News + Events
2025
March 15, 2025 | Harlem Stage presents APT - American Physical Theater’s new play by Arthur Yorinks - The Lifeboat - in sold out performances
2024
October, 2024 | Arthur Yorinks creates and is the Artistic Director of a new not-for-profit theater company - APT - American Physical Theater
May 10-11, 2024 | Philip Glass/Rorbert Moran/Arthur Yorinks opera - The Juniper Tree - at Opera Orlanda, Florida
April 18, 2024 | AMT presents Dreams: 12 Variations, a new play by Arthur Yorinks at the Florence Gould Hall Theater in New York City
February 21 - 24 2024 | Philip Glass/Rorbert Moran/Arthur Yorinks opera - The Juniper Tree - at Northern Ireland Opera, Belfast, Ireland
2023
December, 13, 14, 15 2023 | A Christmas Carol - a play by Arthur Yorinks - at Louisville Orchestra, Louisville Kentucky
2022
August, 2022 | AMT temporarily names Arthur Yorinks its Artistic Director, overseeing the entire theater company and tasked with redefining and rebuilding its Performing Company and School at its home on West 25th Street in New York City.
August 25, 2022 | ORPHEUS/PDX opera company’s premiere season including a production of The Fall of the House of Usher - an opera by Philip Glass and Arthur Yorinks
June 29, 2022 | Premiere of Opera Maine’s production of The Fall of the House of Usher - an opera by Philip Glass and Arthur Yorinks
2021
December 2, 2021 | He Doesn’t Hear Me - world premiere of the one act play by Arthur Yorinks - starring Anita Gillette
October 26, 2021 | Book Release - One Mean Ant with Fly and Flea and Moth - the third book in the One Mean Ant trilogy by Arthur Yorinks, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier - published by Candlewick Press
January 29, 2021 | Premiere of Boston Lyric Opera’s production of The Fall of the House of Usher - an opera by Philip Glass and Arthur Yorinks - in a new cinematic adaptation
2020
December, 2020 | Revisiting a short MUSIC VIDEO by Anthony Roth Costanzo in 2018 with an aria from The Fall of the House of Usher - an opera by Philip Glass and Arthur Yorinks
October 31, 2020 | Paging Dr. Butch - world premiere of the one act play by Arthur Yorinks - presented by The Good Dog Foundation, NYC - starring Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, and Anita Gillette
October 31, 2020 | Launch of Short Plays - an ongoing Yorinks project of writing and producing one act plays presented live and/or through a streaming platform
October 13, 2020 | Book Release - One Mean Ant with Fly and Flea - the second book in the One Mean Ant trilogy by Arthur Yorinks, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier - published by Candlewick Press
September 12, 2020 | Twelve Angry Men . . . and Women - script arranged by Arthur Yorinks - at the Billie Holiday Theater - Brooklyn, NY
June 1, 2020 | Launch of Night Kitchen Studios - a TV and Film Studio devoted to the development of projects based on the works of Maurice Sendak
February 11, 2020 | Book Release - One Mean Ant - a new book by Arthur Yorinks, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier - published by Candlewick Press
2019
December, 2019 | Yorinks profiled on the PBS Show - ARTICULATE
December, 2019 | A Christmas Carol - a play by Arthur Yorinks - at Ivoryton Playhouse - starring Kathleen Turner and James Naughton
November 15, 2019 | Release of the recording of the Glass/Yorinks 1988 opera The Fall of the House of Usher on the Orange Mountain Music label
2018
November 10, 2018 | Playwright Arthur Yorinks and director Jim Simpson are developing a new theater piece based on the Philip Glass opera, The Fall of the House of Usher. Its “work-in-progress” premiered at MassMoCA
September 20, 2018 | The Maurice Sendak Foundation Announces playwright Arthur Yorinks has adapted Where the Wild Things Are for the stage
September 20, 2018 | The Maurice Sendak Foundation Celebrates Presto and Zesto in Limboland - The New York Public Library
September 4, 2018 | Major Book Release - Presto and Zesto in Limboland - a new book by Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak - published by HarperCollins
April, 2018 | Re-Release - Company's Coming and Company's Going - published by Disney-Hyperion
2017
December 17, 2017 | A Christmas Carol - an audio play by Arthur Yorinks - at The Billie Holiday Theatre, Brooklyn, NY - directed by Arthur Yorinks
August 11-19, 2017 | Glass/Moran/Yorinks opera - The Juniper Tree - at Wolf Trap
June 27, 2017 | Graphic Novel Release - Making Scents - published by First Second Books
June 17, 2017 | Glass/Yorinks opera - The Fall of the House of Usher - at Wolf Trap
May 12 - 13, 2017 | Yorinks’s theatrical adaptation - Their Eyes Were Watching God - at The Billie Holiday Theatre, Brooklyn, NY - directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
March 30 - 31, 2017 | Glass/Moran/Yorinks opera - The Juniper Tree - at The Hammond Theatre, Hampton, UK - UK Premiere
2016
June 21, 2016 | Season One premiere of Taking Care of Paul
June 21, 2016 | Premiere of Iron Will, an audio play from the American Song play cycle
June 21, 2016 | Premiere of Snow in Trees, an audio play from the American Song play cycle
June 21, 2016 | AIRWAYV Launch
