Harriet Jacobs News

The Queens College Evening Readings series is back for the spring season with highly anticipated readings by acclaimed writer Brad Gooch and performer Cherita Armstrong.

2019 MAC Award Nominees for Duo/Group Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are back with more cake! Moy-Borgen & Bourne's Office Party is coming to Don't Tell Mama on April 25th at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you - and this one is NSFW! Sylvia Feldman is our Employee of the Month and Emily Viega joins in as the new intern! Devon Perry music directs.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are teaming up for a new variety cabaret show! Moy-Borgen & Bourne's Office Party is coming to Don't Tell Mama on February 27th at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month (Helane Blumfield - Tight Pants and Tears of Joy) and Temps (David LaMarr - Jersey Boys National Tour)! Richard Lowenburg music directs.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are teaming up for a new variety cabaret show! Moy-Borgen & Bourne's Office Party is coming to Don't Tell Mama on February 27th at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month (Helane Blumfield - Tight Pants and Tears of Joy) and Temps (David LaMarr - Jersey Boys National Tour)! Richard Lowenburg music directs.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are bringing their hit variety cabaret show to Don't Tell Mama for an ELECTION DAY SPECIAL, November 6th at 7pm! Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month Jerry Phelps (No Evil: A Resistance Cabaret) and Temp Katie McManus (Mama's Next Big Act Top 5, 2018). Andrew David Sotomayor music directs. Special discounts for 'I voted' stickers, election themed trivia and more! Come have fun and eat cake before finding out the fate of our democracy.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are bringing their hit variety cabaret show to Don't Tell Mama for an ELECTION DAY SPECIAL, November 6th at 7pm! Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month Jerry Phelps (No Evil: A Resistance Cabaret) and Temp Katie McManus (Mama's Next Big Act Top 5, 2018). Andrew David Sotomayor music directs. Special discounts for 'I voted' stickers, election themed trivia and more! Come have fun and eat cake before finding out the fate of our democracy.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are teaming up for a new variety cabaret show! Moy-Borgen & Bourne's Office Party is coming to Don't Tell Mama on October 9th at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month and Temps! Richard Lowenburg music directs.

Cheo Bourne and Lena Moy-Borgen are teaming up for a new variety cabaret show! Moy-Borgen & Bourne's Office Party is coming to Don't Tell Mama on October 9th at 7pm. Watch them, your party planning committee, as they curate an awesome party for you, complete with special appearances by the Employee of the Month and Temps! Richard Lowenburg music directs.

McCarter is proud to welcome a group of esteemed and emerging playwrights and theater artists to Princeton for the Sallie B. Goodman Artists' Retreat. The annual Retreat in June is a centerpiece of McCarter's LAB, a platform and creative incubator devoted to ongoing theatrical development and artist cultivation. The 2018 Retreat will take place from June 6 - June 13.

Steppenwolf for Young Adults (SYA) announces its exciting 2018/19 season: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, the Tony Award-winning play adapted by Simon Stephens based on the book by Mark Haddon, directed by Steppenwolf Artistic Producer Jonathan Berry; and the world premiere of Radical by acclaimed playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach, inspired by the book White American Youth by Christian Picciolini, directed by SYA Artistic Director Hallie Gordon. SYA's 2018/19 Season explores the question, "When You Feel Lost, How Do You Find Your Way?"

The Peace Center announces its 2018-2019 Peace Passport Field Trip Series, which invites young learners to become global citizens in an active exploration of world music, dance, theater and science.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the world - premiere production of TONI STONE, by Lydia R. Diamond, starring Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba ( " Orange Is the New Black, " Godspell, The Wiz ) as " Toni Stone, " directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon.

Writers Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, presents Smart People, written by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Hallie Gordon. Smart People runs March 21 - June 10, 2018 in the Gillian Theatre at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) announces a free post-performance discussion moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre critic and Negroland: A Memoir author Margo Jefferson in connection with TFANA's world premiere production of Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box. The talk, which begins at 8.30 PM is open to all and features director Charlotte Braithwaite and playwrights Lydia Diamond and Jackie Sibblies Drury, follows the January 20 performance of Kennedy's first new play in a decade, which begins at 7:30 that evening, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217). The discussion will also be streamed live on Theatre for a New Audience's Facebook page. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box runs January 18-February 11. To reserve a seat to this panel, visit www.tfana.org/heartpanel.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA; Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) announces a free post-performance discussion moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre critic and Negroland: A Memoir author Margo Jefferson in connection with TFANA's world premiere production of Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box. The talk, which begins at 8.30 PM is open to all and features director Charlotte Braithwaite and playwrights Lydia Diamond and Jackie Sibblies Drury, follows the January 20 performance of Kennedy's first new play in a decade, which begins at 7:30 that evening, at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217). The discussion will also be streamed live on Theatre for a New Audience's Facebook page. He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box runs January 18-February 11. To reserve a seat to this panel, visit www.tfana.org/heartpanel.

If you had told me back in high school that I would end up becoming a theatre major concentrating in stage management, I would have laughed in your face. Just the term, stage management terrified me and I wanted nothing to do with it.

OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME marks the playwriting premiere for Toronto-raised writer, Amanda Parris. Presented by Cahoots Theatre and Obsidian Theatre, Parris' play gives voice to the stories of Black women, who are too often silenced. Parris chats with BroadwayWorld's Taylor Long about the process of bringing OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME to the stage.

Performances of Boston Playwrights' Theatre's (BPT) Lost Tempo begin next week.

Performances of Boston Playwrights' Theatre's (BPT) Lost Tempo begin next week.