories.” Works include: The Dark Girl Chronicles (in progress) ​Follow Nia: Instagram

Brandon Webster A Brooklyn-based musical theatre writer and dramaturg, Brandon Webster has been a familiar figure in the NYC theater scene, both onstage and behind the scenes. With an aesthetic that fuses Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist storytelling, with a focus on Black liberation past and present, the composer’s work fuses psychedelic soul flourishes with alt-R&B nuances to create a sonic smorgasbord of seething rage and remorse. He is an alumnus of the 2013 class of BMI Musical Theater Workshop and a 2017 MCC Theater Artistic Fellow. Works include: Metropolis (in progress), Headlines (2017), Boogie Nights (2015) Follow Brandon: Instagram

[s2s-podcast]

Station to Station Returns...15th April

It’s been a hectic year for your co-captains; between moving, new jobs, cast changes and other production blues, our production has been chugging along slowly. Hope’s on the horizon, though: Station to Station is finally back on route to bring you an all-new season. 

Starting Monday, 15th April 2019, our new season brings you 11 new episodes that will be dropping on fortnightly basis. 

Here’s what we’ve been getting up to in the past year:

New Season, New Logo!

We had a secret preview at PodCon - now for the final launch! Our new logo will be taking over Season 2. 

New Cast!

Unfortunately, Laura Guzman, who voiced Reva (Santiago) Luther for our first 10 episodes, wasn't able to return with us this season. We hope you'll join us in wishing her the best, and thanking her for taking a chance on our show when it was just a few audition sides and a Google form. We wish her all the best and bon voyage.

This is not the end of Reva's story, however. For season two, we've been joined by Cristina Pitter. We're excited to have her onboard as Reva navigates life after the Astrid (and, ahem, a certain post-boat drink). We'll let her introduce herself some more:

"Cristina Pitter is a queer fat babe interdisciplinary artist, sex educator, activist, and founder of The Ashè Collective, a group which focuses on storytelling inspired by ancestral roots, while also engaging in community outreach. She also has the best laugh ever. SERIOUSLY. You might have seen her work at The Metropolitan Opera, 59E59 Theaters, Ars Nova, Classic Stage, New Ohio Theatre, Joe’s Pub, The PIT, The Tank, The Flea Theater, JACK, Dixon Place, or three separate but specific bathtubs. Feel free to follow her antics cristinapitter.com."

Cristina isn't our only new addition for season two. We're also excited to welcome Georie Taylor (Under Pressure, Superstition) and Natalie Van Sistine (The Elysium Project, Geek By Night) and Randelle Solomon to our cast. Telling you what they'll be doing is almost impossible without spoiling what's in store this coming season, but for now let's just say life didn't get less complicated on dry land.

Aside from new roles, we also have Emily Wang and Nadine El Amami reprising their regular roles as Miranda and Nelly respectively, along with Kristen DiMercurio as Jackie Simmons, Zach Libresco as Eugene Loshank, Gary Cook as Geoff Howard, and Jo Chiang. 

We’re now on TeePublic

Love the logo? Wear it! Buy it! Put it on a mug! (And support the show while you’re at it!)

Procyon Podcast Network is now on TeePublic, together with exclusive Starship Iris designs! Check out the details here!

New Patreon Awards!

If you want to support the show, the best way is to become a Patron. As a Patron, you get bonus behind-the-scenes rewards, character playlists, advance episodes, and commentated scripts.  We recently remade the tiers to our Patreon - check it out!

[god-i-love-theatre]

A (somewhat) Comprehensive List of Discounted Ticket Programs at Off-Broadway Theatre Companies

It always surprises me that people are unaware of the awesome discount memberships and programs that Off-Broadway theatre companies offer in New York City. These programs are how I see great theatre from great seats for very little amounts of money. This is by no means a complete list: please add any that I missed!

59E59: They have student rush for $10-$20 depending on the show! More info here.

Atlantic Theater Company: They offer what they call Back25 tickets - $25 tickets to preview performances. Find out more here.

Classic Stage Company: $20 student and $30 regular rush tickets. Also sign up for their ACCESS emails, which often give out discount codes for upcoming performances. More info here.

Lincoln Center Theater: They have LincTix, which gives $32 tickets to folks in between 18-35. Sign up here.

Manhattan Theatre Club: They have a $30 Under 35 ticket program! Sign up here.

MCC Theater: They have a $30 Under 30 program! Find out more info here.

Playwrights Horizons: They have $15 tickets for students and $25 tickets for anyone under 35! Sign up here.

Primary Stages: They have $35 tickets for anyone under 35 as well as $20 student rush! Find out more here.

The Public Theater: They have $20 rush tickets on TodayTix. Find out more here.

Roundabout Theatre Company: Their HipTix program offers $25 tickets to all of their shows to anyone between the ages of 18-35! Sign up here.

Second Stage: They offer $30 Under 30 tickets to all of their shows! Get more info here. 

Signature Theatre: Their Signature Ticket Initiative makes $35 tickets available to all! Find out more here.

St. Ann’s Warehouse: They have $20 rush tickets on TodayTix. Find out more here.

[frontmezzjunkies]

Is 59E59's "Pair" an Entertaining Pear or an Iconic Spoon with a Cherry on Top?

#frontmezzjunkies posts a review by #DennisW #PairPlay @No11productions d: #RyanEmmons w/ #StevenConroy #JulieCongress #EmilyBautista #No11Pair @59E59 #Theatres

The cast of 59E59’s 2023 production of PAIR – Photo by Carol Rosegg. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: No. 11 Productions’ Pair By Dennis W. What happens when two artists fall in love and become one artist, a collaboration? Pair playing at the 59E59 Theater written and produced by No. 11 Productions gives us a glimpse of how two pop artists merged their talents and produced large-scale…

[rudyroth79]

Știri: Recital de pian și poezie la Ziua Culturii Naționale în New York (11 ianuarie 2017) Miercuri, 11 ianuarie 2017, în sala Auditorium a Institutului Cultural Român - New York (200 E 38th St, New York, NY 10016), de la orele 19.00 se va desfășura un eveniment artistic cu ocazia…