Saturday, August 30, 2014

10 Exciting Shows For Fall 2014


Axis Theater
SOLITARY 
LIGHT 
directed by Randy Sharp 
music and lyrics by Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara 

September 10 - October 4, 2014  
Axis Theater

Solitary Light tells a story through the eyes of those who witnessed New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that resulted in the death of 146 people in 1911. It depicts the lives of Frank and Louise, two young politically minded immigrant workers in love, as they navigate the financially strapped owners and the incredibly rich families of 1911 New York who had little concept of the horrors of the working class experience. 

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Nature Theater of Oklahoma 
THE GREAT 
NATURE THEATER 
OF OKLAHOMA 
IS CALLING YOU!

Fri, Sept 12 at 7:30pm
Crossing The Line Festival/FIAF: Tinker Auditorium   

New York’s Nature Theater of Oklahoma spent the summer of 2013 in a wildly creative residency culminating in the Berlin premiere of Life and Times Episodes 1–5 and a work-in-progress showing of Episode 6. In the midst of this artistic frenzy, the company filmed an intimate documentary about their creative process, exposing with humor and heartache the reality of negotiating life, work, collaboration, institutional politics, and the public. 

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Soho Rep
GENERATIONS  
by debbie tucker green 
directed by Leah C. Gardiner 
composition, arrangement and music direction by Bongi Duma 

September 30 - October 26
Soho Rep

You’re invited into a kitchen in a South African township where a fragrant meal is being prepared. As they cook, three generations of a close-knit family banter, share stories and food. Both urgent and exuberant, debbie tucker green’s formally daring play tackles what’s transmitted and lost through generations of a family—and a nation. Generations reunites playwright debbie tucker green and director Leah C. Gardiner following their 2011 Obie award-winning production of born bad and features a 12-person community chorus led by Bongi Duma (Broadway’s The Lion King). Join us after every performance to share South African music, drink, and food from Madiba Restaurant.

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Big Dance Theater 
ALAN SMITHEE 
DIRECTED THIS PLAY 
directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar 
choreography by Annie-B Parson and the company 

September 30 - October 4, 2014
BAM/Next Wave  Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage of political rhetoric, pathos, paranoia, and suburban love. With a titular nod to the Hollywood pseudonym[1] for directors who disavow their work after creative interference, Alan Smithee Directed This Play contemplates the slippery nature of creative control, history, its fictions, and the inextricable link between the personal and the historical. 

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600 Highwaymen
EMPLOYEE OF 
THE YEAR

October 15th and 16th at 7:30pm
Crossing The Line Festival/ FIAF Florence Gould Hall

A child's house burns down, leaving everyone and everything she has behind. From this moment, a singular journey begins. Combining 600 Highwaymen's arresting theatrical style with original songs by David Cale, this New York premiere, performed by five young girls, intimately investigates the process of transformation over a lifetime. 

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Dynasty Handbag
DYNASTY 
HANDBAG

Friday, October 17th
BAM/Next Wave/Fishman Space

Dynasty Handbag offers a feminist gloss on Homer’s Odyssey as part of Brooklyn Bred, a performance art showcase curated by Franklin Furnace Archive founder and director Martha Wilson. 

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Dave Malloy
Ghost 
Quartet 
music, lyrics, and text by Dave Malloy 
developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet
directed by Annie Tippe 

October 8 - November 1, 2014
The Bushwick Starr  

A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk. 

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Sister Sylvester
THE MAID'S 
THE MAIDS

October 30 - November 9, 2014
Abrons Arts Center/Experimental Theater

A performance involving Jean Genet’s The Maids, two professional housekeepers, two professional actors, and a lot of Fritos. Performed in English, Spanish and Portuguese, the show is a tale of separate — but overlapping — cities, labor and language, parallel worlds, and the possible violence of contact.   

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Andrea Kleine
SCREENING ROOM, 
OR, THE RETURN 
OF ANDREA KLEINE
(as revealed through a 
re-enactment of a 1977 
television program 
about a ‘long and baffling’ 
film by Yvonne Rainer.) 

Dec 03 - Dec 06, 2014
Chocolate Factory Theater   

Andrea Kleine resurfaces as the choreographer/filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and Rainer’s lion-tamer-turned-dancer character “Kristina,” transforming a verbatim  talk show interview into an imaginary film recounting Kleine’s journey of disappearance.

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Motus Theatre
NELLA 
TEMPESTA
conceived and directed by Enrico Casagrande and Daniela  Nicolo

December 11, 2014 - - December 21, 2014 
Ellen Stewart Theatre

Motus Theatre Company explores questions of freedom, control and power in Nella Tempesta. Reflecting on the turmoil in our society: the impact of Hurricane Sandy, the consequences of the economic crisis and questioning of future landscapes, Nella Tempesta is created from fragments of novels by authors including: Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley as well as Shake- speare’s The Tempest and Une Tempête by Aimé Césaire. 

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Monday, August 25, 2014

2014 Fringe Overall Excellence Award Winners

The 2014 Fringe Festival has come to an end, and awards were given out last night at The Cutting Room in midtown.  


And the winners are:

Overall Play:
Absolutely Filthy
The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen
This is Where We Live

 

Overall Musical:
Jump Man: A Mario Musical
King of Kong
Urban Momfare

 

Acting:
Janet Prince - Murder Margaret & Me
Stephen Wallem - Bedroom Secrets
Gwendolyn Kelso - Interior: Panic
Brendan Hunt - Absolutely Filthy

 

Playwrighting:
Briandaniel Oglesby - Halfway, Nebraska
Catherine Yu - The Sun Experiment
Sara Cooper - Things I Left on Long Island
Daniel McCabe - The Flood
Jacob Marx Rice - Chemistry

 

Solo Performance:
Gary Busey's Hamlet
Hoaxocaust
Magical Negro Speaks
No Static at All
The Mushroom Cure

 

Music & Lyrics Composition:
Elliah Helfetz - Dust Can't Kill Me

 

Ensemble:
The List
No One Asked Me
Freaks: A Legend About Growing Up
Vestments of the Gods
The 8th Fold

 

Costumes:
Ashley Soliman - Fatty Fatty No Friends
 

Directing:
Bronwen Carson - April's Fool
Gregory Kowalski - Crave

 

TheaterMania Audience Favorite:
Absolutely Filthy
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