Sarah Einspanier’s LUNCH BUNCH is Back!

 

Last seen at Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks, Sarah Einspanier’s wonderful LUNCH BUNCH  has returned courtesy of Play Company.  A rare Critics' Pick from The New York Time's Alexis Soloski should tell you not to miss this second chance to see this show!

“Dragon Fruit! Black Beluga Lentils! Perfectly Soft-Boiled Eggs!”

Seven public defenders seek meaning, belonging, and some semblance of order via their frenzied quest for the perfect lunch – while battling ACS, inequality, burnout, and a big ole serving of existential dread.

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LUNCH BUNCH

March 15-April 15, 2023 

Written by Sarah Einspanier 

Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad 

Featuring: Janice Amaya Tala Ashe Ugo Chukwu David Greenspan Louisa Jacobson Francis Mateo Jo Mei Julia Sirna-Frest

122CC 
2nd Floor Theatre 
150 1st Avenue 
New York, NY

Tickets + Info: CLICK HERE

7 Show To See In June 2013

The "Broadway" season may be winding down, but things are heating up Beyond Broadway!  Here are 7 shows not to miss in June 2013!

SONTAG: REBORN
New York Theater Workshop brings back terrific The Builders Association production of Moe Angelos' Sontag Reborn.  Originally presented as part of the Under The Radar Festival in 2012, Angelos portrays the noted thinker as a young adult, forming who she will become.  The show provides fascinating insight into Susan Sontag, the person.

SONTAG: REBORN
Based on the books by Susan Sontag
and edited by David Rieff
Adapted and performed by Moe Angelos
Directed by Marianne Weems

Tuesday, May 28th  - Sunday, June 30th

New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

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Clubbed Thumb's SUMMERWORKS

One of our favorite events of the year is Clubbed Thumb's SummerWorks, three more-than-workshop productions of three new plays, usually quirky.  This year's offerings are:

Baby Screams Miracle

by Clare Barron 

directed by Portia Krieger

Phoebe in Winter
by Jen Silverman
directed by Mike Donahue

La Brea
by Gregory S. Moss
directed by Adam Greenfield 

Clubbed Thumb presents 

Summerworks 2013

May 24 – June 29, 2013

The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
(between Ave. A and B)
New York, NY 10009

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

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The Comedy of Errors 
Daniel Sullivan directs the first production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors to hit the Delacorte in twenty years. (The last one featured Elizabeth Franz, Boyd Gaines and Marissa Tomei in 1992.)  This time around, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater star in this broad comedy about identical twins separated at birth and mistaken identities. 

This production has an unusual 8:30pm start time but the running time is listed as only 90 minutes.  But knowing these two actors, I'd expected it to run longer at times!

The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival presents
The Comedy of Errors
with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater
directed by Daniel Sullivan

May 28th - June 30th

Delacorte Theater
Central Park
Enter at West 81st Street

Tickets are free, but can be a challenge to get.  For more information: Click Here

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MANNA-HATA

Peculiar Works Project, known for their nifty site-specific performances, will next take on nothing less than the 400-year history of New York City. MANNA-HATA written by Barry Rowell, directed by Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff. will take place at the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue, soon to become part of history itself when it becomes Moynihan Station.

MANNA-HATA (from the indigenous Lenape tribe's name for the island) is the extraordinary true story of the transformation of New York City from a small island to a booming metropolis. Featuring famous scoundrels (Peter Stuyvesant, Boss Tweed, Robert Moses); artistic legends (Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker); and other beloved City figures (Emily Roebling, Jane Jacobs, Shirley Chisholm), MANNA-HATA shares tales of graft, oppression, and violence, as well as stories, poems and songs of love dedicated to the Great City herself.

The 21-member cast, playing all of the live music and over 100 roles, includes Everett Quinton, Christopher Hurt, Catherine Porter and Cherrye Davis.


Peculiar Works Project presents
MANNA-HATA

by Barry Rowell
directed by Barry Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff

Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2013

James A. Farley Post Office
425 Eighth Avenue
(enter on West 31st Street, just west of 8th Avenue)

Tickets are $18, and must be purchased in advance!

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

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SOUND SCAPE

This summer, The Brick Theater puts sound designers center stage in what promises to be a truly unique approach to their annual summer festivals.

