The young people of the Project keep churning out quality audio programming. Check out our podcast, the PROJcast, under the NEW PLATFORMS menu above. Or click here to learn more about what we’re up to and what you can expect. We hope that you’ll subscribe so that you won’t miss one of our monthly fullContinue reading “Check out The PROJcast”
Simone Recasner volunteered with the Project in 2019, both in the Summer Project Exchange: WIN Playmaking and our Winter Playmaking production UPSIDE DOWN, The Topsy-Turvy Plays. This fall she is starring in a new drama on FOX about a reality dance show called THE BIG LEAP. FOX is supporting The 52nd Street Project with aContinue reading “Vol Simone Recasner on FOX’s THE BIG LEAP”
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association chose to honor Frances McDormand with the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Drama for her performance in Martin McDonagh’s THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI. Deservedly so, in our opinion! Fran has been on the Board of The 52nd Street Project since very near the beginning and evenContinue reading “Best Actress in a Drama at the Golden Globes? Our Board Member Fran!”
Hey there, So, Marc Maron’s amazing podcast WTF (which understandably has some explicit language on it, so please be aware) this week features his interview with Edie Falco. If you’re not aware of this podcast, he does long form interviews with people (mostly comedians, but also musicians and actors, and on one especially memorable episode,Continue reading “The Project on Marc Maron’s Podcast”
Each year, our kids and their adult Smart Partners create articles, reviews, stories, comics, and photographs for the Project’s annual kids’ magazine. Download issue #19 now! Click here: FIVEY!
Recently, we were invited to participate in a TEDx series about the Broadway and Off-Broadway community. We were happy to bring our perspective to the conversation and Gus gave his talk about the value of kid generated art. In order to illustrate his point, he brought along a performance of one of Ricardo Currin’s songs,Continue reading “Gus Gives a TEDx Talk”
The 52nd Street Project is pleased and proud to announce that we have been selected to be the Community Partner to HARU Hell’s Kitchen, the newest branch of the restaurant and sushi bar, which has just opened on the southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 56th Street. So we’re happy to encourage the Project communityContinue reading “Hurray for HARU”
The 52nd Street Project mourns the loss of Kevin Geer. He was a great friend of ours, a tireless volunteer, and an off-the-charts Playmaking actor. Over the course of 18 years, he played, among other things: a female contestant (in a blonde rubber wig) on a game show hosted by a giraffe (Oliver Platt); aContinue reading “A Tribute to Kevin Geer”
The amazingly talented, generous, hilarious and all around great Project volunteer Lauren Blumenfeld was interviewed by the Huffington Post about her background, training, Broadway debut, and her connection to The 52nd Street Project. Many thanks for the shout-out, Lauren! CLICK HERE to visit the article.
Fordham University Magazine has wisely chosen to highlight the accomplishments of alum Garrett Kim. As you likely, he’s our Program Director and we couldn’t be more proud to have him on the Project staff. Visit the article and see what we mean. CLICK HERE to read the article on Garrett.