Stargazers by Majkin Holmquist
Apr
8
to May 4

Stargazers by Majkin Holmquist

Page 73 presents the world premiere of

Stargazers

by Majkin Holmquist

directed by Colette Robert

featuring Lizzy Brooks, Baize Buzan, Andrew Garman, Fernando Gonzalez, Miles G. Jackson, Keren Lugo, and Kelly McAndrew

Set Design: Lawrence E. Moten III

Costume Design: Alicia J. Austin

Lighting Design: Reza Behjat

Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi

Props Design: Caitlyn Murphy

Production Stage Manager: Kate Croasdale

Assistant Stage Manager: Carolyn Reich

Assistant Director: Monique St. Cyr

April 8-May 4

https://page73.org/stargazers

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The Office Plays by Adam Bock
Nov
16
to Nov 21

The Office Plays by Adam Bock

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The Office Plays (The Receptionist and The Thugs)

by Adam Bock

directed by Colette Robert

featuring Mallory Avnet, Brandon Burk, Anna Civic, Brynn Gauthier, Brendan George, Elizabeth Jarrett, Sophia Tzougros, Kat Warnusz-Steckel, and David Wilson

Scenic Design: Taylor Friel

Costume Design: Kat Ibasco

Lighting Design: Andre Segar

Sound Design: Jordan Bernstein

November 16-21

Theatre C, The Paulson Center (NYU)

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Closing Time by Jahna Ferron-Smith
Oct
1
1:00 PM13:00

Closing Time by Jahna Ferron-Smith

Ensemble Studio Theatre presents

Closing Time

by Jahna Ferron-Smith

directed by Colette Robert

featuring Will Dagger, Jahna Ferron-Smith, Graeme Gillis, Haskell King, Ife Olujobi, and RJ Tolan

as a part of Where Everybody Knows Your Brunch

Sunday, October 1, 1pm

https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20232024-season/2023/10/1/brunch

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Paradise Ballroom by Samara Cohen (Princess Lockerooo) and Harold O'Neal
Aug
4
to Aug 6

Paradise Ballroom by Samara Cohen (Princess Lockerooo) and Harold O'Neal

a workshop showing of

Paradise Ballroom

co-created by Samara Cohen (Princess Lockerooo) and Harold O’Neal

Book, Lyrics, and Music by Samara Cohen and Harold O’Neal

Music Production by Harold O’Neal

Choreography by Princess Lockerooo (Samara Cohen)

Directed by Colette Robert

Featuring Ernest Allen, Leanne Antonio, William Bailey (Jada Valenciaga), Tyrone Bevans, Tytus Larue James Gibson-Jackson, Isaiah Johnson, Jade Jones, Nicole Lambert, John-Michael Lyles, and Phillip Johnson Richardson

Music Direction by Nygel D. Robinson

Music Assistant: Jesse-Ray Leich

Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi

Lighting Design: Jonah Bobilin

PSM: Alyssa K. Howard

Assistant Stage Manager: Aisling Galvin

August 4-6

as a part of New York Stage and Film’s Stories That Move: Developing Dance Musicals

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The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel
May
3
to May 27

The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel

New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company Present

The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel

written and directed by Colette Robert
music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney
additional lyrics by Colette Robert
choreography by nicHi douglas

with Caturah Brown, Kayla Coleman, Cherrye J. Davis, Claire Fort, Starr Kirkland, Aigner Mizzelle, Cristina Pitter, Monique St. Cyr, Portland Thomas, Montria Walker, Akyiaa Wilson and Jehan O. Young 

set: Teresa L. Williams; costumes: Mika Eubanks; lights: Stacey Derosier; sound: Sadah Espii Proctor
music direction: Dionne McClain-Freeney; make-up: Fatima Thomas, Senior National Artist, M∙A∙C Cosmetics

https://newgeorges.ticketspice.com/the-cotillion/

May 3-27

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Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage
Feb
21
to Apr 1

Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage

Crumbs From the Table of Joy

By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Colette Robert

Featuring Shanel Bailey, Jason Bowen, Sharina Martin, Natalia Payne, and Malika Samuel

Scenic Designer: Brendan Gonzales Boston
Costume Designer: Johanna Pan
Wig Designer: Nikiya Mathis
Lighting Designer: Anshuman Bhatia
Sound Designer: Broken Chord
Props Designer: Caitlyn Murphy
Vocal & Dialect Coach: Amanda Quaid
Fight and Intimacy Director: Rocío Mendez
Production Stage Manager: Shane Schnetzler
Assistant Stage Manager: Sammy Landau
Production Manager: Savanah Sanchez
Casting: Stephanie Yankwitt, tbd casting

Production Support by Rosalind Productions

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The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler
Nov
26
to Dec 18

The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler

The Wanderers

by Anna Ziegler

directed by Colette Robert

City Theatre Company

https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/the-wanderers/

November 26-December 18

Featuring Sarah Goeke, Nick Lehane, Moira Quigley, Jed Resnick, and Allison Strickland

Scenic Design: Anne Mundell

Lighting Design: Natalie Robin

Costume Design: Mindy Eshelman

Sound Design: Jeff Sherwood

Dramaturgy: Clare Drobot

Production Stage Manager: Patti Kelly

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Weathering by Harrison David Rivers
Oct
11
to Nov 6

Weathering by Harrison David Rivers

Penumbra Theatre presents

Sponsored by HealthPartners
Harrison David Rivers’
Weathering
World Premiere
Directed by Colette Robert

After his award-winning Penumbra debut, This Bitter Earth, Harrison David Rivers brings us an intimate portrait of a couple navigating excruciating loss. As generations of women encircle the heartbroken and the sacred work of grief gets underway, we all become part of their healing journey.

https://penumbratheatre.org/event/weathering

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The Woods. by Jahna Ferron-Smith
Aug
30
to Sep 4

The Woods. by Jahna Ferron-Smith

a Pendragon first-look workshop production of:

The Woods.

by Jahna Ferron-Smith

directed by Colette Robert

Dwindling park attendance nationwide has sent the NPS scrambling to engage those they've traditionally left out of the narrative of the great outdoors- people of color. But how do you excite when for many, the environments are symbolic of misery?

For mature audiences. Contains sexually explicit material.

https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=13&p=3

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Jun
6
3:00 PM15:00

Unicorn by Kevin Artigue

Primary Stages presents

Fresh Ink Readings Series

featuring work form the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group

Monday, June 6 @ Reading at 3:00pm

UNICORN by Kevin Artigue

Directed by Colette Robert

Featuring: Kate Abbruzzese, Natalie Kim, Alisa Melendez, Sathya Sridharan, Alok Tewari and John Zdrojeski

SUPER started with a simple mission: to get rides to people who needed it. But as the tech start up embarks on a meteoric rise to prominence, its founders are forced to contend with the human cost of innovation: who wins, who loses, and who really pays for progress?

All performances will be held at 59E59 Theaters, Theater B.

To RSVP, please fill out the google form here: https://forms.gle/sCq7DdT4sevYxThx8

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I Have No Confidence Any of This will Work by Phanesia Pharel
Jun
5
12:00 PM12:00

I Have No Confidence Any of This will Work by Phanesia Pharel

Don't miss out on our last Brunch of the season!

Join us on June 5th for a continental breakfast with mimosas, mocktails, and (young)bloody marys, followed by five new short plays from the writers of EST/Youngblood.

I Have No Confidence Any of This will Work
written by Phanésia Pharel
directed by Colette Robert*
featuring Taylor A. Blackman & Denise Manning

Sunday, June 5, Noon and 3pm

Ensemble Studio Theatre, 545 west 52nd Street, 2nd Floor

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Imaginary Birds Sing Real Love Songs by Dan Giles
May
1
12:00 PM12:00

Imaginary Birds Sing Real Love Songs by Dan Giles

Youngblood BRUNCH Returns!

