Posts by BAL Staff

Earth Day Expo 2024

EARTH DAY EXPO 2024  CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue @34th Street Room 4102 Thursday April 18th & Friday April 19th 7:30 PM with Guest Talkback Speakers April 18: Dr. Veeshan Narinesingh | Topic:Weather and Climate Physicist, Princeton  April 19:Bryan Norcross | Topic: On-Air Hurricane Specialist, Fox weather Directed by Valerie Adami-Juhlin and Peter Burford with Kelly Jean Clark*, Don DeCarlo*, Timothy…

Love Festival 2024

Love Festival 2024  Polaris North 245 W 29th St. 4th Fl. New York, NY 10001 on Friday Feb. 9th at 7PM and Saturday Feb. 10th at 2PM 8 NEW plays Directed by Valerie Adami-Juhlin & Peter Burford with Kyle Brennan, Andreas Casso, Jessica Grant*, Keith Herron*, Russell Jordan*, August Kublin, Aaron McMillian, Valerie Mitchell, Anne Pasquale*, Maria Payares,Gloria Phillips*, Perryn Pommatto*,  Kelsey…

Submissions now open for LOVE FESTIVAL 2024!

BREAK A LEG PRODUCTIONS Seeking Submissions for Love Fest – two days of short plays celebrating Valentine’s Day. Three plays performed Friday, February 9th and three plays performed Saturday, February 10th.   Please submit one acts up to 30 pages with the theme of LOVE.  Deadline for submissions is December 1st.  No musicals/no one-person shows/no children under…

ONE ACT SLAM! 2023

BAL’S ONE ACT SLAM! 2023  SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 – 2:00PM AT THE UNITY CENTER. 213 WEST 58TH ST (between 7th & 8th Ave) Be Part of the Action – VOTE for your Favorite Play (Playwright receives a cash prize) Admission FREE | Open seating | $10 Donations Suggested   Featured Plays: KINKS AND HARD KNOTS…

The Half-Life of Marie Curie 2023

“The Half-Life of Marie Curie” by Lauren Gunderson “I loved the play “The Half–Life of Marie Curie” and hope to get to see you do it again and share it with my husband Gary and a variety of other friends.” – Carol Simon Levin “Thank you for a wonderful and thought-inspiring event with the staged reading  of…

Synchronicity 2023

The “Art of Science” Reading Series Presents: “Synchronicity was a smash!” Directed by Teri Black* with Andreas Casso, Jessica Grant* and Keith Herron* * Member of Actor’s Equity Association Post Performance Talkbacks This story brings alive the intriguing encounters of Carl Jung and the brilliant, brash young Physicist Wolfgang Pauli – and some strange synchronistic…

THE LOVE FESTIVAL 2023

THE LOVE FESTIVAL 2023! This February we bring back your favorite heart themed theater Festival will be LIVE and IN-PERSON! For two days and two days only six new plays will be presented on the stage of Polaris North along with talkbacks with the playwrights. All plays are directed by Valerie Adami Juhlin featuring a…

Don Juhlin

Break A Leg mourns the passing of our beloved company member Don Juhlin. For more than ten years, Don performed in numerous BAL readings including The Retirement Plan by Robin Pond, The Good Doctor by Neil Simon, Farm Hall by David C. Cassidy, And The Sun Stood Still by Dava Sobel, Senior Moments by Frederick Stropell, Oxygen by Carl Djerassi & Roald Hoffmann, An…

Miller Lide

We are so saddened by the loss of our beloved colleague Miller Lide. In 2014, Miller won the Midtown International Theatre Festival Supporting Actors Award for BAL’s production of Farm Hall directed by Gerald vanHeerden. Miller began his career at age 7 in Columbia, SC playing one of Santa’s elves. Decades later he appeared on Broadway in Ivanov…