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As part of the Board of Directors of MTWorks I’m really proud to be involved with the National Newborn Festival. Part of my job was to help choose the Excellence in Playwriting Award (see below for the winner!) and this year I’ll be introducing one of the plays — but I won’t tell you which [...]

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These women of the arts hail from different disciplines, but they all have an indomitable spirit and a luminescent spark that makes them amazing human beings who are out there every day, doing amazing work. Today we continue our series with Dev Bondarin. Like so many dedicated theatre women whose role is behind the scenes [...]

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These women of the arts hail from different disciplines, but they all have an indomitable spirit and a luminescent spark that makes them amazing human beings who are out there every day, doing amazing work. Today we continue our series with Alex Bond – a woman I’ve had the pleasure to experience in many ways [...]

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The National Newborn Festival: Celebrating Emerging Playwrights In Style

by Diánna Martin January 28, 2011 Event

The National Newborn Festival has become, over the last four years, one of the premiere playwriting festivals in the country for emerging playwrights. A flagship program created and produced by MTWorks, an ever-growing, non-profit theatre company, Newborn allows playwrights to have a work never produced in New York be read in a festival setting. Free [...]

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Last Looks At The Happiest Medium In 3-D – Pull Your Glasses Out

by Stephen Tortora-Lee November 21, 2010 Art

For those of you who attended the Happiest Medium’s 1st Anniversary Party (in 3-D) you may have seen these slide shows already. They feature the great performers we had there, and some of their upcoming projects. Here is the main slide show with the normal as well as 3-D-ified images that will jump out at [...]

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Planet Connections Q&A: Good Lonely People

by Diánna Martin June 8, 2010 Festivals

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York City’s premiere eco-friendly theatre festival, connecting artists and audiences with diverse dynamic charitable organizations. The Planet Connections experience entertains, enlightens and informs. This Summer I was quite fortunate to be able to direct a play for one of my favorite theatre companies, MTWorks, who hired me to direct [...]

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Win Tickets To Barrier Island

by The Happiest Medium April 14, 2010 Deals

Keep reading for a chance to win tickets . . . Related Posts:The National Newborn Festival: Celebrating Emerging Playwrights In StyleSmall Town, Big Show – “Barrier Island”Ever Seen A “NewBorn” Play? (Part 1)A Day In The Life … “The Family Shakespeare” By The NumbersWomen’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On Dev [...]

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Ever Seen A “NewBorn” Play? (Part 1)

by Antonio Miniño January 13, 2010 Event

Developed 3 years ago, The National NewBorn Festival is the flagship program of a non-profit theater company very dear to me, Maieutic Theatre Works; or as we like to call it MTWorks – that way we don’t have to get into the whole “Maieutic is pronounced /meɪˈjuːtɪks/”. New plays that have yet to receive a [...]

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Jumping Into The Fringe with Daniel McCoy (Fringe Festival 2009)

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 1, 2009 Festivals

Unless you’ve been living outside of New York City for the last decade or so, chances are you’ve either attended a Fringe show yourself, or you’ve at least heard about the festival.  ”Fringe”, of course, means The New York International Fringe Festival and it is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than [...]

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“The Oath” Will Have You Testifying

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 28, 2009 Manhattan

Take a preacher looking for a flock, a flock looking for a preacher, one “Good” sister, one “Bad” sister, a snooty churchwoman trying to bring down a house of cards and a housekeeper who’d give Alice a run for her money, set it all in the dry, hot Dust Bowl of Depression-Era Florida and you’ve [...]

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