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Bread & Puppet Theater in The Decapitalization Circus at Theater for the New City, 2010. On stilts: Peter Schumann. Photo by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation. Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program will be beneficiary of the theater's 22nd annual "Love 'n Courage" benefit on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South. The evening honors Peter Schumann, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Bread & Puppet Theater, and celebrates the theater's long relationship with that company. Theater for the New City (TNC) is a four-theater complex at 155 First Avenue. Its awards include the Pulitzer Prize, 43 Village Voice OBIE Awards, nine Audelco Awards, two Bessie Awards, five ASCAP Awards, ten Rockefeller Playwrights Fellowships, The Mayor's Stop the Violence Award, the Manhattan Borough President’s Award for Public Service and Artistic Excellence in Theater, and a NY City Council Proclamation awarded to TNC’s Street Th...

Join Cause Celebre Productions — a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization — for the upcoming Bread and Roses Gala on Sunday, April 21st, at 2 PM ET at the Ethical Culture Society (64th Street and CPW). The Gala will include: a performance of Unlucky Gal: The Jane Doe Story , followed by a special tribute to iconic folk singer Judy Collins, legendary attorney Martin Garbus, and former Deputy Chief of the NYPD Mike Osgood, as well as a very special surprise. A VIP reception follows. The Bread and Roses Gala takes its name from one of Collins' albums and has been a powerful political slogan — "Bread for all and roses too — striving for dignity and respect." Unlucky Gal: The Jane Doe Story , is the second production in the series, “All The Court’s A Stage,” exploring seven controversial cases of legendary attorney Martin Garbus, described by The Guardian as “one of the world’s finest trial lawyers.” Other plays from the series, originally produced by Food For Thought Produ...

  Andromeda's Sisters: An Arts & Advocacy Forum Written, choreographed, and directed by various artists Presented by The Neo-Political Cowgirls via Musae and Zoom August 14, 2020 Kate Mueth. Image courtesy Emily Owens PR On August 14th, not-for-profit dance theater company The Neo-Political Cowgirls (NPC) held the first part of its fourth annual fundraising gala, Andromeda's Sisters: An Arts & Advocacy Forum , virtually, presenting a series of monologues and dance pieces created by female-identifying artists. NPC and its gala are dedicated to, as Founding Artistic Director Kate Mueth said, the need to protect and amplify women's creative voices. One need look no further than this past week's attempts to label Kamala Harris "mean" and "nasty" (a tactic that may sound familiar) because of having displayed insufficient deference to powerful men for an example of the way that patriarchy continues to work to police gender roles and to silence wome...

Image courtesy Michelle Tabnick PR Kinesis Project is a dance organization that creates outdoor, public dance performances, facilitates educational programs, and produces site-specific performances with diverse communities. Kinesis Project's Board of Directors will present Kinesis Project's Annual Spring Gala in a virtual realm, honoring Jennifer Wright Cook and Yasemin Ozumerizfon, hosted by TruDee, with live performances by Kinesis Project NYC and Seattle, on Friday, May 8, 2020 at 7:30pm ET. Tickets are available here . For a fun, sparkling, connected, staying-home evening, you can join Kinesis Project in a private Zoom room from wherever you are to enjoy a toast, watch performances, bid on fun and virtual offerings, and win a double thumbs up from Erin Courtney for your best Zoom Party Top. 7:30pm - Enter + cocktails (recipe will be available) 7:45pm - Live performance by Kinesis Project 8:00pm - Honorees Celebration! 8:15pm - Performance by Kinesis Project NYC and S...

Photo provided by Michelle Tabnick PR Musical Theatre Factory will be hosting a gala at Town Stages  (221 West Broadway, Manhattan, NYC) on May 13, 2019 at 7:30pm to celebrate five years of growth while creating spaces to collaborate outside the pressures of critical and commercial success and dismantling oppressive ideologies in order to move towards collective liberation. As Robin Sokoloff, executive director of Town Stages, puts it, "MTF's wholehearted commitment to reimagining story-telling by creating avenues for equitable representation both onstage and offstage has transformed the face of musical theatre in New York City and beyond."  The gala will feature a night of dance and song honoring Michael R. Jackson ( A Strange Loop ) and introducing the inaugural MTF Makers Cohort with work and performances by Troy Anthony ( The River is Me ), Jacob Jarrett ( Wonder Boy ), Melissa Li and Kit Yan ( Interstate ), Jillian Walker ( SkinFolk: An American Show ), AriDy ...