Join us on May 1st for our first Youngblood BRUNCH in over two years! We're serving up a light continental breakfast with mimosas and (young)bloody marys, followed by five new short plays about science & technology from the writers of EST/Youngblood.

Sunday, May 1st, Noon and 3pm

Imaginary Birds Sing Real Love Songs
by Dan Giles
directed by Colette Robert, featuring Brittany K. Allen & Sean McIntyre

https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20212022/2022/4/22/the-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-brunch-in-the-universe

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how to roll a blunt by Naomi Lorrain
Apr
8
4:00 PM16:00

how to roll a blunt by Naomi Lorrain

how to roll a blunt

b​​y ​​Naomi Lorrain
directed by Colette Robert
Pacific Playwrights Festival

April 8,
​4 ​p.m. on the Segerstrom Stage

Roommates Maya Wright and James Wright are unrelated, unattached and underappreciated. Surviving as an artist in New York City is no easy feat—so they shouldn’t be underestimated either. By anyone. (Including their exes.) A witty exploration of Black art, Black love and the pursuit of Black excellence.

https://www.scr.org/calendar/view?id=12875

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Mar
30
2:00 PM14:00

I, My Ruination by Kevin Artigue

I, MY RUINATION
a new play by Kevin Artigue
Directed by Colette Robert

featuring Demosthenes Chrysan, Drew Gehling, Ethan Hova, Jenny Mudge, and Theo T. Stockman

Three months in 1952. Elia Kazan. Arthur Miller. Molly Kazan. An intimate, radical look at the iconic director's life-altering decision to name names.

Wednesday March 30th @ 2pm
Rattlestick Theater
224 Waverly Place

Please RSVP to Eliana Rodriguez at boxoffice@rattlestick.org
Audience will be masked for the reading.

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Mar
28
2:00 PM14:00

Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays by Amanda Quaid

EST/Sloan Project presents a Reading of

CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE HEAT OF THE SUN'S RAYS

WRITTEN BY AMANDA QUAID

directed by Colette Robert
featuring Andrus Nichols, Will Dagger, Elise Kibler, Emma Kikue, Sean McIntyre, & David Shih

A story about amateur scientist Eunice Foote, one big discovery, scientific legacy, and ever-rising levels of carbon dioxide.

Mariel Sanchez, Stage Manager

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Dance Nation by Clare Barron
Dec
8
to Dec 11

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

Columbia School of the Arts presents

Dance Nation

by Clare Barron

Director Colette Robert

featuring Anita Abdinezhad, Saby Ramirez, Anne Guadagnino, Damla Coskun, Gillian Abbott, Nate Janis, Stephanie Jeane, Brigitte Thieme-Burdette, and Isaiah Dodo-Williams.

Choreographer Gillian Abbott
Scenic Designer Teresa Williams
Props Master Zach Marlin
Lighting Designer Eric Norbury
Sound Designer Caroline Eng
Costume Designer Grier Coleman
Production Stage Manager Tom Blushi
Assistant Stage Manager Maria De Barros
Company Manager Mary Alex Daniels
General Manager Anthony Louis Massa
Dance Captain Brigitte Thieme-Burdette

https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/events/acting-thesis-dance-nation

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Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Plays
Jul
6
to Jul 10

Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Plays

Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Plays
Directed by Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones, and Colette Robert
Guest curated by Robert O’Hara
Featuring new plays by Ngozi Anyanwu, France‑Luce Benson, J. Nicole Brooks, Guadalís Del Carmen, Terry Guest, Ike Holter, Zora Howard, NSangou Njikam, and Charly Evon Simpson

Discover the power and intimacy of the solo play with this series of three shows centering and celebrating Black artists and their voices through theatrical storytelling. Each show consists of three, 30-minute world premieres, created by Black writers, written for actors of color, and brought to life by directors Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones, and Colette Robert on the Front Lawn of the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Guest curated by Tony Award-nominated director and playwright Robert O’Hara.

