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Archive for the ‘Presents’ Category
THE LEAK
by FERNANDA COPPEL
FREE Staged Reading. To reserve a seat, please email us at info@colab-arts.org.
Sunday, February 21st at 7:30pm
coLAB Arts
49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
When a leak starts dripping in Lucia (single mother) and Drea’s (only child) modest Los Angeles apartment their first reaction is to ignore it. The dripping grows stronger and stronger as Lucia’s boyfriend Carlos moves in. Lucia’s sister, Cuca isn’t fond of Carlos because of his fascination with Drea. After the leak begins to drip blood, this family is left to deal with generations of secrets and the ghosts that live under our tongues.
Playwright Fernanda Coppel was born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, and raised in San Diego California. A poet and playwright, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU with a concentration in Playwriting. Her thesis play, Chimi-Changas and Zololft was nominated for the Goldberg Award (2009) and won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater (2009). She received NYU’s John Holden Playwriting Award upon her spring 2009 graduation. Fernanda is currently in the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at the Juilliard School.
Director Alex Correia is currently the Director in Residency for the INTAR Actors’ Collective where he directed 365 Plays/ 365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks and Thorny Bushes, a Staged Radio Novella, written by INTAR Playwrights Group. In INTAR’s New Works Lab he directed plays by Desi Moreno-Penson, Cusi Cram, Mando Alvardo, and Mariana Carreno. Some of his Directing Credits include: The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; Dwarfs by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage (NY); and Othello by William Shakespeare at the John Houseman Studio Theater (NY).
Producer Jeremy Karafin Is currently the Program Associate for DNAworks (Dialogue and Healing through the Arts). He founded and produced the first three seasons of the Kinetic Poetics Project, an annual spoken word and poetry festival on the west coast (now in its 7th season). He is also the producer for the show See Something…Say Something and Love Redefined. He has directed half a dozen productions including the world premiere of Kristina Goodnight and Darren Blaney’s What the Hell is Going on Here? Previously he was the Assistant Director of Student Media and the SCTV Broadcast Adviser at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has worked with the Penguin Repertory Theatre, Houses on the Moon Theater Company, MADD Productions, Intangible Collective, Textbook Execution, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Rainbow Theatre, Brooklyn for Peace and the Wild Project.
This page was last updated
on Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 9:16 pm and is filed under Presents, Programs, Theater.
A Music Benefit for Haiti
All proceeds donated to DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Co-Sponsored by New Brunswick Cultural Center and New Brunswick City Market
Friday, February 5
Crossroads Theatre (7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Doors open at 5:30pm
Tickets $10 – $20 Sliding Scale at the door
We will be accepting canned food for SALVATION ARMY
Featuring:
NATURAL BREAKDOWN
WUPA
HEY BULLDOG!
AMBER BLUES
BLACK CIRCLE SYMPHONY
SILENT KNIGHT
PLUS… Special reunion performance by the GROUND LEVEL ORGANIZATION!!!
Yoga and meditation led by Dan Farrella of Natural Breakdown available 4:30 – 6:00pm.
Food and beverages available for purchase, silent auction, art sale, craft and merchant tables… All to benefit the relief effort in Haiti.
This page was last updated
on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 4:05 pm and is filed under Music, Presents.
This page was last updated
on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 3:35 pm and is filed under Presents, Press.
As coLAB Arts continues to bring great art to the New Brunswick community, new things are happening and the next step is coming.
Between putting together our board of trustees, applying for federal nonprofit status, moving into a new space, and getting a new website, there’s a lot to look forward to.
Stay tuned, as new developments are happening fast for the organization that brings you the hottest new art work in New Brunswick.
This page was last updated
on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Presents, Press.
“nothing to be sorry for”
by KATHRYN VAN RENSALIER
directed by JESSICA CORN
Sunday, November 22 at 7:30pm
Black Box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick)
This is a FREE staged reading
A new play where lines blur between fantasy and reality, charm and tragedy.
The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in Downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work.
This page was last updated
on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm and is filed under Presents, Programs, Theater.
Saturday, November 21; doors at 10:30pm, music starts at 11pm
Black Box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
$5 cover charge
21+ to drink
Featuring the best of homegrown New Brunswick music including pop, rock, punk, hip hop and R&B. Pulling from both bars and basements, coLAB keeps its finger on the Hub City pulse.
These are the bands we’ve got in store:
1. FUSE www.fuseplanet.com
2. TRINITRON www.myspace.com/trinitronsound
3. Hartwell www.myspace.com/hartwelllovesyou
4. Mattress www.myspace.com/meattress
This page was last updated
on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Music, Presents, Programs.
NEW JERSEY premiere
I HEART KANT
by KEN URBAN
directed by DAN SWERN
A comedy about four women trying to find happiness in their New Jersey suburban hell.
original music and sound design by JOE FEKETE (The Delfields)
set design by SPENCER BURKE
lighting design by ERIC BOVIE
dramaturg JESSICA CORN
assistant director ALI OSWORTH
Featuring:
JULIE COTTON
SISTINA GIORDANO*
DEANNA MCGOVERN
BRIANA PACKEN
MICHAEL SATOW*
*denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association
Ken Urban’s other plays include Nibbler (currently playing at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles), The Happy Sad (recently produced at New York City’s Flea Theatre and Summer Play Festival at The Public), and The Private Lives of Eskimos (The Committee Theatre).
Wednesday, December 2 – Sunday, December 6
Wednesday, December 9 – Sunday, December 13
All performances at 8:30pm
George Street Playhouse – Black Box
9 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
This page was last updated
on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 4:04 pm and is filed under Presents, Theater.
coLAB Film Fest continues to bring the most forward thinking American film to New Brunswick with its latest installment, focusing on queer film and film makers.
coLAB FILM FEST: QUEER(ING) FRAME
Thursday, November 12 at 7pm
@ THE DEN (700 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ)
$5 at the door
Food will be provided, cash bar
Featuring:
“Who’s the Top” by Jennie Livingston
(official selection of the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, Frameline, and Outfest)
“Freeheld” by Cynthia Wade
(Academy Award winner for best documentary short subject, Special Jury Prize winner at 2007 Sundance Film Festival)
“Cupcake” by Emily North
This page was last updated
on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm and is filed under Film, Presents, Programs.
The music-performance piece by coLAB Arts artist Jack Leary, continues. Using music, visual art, dance, and psychedelic video, this hybrid performance features audience engagement like you’ve never experienced.
Saturday, November 7th at 8pm
Cabaret Theatre
(corner of Nichol and Suydam Street, New Brunswick)
FREE General Admission
Featuring:
Visual Artists – Lisa Conrad and Ashley Hanania
Dancers – Lora Botwinick, Elena Callahan, Leslie Fine, Avianna Perez
Musicians – TBA
Saturday, October 17th at 9pm in the black box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ).
Advance tickets are available online or at the door. Sliding Scale: $6-$10 each
Pandora’s Box is hosted by coLAB Member and spoken word rockstar Pandora Scooter and features live music, stand up and sketch comedy, poetry, and spoken word.
What IS Pandora’s Box? A hilarious variety/comedy show featuring stand-up comics, sketches and a whole lot of laughing. It’s a fun, funny, fun-a-licious show. Don’t miss a night of laughter and serious silliness!
Featured stand up comics include Jiwon Lee, Andrew Lascar, and George Higgins
Performers include Pandora Scooter, Jack Leary, George Higgins, and Ranessa Porter
This page was last updated
on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm and is filed under Presents, Programs, Theater.
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