Ethan Slater News

Delaware Theatre Company serves up a musical adaptation of a classic film with the upcoming production of DINER, written by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson with music and lyrics by nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow.

Keegan Theatre is proud to present our first main stage family programming production:  the delightful new children's musical, How to Catch a Leprechaun, by local playwrights Mario Baldessari and Ethan Slater.

Delaware Theatre Company serves up a musical adaptation of a classic film with the upcoming production of DINER, written by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson with music and lyrics by nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow.

One Year Lease Theater Company presents the World Premiere of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally by Brooklyn-based playwright Kevin Armento (Good Men Wanted - 2015 O'Neill National Playwriting Finalist/PlayPenn Finalist, 2015-2016 Ars Nova Artist-in-Residence, Companion Piece at Pleasance Theatre, London)for a limited Off-Broadway run from September 30 to October 24 at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, NYC). Tickets for Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally are $35 (59E59 Members $24.50) and can be arranged online at www.59e59.org or by calling 212.279.4200. Running time: 75 minutes, no intermission. Opening night October 3, 2015.

59E59 Theaters has announced the line-up of shows for Fall 2015.  All performances take place at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues).  Ticket prices and performance schedules vary. For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.59e59.org. 

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) announced the winners of the 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence, which were awarded last night, July 27, 2015 at Urbo (11 Times Square). The full list of winners, plus photos from the ceremony, can be found below!

Drew Fornarola and Marshall Pailet's musical comedy is a gleeful valentine to Nintendo video games.

CLAUDIO QUEST, a super new musical, receives its New York premiere this July as part of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. With a book, music and lyrics Drew Fornarola and Marshall Pailet and direction by Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q), CLAUDIO QUEST begins performances July 7, 2015 at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre and runs through July 14, 2015.  Individual tickets go on sale Monday, June 15 and can be purchased at www.claudioquest.com. 

After dodging stereotypes, surviving sunburns, and confronting bullies, the adventures of four ginger pals in the new web comedy Redheads Anonymous culminate in its first season's final episode, 'Ginger Ninjas'.

St. Patrick's Day -- an unofficial redhead holiday -- marked the series premiere of the charming, off-beat new web comedy Redheads Anonymous, which explores redhead identity in modern America. Check out the newest episode, 'Beach Blanket Molly,' below!

St. Patrick's Day -- an unofficial redhead holiday -- marks the series premiere of the charming, off-beat new web comedy Redheads Anonymous, which explores redhead identity in modern America.

St. Patrick's Day -- an unofficial redhead holiday -- will mark the series premiere of the charming, off-beat new web comedy Redheads Anonymous, which explores redhead identity in modern America.

Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Bullets Over Broadway, Curtains), John Bolton (A Christmas Story, The Musical, Spamalot) and newcomer Ethan Slater will lead a cast for two readings of SOCIAL LIFE: The Musical today, February 8, and tomorrow, February 9, 2015.

Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Bullets Over Broadway, Curtains), John Bolton (A Christmas Story, The Musical, Spamalot) and newcomer Ethan Slater will lead a cast for two readings of SOCIAL LIFE: The Musical in February.

One Year Lease Theater Company presents the US premiere of What We Know by Scottish playwright Pamela Carter for a limited Off-Broadway run from tonight, December 4 - 21, 2013 at Teatro Circulo (64 East 4th Street, NYC).

One Year Lease Theater Company presents the US premiere of What We Know by Scottish playwright Pamela Carter for a limited Off-Broadway run from December 4 - 21, 2013 at Teatro Circulo (64 East 4th Street, NYC). Tickets for What We Know are $30 and can be arranged online at www.theatermania.com or by calling 866.811.4111. Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission.

The Keegan Theatre announced the launch of its "Wee Keegan" pilot program today, aimed at evaluating the interest in family-friendly theater in Dupont Circle. On Saturday, December 22, and Saturday, December 29, at 11:00 am, Keegan will offer staged readings of How To Catch a Leprechaun, a new children's musical by local playwrights Mario Baldessari and Ethan Slater - and a play which made its debut earlier this year at the 2012 Kennedy Center Page To Stage Festival. The readings are fun for all ages, and will be followed by some post-reading theater games and refreshments offered by Keegan company members and actors.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) is proud to announce that BPF alumni Mario Baldessari and Keith Bridges will receive a full production of their play OUR LADY OF SANDWICH at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, 1556 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20007, 202-333-2202. Show times are March 29 @ 8 pm, March 30 @ 8 pm, March 31 @ 3 pm and 8 pm, and April 1 @ 3 pm. Admission is free, but seating is limited, so please call to reserve seats. (There will be a suggested donation of $10 at some performances.) The conservatory is located inside the Georgetown Lutheran Church at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Volta Place.

Beginning at 11:00 a.m. plays to be read are Raising David Walker by Peter Snoad, followed at 1:00 p.m. by Lethal Injection by Michael Reimann, and at 3:00 p.m. by Our Lady of Sandwich by Mario Baldessari and Keith Bridges. After each reading there will be a discussion of the script with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.

1st Stage, Tysons Corner's award-winning professional theater, in partnership with First Draft at Charter Theater, a nonprofit organization devoted to the development of audiences and new plays, announced the world premiere of "Three Bears," a brand-new play that offers a comedic twist on the classic fairy tale and 'sends the Three Bears and a golden-haired friend on an all-new, a cappella musical adventure.'