Ntozake Shange News

Expanding on its 50-year history of developing new plays and cultivating new voices for the American Theater, The Public Theater has announced the 12 members of the inaugural Emerging Writers Group, a new program launching next month that targets playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers and nurtures their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support.

Expanding on its 50-year history of developing new plays and cultivating new voices for the American Theater, The Public Theater is now accepting applications for The Emerging Writers Group, a new initiative that seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages in their careers and nurture their artistic growth by providing necessary resources and support.

The newest musical by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jerry Bock, The Princess Who Could Not Be Heard, will be given its world-premiere production when it opens the 29th annual Houston Children's Theatre Festival from June 15 to 29 in Houston, Texas

Expanding on its fifty-year history of developing new plays and cultivating new voices for the American Theater, The Public Theater has announced the creation of The Public Writers Initiative - a long-term initiative that will provide key support and resources for writers at every stage of their careers.

An array of stars will take part in the upcoming New Federal Theatre events, featuring the work of playwrights Ntozake Shange and Amiri Baraka

On Monday September 25th, an all-star reading of Love's Fire benefited the future expansion of Opening Act, an innovative nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programming to New York City's most underserved public high schools

Amelia Campbell and Victor Slezak have joined the September 25th benefit Love's Fire

Daniel Reichard, Keith Bryon Kirk and more will star in the benefit reading Love's Fire on September 25

Along with Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for 'A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.'

The Public Theater will present two series of readings--New Work Now! and New Work Then!--in celebration of its history of producing new plays; the two series will be held from September 9th to September 18th and from September 2nd to October 3rd