Raja Feather Kelly Will Make Playwriting Debut With The Fires
NEW YORK CITY | MARCH 29th, 2024 In 1971, 1998, and 2021, three different men in a South Brooklyn railroad apartment write, read, flirt, eat, and fight at the same time. Kelly will direct his own play with Dominique Rider serving as dramaturg.
The Bushwick Starr Announces SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE)
NEW YORK CITY | JANUARY 9TH, 2024 SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE) is an inventive, impressionistic new work that blurs the lines between personal and collective memory, refracting and reframing how we spectate in America.
The Civilians Reveals 13th Annual R&D Group
NEW YORK CITY | APRIL 5TH, 2023 The works developed by this year's R&D group will include The Single Raindrop by Zachariah Ezer and Dominique Rider.
Pascale Armand, Alana Raquel Bowers, Kristin Dodson, More to Star in Off-Broadway's Bernarda's Daughters
NEW YORK CITY | APRIL 5TH, 2023 Inspired by Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, the play takes on gentrification and social strife in New York.
A fascinating 1984 talk between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde will be reenacted in NYC
NEW YORK CITY | JANUARY 23TH, 2023 The conversation will be recreated in a version edited by award-winning author Claudia Rankine, performed by actors Russell G. Jones and Rosalyn Coleman, directed by Dominique Rider
The New Group's 2022-2023 Season to Feature Plays by Will Arbery, Diane Exavier, and Thomas Bradshaw
NEW YORK CITY | JUNE 15TH, 2022 Closing out Off-Broadway company's season will be Bernarda's Daughters by debuting playwright Diane Exavier. Dominique Rider will direct the world premiere in spring 2023 in the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre.
Audible Announces New Theatre Originals
NEW YORK CITY | MARCH 3RD, 2022 Lastly, Audible and The New Group co-production Bernarda's Daughters by Diane Exavier, and directed by Dominique Rider
Hi-ARTS Incubator Names New Cohort Of Artists-in-Residence
NEW YORK CITY | JANUARY 19TH, 2022 Zachariah Ezer and Dominique Rider are a duo in search of the narrative arc of the slave in the tryptic An Unclear World: Experiments in Afropessimism.
NY Philharmonic Announces Details of AUTHENTIC SELVES: THE BEAUTY WITHIN
NEW YORK CITY | DECEMBER 16TH, 2021 Beauty in the Abyss: An evening of performance and conversation curated by National Black Theatre, conceived and directed by Dominique Rider, and held at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Two River Theater Presents Crossing Borders (Cruzando Fronteras)
NEW JERSEY STAGE | SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021 Crossing Borders (Cruzando Fronteras) is an annual celebration of new plays and music by Latinx theater artists presented at Two River Theater.
Portland Center Stage Announces JAW Festival Lineup
AMERICAN THEATRE | JULY 19TH, 2021 The online and in-person fest will feature works from Inda Craig-Galván, Ty Defoe, Rinne Groff, and Kate Hamill.
Roundabout Theatre Company to Produce Works by Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, More as Part of Multi-Year 'Refocus Project'
PLAYBILL | MARCH 17, 2021 Created in collaboration with Black Theatre United, the initiative seeks to elevate and restore marginalized plays to the American canon.
NYC’s Roundabout Theatre Company to Feature Black Playwrights’ Works
WALL STREET JOURNAL | MARCH 17, 2021 Roundabout aims to bring wider attention to works considered classics in the Black theater community; will focus on Latinx playwrights in year two
Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater presents "A Past Becomes a Heritage: The Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project"
NEW JERSEY STAGE | MARCH 15, 2021 The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater at Princeton University will present A Past Becomes a Heritage: The Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project, an evening of play readings and a panel discussion in collaboration with New York City-based collective CLASSIX.
A New Partnership Engages Students with the Work of Little-Known Black Playwrights
LEWIS CENTER PRINCETON | MARCH 5, 2021 The work of Black playwrights Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson are often studied and performed in theater programs and professional theaters, but many other seminal Black playwrights have never been given the attention they deserve.
Brandon Victor Dixon, Chloë Sevigny, Donja R. Love, More Tapped to Present New Digital Works at The New Group
PLAYBILL | NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Edie Falco, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, and more will be featured in the diverse array of digital works.
Atlantic Theater Company Announces African Caribbean MixFest
AMERICAN THEATRE | DECEMBER 16, 2020 Guadalís Del Carmen and Kwame Kwei-Armah will co-produce this year’s virtual festival featuring Caribbean stories.
Artists Announced for the 2020 Prelude Festival
BROADWAY WORLD | OCTOBER 8, 2020 The festival will run from October 20 – October 30, 2020.
BRIC Expands and Reimagines Annual Artist Residency Programs
BRIC ARTS | AUGUST 26, 2020 The Leading Arts and Media Institution Shares 2020 Cohort for three of the four BRIClab Residency Tracks and Announces Launch of New BRIClab: Film + TV Residency Track
Roundabout Unveils Its Inaugural Directors Group
PLAYBILL | MAY 20, 2020 The cohort of 12 emerging directors first convened last fall, with a new group to be announced this summer.
NAMT Announces Directors Set for 31st Annual Festival of New Musicals
THEATER MANIA | SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 The festival will be held on October 24 and 25 at New World Stages.