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Contemporary Circus in NYC: New Audiences and Global Connections
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Contemporary Circus in NYC: New Audiences and Global Connections

Meet NYC area presenters, producers, and curators who have enabled audiences to experience some of the most unusual post-pandemic live performances on NYC area stages.

Thursday 14 December 2023
United States

US audiences have been slow to awake to circus's recent (r)evolution. Learn about recent North American premieres of contemporary circus works from Guinea, France, and Cambodia; upcoming projects; and innovative collaborative efforts to support new creation in the discipline.

Italian and American Playwrights Project Event Poster.
Italian and American Playwrights Project
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Italian and American Playwrights Project

An Evening Discovering One of the Most Significant Contemporary Italian Playwrights, Screenwriters, and Directors: the late Mattia Torre

Monday 11 December 2023
United States

The Segal Center Italian and American Playwrights Project hosted an evening discovering the work of one of the most significant contemporary Italian playwrights, screenwriters, and directors: the late Mattia Torre.  The program included a reading of excerpts from Torre's plays, translated by Anthony Sugaar and directed by Kristin Leahey, followed by a panel with Italian theatre critic Graziano Graziani, translator Anthony Sugaar, Valeria Orani, and others, moderated by Frank Hentschker.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 11 December 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Dancers on Stage Mid Performance in Ashley Chen Piece.
Ashley Chen's Performance of Distances
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Ashley Chen's Performance of Distances

Ashley Chen—choreographer, performer, and founder of Kashyl—brings his work to La MaMa as part of Villa Albertine’s 2023 Dance Season.

Friday 8 December 2023
United States

Ashley Chen—choreographer, performer, and founder of Kashyl—brought his piece Distances to La MaMa as part of Villa Albertine’s 2023 Dance Season.

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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 4 December 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

LEIMAY: Butoh in New York Event Poster.
LEIMAY Archive Presentation and Book Talk
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LEIMAY Archive Presentation and Book Talk

LEIMAY Archive Presentation with Brandon Perdomo and Ximena Garnica, plus Tanya Calamoneri on Her Book

Thursday 30 November 2023
United States

LEIMAY’s Archive Coordinator Brandon Perdomo and Ximena Garnica spoke about the LEIMAY archive and the history of the company. Tanya Calamoneri joined via zoom to talk about her book Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s.

An Evening With Martyna Majok Event Poster
An Evening with Martyna Majok
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An Evening with Martyna Majok

A Conversation with Playwright and Pulitzer Prize Winner Martyna Majok

Monday 27 November 2023
United States

The Segal Center hosted a conversation with playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok. Majok spoke about growing up in the US as a Polish immigrant, her career as a playwright, her creative process and upcoming new work. During the evening, Majok read excerpts from her Pulitzer Prize winning play Cost of Living.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 27 November 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 20 November 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors Event Poster.
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors
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Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors

An Evening with Jim Wilson and Jordan Schildcrout Discussing Wilson's Latest Book

Monday 13 November 2023
United States

Join us for an evening with Jim Wilson and Jordan Schildcrout discussing Wilson's latest book Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors. This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 6 November 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

shadow puppets representing a horse and a rabbit.
Global Puppetry in the United States
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Global Puppetry in the United States

A Presentation of Excerpts from Chinese Theatre Works (New York) and US Karagöz Theatre Company (Washington)

Monday 30 October 2023
New York City

An evening celebrating the work of New York based international puppet theatre company Chinese Theatre Works and Washington's US Karagöz Theatre Company. Ayhan Hulagu (KTC), Kuang-Yu Fong, Stephen Kaplin (CTW) presented excerpts from their repertoires and demonstrated the puppets. The panel was joined by Prof. Marvin Carlson, editor of one of the latest Segal Center Publications: Turkish Traditional Theatre: Karagöz Puppet Plays.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 30 October 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

event poster for the fall forum marketing and audience development panel.
Marketing and Audience Development Panel
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Marketing and Audience Development Panel

Wednesday 25 October 2023
New York City

Audiences are not “back” to pre-pandemic levels, and there may be a variety of compounding reasons why. ART/New York convened a panel of marketing specialists with an array of perspectives to talk about what’s working, what’s not, and what new strategies we might try in order to best reach and engage our audiences.

event poster for the fall forum grantmakers in conversation panel.
New York City Grantmakers in Conversation
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New York City Grantmakers in Conversation

