| | LOTS OF GREAT OOB EVENTS IN OCTOBER
It's
the beginning of the season and there are a ton of exciting events
geared specifically for the Off-Off-Broadway community.
Community Dish Party
You are invited to Jimmy's No. 43 to get to know one another and hang out. Come on down for a beer or three...
WHO: Dish companies, friends, lovers, and others
WHEN: Friday, October 24th - 9pm to 1am
WHERE: Jimmy's No. 43 @ 43 East 7th Street, Downstairs
Free Night of Theatre
Free Night NYC invites you to explore Off and Off-Off Broadway! 8,000 FREE tickets to over 100 NYC theaters.
WHO: Theatre lovers
WHEN: October 16th - 31st
WHRE: All over NYC
There are still some tickets available. Check out their website for a schedule and details: | More OOB Performance Spaces are in Trouble
In
September the theatre companies that currently inhabit the Federal
Archive Building at 154 Christopher Street were informed that their
rents would be raised by as much at 500%.
The ousting of these
theatres is only the most recent in a very distressing trend that is
literally pushing theatre artists out of New York City.
Learn more... Here's what you can do...
Theatre for a New Audience Interborough Repertory Theater Epiphany Theatre | | CEREMONY PHOTOS NOW ONLINE Photos from the 2008 awards ceremony are now online. | | ONLY 12 DAYS LEFT
THE OOB SURVEY PROJECT; The Demographics Survey (for individuals) establishing demographic statistics for the individuals working OOB The New York Innovative Theatre Awards invites you to help us reach our study group goal of 6,000 participants by the end of October. And we're not there yet! To get involved in this groundbreaking research, you can take the survey now.
There are 17 quick questions and it only takes about 4 minutes to complete the easy online form.
Please take a moment now to help us reach this goal. And if you have taken it already, please encourage your friends and company members to do the same. | | Raul Hofer Torres Photography
$300 headshot package available for IT Members only includes: - 120 digital frames ($100 for next 50 frames)
- 2 images retourched/ready for mass production (color & black & white)
Bookings use code NYITA08 to take advantage of this deal. 347.453.1820 |  Sign Up for Actorfest!
Registration is now open for Actorfest! - Casting Sessions with representatives from: NBC, Telemundo, Nickelodeon, The N, and Telsey + Company. Intensives
- Master Series for directros and actors
- Focus Sessions for comedians and actors
- Workshops on auditioning, voiceovers and camera techniques
- Expert Panels on acting and directing
Registration is FREE! | | Share your performance space experience! We are working on a story about performances spaces for OOB. Fill out this quick online form and tell us about the good, the bad and the ugly spaces that you've performed in.
We know there are some juicy tales. Let us hear 'em.
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SPOTLIGHT ON Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution by Christopher Borg
You will see the work of several past IT Award nominees in Brooklyn at the venerable Brick Theater, as they present Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live! being
the necessary and appropriate response to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II's suppression of the freedoms and dignity of the European-American
settlers and their descendants in the Royal Eastern American Colonies
and the inordinate conferring of special favours and privileges on the
merciless Indian savages and the former Negro slaves, in the year Two
Thousand and Eight, a bouffon-inspired, satire-laced political fantasia. Written
by Robert Honeywell, Directed by Moira Stone, the play imagines an
America that lost the Revolutionary war and is under the thumb of the
British empire. At a "live taping" of The Lord Oxford Hour, faithful
orphan sidekick Patty O'Pattycake and a merry band of actors distract
the Colonials from their worries through songs, skits and tableaux. Described
as Democracy in America meets Alice in Wonderland meets Cabaret,
Honeywell brings back many of his actor/collaborators from the 2007 IT
Award-Nominated Greed: A Musical Love $tory ("Outstanding Production of
a Musical"). The cast, which features many past IT Award nominees
includes: Gyda Arber, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Rasheed Hinds, Robert
Honeywell, Iracel Rivero and Alyssa Simon and the design team includes:
Robert Eggers (IT Award Nominee), Fab Shim (costumes), Mick O'Brien
(sound) and Bessie Award- winner Joe Levasseur (lighting). Performances
are from October 23 through November 22, Thursday - Saturday at 8 PM at
The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn). And there
is an Election Night Special Performance on Tuesday, November 4 at 8
PM, followed by watching the election returns at The Brick (and free
beer). For tickets visit TheaterMania. For more information, visit the Brick's website.
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