2024-2025 SEASON
After a long COVID “intermission” from producing live theatre, MULTISTAGES is excited to announce its upcoming season of SEVEN New World Premieres.
ReproEco: Six Short Works
October 4-5, 2024
Readings of New Works
Goddard Riverside Community Arts @ Bernie Wohl Center
647 Columbus Avenue (91-92nd Streets), NYC
TICKETS FREE: LINK
MultiStages, ReproFreedomArts.org, and Goddard Riverside Community Arts Program are joining together to present ReproEco: Six Short Plays.
ReproEco is a collection of six short plays that connect our reproductive health and our environment. These powerful storytellers use humor, mythology, Afro-futurism and drama to look at how industrial waste, plastics, forever chemicals, the lack of safe drinking water and discriminatory laws affect our bodies and our communities.
Followed by special talkbacks with experts in the fields of Reproductive rights and Environmental legislation.
Playwrights Diane Breeser, Cindy Cooper, Alinca Hamilton, Mildred Inez Lewis, Cassandra Medley & Laura Shamas.
ReproFreedomArts.org commissioned these talented playwrights, who represent a cross-section of America, to create new works inspired by investigations and conversations with experts in reproductive rights and environmental justice.
Co-produced by Cindy Cooper & Lorca Peress
Directed by Joyce Griffen, Lorca Peress & Allison Astor-Vargas
Featuring: Gena Bardwell, Jean Brookner, Darlenis Duran, Joyce Griffen, Nina Mehta, Valorie Niccore, Tanis Parenteau, Abigail Ramsay, Marc Reign & Celeste Sena.
http://Goddard Riverside Community Arts Program.
SAVE THE DATE FOR 2025
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION
January 2025
“JANUARY”
Written by Paula Cizmar
Directed by Lorca Peress
In repertory as part of the newly-formed Femme Collective at
The Theater at the 14th Street Y
JANUARY is a stunning multimedia play about gun violence, media exploitation, youth, and our society. This play was a New Works Contest Finalist in 2016 and has been updated to reflect our current times. Spread across news headlines, on social media scrolls, and on national television, everyone is talking about the shooting of a pre-teenage boy who was killed by his classmate at school. In the wake of the tragedy, playwright Paula Cizmar focuses her story on the boys’ single mothers. This production will include original music, projection design, movement, and live streaming. We will hold special talk backs and offer time for audience discussions.
Special thank you to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for a Creative Engagement Award, the N.W. Dible Foundation, Cherry Lane Alternative Gift, and our dedicated supporters whose donations and grants help fund these projects.
We look forward to seeing you at the theatre!