NYCPlaywrights August 2, 2025
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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
BROADWAY IN BATTERY PARK CITY
Broadway stars Ana Gasteyer, Darlesia Cearcy, Richard Kind, Ethan Slater, Tamkia Lawrence, Mary Louise Parker, and more bring the bright lights of Broadway to Battery Park City with a one-night-only concert featuring showtunes that celebrate the Big Apple.
Part of the Welcome Back, Wagner Park! collection
The bright lights of Broadway come to Battery Park City with a one-night-only concert
September 6 at 7:30PM
20 Battery Place New York, NY 10280
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadway-in-battery-park-city-tickets-1400292234769?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
American Bard Theater Company is opening its second Playwright Invitational.
We are seeking full length plays for consideration for our Corner Stone Reading Series. These readings will be free and open to the public, with required reservations.
This invitational will focus on works by female and female-presenting playwrights.
***
Lumos Players Second Annual Playwrights Script Reading Season for 2026 - hear your script read aloud and receive constructive, thoughtful feedback in a supportive community of theater artists. Whether you’ve written a 10-minute play, a one-act, a full-length, a musical, a comedy, a drama—or something in between.
***
In the spirit of Windmill Arts’ effort to create and advance new work, Windmill Arts Production presents blueprint, a short play & film festival running April 16-19, 2026 at Windmill Arts.
The festival is open to any new, unproduced short plays & films.
Beginner to seasoned writers are welcome to submit their plays for production consideration.
Windmill Arts Production will provide a producer, director, actor(s) and technical support for all selected short plays
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PUBLIC BROADCASTING & THEATER ***
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS, announced on Friday that it is beginning to wind down its operations given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.
The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last month that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion rescissions package requested by the White House that also included cuts to foreign aid. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money for the following budget year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.
MORE...
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump
***
Great Performances
Broadway on PBS
Find your front row seat at home and watch acclaimed Broadway productions, from Noël Coward’s Present Laughter to 42nd Street.
Girl from the North Country
Experience this musical by Conor McPherson featuring the music of Bob Dylan set in 1934 Minnesota. (2h 13m 31s)
MORE...
https://www.pbs.org/show/great-performances/collections/broadway-pbs/
***
PBS Learning Media: Theater
Discover the world of Theater with lesson plans, videos, interactive activities, and more. High school students will get an inside look at the life of a theater actor as they complete a four-square graphic organizer and watch a video in the lesson plan, "John Leguizamo's Tales From a Ghetto Klown - An Actor's Life." Younger students will explore what it means to be a playwright and come to know the different aspects of a script through the interactive, "Job Play: Playwright." Many theater classics, such as August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Shakespeare’s Otello, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, are presented with lesson plans and teacher and student support materials. Theater styles, the history of theater, and theater in world cultures are a few of the additional topics explored in Theater.
Twelfth Night: Full Play | Shakespeare in the Schools
Arizona Opera | Art in the 48
Stage Readings of Literature: The Spirit Elopement | Expressions
MORE...
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/the-arts/theater/?rank_by=recency
***
If you love theater and all things Broadway, there’s no place like THIRTEEN as we raise the curtain on Broadway and Beyond (thirteen.org/broadway), our must-see theater and arts programming premiering on-air, online, and YouTube. This annual lineup coincides with Great Performances receiving a 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, which recognizes our series’ contributions to the Broadway industry!
The special spring programming collection includes Great Performances’ “Broadway’s Best” episodes which stream for a limited time following each premiere date on THIRTEEN, pbs.org/gperf, and the THIRTEEN and PBS apps.
MORE...
https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/broadway-beyond-theater-public-media/
***
Theater Talk is devoted to the world of the stage. It is hosted by series Executive Producer Susan Haskins-Doloff and guest hosts including Adam Feldman of Time Out New York, Jesse Green and Jason Zinoman of The New York Times, Donna Hanover of Arts in the City, playwright Warren Leight, Michael Musto of NewNowNext.com, Jan Simpson of Broadway Radio, Elisabeth Vincentelli of 3 on The Aisle.
https://www.pbs.org/show/theater-talk/
***
Crash Course Theater
Welcome to Crash Course Theater! Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! We learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together.
https://www.pbs.org/show/crash-course-theater/
***
Bill Nye on corporation for PBS shutting down following Trump funding cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOk01IMVQM
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
BROADWAY IN BATTERY PARK CITY
Broadway stars Ana Gasteyer, Darlesia Cearcy, Richard Kind, Ethan Slater, Tamkia Lawrence, Mary Louise Parker, and more bring the bright lights of Broadway to Battery Park City with a one-night-only concert featuring showtunes that celebrate the Big Apple.
