Friday, October 23, 2009

Coming Soon: CREATURE


New Georges teams with Page 73 Productions to present

CREATURE

a new play by Heidi Schreck
directed by Leigh Silverman

After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe* – new mother, mayor’s daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business – is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes.

Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401. Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics? Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up and audition for sainthood?

Playwright and OBIE-winning actor Heidi Schreck conjures a collision of contemporary and medieval imaginations: a very funny, a little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers.

with Marylouise Burke, Darren Goldstein, Sofia Jean Gomez,
Will Rogers, Tricia Rodley and Jeremy Shamos

design Rachel Hauck, Matt Frey, Theresa Squire, Katie Down

psm Sunneva Stapleton asm Aaron Heflich Shapiro
prod mgr Neal Wilkinson props Sean McArdle ad Lila Neugebauer
casting Jack Doulin press Jim Baldassare

OCTOBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 21 8pm
Mondays through Saturdays
+ special matinee Saturday 11/21 at 3pm
opens November 2 at 7pm

OHIO THEATRE 66 Wooster Street, Soho
between Spring & Broome streets
N/R to Prince; C/E to Spring; any train to Canal

$25 general admission / $35 premium seats (reserved)
Mondays & Halloween pay-what-you-will (at the door only)
For Tickets: Click Here or call 866.811.4111

Monday, October 19, 2009

Halloween Shows

Two shows Off-Off Broadway are are perfect for Halloween:

THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT…
THE NEW GUIGNOL

A father locks his daughter away because he can’t bear to share her with her mother, or anyone else. A man holds a busload of passengers hostage with no demands, and one woman does the unthinkable to attempt escape. And a scorned husband offers his wife a ghastly maternity gift. These tales and others make up this year’s THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT… series, Nosedive Productions’ annual October horror show.

*this show features nudity and graphic violence and is recommended for adults only.

October 28th-31st, 2009
The Brick
575 Metropolitan Ave
$18
For Tickets + Info: www.bricktheater.com


GHOSTLIGHT
By DESI MORENO-PENSON
Directed by JOSE ZAYAS

A couple arrives at a motel room for an afternoon of clandestine sex. Their tryst is interrupted by a security guard with alarming news about the room they're in. A vicious and violent cat and mouse game ensues as they rush to uncover the truth behind a horrifying urban legend.

October 14th-31st, 2009
59E59 Theaters
59 Street East 59 Street
$18
For Tickets & Info: www.59e59.org

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Coming Soon: John Jesurun's LIZ ONE


Black-Eyed Susan plays Elizabeth I of England as revealed through her private diaries. She struggles with a revolving set of presences to disentangle, un-write and finally rewrite her own biography. These intensely reflected histories include her perceptions regarding her five estranged children, their fathers, her own father, her hidden relationship with Buddhism and finally her disastrous attempt to invade North Africa. She inter-reacts with the kaleidoscopic array of ideas and characters through Jesurun's multi-dimensional use of language and technology. Jesurun and Black-Eyed Susan are long time collaborators having first worked together in Jesurun's 1984 production of "Red House".

LIZ ONE
Written, Directed, Designed by
John Jesurun

Performed by
Black Eyed Susan
Ben Forster

The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

October 14 - October 31
For Tickets + Info: Click Here
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