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Check out this sneak peek of the mysterious, transporting opening sequence of June Rites !! Get intrigued. Get curious. Get on the Ferry! One Week Left!... Through June 27 | Governors Island: Picnic Point In Person | Outdoors | Reserve Free Tickets Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/june-rites-tickets-156357097287 See more

We can't wait to gather with you once again for live performance work that moves us, sustains us, and shakes us up. Your support today makes it possible for Waterwell to create and foster connections no matter where we make our stagesfrom the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, to Governors Island, and wherever our work takes us next season. Make a gift today at https://waterwell.funraise.org!

ANNOUNCING: June Rites!! In Person. Outdoors. Dance Theater Celebrating the Arrival of Summer After more than a year of isolation, Waterwell invites you to join your fellow New Yorkers on picturesque Governors Island for a summer-in-the-city celebration. June Rites !! is an original hour of visually stunning and viscerally contagious live performance. Conceived as a civic ritual in dialogue with state fairs and summer solstice festivals, this piece will be an opportunity for... collective reemergence into public spaces after a long, hard winter. June Rites !! will feature original music written and performed by Mauro Refosco and Gustavo Di Dalva, and is co-created by Lee Sunday Evans, Waterwell’s artistic director, and designers Ásta Bennie Hostetter and Mariana Sanchez. Request your tickets HERE! http://waterwell.org/junerites/

We are never done learning. By telling, listening to, and seeking out each other’s stories, we can begin to help each other through. Storytelling helps us make sense of life’s curveballs, learn from each other, and care for our communities. Your support nurtures the next generation of storytellers and sustains Waterwell’s model for Arts Education rooted in empathy. You can donate today via https://waterwell.funraise.org/

Like so many New Yorkers, Waterwell is excited to embrace this spring season with renewed hope and joy. Your support ensures that Waterwellno matter where we make our stageis always a place where artists, advocates, and audiences can engage with cutting edge ideas, challenging conversations, and important civic questions. Please consider making a contribution today! You can donate via https://waterwell.funraise.org/

We are proud to announce that Children of Bellevue has selected Waterwell for the Children’s Champion Award, along with Elora Mukherjee and the Bway Advocacy Coalition! The award is in recognition for work on "The Flores Exhibits," helping to share the stories of children and immigrant families at the U.S./Mexico border. Join us at 7pm tomorrow night at Children of Bellevue’s Toast to the Children: Home Edition, an all-virtual celebration hosted by Tom Colicchio - "Top Chef" ...star and owner of Crafted Hospitality - where you will meet the program leaders and staff at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and learn about their work. Viewers will enjoy these personal stories along with performances from Broadway stars, special celebrity appearances, a cocktail demonstration, and a special cooking demo by the top chef himself! ***Buy tickets HERE: https://bit.ly/3hkJTfL

Since 2010, Waterwell has run the Middle School Theater Arts & High School Drama Program at PPAS NYC Professional Performing Arts School: offering top-quality, in-school theater training to NYC public school students through this partnership. Instruction is delivered by professional artists working in the theatrical field. As an arts conservatory for grades 6-12, it’s our small, personalized school’s mission to DEVELOP, REFINE, and SHOWCASE students in the theatrical arts alongside a rigorous academic curriculum. For the 2021-2022 academic year, we are excited to announce Lottery Submissions for the Middle School Program, and Virtual Auditions for the High School Program. To find more info about applying to these programs and deadlines: http://bit.ly/wdp21-22

To commemorate Black History Month, we are kicking off a series honoring the history of Black artists and theater-makers. We recognize that Black History does not end when February does, and we will use this series not as a limited run, but as a starting point to share a bit of the knowledge we are learning and teaching in our classrooms. We begin by highlighting Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which the Waterwell Drama Program Freshman grade just finished analyzing... in class. A Raisin in the Sun premiered in 1959, and it was the first play by a Black woman to be performed on Broadway. To read our full post about the impact of A Raisin of Sun, and other useful links, please go to http://bit.ly/honoringhansberry CLICK THROUGH for the set design that our Freshman, Mia Soleil Jacquez, made for her A Raisin in the Sun assignment, plus more images of Lorraine and the original Broadway cast.

To prepare for the Drama 2 Class' premiere of ROMEO & JULIET, check out this interview between the show's Director- @CherieRice - and Waterwell's Exploring the Arts intern, Asly Sanchez. Asly and Cherie talk about adapting Romeo & Juliet to suit our digital world, and the importance of communication and the consequences of when it fails. Plus, you'll get a sneak peek of some of the incredible tech tricks employed to bring this classic Shakespearean tale to a live Vimeo stage.... ROMEO & JULIET streams online Thurs, Feb 4th - Sat, Feb 6th at 7p ET. ***To reserve tickets: https://bit.ly/romejule2021

The Drama 2 (sophomore) class of the Waterwell Drama Program premieres Shakespeare's ROMEO & JUILET this Thurs, Feb 4th - Sat, Feb 6th at 7p ET! Directed by Cherie Corinne Rice and stage managed by Kaelin Elizabeth Fuld, with broadcast design and engineering by Romo Hallahan, these performances will be streamed live on Vimeo. The students have been hard at work to adapt this classic love story to comment on modern communication and how we use (and misuse) it. Combining elemen...ts of pop music, dance, and video with the latest in streaming tech, you are sure to experience Romeo & Juliet as you never have before. Grab your tickets here: http://bit.ly/romejule2021

Tonight, the Drama 2 class of the Waterwell Drama Program premieres Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra! Directed by James Dean Palmer and stage managed by Nzinga Williams, with broadcast design and engineering by Romo Hallahan, these performances will be streamed on Vimeo. Our Drama 2 class has worked hard for the past two months to bring this classic Shakespeare piece to life. We hope you can join us! ... This show plays Jan 28th-Jan 30th at 7pm ET. ***TICKETS: https://bit.ly/antonyandcleo2021

Check out this interview between Asly Sanchez, Waterwell's Exploring the Arts Intern, and James Dean Palmer, the Director for the upcoming Drama 2 Class' performance of Antony + Cleopatra. Asly and James discuss what it's like to tackle Shakespeare digitally, and how the classic story of Antony & Cleopatra still resonates with us today. Antony & Cleopatra streams online Thurs, Jan 28th - Saturday, Jan 30th, at 7p ET. ... Reserve your tickets here: https://bit.ly/antonyandcleo2021

As we transition to a new presidential administration, we look back at the past four years with this New York Times article about how theater stepped up to meet the Trump Era. We are grateful that Laura Collins-Hughes counts Waterwell’s THE COURTROOM among so many incredible artists and projects who used theater and media as a way to respond to urgent civic, social, and economic questions as they emerged. We look forward to continuing that work in a new political era. https://www.nytimes.com//18/thea/theater-in-trump-era.html