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Don’t miss your chance to see this labor of love. “The World According to Micki Grant” is dedicated to the life & work of Micki Grant, a trailblazing legend.

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📷: Gerry Goodstein

New Federal Theatre is still glowing from these glowing reviews for “The World According to Micki Grant”. We have such a talented team of artists who have brought the brilliant songs, poems, and works of Micki Grant to life once more!

Five more shows left. Get your tickets today!

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There’s still time to get your ticket to “The World According to Micki Grant”!

Jump into the riveting world of Micki Grant, an artist who accomplished many firsts in the world of entertainment.

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Audiences have been raving about our preview performances of “The World According to Micki Grant”.

Don’t miss your chance to buy tickets today!

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Did you know of the many amazing feats Micki Grant accomplished? Here are just a few of the “firsts” of this incredible performer.

Come learn even more about her at The World According to Micki Grant. Previews begin TODAY! Showing exclusively at New Federal Theatre.

Tickets are available in our bio and on our website!

Micki Grant was a phenomenal woman who accomplished many firsts in her lifetime. Come learn more about her at ‘The World According to Micki Grant,’ opening soon at New Federal Theatre. Previews begin this Friday!

🎟️Tickets are available in our bio & website!🎟️

Enter into the personal realm of the iconic Micki Grant, first Black woman to write the book, music, and lyrics of a Broadway musical.

The World According to Micki Grant features rare musical pieces, unpublished poems, and musings on love. Celebrate the legacy of Micki Grant during a riveting performance scored with songs from her award-winning works: Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, and much more!

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We’re excited to announce that after a sold out run last Spring, New Federal Theatre’s production of Wesley Brown’s Telling Tales out of School will be back for a return engagement

June, 1954, a memorial service for Alain Locke, architect of the Harlem Renaissance, was held at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Among the attendees are Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset and Nancy Cunard. Now in their sixties and not having seen one another in over twenty years, they gather at the Hotel Theresa after the funeral. An afternoon of boundless praise of Locke over tea unravels into disturbing revelations about the great man and the four women who have come to honor him.

October 18th- November 12th

Location:
NEW FEDERAL THEATRE
At ASP/ Castillo
543 W. 42nd Street
New York, New York 10036

Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/NFTTickets

Registration is now open for our Fall/ Winter 2023-24 Training Program.📝 Choose from a variety of courses taught by master teachers at an affordable price.

Register here: https://newfederaltheatre.com/training/

Michelle Shay, Elizabeth, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney and Dr. Indira Etwaroo. Black Seed Presentations at the BTN Conference

Tickets are now available to our 53rd annual Gala!

Come celebrate with us as we honor Woodie King Jr., Gabrielle Kurlander, & Sade Lythcott

October 2nd 2023 at 7pm
The Edison Ballroom
240 West 47th St New York, NY 10037

Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/NFTgala53

From the Archives✨ Jamimma by Martie Evans-Charles

Taking place in a Harlem apartment, Martie Charles-Evans’s very loosely plotted drama offered its performers opportunities for interesting character portrayals. The chief persons included Jameena (Marcella Lowery), a young, Black seamstress who prefers her part-time job to going into business for herself; her philandering, drummer boyfriend, Omar Butler I (Dick Williams); a predatory neighbor, Vivian Williams (Lucretia R. Collins),who deals drugs and hankers for the drummer; and an oddball janitor, Crazy Man Johnson (Arnold Johnson), whose teenage son dies of an overdose. – Samuel L. Leiter, Encylopedia of the New York Stage 1970-75

Photo of Marcella Lowery, Arnold Johnson, Roxie Roker

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Save the date for our 53rd Anniversary Celebration 🎉 We hope to see you there!

P.J. Gibson began her writing career at the age of nine. She is the author of 30 plays professionally produced and hundreds of poems. She has received two AUDELCO awards (Audience Development Committee) for her play “Long Time Since Yesterday,” a Shubert Fellowship for the study of dramatic writing, a playwriting grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a PSC-CUNY research award grant (the Research Foundation of the City University of New York) to “shadow” four African- American female judges for her upcoming play “Rotating” and five playwriting commissions. In addition to the professional productions of her work in the United States, Gibson’s work has been staged throughout Europe and Africa. She has also written television situation comedies for Oprah Winfrey. Gibson holds an M.F.A. in theatre arts from Brandeis University and a B.A. in drama, religion and English from Keuka College. In addition to writing, she was an associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, teaching literature, English, fiction writing and poetry. P.J. Gibson passed on May 6th , 2022 in New York.

Join us for a reading of Long Time Since Yesterday on Tuesday June 27th. A portion of the proceeds will go towards a donation to the P.J. Gibson Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/LTSYtickets

New Federal Theatre in association with The ASP/Castillo Theatre presents a benefit reading of Long Time Since Yesterday by P.J. Gibson for , a collective dedicated to exploding the classical canon through an exploration of Black performance history and dramatic works by Black writers.

In the late P. J. Gibson’s comedy-drama, some years after graduation, five collegiate friends, upwardly mobile members of the professional class, come together for the funeral of one of their classmates who has committed su***de. Over bourbon and memories, tempers flare and guilt is apportioned. Considered a New Federal Theatre classic, this play originally opened at NFT in October of 1985 and won multiple Audelco Awards including Best Play.

NFT will also make a donation to the P.J. Gibson Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Long Time Since Yesterday
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Tuesday June 27th at 7pm
543 West 42nd St. New York, NY 10036
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Some photos from our reading of Goldie E. Patrick's Fish Fry directed by John E. Scutchins! We had a blast ❤️

We want to take a moment to celebrate our Inaugural NFT Black Creation Playwright Resident Goldie E. Patrick!! Goldie just received her M.F.A in playwriting from Columbia University and we'll be hosting an internal reading of her play Fish Fry next week! We are endlessly proud!! ❤️🥳

Join us next week to see an End of Season presentation from the talented artists in our 2023 Acting and Playwriting workshops.

Email [email protected] to RSVP!

Sip some tea with the ladies of the Harlem Renaissance! ☕️ You have 5 more chances to witness these incredible performances and there are only a few seats left. Don't miss out!

Tickets here: https://bit.ly/NFTellingTales

Opening Night was a success! 🌟 A huge thank you to Awoye Timpo for leading out talkback last night. There are five chances left to catch this production and tickets are going FAST! Get your tickets here https://bit.ly/NFTellingTales

Wesley Brown's Telling Tales out of School opens TONIGHT!

Followed by a talkback with the incomparable

Will we see you there? 👀

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