Thinking Theater NYC

Since the 2023 In Scena! Italian Theater Festival opened on May 1, it has presented audiences across the city's five boroughs with family history and candy fantasy, explorations of trauma and feel-good comedy, and more than one rap. To close out this successful two weeks of events, the festival finishes its NY leg on Tuesday, May 16th, with an award ceremony and reading for the 2023 Mario Fratti Award. This closing night will take place, beginning at 6 pm, at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (686 Park Ave, Manhattan, NYC), and, as with the rest of In Scena! 2023, admission is free.  The 2023 Mario Fratti Award will be awarded to playwright Andrea Scrimàli for his play L’attesa , which deals with love, seen through the many reflections of generational conflict. The awards ceremony will include a reading of the English translation of the play, directed by a female-identified director, Kiara Pipino. Since 2022, the Mario Fratti Award readings and plays in NY have been direc...

On May 6th at 4pm (doors open at 3:30 pm) at the  Jersey City Theater Center , located right off the Grove Street PATH station Beim-ish Productions will be present an in-person script reading of cataclysm.begins , an LGBTQIA+ dystopian YA web series, with opening words by Justine Evyn Saliski of Garden State Equality. The reading will be followed by a Q&A moderated by George Carrillo of the Don’t Think About It podcast! This event is being held in collaboration with Hudson Pride Center , Bergen County LGBTQ+ Alliance , and Garden State Equality . Tickets can be purchased at  http://seetickets.us/event/cataclysmbegins-season-1-script-reading/544343  (use the discount code LGBTQ10 at checkout for a discounted ticket).

George Bartenieff and Emily Fury Daly. Photography@Beatriz Schiller2019 Andrew Revkin, founding director of a new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute, is hosting a Sunday Brunch Reading of Obie award-winning Theatre Three Collaborative’s cli-fi eco-feminist fable Other Than We , written and directed by Karen Malpede.  Other Than We will be performed live on Revkin’s weekly Sustain What arts webcast, on Sunday, July 26, 2020 from 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. The video link will be posted here a week before showtime: http://j.mp/sustainwhatlive . Viewers can type comments and questions to be explored in the post-show talkback. A cli-fi fable with music that moves from a dystopian reality to astonishing hope, Other Than We is harrowing yet hope-filled. “The play which is set in the future after a climate crisis fits this pandemic-global-heating time because it is about imagining life anew, without the injustices that have gotten us here...