6 Things To See In May 2013

OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES
(A TRUE ROMANCE)

Snapshots from an enigmatic fairy-tale in which Suzie, the elusive coquette, brings Samuel to his knees – from where he worships a life he only half understands. OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES (A TRUE ROMANCE) is an expressionistic chamber-play that twists emotional heartache into a landscape of continual mental invention, marking the return to theater of a celebrated artist whom The New York Times has dubbed “the Godfather of the American avant-garde.”

The Public Theater in association with Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
OLD-FASHIONED PROSTITUTES
(A TRUE ROMANCE)
Written, Directed, and Designed by Richard Foreman
Featuring Stephanie Hayes, Alenka Kraigher, Nicolas Norena, Rocco Sisto, David Skeist

April 30 - June 2

Tickets: $61.50 - $71.50

The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
NY, NY 10003

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SOMEWHERE FUN

Rosemary and Evelyn met “a hundred thousand years ago” in Central Park when their children were barely born. SOMEWHERE FUN reunites the two women thirty-five years later on Madison Avenue, one windy fall day. With their children now grown and the world changing rapidly before (what’s left of) their eyes, each finds herself face to face with the terrors, joys, and surprises of life and time. Jenny Schwartz returns to the Vineyard following her critically-acclaimed play GOD’S EAR with this wildly original story about connection — to our families, our memories, our moment in time. Schwartz reunites with director Anne Kauffman (BELLEVILLE, SLOWGIRL) following their collaboration on GOD’S EAR.

Vineyard Theatre presents
SOMEWHERE FUN
By Jenny Schwartz
Directed by Anne Kauffman
Starring Makenna Ballard, Richard Bekins, Griffin Birney, Brooke Bloom, Kathleen Chalfant, Greg Keller, Kate Mulgrew, Maria Elena Ramirez, and Mary Shultz.

Set Design – Marsha Ginsberg, Costume Design – Jessica Pabst,
Lighting Design –Japhy Weideman, Sound Design – Daniel Kluger, Wig Design- Paul Huntley, Production Stage Manager - Megan Schwarz Dickert, Assistant Stage Manager - Mary Spadoni

MAY 15 - JUNE 23

Tickets: $30 (box seats)- $75 (standard) - $100 (premium)

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Deadly She-Wolf 
Assassin at Armageddon!

A Martial Arts-Samurai Sword Fighting-Music/Theater Fantasy Action-Adventure Blockbuster homage to “Lone Wolf and Cub” (Kozure Ogami) in a story of imperial decline and desperation, revenge, intrigue and catharsis. Fred Ho’s super-talented team unleashes a music/theater work of dazzling spectacle and emotional power.

LaMama, ETC presents
Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!
Music and Concept by Fred Ho
Written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff
Directed by Sonoko Kawahara

May 16 – June 2, 2013

Tickets: $30; $25 (Students/Seniors)

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


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A Public Reading 
of an Unproduced 
Screenplay 
About the Death 
of Walt Disney

Tonight Walt is going to read you a screenplay he wrote. It’s about his last days on earth. It’s about a city he’s going to build that’s going to change the world. And it’s about his brother. It’s about everyone who loves him so much, and it’s about how sad they’re going to be when he’s gone.
Right? I mean, how can they live without him? How can anyone live without him?
Artistic Director Sarah Benson directs the world premiere of Lucas Hnath’s adrenaline-charged odyssey, a supersonic portrait of the man who forever changed the American Dream.

Soho Rep.
in association with John Adrian Selzer presents
A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney
a new play by Lucas Hnath
directed by Sarah Benson

Choreography by Annie B Parson, Set Design by Mimi Lien, Costume Design by Kaye Voyce, Lighting Design by Matt Frey, Sound Design by Matt Tierney, Special Effects by Steve Cuiffo, Props by Jon Knust, Production Stage Manager: Heather Arnson, Production Manager: BD White.

Featuring Larry Pine as Walt Disney.

April 30 - May 26

Tickets: $30 (regular); $40 (reserved)

Soho Rep
46 Walker Street
New York, NY 10013

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3 KINDS OF EXILE

With great psychological insight and arresting theatricality, John Guare presents us with three artists, all of whom forged complicated lives in exile, having struggled and suffered amid the cultural and political turmoil of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th Century.
In 3 Kinds of Exile, the celebrated author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation draws from the experiences of three real exiles from Czechoslovakia and Poland. Guare weaves the stories of these lives into a riveting dramatic tapestry and probes the meaning of home, identity and how we carry the past with us.