The People Behind the Portal

Tuesday 24 October 2023
New York City

Far from being anonymous evaluators sitting behind a grant portal, grantmakers have an invaluable perspective regarding emergent trends, innovative solutions, and field-wide stumbling blocks. This panel, moderated by ART/New York co-executive director Talia Corren, assembles leading New York theatre funders to pull back the curtain on the peer-to-peer conversations happening in grantmaking circles.

event poster for the fall forum kickoff presentation.
Fall Forum Kickoff Presentation
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Fall Forum Kickoff Presentation

On Community Building and Resource Sharing in the New York Theatre Community

Monday 23 October 2023
New York City

ART/ New York hosted the first Fall Forum to foster community, support collaboration, and encourage resource sharing among our members. We kicked off the 2023 Fall Forum with an event to bring together the entire ART/New York community.

artists performing on stage in colorful shirts.
PRELUDE Festival 2023
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PRELUDE Festival 2023

An Array of Short Performances, Readings, and Panels from the Artists at the Forefront of the Contemporary New York City Artistic Landscape

Wednesday 11 October to Thursday 19 October 2023
New York City

PRELUDE is a place to discover what voices are shaping the future of theatre and performance in New York City, to observe, engage, commune, and critique. PRELUDE offers an array of short performances, readings, and screenings—a completely free survey of the current New York moment and the work being prepared for the next season and beyond—as well as new commissions and panel discussions with artists, scholars, and performers.

A promotional graphic for Watch Me Work.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 16 October 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a communal work session for anyone eager to nurture and sustain their creative process. Facilitated by Public Theater Playwright-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and the New Work Development department, Watch Me Work takes place via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams that you can join at home, at school, or in a coffee shop from anywhere in the world!

Promotional graphic featuring the cover of The Art of Assembly.
The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today Book Talk
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The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today Book Talk

Curator and Author Florian Malzacher in Conversation with Art Critic Claire Bishop

Thursday 21 September 2023
New York City

In his book The Art of Assembly. Political Theatre Today curator and author Florian Malzacher surveys theatre today to demonstrate its political potential in both form and content. In a time of wide-ranging crisis, The Art of Assembly is a plea for a strong definition of the political and for a theatre that is not content merely to reflect the world’s ills but instead acts to change them.

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work event poster.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 28 August 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process, and an actual work session featuring Suzan-Lori Parks working on her newest writing project. Traditionally hosted on the mezzanine of the Public Theater Lobby, this version brings the program to your home via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams.

Four actors sit on chairs on a set made to look like a children's classroom, smiling and talking with one another.
How Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play Lays the Groundwork for Native Artists Like Me
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How Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play Lays the Groundwork for Native Artists Like Me

28 August 2023

After directing Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play at her midwestern college, Indigenous theatremaker Sierra Rosetta traveled to New York to see the same play on Broadway. She discusses the way this milestone production—which made FastHorse the first known Native American woman playwright on Broadway—and her own work push for a future in which Native theatremakers’ presence on professional stages is standard, not novel.

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work event poster.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 21 August 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process, and an actual work session featuring Suzan-Lori Parks working on her newest writing project. Traditionally hosted on the mezzanine of the Public Theater Lobby, this version brings the program to your home via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams.

A woman looks skeptically toward the camera.
Negotiating the Migrant Self in Maia Novi’s Invasive Species
Essay

Negotiating the Migrant Self in Maia Novi’s Invasive Species

15 August 2023

Maia Novi’s testimonial play Invasive Species tells the story of one Argentinean immigrant’s experience constructing her sense of self in the United States in the face of the limitations on her identity that she encounters in her new home. Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas, a Peruvian living in the United States, reviews the production with an eye toward the way that Invasive Species embraces complexity, humanity, power imbalances, and even humor.

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work event poster.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 14 August 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process, and an actual work session featuring Suzan-Lori Parks working on her newest writing project. Traditionally hosted on the mezzanine of the Public Theater Lobby, this version brings the program to your home via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams.

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work event poster.
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work

A Playwriting Masterclass

Monday 7 August 2023
United States

Watch Me Work is a performance piece, a meditation on the artistic process, and an actual work session featuring Suzan-Lori Parks working on her newest writing project. Traditionally hosted on the mezzanine of the Public Theater Lobby, this version brings the program to your home via Zoom sessions and HowlRound livestreams.