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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Breakfast on Broadway: FAT HAM
A creative conversation on the upcoming play, FAT HAM with: Saheem Ali (Director), Rashad Chambers (Producer), James Ijames (Writer), Jonathan McCrory (National Black Theatre).
FAT HAM, the deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, comes to Broadway following a critically acclaimed, sold-out run co-produced by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre. Playwright James Ijames and Director Saheem Ali reinvent Shakespeare’s masterpiece, creating what The New York Times calls “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy.”
Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. But here’s the rub! Revenge doesn’t come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
Tue, February 28, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Museum of Broadway 145 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breakfast-on-broadway-fat-ham-tickets-558771228787
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
Biennially, The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory produces Brave New Works. This festival provides theater professionals and students with the space and resources to conduct creative experimentation, create new works for the stage, and test the dramatic product on an audience. For three weeks, the Brave New Works festival of new and evolving plays gives playwrights a laboratory to work with a director and actors, revise and rewrite their scripts, and share the results with members of the Emory and Atlanta community.
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Writers wanted for the 7th annual Full Stack new writing competition, our yearly invite to writers experienced and new to get out their keyboards and start a-tapping! We’re looking for short scripts for an anthology show in the summer, so please get your thinking caps on, we want to see your fantastic ideas. Successful pieces will be included in our summer show.
***
Studio Players 10th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
This competition is for 10-minute plays only; it is open to any playwright. There is NO submission fee, NO production fee. The judges will be members of the Studio Players theatre community: board members, directors, and patrons.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PARADE VS. NAZIS ***
Parade tells the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man in Georgia. Frank was a factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering 13-year-old worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was consistent in proclaiming his innocence, and the prosecution focused its case on testimony of factory janitor, Jim Conley. (Historians widely believe Conley was the actual murderer, as he was seen washing blood of his shirt.) Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
Antisemitism marred the entire trial. Historian Leonard Dinnerstein writes that one juror said before jury selection: "I am glad they indicted the God damn Jew. They ought to take him out and lynch him. And if I get on that jury, I’ll hang that Jew for sure." Frank was sentenced to death.
More...
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a43022887/parade-on-broadway-neo-nazi-protest/
***
Theatregoers were antagonized Tuesday night by antisemitic protesters outside the revival of the Broadway musical "Parade," which aims to shed light on that very issue.
As CBS2 found out, the protest only fueled determination that the show must go on.
As the cast of the musical bowed for its first curtain call, outside before the show, it was a much different story.
Video shows self-proclaimed "Neo-Nazis" walking down the ticket line mocking patrons for attending the musical, and trying to hand them antisemitic materials.
The musical dramatizes the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of murder and lynched by a mob in Georgia in the early 1900s.
More...
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/patrons-of-broadway-musical-parade-targeted-by-neo-nazis/
***
In a video recorded by a bystander that was posted to Twitter, the demonstrators are seen and heard targeting Frank and the Anti-Defamation League, a group fighting antisemitism that was founded in the aftermath of Frank’s conviction. Some of them stood by a banner advertising the National Socialist Movement. One masked protester handed out fliers that promoted a separate group with neo-Nazi symbols and told people outside the theater that they were about to “worship a pedophile.”
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/theater/parade-broadway-neo-nazi-protest.html
***
The protesters, who identified with the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group headquartered in Florida that has a swastika in its logo, carried a poster that accused Frank of being a pedophile, according to videos shared from the incident. That allegation is frequently made by neo-Nazis who reject the consensus that Frank was innocent of the crime. They see the advocacy on his behalf as evidence of Jewish control of the media, a longstanding antisemitic trope.
More...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazis-rally-outside-broadway-preview-of-parade-show-about-antisemitic-murder/
***
Mayor Adams addressed the audience of a Broadway show recently targeted by antisemitic protests.
The mayor made his remarks before a performance of the musical "Parade", which is based on a Jewish man wrongly convicted of rape and murder.
The show stars Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, who are both Jewish.
This week, antisemitic protestors stood outside the show.
Adams' message served as a way to show his support for the cast and say there is no place for hate.
"We have the largest Jewish population outside of Tel Aviv. And when you come out and really cross-pollinate ideas and culture, that's the beauty and a symbol of New York City," the mayor said.
Meanwhile, the NYPD is on alert this weekend after Neo-Nazis called for a "National Day of Hate" for Saturday on social media.
https://abc7ny.com/parade-on-broadway-antisemitism-mayor-eric-adams-ben-platt/12870916/
***
The NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau (ICB) sent an internal “situational awareness alert” notice Feb. 23 warning it “recently observed online domestic violent extremist messaging announcing a national ‘day of hate’ scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.”
The internal police department notice said that “members of the service are advised to maintain elevated situational awareness on Feb. 25 for DVE [domestic violence extremist] activism in the form of biased, in-person acts around the city that might garner higher interest from these types of actors based on locations’ affiliations with certain religious or social communities.”
