World Stage on Screen
The best of international theater and fine arts programming brought to the silver screen.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star [...]
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Andrew Garfield (Silence, Hacksaw Ridge) plays Prior Walter along with a cast including Denise Gough (People, Places and Things), Nathan Lane (The Producers), James McArdle (Star [...]
Iqbal Khan (Othello, Much Ado About Nothing) returns to the RSC to direct Shakespeare’s tragedy, which follows on from Julius Caesar. After Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony reached the heights of power. Now he is neglecting his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. As he is torn between love [...]
World-famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann makes his role debut in Otello, Verdi’s passionate retelling of Shakespeare’s great tragedy of jealousy, deception, and murder. Soprano Maria Agresta will be his Desdemona and baritone Ludovic Tézier his nemesis Iago in a new production by Olivier Award-winning director Keith Warner. A major work of the opera repertory, Verdi’s Otello [...]
The decay of Rome reaches violent depths in Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. Blanche McIntyre (The Two Noble Kinsmen) returns to the RSC to direct Shakespeare’s brutal revenge tragedy. Titus is a ruler exhausted by war and loss. He relinquishes power, but leaves Rome in disorder. Rape, cannibalism, and mutilation fill the moral void at the heart of [...]
Summer @ the Lab: A Sense of Adventure
Summer @ the Lab gives kids a variety of experience.By Darrel Swann, Faculty After getting his BA at Boston College, Darrel studied screenwriting at New York Film Academy. He has been working at the Jacob Burns Film Center since 2009. Our film and media camp at the Media Arts Lab offers a wide variety of activities and often the child who loves to act isn’t [...]
Artist Services: Creative Culture
Creative Culture is a program that connects filmmakers to creative careers. View past fellows, makers, and residents here. Fellowship Opportunities The Jacob Burns Film Center is committed to supporting the development of new filmmakers through two fellowship pathways: The Valentine & Clark Emerging Artist Fellowship The Sally Burns Shenkman Woman Filmmaker Fellowship The Fellowships, which encourage community engagement, [...]
JBFC Kids
JBFC Kids We’re making the theater-going experience more inviting for kids, hosting FREE hands-on activities on the first Saturday of select months, and offering a full roster of courses and workshops for ages 3–13! Take a look at all our JBFC Kids offerings below. Sign up for our JBFC Kids e-bulletin to stay up-to-date on all of [...]