11) Irish Repertory Theater Presents Poetric Reflections : Words Upon the Window Pane 3/22 - 5/2
12) Thomas Ellenson Adapts I'm Still Here to Commemorate Anniversary of Broadway Closure
2) Pandemic Drama Announces 2nd & Final Extension
ADJUST THE PROCEDURE
Now through March 28 on Stellar
By popular demand, Spin Cycle in association with JCS Theater Company announce a 2nd and final extension of the World Premiere of ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, a new play by Jake Shore (The Devil Is On The Loose With An Axe In Marshalltown, Holy Moly, and Down The Mountain And Across The Stream) conceived during the pandemic and created with Zoom theater in mind. The fully realized production which began February 15 will now be available through March 28 on Stellar. Tickets are $10, available at www.SpinCycleNYC.com.
It's early Fall 2020 and the pandemic consumes a Manhattan university. In addition to tracking rising cases of COVID on campus, the school's administrators face immigration problems, suicide threats, and professors losing their minds. But in the midst of all the madness, it's the internal bureaucratic battles that threaten the school's preservation. Over the course of two conflict-ridden Zoom meetings, ADJUST THE PROCEDURE gives audiences a rare peek into the business of higher education at a moment of multiple reckonings.
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3) BROADWAY ON DEMAND
TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
WITH DOCUMENTARIES
INCLUDING
KAYE BALLARD – THE SHOW MUST GO ON
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND
AND
OLYMPIA
In celebration of Women’s History Month, three female-led documentaries are now available on Broadway On Demand, the industry-leading streaming platform, including the one and only Kaye Ballard’s self-titled, Kaye Ballard – The Show Must Go On, a history of the groundbreaking all-girl jazz and big band instrumentalists, The Girls in the Band, and Olympia, the fascinating life story of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis.
KAYE BALLARD – THE SHOW MUST GO ON
From big bands to Broadway, radio to recordings and television to the big screen, Kaye Ballard did it all in a career that spanned eight decades. Millions knew her best from her comedic TV roles on “The Mothers-In-Law” and “The Doris Day Show” – in addition to dozens of music-variety show appearances - but she also enjoyed notable successes on stage during the glamorous era of night clubs. Along with an illustrious roster of friends and associates, Kaye recalls her remarkable life in show business accentuated with extensive rare footage and photographs offering an entertaining glimpse of her rich and varied talents.
Kaye Ballard – The Show Must Go On is available for On-Demand purchase ($4.95) through April 1, 2021 at: https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/WEUEjOFDi6go-kaye-ballard--the-show-must-go-on?channel=available-to-watch
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND
Featuring Marian McPartland and Esperanza Spalding, “The Girls in the Band” tells the poignant, untold stories of the all-girl bands and the talented female jazz and big band instrumentalists with their fascinating, groundbreaking, journeys from the late '30s to the present day – as they continue to struggle for recognition in a man's world.
The Girls in the Band is available for On-Demand purchase ($4.95) through April 1, 2021 at: https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/FMwddXDGLJUG-the-girls-in-the-band?channel=available-to-watch
OLYMPIA
In the same vein as Albert Maysles’ Iris, this sublimely intimate fly-on-the-wall verité documentary tells a heart-wrenching story of a woman finding her own voice on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old-world, panty-sniffing, suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive, fighting the feeling she was “too ethnic” amid the Boston Brahmin at BU, and starting her own theatre company in New Jersey instead of waiting for the phone to ring, Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with blazing courage. Incandescent and unforgettable, Olympia is a must-see documentary for anyone seeking to reignite their love of drama and their love of life.
Olympia is available for On-Demand purchase ($4.95) through April 1, 2021 at: https://www.broadwayondemand.com/series/04q6dJokYY5C-olympia?channel=available-to-watch
Broadway on Demand is available on the web, mobile, Apple and Android app store, AppleTV, Roku, Chromecast, and Amazon Fire TV.
For access to the complete and ever-expanding Broadway on Demand library, subscribe at BroadwayOnDemand.com.
