THE EVENING CRANE THEATRE

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4.13.22 -

Caprices was awarded "Best Experimental" work in this year's Pittsburgh Virtual Fringe Festival. Caprices I - VII are streaming now on Vimeo On Demand: Watch CAPRICES Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

4.06.22 -

Our second Caprice "See You in the New Year" has won three awards through NY's Oniros Film Awards, in the categories of: Best Experimental Film, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Monologue. You can watch all the Caprices this weekend online in the Pittsburgh Virtual Fringe Festival: Pittsburgh Fringe 2022 - Home

3.20.22 -

Today, the second installment of Caprices, "See You in the New Year," was selected as a Quarter Finalist in NY's Oniros Film Awards. If you haven't seen the film already, you can visit with our ensemble of Spiritualists in their Victorian mansion, over on Caprices' Vimeo On Demand page: Watch CAPRICES Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

3.8.22 -

The first installment of Caprices, "Epiousios," is an Official Selection and Semi-Finalist in LA's Indie Short Fest for March 2022. Revisit the episode over on Caprices' Vimeo On Demand page: Watch CAPRICES Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

2.2.22 -

Today our work "Caprices" won four awards through The American Filmatic Arts, in the categories: 'Best Experimental Feature,' 'Best Cinematography,' 'Best Costume Design,' and 'Best Make-up Design.'
Our many thanks to the AFAA, the judges, and everyone who was part of the making of 'Caprices' over the course of the last year.

12.23.21 -

After a year of work on the project, the first of the "Caprices" will be available to watch online starting New Year's Day. With more to follow:
Caprices - THE EVENING CRANE THEATRE

8.18.21 -

Evening Crane Theatre's first stage production in almost two years will play this September for five nights in the 10th Annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. Tickets are on sale now for "Which Way to the Ivy Covered Well" through the Fringe's webpage:
Home - KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

5.22.21 -

Principal photography has wrapped for "Caprices." Artwork & press media coming soon.

4.19.21 -
Production is underway for "Caprices," our forthcoming feature-length anthology of interlaced dramatic vignettes. Check back for regular updates on the film into the late spring and summer.

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The Evening Crane Theatre is a NYC-based theatre ensemble dedicated to the resurrection of forgotten 19th century masterworks, and the presentation of new plays in a lyrical mode. We seek works which:

1) evade imprisonment in the specious present,
2) sunder symbol from the quotidian,
3) articulate malefic wonder.

The Evening Crane Theatre has produced and performed shows Off-Broadway, as well as in Brooklyn, the East Village, and the Hudson Valley. Festival performances have included the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival (2018 / 2020 / 2021), the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards in Baltimore (2018 / 2020 / 2021), the Pittsburgh Virtual Fringe Festival (2020), and the Paris Fringe Festival (2020). Since its founding, The Evening Crane Theatre has dramatized each of the verse plays of Lord Byron at least once.

Most recently, Evening Crane Theatre's film anthology Caprices received awards for 'Best Experimental Feature,' 'Best Cinematography,' 'Best Costume Design,' and 'Best Makeup Design' in the 2021 American Filmatic Arts.

II. The Plays of Evening Crane Theatre

I. Enoptromancy, or When We Meet As One

II. Caprices

III. The Spyglass Seven

IV. Four Seasons

V. Show Me Again the Seasons

VI. Agda Turning to Stone

VII. Malefic Wonder

VIII. Etched Glass Decanter

IX. Which Way to the Ivy Covered Well

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Michael Seebold is a playwright, director, and producer. He founded The Evening Crane Theatre in 2016 after completing an MA in English: World Literature, and BAs in Philosophy and English with Valedictorian Honors from NCSU. His first work for the stage, The Spyglass Seven, received the 2012 Arts NC State Creative Artist Award for Playwriting, and his plays for stage and radio have since run in the Rochester Fringe, the Pittsburgh Fringe, the Paris Fringe, and the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards in Baltimore. Recently, his film Caprices won 'Best Experimental Feature,' 'Best Cinematography,' 'Best Costume Design,' and 'Best Makeup Design' at the 2021 American Filmatic Arts Awards.

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​The Plays of Evening Crane Theatre

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The Plays of Evening Crane Theatre