Claude Solnik News

 Theater for the New City will present The Briefest Year, a new play about people who meet just before the year ends and realize if they don't part ways quickly, they will have spent a year together.

Experience the captivating story of street musicians who find connection at Strawberry Fields in Central Park. Don't miss The Speed of Sound musical at Theater for the New City, running from Dec. 21 to Jan. 7. Get your tickets now!

What did our critic think of TAKEDOWN at Theater For The New City?

Discover the powerful and realistic family drama 'Takedown' at Theater for the New City, running from Sept. 21 to Oct. 1. Experience the struggles, love, and wrestling of a grieving family as they navigate life and find redemption.

What did our critic think of A STITCH IN TIME at Theater For The New City?

What happens when a famous musician decides to move in, at least temporarily, with a low-key suburban family? He wants anonymity. They are enthralled with celebrity.

'A Stitch in Time,' a new musical that modernizes 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' will fill the kingdom -- or at least the Cabaret -- at Theater for the New City with song and comedy June 22 to July 9.

Fresh off a sold-out run at Theater for the New City, Stealing Mona Lisa - a New Musical is back Off Broadway for a one night performance designed to give theater goers and the industry one more chance to see the show based on the 1911 theft of that famous masterpiece.

Some members of the cast of Stealing Mona Lisa, a new musical, celebrated this anniversary at Theater for the New City. The show Stealing Mona Lisa - a new musical - is running there through Jan. 8. Check out photos!

The Mercury Theater of the Air broadcast about a Martian invasion, the process of putting it together and the reaction that followed, as well as myths about it and the media reaction, are the topic of 'Panic on the Front Page,' a new play being presented by Studio Theatre Long Island Jan. 13 to Jan. 29.

August 21, 1911, wasn't just another day at the Louvre in Paris. Security guards discovered that the Mona Lisa, at a time when art work was being photographed, was missing. Who took the Mona Lisa? The cry spread across newspapers and nations.

Joseph Bartosch, Owen Hahner, Samantha Hernandez, Annie Raczko, Ella Phillips and Olivia Whicheloe star in Ballots Over Broadway directed by Raczko and written by Claude Solnik. Shows are Thursday October 27 at 6 p.m., Saturday October 29 at 3 p.m., Sunday October 30 6 p.m. and Sunday October 6 at 5 p.m., all leading up to election day.

 'Fun and Games' begins as a woman brings a man home after meeting him at a bar. Minutes later, another man arrives at the door who had been pursuing her at the bar.

Theater for the New City and the Dream Up Festival, the biggest summer theater festival in New York City, are presenting Pandemonium, a sequel to Peter Pan in which the characters from the J.M. Barrie land in and navigate the real world.

Theatergoers of all ages will have a chance to see Peter Pan and Captain Hook navigate the real world, in a new play about what happens when the characters from the J.M. Barrie classic find themselves stranded, marooned or simply freed in the real world.

It's late at night and a couple are trying to go some sleep in their bedroom, but the man simply can't doze off. Instead, thoughts race through his mind, keeping him awake at night. But what if the people in those thoughts came alive? What if that bedroom filled with person after person, as the ritual of going to sleep instead turned into a virtual reunion?

Lovers of Peter Pan, Captain James Hook, Wendy and even Tinker Bell can see this cast of legendary, literary characters take flight in a new, fun story at the PIT (People's Improv Theater).

People interested in mythology can find statues and paintings of mythological creatures in Manhattan's museums. The Greek and Roman gods, however, have now given birth to a new comedy show at the PIT that finds humor in myths moved to Manhattan.

Recently concluding performances at Theater for the New City, The UnAmerican questions the power that is supposedly given to those who believe they are above the consensus of the many. Directed by Joe John Battista, Solnik’s play follows the troubled triad of relationships between Marilyn Monroe, Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller - three legendary figures who are criticized and tried for their Communist affiliation

The little told story of Miller, Marilyn and Elia Kazan, the noted director who had been Miller's friend and Marilyn's lover, is the subject matter for The Unamerican, a new play written by Claude Solnik and directed by Joseph John Battista.