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4) A NEW YORK STORY. A COVID STORY. A NEIGHBORHOOD STORY. A NEW SITCOM INSPIRED BY THE CORONAVIRUS SHUTDOWN AND INNOVATIVELY CREATED ENTIRELY ON ZOOM |
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Part documentary, part scripted show, The Building: Under Lockdown is a five-episode series that uniquely captures New York City life in the first few days of the pandemic quarantine. Written by playwright and television writer Ed Napier (TV’s Criminal Minds) with co-direction by Emmy-winning television producer Jesse Green (Broadway Sandwich) and actress/filmmaker Jodie Markell with original music by David Van Tieghem (2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition). The first three episodes of the series will be released on the first-year anniversary of the NYC quarantine, March 16, 2021 @ 7am EST via Youtube and Facebook Watch @thebuilding2020, with the final two episodes being released individually on subsequent Tuesdays. The series will culminate with a free live Q&A with the cast and crew on Tuesday, March 30th at 7:00 pm, tickets at eventbrite.com.
What happens when residents of a Riverside Drive apartment complex begin to feel the pressures of being confined to a building during this perilous time. With the appearance of Covid-19, the neighbors are forced to navigate their new shut-down world and the complications it presents – while juggling the ongoing fights, feuds, and intrigues of daily life.
The historic empty streets of this typically buzzing metropolis, are captured by original footage filmed in and around Manhattan by Green, adding to the authentic feel of the series. In order to maintain social distancing and capture the actors’ performances, remote filming techniques (such as green screens with digitally inserted backgrounds) were implemented. The series was first released on the first-year anniversary of the NYC quarantine, March 16, 2021 via Youtube and Facebook Watch @thebuilding2020, final two episodes will be released individually on subsequent Saturdays. *********************************************************************
5) CENTENARY STAGE COMPANY HOSTS THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL
Centenary Stage Company, is hosting the Thomas Edison Film Festival on-line at CentenaryStageCo.Org. Funding for the festival was provided by the Warren County Cultural and Heritage Division of Land Preservation. The Festival is free to view online and will open on Monday, March 15th at 10:00 AM and run until Thursday, March 18th at 10:00 PM. Interested parties can also participate in a Q&A with the Festival Director, Jane Stuerwald, taking place via Zoom on March 17th at 7:30 PM.
Films featured in this year’s festival are: Liberate, an experimental film by Karen Lavender of Beverly Hills, CA; I want to Make a Film About Women, a documentary by Karen Pearlman of Sydney, Australia; BoxBallet, an animation by Anton Dyakov of Saint Petersburg, Russia; and Mutiny!, a narrative by Matthew Gratzner of Los Angeles, CA.
The TEFF will run from March 15 – 18, 2021 online at www.CentenaryStageCo.Org and www.blackmariafilmfestival.org. The video stream for viewing the featured short films will open at 10:00 AM on the 15th and remain open until 10:00 PM on the 18th, and a Zoom Q&A with the Festival Director will take place on March 17th at 7:30 PM. *********************************************************************
6) Dance/NYC Announces
2021 Symposium Full Schedule
and Keynote Speakers: Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox, Gregory King, Ni'Ja Whitson and More
Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the full schedule and lineup of speakers and sessions for the 2021 Symposium. The Symposium will take place virtually from Wednesday, March 17 - Saturday, March 20, 2021. As the only gathering of its kind for the dance community in the metropolitan New York City area, the Symposium is an opportunity for the dance field to exchange ideas, expand networks, sharpen organizational practices, and deepen the inquiry around New York City's legacy and trajectory of dance-making.