Atlantic Theater Company presents
3 KINDS OF EXILE
by JOHN GUARE
directed by NEIL PEPE

May 15 – June 23, 2013

Tickets: $70

Atlantic Theater Co
Linda Gross Theater
336 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011

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Reasons To Be Happy

Three years after a contentious break-up, Steph and Greg are wondering if they can make a fresh go of it. Trouble is, she’s married to someone else and he’s just embarked on a relationship with Steph’s best friend, Carly, a single mom whose jealous ex-husband, Kent, has trouble articulating his feelings. Navigating the rocky landscape of conflicting agendas and exploding emotions isn’t going to be easy for any of them. Reasons to Be Happy is a funny, surprising, and poignant new play about the choices and sacrifices we are willing to make in the pursuit of that often elusive ideal: happiness.
Leslie Bibb (Iron Man, Talladega Nights), Jenna Fischer (NBC's "The Office"), Josh Hamilton (The Coast of Utopia, Proof on Broadway) and Fred Weller (MCC's Still Life and In a Dark Dark House) star in Reasons to Be Happy, Neil LaBute’s companion piece to his critically-acclaimed, Reasons to Be Pretty, first produced at MCC Theater in 2008 before moving to Broadway and receiving three 2009 Tony Award nominations, including Best Play.

MCC Theater presents
REASONS TO BE HAPPY
Written and Directed by Neil LaBute
With Leslie Bibb, Jenna Fischer, Josh Hamilton and Fred Weller

May 16th - June 23rd, 2013

Tickets: $69 - $79

Lucile Lortel Theater
121 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014

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6 Things To See in February 2013

1.  THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN

Can we practice goodness and create a world to sustain it?  In Brecht’s comic and complex play, this question is raised by one of his most entertaining characters — Shen Tei the good-hearted, penniless, cross-dressing prostitute, who is forced to disguise herself as a savvy businessman named Sui Ta so she can master the ruthlessness needed to be a “good person” in a brutal world. A Foundry Theater production at LaMama.

The Foundry Theater and LaMama, ETC present
THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN
Directed by Lear deBessonet
With Taylor Mac as Shen Tei, Annie Golden and Lisa Kron
Music by César Alvarez with The Lisps
 
LaMama - Ellen Stewart Theatre 
66 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $35 Adults/$30 Students + Seniors

February 1 – February 24, 2013

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*****

 

2. Moose Murders (Shamelessly Revised)

The most infamous flop of Broadway history, the farcical murder mystery MOOSE MURDERS closed on opening night to some of the most scathing reviews in history. Beautiful Soup Theater Collective revives it for the very first time in NYC.


Beautiful Soup Theater Collective presents
MOOSE MURDERS
by Arthur Bicknell
Directed by Steven Carl McCasland

Connelly Theatre
220 East 4th Street
New York NY 10009

Tickets: $25.00 - $30.00

January 29, 2013 - February 10, 2013


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*****

3. The Lying Lesson 

In a remote seaside village in Maine, a woman who may or may not bea legendary movie star shows up to buy the home of an elderly couple.Escorted by a young local woman who appears never to have heard of her,“Ruth” stakes a claim on her distant past, and plays a relentless game ofcat and mouse with her new “assistant.” This hilarious and unsettling homage to the films of Hollywood’s GoldenAge is directed by Pam MacKinnon. 

Atlantic Theater Company presents 
The Lying Lesson 
by Craig Lucas 
directed by Pam MacKinnon 

Atlantic Theater Company/Linda Gross Theater 
336 West 20th Street 
New York, NY 10011

Tickets: $70

February 6 - March 17, 2013 

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*****

  

4. The Revisionist

David arrives in Poland with a crippling case of writer’s block and a desire to be left alone. His 75-year-old second cousin Maria welcomes him with a fervent need to connect with her distant American family. As their tenuous relationship develops, she reveals details about her complicated post-war past that test their ideas of what it means to be a family.  This is a rare chance to see Vanessa Redgrave in on off-Broadway space.

Rattlestick Theater presents
The Revisionist
With Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave
Directed by Kip Fagan

Rattlestick Theater
Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014
 
Tickets: $85.00
 
February 15, 2013 - March 31, 2013

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*****

5. Belleville 

BELLEVILLE the newest drama from acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, After the Revolution) and director Anne Kauffman (Detroit, This Wide Night), is a chilling, Hitchcockian, look at the limits of trust, truth, deception and dependency in a world where both love and loss can be pathological and cathartic.This is the NYC premiere after debuting last year at Yale Rep.

New York Theater Workshop presents

Belleville

by  Amy Herzog

directed by Anne Kauffman

New York Theater Workshop
79 East 4th Street 

(between Bowery and 2nd Ave)


Tickets: $70

February 12th - Mar 31st, 2013

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***** 

 6. Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play

After being denied the rights to several works by American playwrights of the 1930s and 40s based solely on Theater Reconstruction Ensemble's standing as an experimental company, their resident playwright Jaclyn Backhaus, the creative mind behind TRE's The Three Seagulls, or MASHAMASHAMASHA!, has taken on the challenge of writing her own take on an American realism play of the 40s and 50s, utilizing the basic archetypal characters we've been running into in various workshops of iconic American plays, and creating a storyline that reflects what we've learned about the genre as a whole.    

