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Julia’s Reading Room: WITHOUT A TITLE
Thursday, February 28th 6-8PM Grand Central Library 135 East 46th Street Between Third & Lexington Avenues 2nd Floor, Teen Center WITHOUT A TITLE A Three-Ring Circus Written and Directed by Shellen Lubin Loosely based on Federico Garcia Lorca's Play Without A Title With moments from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream A night of radical theatre in Trump's America when everyone attending has something to say and the whole world erupts. Even the audience has lines! Please arrive at…
Find out more »On Her Shoulders: Wine in the Wilderness
On Her Shoulders: Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress Friday, March 15th Doors open @ 6:45 PM The New School Starr Foundation Hall, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room UL102 On Her Shoulders is pleased to present a staged reading of Wine In The Wilderness by Alice Childress, directed by Bianca LaVerne Jones on Friday, March 15, 2019. Doors open at 6:45pm for a 7:00pm start with The Play in Context by Arminda Thomas, who situates the script in its historical…
Find out more »2019 Theatre Women Awards: The Road To Parity
On Monday, March 25th, the League of Professional Theatre Women presented the 2019 Theatre Women Awards at The Sheen Center. The ceremony was hosted by Nancy Giles and awards were presented to Graciela Daniele (Lifetime Achievement Award), May Adrales (Josephine Abady Award), Mari Lyn Henry (LPTW Special Award), the founding members of The Kilroys (LPTW Lucille Lortel Visionary Award), Mimi Lien (Ruth Morley Award), Joanne Pottlitzer (LPTW Special Award), Natasha Sinha (LPTW Lucille Lortel Award), and Karen Zacarías (Lee Reynolds Award).…
Find out more »Julia’s Reading Room: GRANDMA SOUP!
Thursday, March 28th 6-8PM Grand Central Library 135 East 46th Street Between Third & Lexington Avenues 2nd Floor, Teen Center Grandma Soup! A Brand New Solo Play By LPTW Member Amy Oestreicher Directed by LPTW Member Shellen Lubin When a simple celebration brings Shayna Tazler to tears, Abigail seeks to understand her grandmother's journey to America. When nobody can tell her why Grandma Shayna is in a hospital, Abigail attempts to piece together a puzzle, learning of her grandmother's…
Find out more »2019 Equal Pay Day Rally
Tuesday, April 2nd 12-1PM City Hall Park Broadway, New York, NY Entrance at the intersection of Park Row & Spruce Street We need stronger laws, fairer wages, better jobs, and more inclusive workplaces. In New York, for every $1.00 full-time working white males make, full-time working women make less. Asian women earn 83 cents, White women: 81 cents, Black women: 65 cents, Latinas: 56 cents, and Native American women: 62 cents. And, NY moms earn 80 cents compared to all…
Find out more »Julia’s Reading Room: PRO BONO
Thursday, April 25th 6-8PM Grand Central Library 135 East 46th Street Between Third & Lexington Avenues 2nd Floor, Teen Center Pro Bono By LPTW Member Natalie Bates Directed by Catherine Siracusa Pro Bono focuses on an attorney faced with two cases that shake her conscience and her sense of family loyalty to their foundations. Pressured by her sister to pull strings to get child-pornography charges dropped against her college-grad nephew, Elena puts her reputation on the line with disastrous…
Find out more »Annual Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 27th Doors Open: 10:30AM Meeting Begins: 11AM Ripley Grier 305 West 38th Street, Room 311 Between 8th & 9th Avenues PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A NEW BUILDING This year's meeting will include an important sexual harassment training for all LPTW Board Members & Committee Co-Chairs. This training is mandated by New York State and all members are welcome and encouraged to participate! If you are in an LPTW leadership position, we ask that you please prioritize attending this event…
Find out more »Oral History: Six-time Emmy and Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh in Conversation with Linda Winer
Monday, May 6th 6PM The Bruno Walter Auditorium New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Corner of 65th Street & Amsterdam Avenue The LPTW Oral History Project is produced by Ludovica Villar-Hauser in association with Sophia Romma. This program is made possible by major support from the Edith Meiser Foundation, and in part, with funds from the NYS Council on the Arts, a state agency, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Tovah Feldshuh…
Find out more »LPTW Theatre Connections: Atlantic Theater Company
Atlantic Theater Company Administrative Office & Rehearsal Space 76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 537 Inside of the Google Building (Between West 15th & 16th Streets) CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Deadline: Register by Thursday, May 9th Theatre Connections is a program designed to help our members build bridges and gain insights into the active producing organizations that generously collaborate in this project with a positive, forward-looking agenda. LPTW members will meet with the leadership of the Atlantic Theater Company to learn first-hand…
Find out more »On Her Shoulders: The Woman Hater by Frances Burney
Join Us for our next ON HER SHOULDERS presentation! Tuesday, May 21st Doors Open: 6:45PM Program Begins: 7PM The New School Starr Foundation Hall, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room UL102 On Her Shoulders is pleased to present The Woman Hater by Frances Burney. Burney's plays were lost until 1945, when the NY Public Library acquired her papers. Written circa 1800, The Woman Hater has been characterized as "the missing link between Sheridan and Wilde", and shares its title with the 1607 play by Francis Beaumont and…
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