Curated by Candace Thompson-Zachery, Dance/NYC Manager of Justice, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives with advising from the Symposium Programming Committee, this year's theme is Justice. Transformation. Education.Thompson-Zachery shared, 'The 2021 theme works as a call to action inviting attendees across the dance field to reconsider how the field is organized, offering a north star to work towards, a bold statement of change and a commitment towards learning. If every attendee left feeling more connected to this larger community with a sense of the importance of their role as dance workers in creating more just and beautiful societies, we would have achieved our goal'.Content tracks are offered in alignment with the theme and each content track will be accompanied by a thematic guide curated by leading dance practitioners. These guides will feature essays, resource lists with related media, and reflection prompts providing deeper pathways to explore the Symposium topics.
2021 Thematic Guide Curators include Yanira Castro (Transformation), Maura Nguyen Donohue (Education) and Jonathan Gonzalez (Justice).
Keynotes for the 2021 Symposium are as follows:
Symposium Keynote Address Bodies on the Line, Spirits at the Center byDr. Aimee Meredith Cox, Director of Undergrad Studies, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africa, Yale University. This Keynote will ask, "What does it mean to center somatic, energetic and spiritual alignment as our field shapeshifts to address its own imbalances and injustices? How can dance lead humanity through this moment?".
A Reckoning of Power, Accountability and Gender Equity, will be moderated by
Lauren Wingenroth, Editor in Chief, Dance Teacher and Dance Business Weekly, Senior Consulting Editor, Dance Magazine.
Starting Again: A System Built for Us will be moderated by Ni'Ja Whitson, Interdisciplinary Artist.
The Studio to Stage Pipeline: a Story of Racism, Tendus and Black Death, will be moderated by Gregory King, Assistant Professor of Dance at Kent State University.
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7) Eryc Taylor Dance Announces
Uncharted Territory: Dancers in Isolation
Virtual Film Premiere on Sunday,
March 21, 2021
With an Introduction by Robbie Fairchild
Following the premiere, the film will be available for public viewing from March 22-28, 2021. The week of post-premiere festivities will also include daily Instagram Live events with artist and collaborator Q&As, interviews, live rehearsals, and more. All events are free and open to the public, with donations encouraged. Patrons can also text the code "UNCHARTED" to 44-321 to donate.
Monday, March 22 @ 6:00pm -- Q&A with film editor, Benny Krown
Tuesday, March 23 @ 6:00pm -- 5X5 Interview Series with photographer, Shannel Resto
Thursday, March 25 @ 6:00pm -- Q&A with ETD dancer & collaborator, Nicole Baker
All events hosted on @eryctaylordance Instagram Live.
Conceived and developed over Zoom, Uncharted Territory: Dancers in Isolation features dancers Nicole Baker, Chris Bell, Taylor Ennen, AJ Guevara, Eryc Taylor, and Alex Tenreiro Theis.
Part One: Solitude – Taylor Ennen plays Spenser, who is slowly unraveling in the stillness of her family home.
Part Two: In-Memoriam – AJ Guevara plays Ivan, who just lost his grandmother to the pandemic - she died alone, and now he grieves alone - in a lonely ritual, he tries to summon her spirit.
Part Two: In-Memoriam – AJ Guevara plays Ivan, who just lost his grandmother to the pandemic - she died alone, and now he grieves alone - in a lonely ritual, he tries to summon her spirit.
Part Four: Manhunt –Chris Bell plays "Him," who is tired of feeling trapped home alone and searches for sexual encounters to fill the void during the height of the lockdown.
Part Five: Compulsion – Nicole Baker plays a nurse who struggles with rising paranoia undermining her basic functionality.
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8) Applications for $10,000 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes Due April 15th
The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes application system is online only and submissions are due by April 15th. The Barron Prize celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young people from across the U.S. and Canada. Established in 2001
by author T. A. Barron, the Barron Prize annually honors 25 outstanding young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant positive difference to people and the environment. Fifteen top winners each receive $10,000 to support their service work or higher education. Learn more and apply online at www.barronprize.org
These young people are as diverse as their service projects. They are female and male, urban and rural, and from a wide variety of backgrounds. Examples include Jaclyn, who triumphed over brain cancer and then worked to help other critically ill children; Ryan, who helped provide clean drinking water to more than 70 African villages; Michaella, who organized a rodeo for kids with disabilities; Joying, who cleaned up South Carolina’s beaches; Shawn, who organized his neighborhood to build a community garden; and Barbara, who created a successful motor oil recycling project in rural Texas.