“Based on ICB observations of extremist postings online and at least one shared propaganda video on a social media platform, the anonymous organizers of this overtly racist, anti-Semitic event are instructing likeminded individuals to drop banners, place stickers and flyers or scrawl graffiti as a form of biased so-called activism.”
The internal notice also said that according to one video “organizers requested that participants in the ‘day of hate’ photograph or record direct actions and submit them online in order to create a compendium of of exploist from around the country.”
It came only days after a handful of members of a neo Nazi group known as the National Socialist Movement, had targeted the play “Parade” that was in previews on Broadway. The play concerns a Jewish American named Leo Frank who in 1915 was falsely accused of being a pedophile and then tried and convicted of the murder of a 13 year old girl. The trial fueled anti-semitic violence and he was subsequently lynched by a mob.
More...
https://www.ourtownny.com/news/nypd-steps-up-security-after-extremist-chatter-about-national-day-of-hate-FX2415474
***
For the veteran playwright Alfred Uhry, the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was hastily convicted of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl more than a century ago in Atlanta, has long been a source of morbid fascination.
“The story,” he told Jewish Insider, “has haunted me all my life.”
So much so that Uhry, an Atlanta native who has explored his Southern Jewish roots in several plays over the years, ultimately chose to dramatize Frank’s infamous case in a chillingly rendered musical, “Parade,” that briefly debuted in 1998 and is now returning to the stage in a highly anticipated Broadway revival, set to premiere next month.
The show, which previously won two Tony Awards, centers on the relationship between Frank and his wife, Lucille, as he finds himself scapegoated through a fatal miscarriage of justice so egregiously antisemitic that it would precipitate the creation of the Anti-Defamation League. Decades after its initial run, the updated musical is no less timely, Uhry observed, amid a recent profusion of antisemitic attacks and conspiracy theories, which the decorated book writer hopes to expose with his revival.
“Unfortunately, it has a lot of resonance right now because all of this antisemitism seems to be in the air,” Uhry, 86, said in a phone interview last month from his apartment on the Upper West Side. “It’s always burbling underneath, but it seems to be bubbling up right now — and this addresses that.”
More...
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/02/alfred-uhry-parade-broadway-leo-frank-antisemitism/
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Breakfast on Broadway: FAT HAM
A creative conversation on the upcoming play, FAT HAM with: Saheem Ali (Director), Rashad Chambers (Producer), James Ijames (Writer), Jonathan McCrory (National Black Theatre).
FAT HAM, the deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, comes to Broadway following a critically acclaimed, sold-out run co-produced by The Public Theater and National Black Theatre. Playwright James Ijames and Director Saheem Ali reinvent Shakespeare’s masterpiece, creating what The New York Times calls “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy.”
Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. But here’s the rub! Revenge doesn’t come easy to Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man in search of his own happiness and liberation. From an uproarious family cookout emerges a compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
Tue, February 28, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Museum of Broadway 145 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breakfast-on-broadway-fat-ham-tickets-558771228787
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
Biennially, The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory produces Brave New Works. This festival provides theater professionals and students with the space and resources to conduct creative experimentation, create new works for the stage, and test the dramatic product on an audience. For three weeks, the Brave New Works festival of new and evolving plays gives playwrights a laboratory to work with a director and actors, revise and rewrite their scripts, and share the results with members of the Emory and Atlanta community.
***
Writers wanted for the 7th annual Full Stack new writing competition, our yearly invite to writers experienced and new to get out their keyboards and start a-tapping! We’re looking for short scripts for an anthology show in the summer, so please get your thinking caps on, we want to see your fantastic ideas. Successful pieces will be included in our summer show.
***
Studio Players 10th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
This competition is for 10-minute plays only; it is open to any playwright. There is NO submission fee, NO production fee. The judges will be members of the Studio Players theatre community: board members, directors, and patrons.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PARADE VS. NAZIS ***
Parade tells the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man in Georgia. Frank was a factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering 13-year-old worker Mary Phagan in 1913. Frank was consistent in proclaiming his innocence, and the prosecution focused its case on testimony of factory janitor, Jim Conley. (Historians widely believe Conley was the actual murderer, as he was seen washing blood of his shirt.) Frank's housekeeper placed him at home at the time of the murder.
Antisemitism marred the entire trial. Historian Leonard Dinnerstein writes that one juror said before jury selection: "I am glad they indicted the God damn Jew. They ought to take him out and lynch him. And if I get on that jury, I’ll hang that Jew for sure." Frank was sentenced to death.
More...
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a43022887/parade-on-broadway-neo-nazi-protest/
***
Theatregoers were antagonized Tuesday night by antisemitic protesters outside the revival of the Broadway musical "Parade," which aims to shed light on that very issue.
As CBS2 found out, the protest only fueled determination that the show must go on.
