In January 2011 The VATV team produced the first ever live-streamed interactive play to over 50,000 unique viewers from all over the world. The audience Twittered, Facebooked and chatted standing ovations to the cast and crew from as far away as Japan and Barcelona, and as nearby and Cleveland and NJ.
The project that started it all!
In September 2007, six months after the launch of the first live-streaming platforms, producers Kathryn and Guiesseppe Jones, director Adam Forgash, playwright Sharr White and a fantastic cast and crew made online history with the launch of the first scripted web drama to stream live.
A woman’s right to choose soars in a tapestry of 14 powerful ‘shorts’ — serious and comic. These are stories from the heart: humorous and tender; poignant and riveting, from theater, spoken word, comedy, poetry, oral history and journalism. “Smart, funny, endangered!”
A Lecture Comedy on the social importance of the female breasts by Prof Bade Gediklioglu, the professor of the female body.
S.T.A.R. at the Director's Company presents interactive, theater based peer education. This performance was streamed live on February 24th, 2013.
Huis Clos ("No Exit") is a 1944 French play written by existentialist Sartre in which three damned souls are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity. In this play you may discover that l'enfer, c'est les autres / "hell, is other people." Streamed live in February 23, 2013. Performed in French with English sub-titles.
"This tiny tornado of a play lasts only 60 minutes, but spans a lifetime. Sally Lambert was an opera star and playwright until a grapefruit got in the way. She died last year, just before this play was to debut with her telling her own tale. Cheryl King has done a masterful job of taking up the role. This is a comedy about tragedy, pulled off brilliantly. We begin with Sally coming out of the anesthetic. The news isn't great. Then we join her on a voyage through her life's adventures, successes, and dramas. She laughs and we laugh. We are laughing to scare the devil, and we all know it. But we are laughing, and that's what matters." Karen D'Onofrio, eljnyc.com
Imagine if you will a world unencumbered by the stress of decision-making, a world where you never have to wonder if you made the “right” decision. In DIE: Roll to Proceed, the protagonist George, in a moment of self-realization sparked by a recent explosive argument with his girlfriend Kate, decides to revoke his own right to choose the paths his life will take. He stumbles upon a solution to avoid the customary human requirement of making hard and potentially life-changing decisions: a six-sided die.
A true digital theater experience, Gwydion Suilebhan's Abstract Nude challenges its characters and our audience to "Create Yourself in Your Own Image". The play takes us on a backwards journey through time as a work by the famous contemporary painter, Jake Cohen, passes from owner to owner, ultimately revealing more about the people who come into contact with it than it does about itself. Funny, thoughtful, disturbing, sexually charged....
The award winning “Alice and Elizabeth’s One Woman Show,” has been called a “brave and moving act of storytelling, born of an extraordinary friendship”(Stagebuzz). Based on the true story of a long term friendship and the trials of of turning 40 as single women, it is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Alice Barden performs the piece playing herself at different ages, her friend Elizabeth, their mothers, and various other players in their lives.
