John Sloan News

Michael Gormley, Executive Director of New York Artist Equity Association has announced that Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund, and Alaiyo Bradshaw, Director of the First Year Program at Parsons School of Design of Fine Art and Vice President of the Brooklyn Watercolor Society, will join NYAE’s Board. 

Ghostlight Productions and Nicely Theatre Group are partnering  once again, for the 2nd Annual Obsidian Theatre Festival.  After a successful inaugural year in the middle of a global pandemic, Obsidian is back and will include live and virtual offerings.

The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Musicals will premiere tonight. The actors performing the series of Viral Monologues will include: Allison Posner, Andrew Leeds, Anika Larsen, Bonnie Milligan, Chad Burris, Derek Klena, Derrick Baskin, Joél Pérez, Lennon Parham, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Melody A. Betts, and Robbie Fairchild.

Sloan’s Ghostlight Productions announced that they are partnering with BroadwayHD to bring the inaugural Obsidian Festival to viewers for free via the streaming service’s YouTube channel.  The Obsidian Theatre Festival is a virtual theatre and performing arts event featuring emerging Black artists, actors, directors, and playwrights from Detroit.

Ghostlight Productions and Nicely Theatre Group today announced the inaugural Obsidian Theatre Festival, a virtual theatre and performing arts event featuring emerging Black artists, actors, directors, and playwrights from Detroit that will take place March 25-27.

Drawn from the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist Art Museum’s Upper-Level Galleries from March 5 through June 27, 2021.

DelArts Cinema, on the grounds of the Delaware Art Museum, is hosting drive-in movies for patrons as part of their socially distanced events during the current global health crisis. 

Michigan's only professional African American Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, presents a virtual concert of songs from an original musical set in Detroit's past. The play, Hastings Street, is a work in progress set in 1949 at the cusp of the order to tear down Black Bottom, the segregated Black community that was once where I-75 is now.

Cincinnati Music Theatre will open its 2019-2020 mainstage season with Kander and Ebb's iconic musical Cabaret a?" the Tony Award-winning work that helped revolutionize American musical theater. The production runs November 8-16, 2019 at the Aronooff Center's intimate Jarson-Kaplan Theater.

Indie Rights, 5100 Films, 103rd Street Productions, Kampfire Films, Red Spear Productions and Kristen Moser are thrilled to announce the theatrical release of Writer/Director Alex Goldberg's Award-winning feature film CLOSURE. The film will play at Arena Cinelounge (6464 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028) Friday, October 18 at 8:15 pm through Thursday, October 24th at 6:00pm. Additionally, later this month Indie Rights will be debuting CLOSURE at the American Film Market.

 Greenwich House of Music and CreArtBox music group, supported by the Amphion Foundation, present a performance with music by Meredith Monk, Guillermo Laporta, Copland, Poulenc, Mompou and Telemann, with the collaboration of the Italian-American actor, Jacopo Rampini.

Chilling, sinister, thought-provoking and wickedly funny. Antaeus Theatre Companypresents a fully partner-cast production of Harold Pinter's seldom seen dark comedy, The Hothouse. Directed by Nike Doukas, The Hothouse opens on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 (one opening for each cast), running through March 11 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. Low-priced previews begin on Jan. 18.

5100 Films, 103rd Street Productions, Kampfire Films, Red Spear Productions and Writer/Director Alex Goldberg (Off Broadway's It Is Done) are pleased to announce the World Premiere of Goldberg's CLOSURE at the D.C. Independent Film Festival. The festival, which takes place February 14 -19, 2018, was founded in 1999 to nurture independent film. CLOSURE will World Premiere at 7:45pm on Saturday Feb 17th. For tickets please click here.

Chilling, sinister, thought-provoking and wickedly funny.Antaeus Theatre Company presents a fully partner-cast production of Harold Pinter's seldom seen dark comedy, The Hothouse. Directed by Nike Doukas, The Hothouse opens on Jan. 25and Jan. 26 (one opening for each cast), running through March 11 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. Low-priced previews begin on Jan. 18.

Sex, revenge, betrayal... let the games begin.

The 2017 Franklin Stage Company exhibition season continues with a collection of prints by Lisbeth Firmin. "Venice Monotypes"will open today, August 5 with a reception open to the public in the lobby of the theater, 3:00-5:00pm

The 2017 Franklin Stage Company exhibition season continues with a collection of prints by Lisbeth Firmin. "Venice Monotypes"will open on Saturday, August 5 with a reception open to the public in the lobby of the theater, 3:00-5:00pm

Internationally recognized Shakespeare specialist Rob Clare directs one of the Bard's most popular and delightful romantic comedies, filled with shrewd observations about life, love and human nature. Antaeus Theatre Company presents a fully partner-cast production of As You Like It, opening July 27 and July 28 (one opening for each cast) at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale. Low-priced previews begin July 20.

Internationally recognized Shakespeare specialist Rob Clare directs one of the Bard's most popular and delightful romantic comedies, filled with shrewd observations about life, love and human nature.

Internationally recognized Shakespeare specialist Rob Clare directs one of the Bard's most popular and delightful romantic comedies, filled with shrewd observations about life, love and human nature.