Some of the highlights include:

• Cliff House's The Beckett Cycle looks at Beckett's radio and television plays.

• Six of Six Productions' Commotion Collage is based on Dadaist Simultaneous and Sound Poems.

• Submerged presents a sound and music driven adaptation of Dante's Inferno.

• Tux + Tom Productions' ELE↓↑TOR will transform the stage of the Brick Theater into a dangerously malfunctioning elevator making its way to the 80th floor of the Empire State Building.

• 31 Down will tackle Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a Room.

• 13 Chairs will present Tangerine EP, Tommy Smith's sonic retelling of drugged seduction in Homer’s The Odyssey

• Christopher Loar's The Theoretical Physics of Procrastination is a solo performance connecting procrastination, creativity and global warming using lip-syncing and video. 

• The Fifth Wall's The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, The Ugliest Woman in the World by Shaun Prendergast and directed by Gyda Arber, is performed entirely in the dark.  

The Brick Theater presents
SOUND SCAPE

June 7 - 29th, 2013

Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

For Tickets and Info:Click Here

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The Penalty

The Apothetae's mission is to produce works written and performed by disabled actors and writers. inspired on the book of the same name by Gouverneur Morris, The Penalty follows a tale of revenge by a physically deformed derelict as he works his way across a cold and unforgiving New York City. His cohorts are a bevy of dancing girls who inhabit the bars and dance halls of the Lower East Side. Gregory Mozgala will recreate the role first portrayed by Lon Chaney in the 1920's film adaptation.

Dixon Place and The Apothetae present

The Penalty 

Written by Clay McLeod Chapman

Directed by Kris Thor

Music and Lyrics by Robert M. Johanson and Clay McLeod Chapman

Robert M. Johanson is the genius behind the music of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times!

June 13th - 29th

Dixon Place

161A Chrystie Street

New York, NY 10002

$15 in advance ($18 door / $12 Students & Seniors)

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

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The Painted Bird Trilogy 
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)

Presented previously in its individual parts, LaMama ETC now presents Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's The Painted Bird Trilogy in its entirety. This four-hour epic is inspired by the classic and controversial novel of the same name by Polish-born author Jerzy Kosinski.  The allegorical novel tells the story of a young boy making his way through war-time Eastern Europe and a brilliantly painted bird that is violently killed by its own flock, which mistakes it for an imposter. 


LaMama ETC presents
Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's 

The Painted Bird Trilogy 
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)

June 21st - June 30th, 2013

Ellen Stewart Theater
66 E 4th St New York
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $60 for all three parts (4 hours with two intermissions)

For Tickets and Info: Click Here 

Best of 2011: #9 - Our Lot (Clubbed Thumb)

Every year, the excellent Clubbed Thumb presents three new works in fully staged productions for what they call Summerworks.  One of this year's selections was OUR LOT co-written by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock and it was totally hypnotic (in a great way). Three children gather to clean out the belongings of their late step-father who kept collections of items in carefully labeled plastic bins (John Lennon, Julia Child, Charles Darwin).  The set-up is brilliant - the stored items were usually more personal than (and in many instances were barely related to) the container they were in.  I loved this play and it deserves a longer return engagement.

Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2011

The terrific Clubbed Thumb Summerworks has announced this summer's three shows:
ENFRASCADA
by Tanya Saracho
directed by Jerry Ruiz
In which Alicia tries to make time go backward, ensnarling her expressive friends, their conjurers and a lot of jars. with Flora Diaz, Annie Henk, Anna Lamadrid, Jessica Pimentel, Christina Pumariega
June 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 at 8:30 PM TICKETS

OUR LOT
by Kristin Newbom & W. David Hancock
directed by May Adrales
In which three siblings clear out their dead step-dad's trash. Or is it their legacy? And who gets the haunted van? with Joanna P. Adler, Nathan Hinton, Mariann Mayberry, Paul Niebanck
June 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 at 8:30 PM TICKETS

CIVILIZATION (ALL YOU CAN EAT)
by Jason Grote
directed by Seth Bockley
In which ambitious gurus, entertainers, wage slaves and a giant pig let their appetites get the better of them. with Jeff Biehl, Reyna de Courcy, Judith Hawking, Melissa Miller, Andres Munar, Melle Powers, Tony Torn
June 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 at 8:30 PM TICKETS

