NOTHING IS THE END OF THE WORLD
NOTHING IS THE END OF THE WORLD
(except for the end of the world)
by Bekah Brunstetter
Directed by Stephen Brackett
Nothing is the End of the World (except for the end of the world) was created with director Stephen Brackett, playwright Bekah Brunstetter, and students at PPAS. In the near-distant future, an NYC charter school becomes the first to welcome artificially intelligent students. The social experiment becomes a reality show and suddenly priorities and moralities turn inside-out as the AI's try to integrate and everyone tries to survive junior year. High school dramedy meets invasion sci-fi in this new dark new play by one of theater's boldest new voices.
May 2-4, 7p | May 5, 2 & 7p
Professional Performing Arts School
328 W 48th St
Featuring AMANDA AKRAN, HANNAH ROSE AMMON, EPHRAIM BIRNEY, KIRSTEN HARVEY, JOHN MANOLIS, LYRIS SCHULMAN, KENNEBREW TAYLOR & JOSE USECHER
MAY 2 - 5
7p
Professional Performing Arts School
328 W 48th St
Emma by Stephen Karam
Waterwell is proud to announce the launch of an annual series of new play workshops at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. The inaugural production will be Emma, a contemporary musical adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, written and composed by Stephen Karam (Speech & Debate) and directed by Tamara Fisch (The Top Job).
Designed to stimulate the creation of high-quality new plays for young actors, Waterwell's New Works Lab @ PPAS offers emerging and established playwrights the chance to develop their work with the support of professional directors and designers and a cast of exceptionally talented high school artists. This annual workshop series presents stripped down, actor-centric productions that add to the canon of thematically rich, complex and original scripts and roles for student actors.
EMMA
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Written and composed by STEPHEN KARAM
Directed by TAMARA FISCH
MAY 11 - 14 AT 7p
MAY 14 AT 2p
Professional Performing Arts School
328 W 48th St
$10 for PPAS students
$15 for adults
Kirsten Harvey + Jay Reist. Photo by Rob Kalmbach.
Stephen Karam, Inaugural NWL Writer, Pulitzer Finalist
Tom Ridgely Assistant Directors Shakespeare in the Park
New Works Lab's NOTHING IS THE END OF THE WORLD
Rodney Gardiner in AS YOU LIKE IT & HENRY V at Oregon Shakes
