Due to critical acclaim and strong ticket sales, the Second Stage Theatre’s production of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-Winning drama WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Dramatists Guild Council member Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Davis McCallum, will extend two weeks through February 10^th at Second Stage Theatre (305 W 43^rd Street).  Second Stage’s next production, Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, will begin previews on March 7.

Tickets are $75 and may be purchased by phoning 212-246-4422 or online at www.2ST.com.

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New York, NY – It was announced today that, due to popular demand, Grammy® Award-winning superstar (and Dramatists Guild member) Barry Manilow’s hometown concert event, Manilow On Broadway, has added two additional weeks of performances and will now play through Saturday, February 23, 2013. The iconic performer will begin this limited Broadway engagement on Friday evening, January 18, 2013, at the St. James Theatre (246 West 44^th Street). Opening Night is set for Thursday, January 24, 2013.

Manilow’s roots remain in his native Brooklyn, where music was an integral part of his life. By the age of seven, he was taking accordion lessons and playing on a neighbor’s piano. Choosing a career in music while still in his teens, he attended New York College of Music and the Juilliard School of Music while working in the mailroom at CBS. He subsequently became musical director for a CBS show named “Callback” (the predecessor to “American Idol”) which led to a lucrative sideline on New York’s advertising jingle circuit.

Tickets, ranging in price from $50 to $350, are now on sale. For tickets, please visit www.ManilowOnBroadway.com or call (212) 239-6200 / (800) 432-7250. Barry Manilow Fan Club tickets are available now at www.manilow.com and by calling (310) 957-5788. Citi® cardmembers will have access to preferred tickets and exclusive VIP packages through Citi’s Private Pass® program  (details at www.citiprivatepass.com).

Dear colleagues,
 
NoPassport invites dramatists, storytellers and poets to send work in the 3-7 minute range and take part in a Theatre Action for weekend of January 26-28, 2013 (to coincide with the March on Washington for Gun Control). The pieces must be sent by January 15, 2013 to nopassport2013forguncontrol@gmail.com and able to be read/performed script in hand, no frills.
 
In DC: Theater J in D.C. has offered to collaborate with NoPassport and host an after-show event at 5 PM on January 26, 2013 after their performance of BOGED (Traitor): An Enemy of the People at Georgetown University’s Gonda Theatre where writers, actors and storytellers can read from their work.
 
On the national level: NoPassport invites practitioners and theatre venues (professional, academic or otherwise) to join us in this theatre action. Please let us know if you wish to take part and collaborate with us in some way.
 
On the global level: NoPassport recognizes all too well that gun control is not merely a US issue, but affects all of us. If your local company wishes to join us in this action, do let us know.
 
Basic information about this theatre action for January 2013 will be live on www.nopassport.org by 5 January 2013. 
 
 Please feel free to forward this call to your colleagues.
 
Best
 
Caridad Svich
playwright, founder, NoPassport theatre alliance & press
@Csvich on Twitter 

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“In Part Three of the Artistic Authority Blog Series, we will be hearing from playwrights Dael Orlandersmith, J.T. Rogers, Najla Saïd, Betty Shamieh, Stew, Caridad Svich, Naomi Wallace, Allison Warden, and Rhiana Yazzie. Of course, this article was originally printed in the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of The Dramatist, the journal of the Dramatist Guild of America, Inc. Please enjoy!”

Read all of Part One of Three of Jacqueline’s excellent post here: http://www.jacquelinelawton.com

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John Weidman on “What Guild Membership Means To Me” from The Last Page of the Jan/Feb 2013 issue of The Dramatist. Illustration by Dan Romer.

“As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I reached out to my friend and fellow playwright, Kia Corthron to see if she would contribute to my ongoing blog series about Diversity and Inclusion, which can be read here and here.  She was excited about the series and wanted to share an article that she had written for the Dramatist Guild’s The Dramatist magazine called, The Ethics of Ethnic, which brilliantly addresses the issue of artistic authority. In it, Kia asks colleagues to participate because she felt ‘there were as many different answers to my questions about artistic authority as there were playwrights.’”

Read Part Two of Three of Jacqueline’s excellent post here: http://www.jacquelinelawton.com

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“Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is on my list of movies to see along with Lincoln and Sky Fall. Others, such as Anna Karenina and Les Miserables have fallen off the list for one reason or another. Regardless, I won’t being seeing any of these films in the movie theatre. I don’t enjoy that particular experience: fighting to hear/concentrate over talking; the crink-crink-crinkling of candy wrappers; the tap-tap-tapping of candy boxes; and the inundating smell of popcorn…” Read all of Part One of Three of Jacqueline’s excellent post here: http://www.jacquelinelawton.com

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