Thinking Theater NYC

 Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) is seeking submissions for their Fall Spark Theatre Festival NYC. The festival is scheduled to run from September 8 through September 28, 2024, at 312 West 36th Street, in midtown Manhattan. EAT is excited to announce that the upcoming festival will now be broken into two categories: workshop productions and fully developed new work. Additionally, some productions may be given more than one performance slot. Spark Theatre Festival NYC shows will be categorized into two distinct groups to better meet the needs of artists. Artistic Director Paul Adams shared his thoughts on the change: “When we started our festival nearly 20 years ago, it was slightly easier to produce theatre in the city. Fringe NYC, among other festivals, was a vibrant part of the city where artists could showcase their new work. There were also more small theatre spaces available and theatre rentals weren’t so high. With soaring costs and limited performance opportunities, we aim to...

Theatre Now New York, one of the nation’s leading producers of original short-form musicals, has announced the creative teams for the 10 short musicals to be presented in its SOUND BITES XII Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. The festival will take place on May 5th at 7pm at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center (129 W 67th St, New York). Tickets are now on sale at tnny.org/soundbitesXII . This year's twelfth annual Festival of 10-Minute Musicals promises to be a fast-paced evening of new and diverse short musicals from 10 teams of emerging musical theatre creators. From comedy to drama to absurdity, Aristotle to aliens to Art Garfunkel, crime and love and almond milk, SOUND BITES XII has something for everyone. Since the beginning of the festival in 2013, Theatre Now has premiered over 100 new musicals by almost 200 emerging writers, published an anthology of festival highlights, and helped license festival shows for performances around the world. Theatre Now's Artistic Director To...

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ NY award winning professional theater company has announced its spring mainstage run of the Stephen Sondheim musical masterpiece Company in a limited run of 16 performances, Thursday, April 17th - Sunday, May 11th, 2025.  On the night of his “35th” birthday, Robert contemplates his singular life through his relationships with his married friends, his girlfriends, and his loneliness in their midst. This show is Robert’s journey, through memories of his interplay with his friends, from the selfishness of bachelorhood to selflessness of true company. From musical theatre's most renowned composer, Stephen Sondheim, Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the modern musical. Sondheim himself considered this to be a seminal work, when he finally found his musical “voice.” Directed by David Fuller and choreographed by Judith Jarosz (NYITA & Nytheater.com Award, GLAAD nom.), with musical direction and piano by Mitchell Brownell, lighting design...

Director Emma Denson In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater happening in all five boroughs, will present Mater Familias , written by 2015 Mario Fratti Award-winner Pier Lorenzo Pisano,  a director and author of theater, film, and novels whose plays have been translated into 14 languages and performed worldwide; translated by Carlotta Brentan; and directed by Emma Denson at The Tank (312 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018) on Sun May 4 at 3pm; Sun May 4 at 9:30pm; Thu May 8 at 7pm; Sun May 11 at 7pm; Thu May 15 at 9:30pm; Sun May 18 at 7pm Tickets ($20-$30) are available for advance purchase at thetanknyc.org . Over the years, In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY has proudly presented the staged production of plays that have won the Mario Fratti Award, now known as the In Scena! Playwright Award. As part of their commitment to fostering artistic growth, In Scena!, in collaboration with The Tank, offers a Mentorship in Directing ...

Playwright Chiara Arrigoni In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater happening in all five boroughs, will present a reading of the 2025 Hystrio Award Translation and Adaptation Mentorship Winner Chiara Arrigoni and her play Pelle on Friday, May 9 at 5:30pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo (24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011). The In Scena! Italian Theater Festival collaborates with the Hystrio Award – Scritture di Scena, one of the most prestigious theater awards in Italy, to mentor an Italian playwright on their play’s translation and adaptation. The winning playwright travels to New York to collaborate with a local playwright and a translator on the English adaptation of their play. During the 2025 edition of In Scena!, the Festival will welcome Chiara Arrigoni, the playwright selected with the play Pelle for the Hystrio Scritture di Scena. The writer will be mentored for a period over 15 days by Antoinette LaVecchia, an Italian Americ...

Three Can Keep a Secret Written by Gregory Crafts Directed by Richard Piatt Presented by Theatre Unleashed and FRIGID New York at the wild project 195 E 3rd St., Manhattan, NYC April 15-19, 2025 Sonny (Ryan Dylan Wargnier) and Moose (Gregory Crafts). From 2024 Hollywood Fringe production. Photo by Matt Kamimura, Choice looms large in crime comedy Three Can Keep a Secret , from Los Angeles-based theater artist Gregory Crafts and one of 63 shows at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival , which runs through April 20th across four venues in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn. With some "bad decisions" by one of the characters having set the plot in motion, not only must the rest of the characters reckon with a consequent series of choices and repercussions, but the audience too must decide at several points which path the show takes. For the characters, much of this decision-making reveals that they may not know those close to them as well as they thought, while for the audience, i...