Part of the Welcome Back, Wagner Park! collection
The bright lights of Broadway come to Battery Park City with a one-night-only concert
September 6 at 7:30PM
20 Battery Place New York, NY 10280
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/broadway-in-battery-park-city-tickets-1400292234769?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
American Bard Theater Company is opening its second Playwright Invitational.
We are seeking full length plays for consideration for our Corner Stone Reading Series. These readings will be free and open to the public, with required reservations.
This invitational will focus on works by female and female-presenting playwrights.
***
Lumos Players Second Annual Playwrights Script Reading Season for 2026 - hear your script read aloud and receive constructive, thoughtful feedback in a supportive community of theater artists. Whether you’ve written a 10-minute play, a one-act, a full-length, a musical, a comedy, a drama—or something in between.
***
In the spirit of Windmill Arts’ effort to create and advance new work, Windmill Arts Production presents blueprint, a short play & film festival running April 16-19, 2026 at Windmill Arts.
The festival is open to any new, unproduced short plays & films.
Beginner to seasoned writers are welcome to submit their plays for production consideration.
Windmill Arts Production will provide a producer, director, actor(s) and technical support for all selected short plays
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** PUBLIC BROADCASTING & THEATER ***
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS, announced on Friday that it is beginning to wind down its operations given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.
The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last month that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion rescissions package requested by the White House that also included cuts to foreign aid. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money for the following budget year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.
MORE...
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5489808/cpb-shut-down-public-broadcasting-trump
***
Great Performances
Broadway on PBS
Find your front row seat at home and watch acclaimed Broadway productions, from Noël Coward’s Present Laughter to 42nd Street.
Girl from the North Country
Experience this musical by Conor McPherson featuring the music of Bob Dylan set in 1934 Minnesota. (2h 13m 31s)
MORE...
https://www.pbs.org/show/great-performances/collections/broadway-pbs/
***
PBS Learning Media: Theater
Discover the world of Theater with lesson plans, videos, interactive activities, and more. High school students will get an inside look at the life of a theater actor as they complete a four-square graphic organizer and watch a video in the lesson plan, "John Leguizamo's Tales From a Ghetto Klown - An Actor's Life." Younger students will explore what it means to be a playwright and come to know the different aspects of a script through the interactive, "Job Play: Playwright." Many theater classics, such as August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Shakespeare’s Otello, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, are presented with lesson plans and teacher and student support materials. Theater styles, the history of theater, and theater in world cultures are a few of the additional topics explored in Theater.
Twelfth Night: Full Play | Shakespeare in the Schools
Arizona Opera | Art in the 48
Stage Readings of Literature: The Spirit Elopement | Expressions
MORE...
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/the-arts/theater/?rank_by=recency
***
If you love theater and all things Broadway, there’s no place like THIRTEEN as we raise the curtain on Broadway and Beyond (thirteen.org/broadway), our must-see theater and arts programming premiering on-air, online, and YouTube. This annual lineup coincides with Great Performances receiving a 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, which recognizes our series’ contributions to the Broadway industry!
The special spring programming collection includes Great Performances’ “Broadway’s Best” episodes which stream for a limited time following each premiere date on THIRTEEN, pbs.org/gperf, and the THIRTEEN and PBS apps.
MORE...
https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/broadway-beyond-theater-public-media/
***
Theater Talk is devoted to the world of the stage. It is hosted by series Executive Producer Susan Haskins-Doloff and guest hosts including Adam Feldman of Time Out New York, Jesse Green and Jason Zinoman of The New York Times, Donna Hanover of Arts in the City, playwright Warren Leight, Michael Musto of NewNowNext.com, Jan Simpson of Broadway Radio, Elisabeth Vincentelli of 3 on The Aisle.
https://www.pbs.org/show/theater-talk/
***
Crash Course Theater
Welcome to Crash Course Theater! Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! We learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together.
https://www.pbs.org/show/crash-course-theater/
***
Bill Nye on corporation for PBS shutting down following Trump funding cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOk01IMVQM
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