Genres Theater
The Essential Straight & Narrow
The Mad Ones
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A lo-fi ode to the Kodachrome 1970s, rock and roll antics, and the mystical American Southwest: The Essential Straight & Narrow recalls a roadside layover in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, where passing the time becomes reliving the past. Read More
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- Website: http://themadones.org/
BAUBO
The Neo-Political Cowgirls
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
BAUBO, an outdoor, under-the-stars dance theater story reimagined the myth of Persephone & Demeter, adding in the oft-forgotten goddess of female laughter and raunch, Baubo. Set across the gorgeous hills of Montauk County Park, BAUBO plays high in the sky on a 20-foot aerial rig. Read More
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- Website: www.npcowgirls.org
Orville and Wilbur Did It! by David Zellnik
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The world premiere of ORVILLE AND WILBUR DID IT! by David Zellnik (Yank!) follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America. June 13- July 20, 201 Read More
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- Website: http://thenewcolony.org
Orville and Wilbur Did It! (2014)
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Orville and Wilbur Did It! follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, ecstasies, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America – as they perform a children’s musical about the Wright Broth Read More
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- Website: http://thenewcolony.org/
Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek, Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
The New Stage Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek's cerebral work examines the silence around an actual event of mind-boggling evil. Read More
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- Website: www.newstagetheatre.org
Tenderness
The Performance Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
First Generation Ensemble toured Tenderness, a multi-lingual, physical theater piece that underscores the connections between racism, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, hyper-masculinity, violence and the power of human connection. Read More
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- Website: https://performanceproject.org
The Rights of Spring: The Persistence of Winter (2014)
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A giant puppet pageant with adults and youth groups; played out-of-doors, and beginning with a parade. Read More
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- Website: http://puppetco-op.org/
The Rights of Spring
The Puppeteers Cooperative
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
The Rights of Spring is a giant puppet pageant, with the same name but a different plot each year. It features an issue-driven plot, and participation by puppeteers, youth and school groups, and the audience. Read More
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- Website: http://puppetco-op.org/
1931- by Claire and Paul Sifton
The ReGroup Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The ReGroup presented this 80+ year old play about mass unemployment to tremendous response in Oct 2012. Originally presented by the Group Theatre, the play resonated now more than it did when opens during the Great Depression. Read More
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- Website: http://www.regrouptheatre.org
Street Theater Summer Tour of “LIBERTY Or JUST US, A City Parks Story”
Theater for the New City
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
TNC’s Street Theater productions are always a bouncy joyride through the undulations of the body politic, with astute commentary couched in satire and song. They are delightfully suited for family entertainment, with children and neighborhood people as the heroes. Read More