Since its inception, the Barron Prize has awarded more than half a million dollars to hundreds of young leaders and has won the support of Girl Scouts of the USA, Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots, and Youth Service America, among other organizations.
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9)Negative Liberty /Positive Liberty runs March 18 - April
the american vicarious and The Invisible Dog Arts Center, who scored a hit with the pandemic-friendly Static Apnea last September, present the world premiere of NEGATIVE LIBERTY / POSITIVE LIBERTY. This a socially distanced performance installation exploring famed British philosopher Isaiah Berlin’s historic 1958 lecture/essay “Two Concepts of Liberty: Negative & Positive.” It runs March 18 – April 18 at The Invisible Dog Art Center (51 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn).
NEGATIVE LIBERTY / POSITIVE LIBERTY is an artistic distillation of Berlin’s lecture, in which he points out that when concepts of liberty are used rhetorically to control and repress individuals in the name of liberty itself, it will eventually, and inevitably, lead to violent conflict.
Inspired by recent events - events that were fueled by an artificial rhetoric that eventually, and inevitably, become participatory, real and violent - a single viewer is offered an experience. In less than ten-minutes, it is delivered to them in artificial fashion. What follows is an invitation to participate; to lend the actual to the artificial, thus making the experience real. All of this is done in the name of exercising one’s Liberty…but whose?
NEGATIVE LIBERTY / POSITIVE LIBERTY opens March 18 and runs through April 18, 2021, Thursday through Saturday from 1pm – 7pm and Sundays from 1pm to 5pm at The Invisible Dog Art Center 51 Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Tickets are free. Reservations for specific entry times can be made at theamericanvicarious.org. Walk ups will be accommodated as entry times are available. *********************************************************************
10) THE ARAN ISLANDS by JM Synge - NEXT UP on Irish Rep Online!
Announcing the next Performance on Screen from Irish Rep Online The Aran Islands! From March 16-28 (including St. Patrick's Day! ☘️), travel with us to the beautiful and wild Aran Islands from the comfort of your home by joining us for this new, digital production of John Millington Synge's famed work, adapted by Joe O'Byrne, and starring Brendan Conroy!
In the grey, sea-battered landscape of the Aran Islands, full of mist and wild rain, hearth is home and storytellers regale with tales by the fire. When John Millington Synge traveled to these remote islands upon the advice of WB Yeats in 1898, he discovered a bleakly primitive, mystical land that would inspire him for the rest of his life, leading to canonical works in Irish theatre, including The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea.
This all-new production was filmed in Ireland in early 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown and made specifically for digital viewing. The Aran Islands: A Performance on Screen was filmed primarily at The New Theatre in Dublin, with additional footage from the Aran Islands and Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre. Irish Repertory Theatre presented the stage production of The Aran Islands in association with Co-Motion Media in 2017.
Reservations are free but required. A donation of $25 is suggested for viewers who are able to give.
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Irish Repertory Theatre is proud to present Poetic Reflections: Words Upon the Window Pane, a series of films from the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, featuring poets and actors reading poems from Ireland, the United States, and England. Poetic Reflections features collections of short films by Irish filmmaker Matthew Thompson in three themes: Home and Sense of Place, Identity, and Writing and Love. The films were produced in collaboration with Poetry Ireland (Dublin), Druid (Galway), 92nd Street Y (New York), and Poet in the City (London). This installation is the first public activation of our physical space since the COVID-19 shutdown began.
Beginning on March 22, the films will be on display in an interactive digital installation in Irish Repertory Theatre’s lobby windows on West 22nd Street, and available online in three digital premieres. Home and Sense of Place will premiere on Monday, March 22, Identity on Monday, April 5, and Writing from Love on Monday, April 19.
