Quintessence Theatre Group Purchases Historic Sedgwick Theater
The company hopes to finish renovations of the Art Deco venue by 2028, exactly 100 years after its first opening.
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The company hopes to finish renovations of the Art Deco venue by 2028, exactly 100 years after its first opening.
New York’s premier international and experimental festival sticks with the city-wide multi-venue approach as Meropi Peponides and Kaneza Schaal join the leadership team.
Whitaker will serve in the 2024-25 season while Signature searches for a successor to Paige Evans.
The downtown new-play mainstay will leave lower Manhattan to produce at the midtown theatre, in a limited but possibly transformative partnership.
Tague, who served in an interim capacity when Resident Ensemble Players founder Sanford Robbins stepped down in 2022, is now his official successor.
LaTeshia Ellerson and Emilya Cachapero will head up national engagement and national & global programming, respectively, with an operations & business development leader yet to be hired.
Carrasco and Huong will receive up to $7,500 each over a one-year period.
The performing arts presenter and producer will be led by an artistic-administrative team that includes Annalisa Dias, Lanxing Fu, Lauren Miller, and Jesse Cameron Alick.
The new organization’s performance wing kicks off with a show at The Shed in August, with educational and consultation to follow.
The theatre has simultaneously laid off multiple staff members and announced other cost-saving measures.