Theater for the New City’s Street Theater Summer Tour – HOME SWEET HOME or A LIFE IN NEW YORK
Theater for the New City’s award-winning Street Theater Company will open its 2025 annual tour Saturday, August 2 with “Home Sweet Home, or A Life In New York,” a rip-roaring original musical which tells a story of a young orphan, born in America but longing to understand his roots, as deportations shake the lives of his immigrant friends. Book, lyrics and direction are by Crystal Field, Artistic Director of Theater for the New City (TNC). The musical score is composed and arranged by Peter Dizozza. Free performances will tour parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs from August 2 through September 14.
From August 24 to September 14, 2025, Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, will resume its 13th Dream Up Festival, a feast of adventurous theater. The annual event is an ultimate new works festival, dedicated to the joy of discovering new authors and edgy, innovative performances.
The Festival is helmed by the theater’s Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price. This year it offers 22 plays. Audiences will savor the excitement, awe, passion, challenge and intrigue of new plays from around the country.
Monday, March 10, 2025 Theater for the New City 155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street) JOHNSON THEATER
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We have produced 2 new books. he bio-booklet is now a 200 page book. Will be a good reference tool. Can One is attached to this email. The heavy lifting for this book was done by James Muscarella,
Christopher Heffernan, Antony Zito, Chi Lau, Zacharly Leu, Coss Marte, John Goglio. These people did real services to the community. I was in charge of over 60 people. Then I stepped back and let them break into groups. They did. This group of leaders made this happen. Against all odds.
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There will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans. TNC donates all proceeds from the event to college scholarship funds for Native American students!
Theater for the New City presents a remount of “Orson’s Shadow” by Austin Pendleton, directed by Mr. Pendleton and David Schweizer, November 8 to December 1.
Axial Theatre, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, and Strindberg Rep collaborate with Fortify.space and Michael Howard Studios to bring back highly acclaimed production from March, 2024.
The play, set in 1960s London, explores the complex dynamics between legendary figures Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, and Vivien Leigh as they clash during a theater production. It delves into egos, insecurities, and the pursuit of artistic brilliance, revealing tumultuous backstage drama.
NEW YORK, October 15 — To share a hit show of its Spring season with the largest possible audience, Theater for the New City (TNC), Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director, will remount its production of “Orson’s Shadow,” written by Austin Pendleton and directed by Mr. Pendleton and his longtime close friend and colleague David Schweizer, from November 8 to December 1. The reprise is a production of Axial Theatre, Oberon Theatre Ensemble and Strindberg Rep in association with Fortify.space and Michael Howard Studios.
Originally mounted as an Equity showcase last March by TNC in association with Oberon Theatre Ensemble and Strindberg Rep, it was the first time Mr. Pendleton had ever directed his own work. TNC encourages authors to direct their own plays because it ensures that their philosophy and values are kept intact. The theater is a playground for emerging writers in which they can express divergent views, sometimes unique to themselves, because later productions will allow the director’s view to influence the work.
Reviewers praised TNC’s original OOB mounting March 14 to 31, 2024, as beautifully cast and acted, contemporary, entertaining and insightful. David Soloway, writing in Encore Theatre Reviews, quipped “The play, although it’s called ‘Orson’s Shadow,’ … is really Austin’s Shadow, as Austin Pendleton, so central to theater for so many years, casts his shadow on the stage as a writer.” Soloway deemed the play “the best kind of drama and comedy, one rooted in character, not simply situation with a plot blending reality and speculation.”