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The Apiary by Kate Douglas
Jun
5
2:30 PM14:30

The Apiary by Kate Douglas

Gingold Theatrical Group presents

a digital, work-in-progress reading of

The Apiary

by Kate Douglas

directed by Colette Robert

featuring Danielle Davenport, Claire Karpen, Savanna Padilla, Kristen Sieh, and Emily Stout 

Saturday, June 5, 2:30pm ET

It’s 2074. Bees are extinct in the wild, kept alive inside synthetic apiaries where they live year-round in perpetual spring.

Through a freak accident, lab assistants Zora and Pilar discover the bees have an usually positive response to dead human flesh. As the bees begin to thrive, Zora and Pilar need to cope with a way to continue to feed the bees to save them - and cope with their own failing health.

The Apiary has been developed at GTG’s Speakers’ Corner.

To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wwi_1oidQ7G6-KcR0UVMxQ

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May
8
7:00 PM19:00

Behind the Sheet

a live virtual reading of

Behind the Sheet

by Charly Evon Simpson

featuring featuring Stephen James Anthony, Nia Calloway, Bjorn DuPaty, Naomi Lorrain, Cristina Pitter, Joel Ripka, Megan Tusing, Amber Reauchean Williams & Jehan O. Young

Stage Directions: Sifiso Mabena

Stage Manager: Fran Acuña-Almiron

Saturday, March 8, 7pm ET

https://www.anarchalucybetsey.org/product-page/behind-the-sheet-virtual-live-performance-6-00-pm-ct

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Showing Up
Apr
16
7:30 PM19:30

Showing Up

The Civilians presents SHOWING UP, a free livestreamed evening of music and performance inspired by photographer Accra Shepp’s portraits of Black Lives Matter activists. In the spring of 2020, Shepp began taking portraits of first responders; these images became the first chapter “Contagion” of his Covid Journals shared on Instagram, a second chapter “Hunger,” and then, as historic activism filled the streets of New York, a third, ongoing chapter, “Justice.” The Civilians interviewed some of the activists depicted in Shepp’s “Justice” chapter, each photographed at various Black Lives Matter gatherings in NYC. SHOWING UP, directed by Colette Robert, draws on these interviews to create performances by actors, and original songs by various artists. A conversation with Accra Shepp frames the evening. 

SHOWING UP will be hosted by Nidra Sous la Terre

With Actors:
Becca Blackwell
Cecil Blutcher
Sheldon Best
Marsha Stephanie Blake

And Songs By:
Rashaan Carter, vocals: Anaïs Maviel
Jacinth Greywoode & Rebecca Hart
Jamie Lozano, performed by: Javier Ignacio, mixed by: Demián Cantú
Katie Madison & Jarret Murray, performed by Katie Madison and Deborah Cowell

The event is co-presented with the International Center for Photography, and Alice Austen House, and with the collaboration of the Alfred Stieglitz Society at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

The creative team of SHOWING UP also includes stage manager Fran Acuña-Almiron, video director Sadah Espii Proctor, dramaturg Phoebe Corde, associate dramaturg James La Bella, and associate producer Sarah Boess. Interviews were conducted by Jesse Baxter, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Bailey Jordan Garcia, Dee Harper, Matt Maher, and Riley Tollen.

 

SHOWING UP is part of The Civilians annual cabaret series featuring new works made from creative investigations into real life; the series is supported by The Axe-Houghton Foundation.

For more information about Black Lives Matter please visit https://blacklivesmatter.com/

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Egress by Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick
Mar
24
1:00 AM01:00

Egress by Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick

Salt Lake Acting Company presents

a virtual reading of

Egress

By Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick

Directed by Colette Robert

Featuring Austin Archer, Latoya Cameron, and Naomi Lorrain.

with stage directions read by Taylor Wallace

Dramaturg: Janice Paran

Stage Manager: Jennie Sant

as a part of the New Play Sounding Series Festival

Monday, March 29, 7pm MT

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f1176beXSn6nZTULbpZlMQ

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