| Fiasco Theater Presents BE OUR VALENTINE | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:52 am EST 02/08/23 | |
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| Fiasco Theater Presents: Be Our Valentine Sondheim and other Broadway auction items plus streaming access to Fiasco Sondheim concert available Feb 14th-28th New York, NY – Fiasco Theater's annual Valentine's Day fundraising event will be an online auction in 2023. The campaign will be live beginning on February 14th at 12:00 AM ET through February 28th at 11:59 PM ET. Audiences can bid on items and experiences such as: copies of Stephen Sondheim's books signed by The Maestro himself, tickets to The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window at BAM, special access to (and even your name as a cameo in) Fiasco's next production: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, presented in collaboration with Red Bull Theater, and much more! In addition, donors who give $50 or more receive access to the digital re-airing of Fiasco's 2022 concert A Valentine for Sondheim: a one-hour program featuring treasured collaborators from Fiasco's productions of Into The Woods and Merrily We Roll Along in performance, as well as in dialogue about how Sondheim and his music have shaped each artist individually and Fiasco as a company. The concert will be available to stream from Feb 14th through Feb 28th. About Fiasco FIASCO THEATER is an ensemble theater company based in NYC that offers dynamic, joyful, actor-driven productions, and the highest quality, accessible, affordable training for emerging artists. Fiasco produces annual programming by developing shows through the internal development series, GroundWork, as well as year-round readings and workshops that are open to the public; including the workshop production initiative Without a Net. Additionally they partner with other theaters who present and/or co-produce Fiasco productions. Presenting partner theaters in NYC have included Classic Stage Co, TFANA, New Victory and Roundabout Theatre, where Fiasco serves as the first-ever Company in Residence. The Fiasco Conservatory training program offers emerging artists the chance to train full-time in Fiasco's joy-based, actor-centered approach to theater-making. Fiasco's Free Training Initiative offers students a primer in Fiasco's rehearsal approach completely free of charge to all. Fiasco's most recent full production, Merrily We Roll Along at Roundabout (2019) was nominated for two Drama Desk awards (Best Revival/Best Director) as well as an Off-Broadway Alliance award (Best Revival). Cymbeline was presented Off-Broadway twice, for nearly 200 performances, and was honored with the 2012 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for best revival. Into the Woods garnered the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival and the 2016-17 national tour won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Visiting Production and LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Direction and Best Ensemble. Cymbeline, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure and Into the Woods have all been NYT Critics Picks. To date their award-winning work has been seen by over 200,000 audience members in NYC, including over 12,000 school children, and The New York Times has called Fiasco "a force to reckon with in the American theater." They are currently also in residence with NYU-Gallatin, have been commissioned by the Old Globe and just completed a podcast of Aditi Brennan Kapil's Measure for Measure in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts. They have been in residence with TFANA, New Vic Labworks, Duke University, Marquette University and LSU. They have developed work with the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Shakespeare Society. Fiasco receives generous support from Howard Gilman Foundation, SHS Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors Equity Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, New York State Council on the Arts and The Shubert Foundation. |
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| Link | https://www.fiascotheater.com/valentine |
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