The installation is free and available on 22nd Street to all visitors. The digital premieres are free and available to the public on the Irish Rep YouTube channel and afterward at irishrep.org. Patrons who wish to receive reminder emails may RSVP below.
For more information go to https://irishrep.org/show/irish-rep-online-2021/poetic-reflections/
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12) THOMAS ELLENSON
ADAPTS
I’M STILL HERE
TO COMMEMORATE THE ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY
OF BROADWAY’S CLOSURE
FEATURING
JOEL GREY, HARVEY FIERSTEIN, ALEX BRIGHTMAN, MICHAEL CERVERIS,
CHRISTOPHER J. HANKE, RAYMOND J. LEE, JOSE LLANA, BETH MALONE,
MICHAEL MASTRO, JESSIE MUELLER, LANCE ROBERTS,
MICHAEL JAMES SCOTT, EMILY SKEGGS, ELIZABETH STANLEY,
ALI STROKER, ANNA UZELE, AND RAENA WHITE
TO BENEFIT THE ACTORS FUND
Celebrated theater maker Thomas Ellenson has today released a star-studded adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “I’m Still Here,” to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Broadway’s closure due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic
The very special adaptation, created by Ellenson, features Broadway stars including Joel Grey, Harvey Fierstein, Alex Brightman, Michael Cerveris, Christopher J. Hanke, Raymond J. Lee, Jose Llana, Beth Malone, Michael Mastro, Jessie Mueller, Lance Roberts, Michael James Scott , Emily Skeggs, Elizabeth Stanley, Ali Stroker, Anna Uzele, and Raena White.
Thomas invites viewers to share the song and support the Broadway community
by donating to The Actors Fund. Click here to donate. *********************************************************************
13) ELEANOR AND ALICE
Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts
Written by ELLEN ABRAMS
Directed by FRANCES HILL
A RADIO PLAY
Starring
Tony Award Winner TREZANA BEVERLEY & Drama Desk Winner MARY BACON
Thursday, March 18 through March 23, 2021
Available on urbanstages.org
Urban Stages' Artistic, Producing Director, Frances Hill, announces Urban Stages' Women's Month selection, Eleanor and Alice by Ellen Abrams, performed as a radio play. The radio play will premiere on March 18 at 7:30 pm with a premiere night benefit exclusive to ticket holders (tickets available on urbanstages.org). The benefit will include a talkback with the cast, playwright, and director, as well as members of the Roosevelt family and other special guests. The benefit will also give ticket holders a first listen (before the general public) of the radio play itself. From March 19 to March 23, the radio play will be available admission-free (donations suggested) on urbanstages.org.
Ellen Abrams' play follows Eleanor and Alice Roosevelt---friends, cousins, and rivals---at eight crucial moments over the course of their lives. They feud, laugh, commiserate, and argue over their husbands, children, the nature of politics, and the state of the world. One a Democrat and one a Republican, throughout 63 years of meetings, they witness a changing world from their own unique vantage points as two of the most influential women of the 20th century. Eleanor and Alice, through their accomplishments, ultimately help build a foundation that benefits women in politics today.
Witnessing Eleanor and Alice's journey allows us to experience the political climate of the United States from 1904 to 1962 in a very intimate way---through a family with two first cousins of the same age coming from two opposing political ideologies, one a Democrat and one a Republican. Their conversations and arguments are certainly a reflection of our times.
The benefit is exclusive to ticket-holders on March 18 at 7:30 pm will be an opening/premiere night event. It will include a special zoom talkback with Harold Holzer, Director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt III, Ellen Abrams (playwright), Trezana Beverley (Eleanor Roosevelt), Mary Bacon (Alice Roosevelt), and Frances Hill (director and founder/artistic director of Urban Stages. Benefit tickets will be $100 and tax-deductible. Proceeds will benefit arts and education via Urban Stages' Outreach Program. Outreach tours admission-free plays and workshops libraries throughout NYC in over 300 events in a typical year. Since March 2020, Outreach has provided educational arts programming to over 30,000 virtually (learn more at urbanstages.org)
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