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The Project Footlight musical theater festival is happening - we will be pairing together 18 musical theater writers - 9 composers and 9 librettists - to brainstorm, create, cast, rehearse, and produce a single full-length musical in...one week!

Jump into this wild experiment, this bubbling cauldron of ideas, for seven days of hair-raising, mad-cap adventure that could only happen at Dixon Place.

Submit an application by January 5th to participate in this wild ride of festival which will culminate in shows on February 6 & 7 in the new Dixon Place theater on Chrystie Street.

The Project Footlight festival is a camp for emerging musical theater writers that focuses on the developmental process and the art of collaboration. The festival asks participating artists how we unify a work across a collection of different artistic perspectives while always mindful of the audience. We especially encourage those composers or writers from other genres and those pushing the boundaries of musical theater to apply. In keeping with the laboratory environment of Dixon Place, Project Footlight seeks to attract and cultivate new voices in musical theater while sponsoring a unique work of art.

Submit Applications:
NOW!!!

Musical Theater Festival:

Friday, January 30, 2009
to
Saturday, February 7, 2009

The New Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
b/w Rivington & Delancey
New York, NY 10002
More info: www.dixonplace.org

New York Times

A Cast of 3 Populates the South in ‘Home’
The revival of Samm-Art Williams’s play “Home” moves in tune with the easy rhythms of the writing.

Associated Pres

A Heartwarming 'Home' Returns to off-Broadway
For a critic anyway, ''heartwarming'' can be the scariest adjective. But don't let the word -- highly appropriate in this case -- deter you from visiting ''Home,'' Samm-Art Williams' deeply felt memory play

Variety

Review: Home
... Modern auds experiencing the new production -- beautifully designed by Shaun Motley -- may waver between genuinely liking the play and genuinely trying to like it, but Kevin T. Carroll's surefooted turn as the central troubled everyman will likely turn fence-sitters toward "Home."

Back Stage

Home reviewed by Andy Propst
Lyrical, genuinely sentimental, and filled with a terrific social consciousness, Samm-Art Williams' Home takes theatregoers on a journey through roughly two decades of an African American's life.

TheaterMania

Review: Home
Signature Theater Company offers a sensitively directed and beautifully acted revival of Samm-Art Williams' lyrical 1979 play

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Home
There’s little actual music in Home, the heartfelt 1980 play by Samm-Art Williams that the Signature Theatre Company is reviving at Peter Norton Space. But what’s revealed in Ron OJ Parson’s spirited production, the second in Signature’s season-long tribute to the Negro Ensemble Company, is that this is a work of symphonic scope capable of putting most current Broadway musicals to shame. . .

CurtainUp

Review: Home
The Signature Theatre Company could not have picked a sweeter play to be part of its season-long celebration of the historic Negro Ensemble Company.

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Associated Press

'Slava's Snowshow' Brightens Broadway
The Great White Way just got a fresh dusting of snow -- all the way from Russia and just in time for the holidays.

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AmericanTheaterWeb

Review - Slava's Snowshow - A Blizzard of Fun

New York Times

When They Send in These Clowns, Every Day Is a Snow Day
If I were charged with the entertainment of children under 10 and had a Broadway budget at my disposal, this would be the show I’d favor.

New York Daily News

'Slava's Snowshow' is clowning up a storm
True to its title, "Slava's Snowshow" is filled with flurries. Rain, too, since water gets splashed during the interactive intermission. Intense fog also rolls in beware if you're in the first row. ...

amNY

Theater Review of Slava's Snowshow
Upon entering the Helen Hayes Theatre, you’ll notice the rectangular pieces of white paper that cover the floor. It’s snow. Or at least it’s supposed to be. You can pick up and crush it in your hand. Or maybe throw a little at your neighbor.

New York Post

You won't snow what hit you
There's no business like snow business, especially around the holidays. After a flurry of "Nutcrackers," Radio City, "Wintuk" and "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," "Slava's Snowshow" drifted into the Helen Hayes last night - about 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent precipitation. You may...

Bergen Record

Slava has a ball on a wintry set

Variety

Review: Slava's Snowshow
...the refurbished show boasts fresher set pieces, sharper lighting, cleaner costumes, better beach balls, more "snow" -- even more clowns. And if one should whisper that some of the magic has evaporated, who would hear that voice above the screams of laughter of a delighted audience?

Back Stage

Slava's Snowshow reviewed by Adam R. Perlman
It's not unusual for colorful family-friendly entertainments to douse audience members or drag them on stage.

TheaterMania

Review: Slava's Snowshow
This hilarious yet haunting winter spectacular is taking Broadway by snowstorm.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Slava's Snowshow
Whether you prefer sampling childlike joy through the eyes and experiences of actual children or through the hands, feet, and mouths of artists skilled in creating ironic distillations of it for more sophisticated palates, you’ll get your fill at Slava’s Snowshow. The warming spectacle that’s just opened at the Helen Hayes, where it’s running through January 4, asks only that you be open to whatever it throws at you. . .

CurtainUp

Review; Slava's Snow Show
The Cirque du Soleil of clown shows returns for the holidays, this time on Broadway. .

Philadelphia Inquirer

'Slava' is nonsense on Broadway