This month Torn Space is breaking ground on the final stage of our multi-phase capital project, creating a campus setting geared for community engagement, complimenting and supporting recent neighborhood revitalization efforts, increasing the capacity and volume of an outdoor performance area, and transforming the site into a larger multi-use space focused on integrating the campus …
Torn Space Featured in the 2023 Prague Quadrennial
Torn Space has been selected to the internationally curated exhibition Acts of Assembly as part of the Prague Quadrennial. Torn Space will join Netherlands, Uruguay, Spain, Greece, France and Brazil among others countries in this international survey of the best in contemporary stage design and scenography The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space was …
Torn Space Receives Erie County Cultural Funding for Phase 3 Capital Campaign
Torn Space Theater has received $500,000 to continue Phase 3 of its capital improvements, building on major renovations of its performance space, a neighboring gas station-turned design studio, and the landscaping of its East Side home at the Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle. This funding supports Torn Space’s continued commitment to the revitalization of …
Torn Space to Present Original Performance for Prague Quadrennial 2023
Torn Space has been selected to present an original featured performance at the Prague Quadrennial 2023, an international conference of contemporary performance and design. Torn Space was part of the U.S. exhibition in the 2019 quadrennial, featured alongside other extraordinary theaters across the country recognized for exemplary production design, but next summer they will have …
“The Encounter” Residency at Torn Space Premieres at Crossing the Line in NYC
On the heels of the premiere of The Encounter: Buffalo at Torn Space Theater in May, NYC-based Choreographer/Director Kimberly Bartosik returns to TST this month to develop a unique iteration of The Encounter which will premiere in NYC as part of French Institute/Alliance Francaise/FIAF’s prestigious Crossing the Line Festival. The work will feature performers and …
Torn Space Completes Phase II of Capital Improvements
Empire State Development (ESD) announced the completion of Torn Space Theater’s (TST) $1.2 million interior and exterior renovation project. The theater, located on Buffalo’s East Side, now has an expanded and upgraded performance space that is integrated with reclaimed green space surrounding the newly restored building at 608 Fillmore Avenue, creating a beautiful, walkable campus …
Manmade Earth to NYC and Back
Buffalo, NY – Manmade Earth, which had work-in-progress performances in fall of 2018 at Torn Space Theater, was presented as part of the Crossing the Line Festival at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY in September. The 600 HIGHWAYMEN co-production includes students from Lafayette International High School who, through a partnership with Torn …
Torn Space Selected to Represent the United States at the Prague Quadrennial
Torn Space creates theater. Founded by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola, Torn Space Theater (TST) aims to create original, aesthetically innovative performances; to introduce internationally-renowned, contemporary drama to Western New York; and to cultivate the collaboration of actors, composers, sculptors, video artists and designers within our productions. Drawing from the leading edge of the global …
Light/Station at Tornspace
Torn Space invested in expansion and site improvements that will revitalize not only the theater, but also a section of Fillmore Avenue that provides a strategic link to established East Side landmarks (Broadway Market, St. Stanislaus Church, Central Terminal) and emerging ones, including urban farms and a Buddhist cultural center. The site is also on …