Nights on Broadway benefiting The New School for Drama
Please join Robert LuPone and The New School for Drama for Nights on Broadway! Your choice of tickets to Finian’s Rainbow, The Addams Family and a celebrity reading.
Click here to download the subscription form. Or contact Dramaevents@newschool.edu with questions.
Finian’s Rainbow
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7:00 pm
A lush core of beloved standards and a whimsical story that dances between romance, satire and fairy tale. This is an expanded version of the production that won rave upon rave at City Center’s Encores! series.
Starring Cheyenne Jackson, Jim Norton, Kate Baldwin, and Christopher Fitzgerald.
St. James Theatre
246 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Center Orchestra Seating
Tickets $125 each ($115 per ticket Fair Market Value)
Subject to cast availability we will hold a private talk back following the performance
The Addams Family
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 8:00 pm
The creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky family haunts Broadway in a hilarious new musical.
Starring Nathan Lane as Gomez, Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandmama, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Wesley Taylor as Lucas Beineke and Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
205 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
Center Orchestra Seating
Tickets $175 each ($126 per ticket Fair Market Value)
Subject to cast availability we will hold a private talk back following the performance
New Play Reading (Spring 2010 TBA)
A private reading for our guests at the Lucille Lortel Theatre hosted by MCC Theater co-artistic director and director for the New School for Drama, Robert LuPone. Reception with the cast to follow reading. More details will follow soon.
The Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014
Click here to download the subscription form. Or contact Dramaevents@newschool.edu with questions.
Alumni News
Visit the Drama Class Notes page to see what the Drama Alumni are up to.
On Facebook? Keep connected and up-to-date by joining and posting to The New School for Drama Fanpage!
SEE WHAT'S PLAYING with the Drama Alumni Play Development Project.
Visit the Alumni Relations page for more details.
Read the latest edition of the Alumni newsletter.
Alumni News: Spring 2009 [PDF | 490KB]
Alumni News: Fall 2008 [PDF | 1.19MB]
PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download.
Calling All Alumni!
Do you have news to share? Are you working on a new project? Celebrating your marriage or the birth of a child? Please send your news to Robert Hoyt at hoytr@newschool.edu or:
Robert Hoyt
Director of Professional Development
The New School for Drama
151 Bank Street
New York, NY 10014
Moving? Please keep your contact information up-to-date by sending your current mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address to alumni@newschool.edu. Stay in touch to receive alerts about upcoming events and opportunities to network with other alumni and professionals in theater, television, and film.
For more information, visit The New School Alumni & Friends page.
DRAMA ALUMNI THEATER COMPANIES & INDUSTRY AFFILIATIONS
A listing of Drama Alumni professional affiliations, with company descriptions and website links.
Alumni Theater Companies [PDF | 36.9KB]
DRAMA ALUMNI ALLIANCE
The Drama Alumni Alliance is a group of graduates that serves as a resource for the Alumni body, creating social opportunities, facilitating networking opportunities, industry contacts and professional development. The Alliance is focused on maintaining an Alumni community in which the graduates of various years can communicate and work together.
The Alliance meets four times each academic year and is open to all graduates. If you are interested in participating, please contact Robert Hoyt, Director of Professional Development, at 212-229-5859 x2630 or hoytr@newschool.edu.
DRAMA ALUMNI PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
This project is a playreading workshop lab where plays submitted by Alumni Playwrights are directed in staged readings by Alumni Directors with Alumni Actors for an audience of Alumni and invited guests. This creative workshop lab experience provides an opportunity for Alumni Playwrights to evaluate and further develop new work with the support of an Alumni Director and Alumni cast, with feedback from an interested, invested Alumni audience; Alumni Directors are introduced to fresh, new Playwright voices and talent; and Alumni Actors are provided with additional performance opportunities and introductions – the networking possibilities are limitless.
In addition to providing a forum for the creation of new work, an outcome is to have the workshopped plays move beyond the lab: to be produced by an existing Alumni company or independently; to have the script ready for submission to a theater by the Playwright; or entered for festival consideration.
After this workshop period and additional, full rehearsal, the play will be ready for public performance, providing a performance opportunity for all artists involved, as well as a networking opportunity to cultivate industry interest in their work in their respective fields.
The Project is ongoing with a call for Playwright submissions each fall; relationships with Directors and the casting for Actors follow shortly thereafter.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Robert Hoyt, Director of Professional Development, at 212-229-5859 x2630 or hoytr@newschool.edu.
DRAMA ALUMNI PLAYWRIGHT LAB
The Drama Alumni Playwright Lab is a development and support organization for all Alumni Playwrights. Participation is open, flexible, and on an ‘as-needed’ basis, based on each individual Playwright’s need.
All interested Playwrights meet as a bi-weekly/monthly group, guided by a Lab Team Leader (an Alumni volunteer). As a group, they will aid each other in the development of a project by reading pages aloud and offering analytic response. Feedback is tailored to the needs of the writer and the stage of development of the piece. The Lab culminates in a table reading of the work, on a rotating scheduled determined by the Lab participants and trusted ears whose presence the Playwright requests. The Lab Team Leader facilitates valuable feedback with the Playwrights involved.
The Lab can also lead into the Alumni Play Development Project, allowing the Playwrights to hear their play read by Alumni Actors, helmed by an Alumni Director, in a safe environment whenever and as often as they need to hear a draft, leading to further development, and the possibility of a fully-staged reading for an audience and industry, and possible realized production.
This Lab work also serves as a social and networking experience designed to encourage a system of support. This opportunity creates a valuable community among fellow writers, helping to alleviate the isolation of the writing process and facilitating the sharing of experiences, fears and ambitions. As each Alumni Playwright has new readings, workshops, and productions, the process will provide a forum for the sharing of writing techniques, collaborators, presenters and developmental procedures. The primary intention of the Lab experience is to provide a network of support for Alumni Playwrights to write and receive feedback in a safe environment, with an ideal outcome for the work to exist outside of the Lab – whether it moves on to the Alumni Play Development Project, theater submission or subsequent production.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Robert Hoyt, Director of Professional Development, at 212-229-5859 x2630 or hoytr@newschool.edu.