Frank Silvera News

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second staged reading in the First Throws Play Reading Series, Cesi Davidson's All Dressed Up, directed by Mary Hodges and featuring Lorna Haughton and Sadrina Renee, with stage directions read by Florence Kildare, on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is FREE and reservations are not required.

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents the second staged reading in the First Throws Play Reading Series, Cesi Davidson's All Dressed Up, directed by Mary Hodges and featuring Lorna Haughton and Sadrina Renee, with stage directions read by Florence Kildare, on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Admission is FREE and reservations are not required.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today that seven plays will be developed at the 2010 National Playwrights Conference under the leadership of artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg. The selected playwrights will spend the month of July at the O'Neill's Waterford, Connecticut campus developing and presenting staged readings of their work during the NPC's 46th season. Box office and online ticket sales open Wednesday, June 9; advance ticket sales will be available to O'Neill Members beginning Monday, May 17.

Crystal Field and Theater for the New City (TNC) will present a varied schedule Scratch Night performance program, which offers the opportunity for artists to present work in progress to an audience for one night. Scratch Night started in the United Kingdom in 2000 as a way to show work in progress in an evolution of performances. At TNC, they put their own spin on the idea to best serve the theatre community and New York area audiences.

Crystal Field and Theater for the New City (TNC) will present a varied schedule Scratch Night performance program, which offers the opportunity for artists to present work in progress to an audience for one night. Scratch Night started in the United Kingdom in 2000 as a way to show work in progress in an evolution of performances. At TNC, they put their own spin on the idea to best serve the theatre community and New York area audiences.

'Conversation with a Kleagle,' Directed by Kevin B. Ploth and written by Rudy Gray runs at Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre 50 West 13th Street, NYC (between 5th & 6th Avenue)

'Conversation with a Kleagle,' Directed by Kevin B. Ploth and written by Rudy Gray runs at Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre 50 West 13th Street, NYC (between 5th & 6th Avenue)

This is Thirteenth Street Repertory Company's second production of the Conversation with a Kleagle. Press notes state that 'the play is one of the best we produced in our 36 year history and we are proud to include it in 'The Best of 13' Festival of Plays.'

This is Thirteenth Street Repertory Company's second production of the Conversation with a Kleagle. Press notes state that 'the play is one of the best we produced in our 36 year history and we are proud to include it in 'The Best of 13' Festival of Plays.'

As part of its continuing effort to find and develop culturally and ethnically diverse talent and actors with disabilities, the Disney ABC Television Group's Casting Project will hold its latest showcase featuring 11 promising actors. The showcase, the sixth one to be held in New York, will take place at the Michael Schimmel Center For the Arts at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street, on Monday, October 22.

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th