As the cast of the musical bowed for its first curtain call, outside before the show, it was a much different story.
Video shows self-proclaimed "Neo-Nazis" walking down the ticket line mocking patrons for attending the musical, and trying to hand them antisemitic materials.
The musical dramatizes the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was wrongly convicted of murder and lynched by a mob in Georgia in the early 1900s.
More...
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/patrons-of-broadway-musical-parade-targeted-by-neo-nazis/
***
In a video recorded by a bystander that was posted to Twitter, the demonstrators are seen and heard targeting Frank and the Anti-Defamation League, a group fighting antisemitism that was founded in the aftermath of Frank’s conviction. Some of them stood by a banner advertising the National Socialist Movement. One masked protester handed out fliers that promoted a separate group with neo-Nazi symbols and told people outside the theater that they were about to “worship a pedophile.”
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/theater/parade-broadway-neo-nazi-protest.html
***
The protesters, who identified with the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group headquartered in Florida that has a swastika in its logo, carried a poster that accused Frank of being a pedophile, according to videos shared from the incident. That allegation is frequently made by neo-Nazis who reject the consensus that Frank was innocent of the crime. They see the advocacy on his behalf as evidence of Jewish control of the media, a longstanding antisemitic trope.
More...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazis-rally-outside-broadway-preview-of-parade-show-about-antisemitic-murder/
***
Mayor Adams addressed the audience of a Broadway show recently targeted by antisemitic protests.
The mayor made his remarks before a performance of the musical "Parade", which is based on a Jewish man wrongly convicted of rape and murder.
The show stars Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, who are both Jewish.
This week, antisemitic protestors stood outside the show.
Adams' message served as a way to show his support for the cast and say there is no place for hate.
"We have the largest Jewish population outside of Tel Aviv. And when you come out and really cross-pollinate ideas and culture, that's the beauty and a symbol of New York City," the mayor said.
Meanwhile, the NYPD is on alert this weekend after Neo-Nazis called for a "National Day of Hate" for Saturday on social media.
https://abc7ny.com/parade-on-broadway-antisemitism-mayor-eric-adams-ben-platt/12870916/
***
The NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau (ICB) sent an internal “situational awareness alert” notice Feb. 23 warning it “recently observed online domestic violent extremist messaging announcing a national ‘day of hate’ scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.”
The internal police department notice said that “members of the service are advised to maintain elevated situational awareness on Feb. 25 for DVE [domestic violence extremist] activism in the form of biased, in-person acts around the city that might garner higher interest from these types of actors based on locations’ affiliations with certain religious or social communities.”
“Based on ICB observations of extremist postings online and at least one shared propaganda video on a social media platform, the anonymous organizers of this overtly racist, anti-Semitic event are instructing likeminded individuals to drop banners, place stickers and flyers or scrawl graffiti as a form of biased so-called activism.”
The internal notice also said that according to one video “organizers requested that participants in the ‘day of hate’ photograph or record direct actions and submit them online in order to create a compendium of of exploist from around the country.”
It came only days after a handful of members of a neo Nazi group known as the National Socialist Movement, had targeted the play “Parade” that was in previews on Broadway. The play concerns a Jewish American named Leo Frank who in 1915 was falsely accused of being a pedophile and then tried and convicted of the murder of a 13 year old girl. The trial fueled anti-semitic violence and he was subsequently lynched by a mob.
More...
https://www.ourtownny.com/news/nypd-steps-up-security-after-extremist-chatter-about-national-day-of-hate-FX2415474
***
For the veteran playwright Alfred Uhry, the trial and lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager who was hastily convicted of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl more than a century ago in Atlanta, has long been a source of morbid fascination.
“The story,” he told Jewish Insider, “has haunted me all my life.”
So much so that Uhry, an Atlanta native who has explored his Southern Jewish roots in several plays over the years, ultimately chose to dramatize Frank’s infamous case in a chillingly rendered musical, “Parade,” that briefly debuted in 1998 and is now returning to the stage in a highly anticipated Broadway revival, set to premiere next month.
The show, which previously won two Tony Awards, centers on the relationship between Frank and his wife, Lucille, as he finds himself scapegoated through a fatal miscarriage of justice so egregiously antisemitic that it would precipitate the creation of the Anti-Defamation League. Decades after its initial run, the updated musical is no less timely, Uhry observed, amid a recent profusion of antisemitic attacks and conspiracy theories, which the decorated book writer hopes to expose with his revival.
“Unfortunately, it has a lot of resonance right now because all of this antisemitism seems to be in the air,” Uhry, 86, said in a phone interview last month from his apartment on the Upper West Side. “It’s always burbling underneath, but it seems to be bubbling up right now — and this addresses that.”
More...
https://jewishinsider.com/2023/02/alfred-uhry-parade-broadway-leo-frank-antisemitism/
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