Christine Bruno

The 2024 Tribeca Festival has unveiled its lineup of talks with iconic artists, critically acclaimed directors, and multi-hyphenate entertainers, as well as reunions and retrospectives of venerable and lauded films and TV series. See the full lineup here!

The Bar Area premier of Martyna Majok’s COST OF LIVING has landed at Oakland Theater Project. With few frills and the focus on dialogue, COST OF LIVING pulls you in and never loosens its grip. In the midst of telling a story of a marginalized community, Oakland Theater Project reminds us of the universality of human nature, connection, rejection, and love.

Oakland Theater Project will open its 2024 Season with the Bay Area Premiere of Cost of Living. Performances run March 1—24.

International Arts Relations presents the World Premiere  production of Fun with Panic Attacks. Created and performed by Florencia  Lozano, performances run through Saturday January  27, 2024. See photos from the production.

International Arts Relations (INTAR Theatre) has revealed more details for the upcoming World Premiere production of Fun with Panic Attacks.

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will open its 24th season with “Once On This Island.” Learn more about the musical and find out how to get tickets here!

IndieSpace, an organization established to disrupt the ongoing displacement of small theaters and to create a new model for equitable funding for the indie theater community, has announced the recipients of The Little Venue That Could Program. 

Check out photos from opening night of God of Carnage at Theater Breaking Through Barriers!

INTAR THEATER and the RADIO DRAMA NETWORK have announced INTAR’s MainStage season of two world premiere productions.

Mindy Pfeffer’s new play HOW TO LIVE opened on January 25 at the 14th Street Y in the East Village. The World Premiere runs until January 29 and is being presented by LABA (A Laboratory for Jewish Culture), a NYC-based artist fellowship program for which Pfeffer was a part of in 2021. Jean Randich directs. Check out photos here!

Mindy Pfeffer's thought provoking new play HOW TO LIVE is slated to have its World Premiere at the 14th Street Y in the East Village in January 2023.

Opening Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's 23rd anniversary season will be one of the most produced musicals in history, “Guys and Dolls.”

Applications are being accepted now through September 23rd for the fifth round of Queens Theatre's Theatre For All (TFA) Professional Actor Training Program. The free, two-week program will run virtually this season, from Monday, October 17th through Friday, October 28th and is open to Deaf or Disabled performers, aged 18 and over. Through intensive workshops over the two weeks, students will build skills, as well as their networks. 

Applications are now being accepted for the fourth round of the Theatre For All (TFA) training program. The free, two-week program presented by Queens Theatre (QT) is offered to Deaf and disabled theatre professionals to hone their skills and practice their craft through targeted workshops. Due to the pandemic, this year's workshops and events will be hosted virtually.

Sonia Manzano, who spent 44 years performing as Maria and writing for  the popular and enduring children's television series Sesame Street, and who was recently featured in the new documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street will begin performances tonight in this live outdoor production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in New York. 

Park Avenue Armory has announced the 100 Years | 100 Women Conversation Series in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a continuation of the 100 Years | 100 Women initiative celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment's ratification granting some women the right to vote.

Resounding has completed casting for the upcoming live outdoor performance and simulcast of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Leading the cast is Sesame Street legend, author, and Emmy-winning writer Sonia Manzano as Prospera. Joining Manzano are are Broadway’s Tyler Hardwick (Once On This Island) as Ferdinand and Captain, and more.

After a year on Amazon Prime, SoulStir Creative has just released ABLE, which aims to fill a gap of missing conversations within the entertainment world, on Youtube. In a series of episodic interviews, the hosts Kallen Blair and Alie B. Gorrie join various individuals with disabilities to discuss their experiences in all corners of the entertainment industry.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Artistic Director Nicholas Viselli today announced the Third Virtual Playmakers' Intensive: INUNION, scheduled for October 19th through November 1st, on YouTube nightly at 7:30pm or Facebook at 8:15pm, via ZOOM.

The election is right around the corner, and Broadway is showing up to the party. Countless artists have already raised their voices to call for change and inspire people around to world to vote... and they aren't finished yet. Check out some of the most anticipated upcoming events that combine the Broadway stars you love with the most important issues on the moment.