Thinking Theater NYC

Luis Feliciano (rear) and Kristen Hoffman (front) After winning Best Play in the 2024 NYC Fringe (you can read our review here ), The Trash Garden, written  and directed by Padraig Bond, will be presented by FRIGID New York as a fundraising performance on its way to the Adelaide Fringe Festival. The performance will be presented at UNDER St Marks (94 St Marks Pl, New York NY, 1009) on Saturday, January 31st at 7:00pm. Tickets are $18 on a sliding-scale and are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc . The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. Padraig Bond (Playwright/Director) is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and producer from New York City. He is the author of The Climate Fables , rated 5 stars in the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Best Play winner at the 2024 New York City Fringe. He is currently a resident playwright at FRIGID New York and has worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United States Congress, and at So...

Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation , which is celebrating its 19th year, has announced that it will premiere its first virtual performance event, the Raising Our Voices for Black Youth Benefit Concert, on Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 8 PM. It will be broadcast via OBS streaming services on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. All funds raised from the concert will be donated to its Asase Youth Summer Employment Initiative Mightycause crowdfunding campaign, which has been running since early June. The Initiative's goal is to raise $50,000 to employ 20 teenage youth (ages 14-19) to work at the Foundation and its 14th annual Children's Summer Arts Camp. R & B/Soul artist Amma Whatt will serve as Master of Ceremonies of the 45-minute concert, featuring guest performances by the Asase Yaa Youth Ensemble, African Djembe ensemble Farafina Kan Next Generation, musician Kofi Hunter, rapper Kudonyc, and Philadelphia-based hip hop dance ensemble Illstyle & Peace. In addi...

the wild project presents Linda Simpson in Conversation with Alan Cumming Proceeds from this intimate and frank conversation benefit wild project’s mission and programming This weekend, wild project will host Linda Simpson in Conversation with Alan Cumming, one of the absolute favorites of this site's editors. The event takes place on Sunday, October 27 at 7:30 PM at the wild project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets are $20 - $50 and will benefit the Wild Project’s mission and programming. Advance tickets can be purchased online at http://www.thewildproject.com . The event promises a "frank and intimate conversation between two of downtown’s iconic performers, Alan Cumming and Linda Simpson. These two legends of New York City nightlife dish on the creativity, grit, and spirit that keeps the East Village a vital creative incubator." Cumming is a Tony Award winner, has hosted the Tonys and been nominated for an Emmy for doing so; he ...

Diana Oh. Photo provided by Emily Owens PR The Three Angry Ladies (Shayna O’Neill, Emily Louise Perkins, and Emma Clarkson) will present Stay Mad, Make Art: A Benefit Concert for Immigrant Families Together at The Center at West Park (165 West 86th Street at Amsterdam Avenue., New York, NY 10024) on Monday, September 16, 2019 at 8pm (doors and bar open at 7:30pm). Tickets ($25 General; $50 VIP; $1000 Angel, which includes front row seating and unlimited drinks) are available for advance purchase at staymadmakeart.brownpapertickets.com . All proceeds will support Immigrant Families Together, a network of Americans committed to rapid response unification of families separated by the ‘zero tolerance’ policy. The Three Angry Ladies are New York City-based women working in the arts who recognize the urgency of the political and social crises of 2019, and seek to effect positive change in the wider community by tapping into the resources—and the desire for action—of the theatre and...