New Plays Festival: I’ve never planned to be on this earth long.
by Clarity Bian 卞家昊
Directed by Chaesong Kim
New Plays Festival: camp champ
by morgan mcnaught
Co-Directed by Katrina Dion
Associate Director Liz Peterson
New Plays Festival: Nine Ways to Plead With a God
by Kanika Asavari Vaish
Directed by Liz Peterson
New Plays Festival: Accidental Feminist
a staged reading
by Alaudin Ullah
Directed by Reena Dutt
New Plays Festival: It Will Rise Soon Enough
by Fiona Gorry-Hines
Directed by Victoria Gruenberg
New Plays Festival: Bleecker Street Brides
by Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
Directed by Kat Yen
New Plays Festival: The Lark Ascending
by Jacob K. Robinson
Directed by Joan Sergay
a staged reading
Showtimes
Friday, June 10 @ 2:30 pm
Friday, June 10 @ 8 pm
Sunday, June 12 @ 2:30 pm
It’s the first week of advent at a megachurch in Texas and a congregant’s baby has died. Mike, the head pastor, is praying for resurrection. Tess, the worship pastor, is praying for release. Gideon, her husband, is just trying to help. And they’re all barely holding on. The Lark Ascending is a play about reckoning with a garden overrun with vines, about bolstering and faltering faith, about darkness and light and how, in the end, they might be the same thing.
Run Time
115 minutes
Cast
Hannah Shealy – TESS
Nick Saxton – GIDEON
Calum Bedborough – MIKE
Creative Team
Playwright / Sound Designer Jacob K Robinson
Director Joan Sergay
Dramaturg Kate Foster Vishniakova
Scenic Designer Corey Umlauf
Stage Manager Drewe Goldstein
Producer Connor Scully
Assistant Producer Michael Lee
About the Artist
Playwright Jacob K. Robinson
Jacob K Robinson is a playwright from Texas. He likes a good pair of Levi’s and mowing the lawn. He writes plays about buildings, astronauts, swimming pools, surgeons, gold mines, Texas bars, and churches. He is doing his best.
New Plays Festival: Eärendil, Our Most Beloved Star
by Adam North
Directed by Ana Liza Muravina
Women and the Silent Screen XI: Women, Cinema, and World Migration
A biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI), that brings together researchers focused on women’s pivotal roles in the first decades of motion picture history.
Community Day 2022
Lenfest Kids is excited to return to in-person screenings for Manhattanville Community Day on May 21st! The theme for the day is “The Future in Mind,” featuring the films “WALL-E” and “E.T.”