2010 Fall Preview

Here are 13 shows that Ludlow Lad is excited about seeing this fall:

underneathmybed: A new play by Florencia Lozano in which ghosts of a dirty foreign war haunt a family. Rattlestick Theatre; starts September 1. www.rattlestick.org

Roadkill Confidential: This new play by Sheila Callaghan is described as a noir-ish meditation on brutality. 3LD Art & Technology Center; starts September 7. www.clubbedthumb.org

Orlando: Sarah Ruhl takes on Virginia Woolf. Classic Stage; starts September 8. www.classicstage.org

Brandywine Distillery Fire: Matthew Freeman and Matthew Gardner promise to develope a theater work in the "wrongest" way possible which may never delivers on its promises. Incubator Arts Project; starts September 9. www.brandywinedistilleryfire.com

Down There: Based on the real-life 1965 torture murder of Sylvia Likens, Down There is a new play from Axis Company, written and directed by Randy Sharp. Axis Theatre; starts September 9. www.axiscompany.org

The Little Foxes: Director Ivo van Hove, who has previously taken on Williams, Ibsen and Moliere now turns his talents to Lillian Hellman's famous play. New York Theatre Workshop; starts September 10. www.nytw.org

The Divine Sister: Charles Busch gets back to his roots in this hilarious new comedy that was workshopped at Theater for the New City earlier this year. Soho Playhouse; starts September 12. www.divinesisteronstage.com

Angels in America: Michael Greif directs Tony Kushner's gigantic play. Parts one and two run in rep from September 14th through January 30th. signaturetheatre.org

Orange, Hat and Grace: Artistic Director Sarah Benson directs this new play by Gregory S. Moss that is described as a funny, fierce and provocative inquiry into our relationship with the natural world. Soho Rep; starts September 15. www.sohorep.org

Three Sisters Come and Go: Anton Chekhov vs. Samuel Beckett vs. Julia Kristeva in this beautifully designed piece that gets a return engagement at Theaterlab; starts September 29. www.theaterlabnyc.comli

Middletown: A new play by Will Eno, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll that explores the universe of a small American town. Vineyard Theatre; starts October 13. www.vineyardtheatre.org

A Free Man of Color: The amazing John Guare's new play, described as a "freewheeling epic" set in 1802 New Orleans. Lincoln Center Theater @ the Vivian Beaumont; starts October 21. www.lct.org

(oh my god I am so) THIRST(y): Little Lords bring back their great adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s play. October 21 - 30, 2010 @ Incubator Arts Project www.littlelord.org

Clubbed Thumb: Summerworks 2010

DOT
by Kate E. Ryan
directed by Anne Kauffman
original music by Mike Iveson

In which old Dot and the weird kid from the neighborhood become friends. Set in that kind of Florida town that makes you wonder: is this tv, a book, or maybe even a cabaret?

with David Brooks, Kate Hopkins, Birgit Huppuch, Ed Jewett, Lynne McCollough, and Mary Shultz

June 6, 7, 8, & 10, 11, 12 at 8PM

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FIVE GENOCIDES
by Samuel D. Hunter
directed by Davis McCallum

In which Katie is determined to finish writing that book -- even though she didn't start it. Lucky she's got a new friend at the Fashion Bug to help since her in-laws are deluded, drunk, and dog-obsessed.

with Charlotte Booker, Crystal Finn, Barrett O'Brien, Carmen M. Herlihy, and Edward James Hyland

June 13, 14, 15, & 17, 18, 19 at 8PM

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THE SMALL
by Anne Washburn
directed by Les Waters
original music by Dave Malloy
In which a man struggles to assemble a reality from his dreams, the dog very much wants to be taken for a walk, and the Natural Food store isn't.

with Gideon Banner, Maria Dizzia, Matthew Maher, Dave Malloy, and Susie Pourfar

June 20, 21, 22, & 24, 25, 26 at 8PM
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This will be the final Summerworks that will happen at the Ohio Theater, so make sure you don't miss it!

For tickets: Click Here

For more info on Clubbed Thumb or Summerworks: www.clubbedthumb.org