February 21 - March 10, 2013

Theater Reconstruction Ensemble presents
Set in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play
by Jaclyn Backhaus
directed by John Kurzynowski

Walkerspace
46 Walker Street
(Between Broadway + Church Street)
New York, NY 10013For tickets + Info: Click Here
 

  

The 2011 OBIE Awards

The winners of the 2011 OBIE Awards were announced tonight at Webster Hall. And the winners are:

Best New American Play
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Second Stage)


Lifetime Achievement
Repertorio Espanol and its co-founder and artistic director, René Buch


Performance
F. Murray Abraham, sustained excellence of performance
André Braugher, The Whipping Man (Manhattan Theatre Club)
Michael Chernus, In the Wake (Public Theater)
Ethan Hawke, Blood from a Stone (The New Group)
Hamish Linklater, The School for Lies (Classic Stage Company)
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place (Manhattan Class Company)
Thomas Sadoski, Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theater)
Scott Shepherd, Gatz (Elevator Repair Service / Public Theater)
Brenda Wehle, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures (Signature Theatre / Public Theater)
Charlayne Woodard, The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull Theater)

Playwriting
Samuel D. Hunter, A Bright New Boise (Partial Comfort Productions)
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Invasion! (The Play Company)

Direction
Austin Pendleton, Three Sisters (Classic Stage Company)
Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, Peter and the Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop)
Leigh Silverman [pictured right], In the Wake (Public Theater) and Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons)

Design
Jill BC Du Boff, sustained excellence of sound design
Donyale Werle, sustained excellence of set design

Special Citations
Design and choreography, Sleep No More (Punchdrunk Theatre) Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan, Beatrice Minns, Maxine Doyle, Stephen Dobbie, Euan Maybank, and David Israel Reynoso
Young Jean Lee, We're Gonna Die (13P / Joe’s Pub)
debbie tucker green and Leah C. Gardiner, Born Bad (Soho Rep)

Obie Grants ($2,500 to each theater)
Metropolitan Playhouse
Wakka Wakka

The Ross Wetzsteon Award
Belarus Free Theatre

2011 Lucille Lortel Award Winners

Outstanding Play
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Produced by Second Stage Theatre;
Written by Kristoffer Diaz

Outstanding Musical
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Produced by The Public Theater and Center Theatre Group
in association with Les Freres Corbusier;
Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman, Book by Alex Timbers

Outstanding Solo Show
Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's BoyfriendProduced by Ron Delsener and Mike Lavoie;
Written and Performed by Mike Birbiglia

Outstanding Revival
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Part 1: Millennium Approaches,
Part 2: PerestroikaProduced by Signature Theatre Company;
Written by Tony Kushner

Outstanding Director
John Collins, Gatz

Outstanding Choreographer
Steven Hoggett, Peter and the Starcatcher

Outstanding Lead Actor
Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Outstanding Lead Actress
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place

Outstanding Featured Actor
Thomas Sadoski, Other Desert Cities

Outstanding Featured Actress
Kristen Schaal, The Coward

Outstanding Scenic Design
Donyale Werle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Outstanding Costume Design
Gabriel Berry, The Coward

Outstanding Lighting Design
Ben Stanton, The Whipping Man

Outstanding Sound Design
Mikhail Fiksel, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award: Lynne Meadow

Service to Off-Broadway Award: Gary Glaser

Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience:
Gatz - Produced by The Public Theater

2010 OBIE AWARDS

OBIE WINNERS 2010

The Sustained Achievement Award
David Greenspan

Best New American Play (w/check for $1000)
Annie Baker, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION and THE ALIENS

Performance
Ensemble, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons)
(Reed Birney, Tracee Chimo, Peter Friedman, Deirdre O’Connell, Heidi Schreck)

Dane DeHaan, THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)

Jonathan Hammond, THE BOYS IN THE BAND (Transport Group)

Marc Damon Johnson, THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS (Public Theater)

Laurie Metcalf, A LIE OF THE MIND (The New Group)

Wendell Pierce, sustained excellence of performance

Juliet Rylance, AS YOU LIKE IT (Bridge Project/BAM)

Rocco Sisto, sustained excellence of performance

Playwriting
Enda Walsh, THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM (Druid Theatre / St. Ann’s Warehouse)

Directing
Sam Gold, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons) and THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)

Pam MacKinnon, CLYBOURNE PARK (Playwrights Horizons)

Design / Music

Steven Dufala and Billy Blaise Dufala (machine design), MACHINES MACHINES
MACHINES MACHINES MACHINES MACHINES MACHINES (rainpan 43 /
HERE Arts Center)

Stephin Merritt (music + lyrics), CORALINE (MCC Theater)

Tyler Micoleau, sustained excellence of lighting design

Neil Murray (sets and costumes), Malcolm Rippeth (lighting), Gemma Carrington and Jon Driscoll (projection design), BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Kneehigh Theatre / St. Ann’s Warehouse)

Special Citations
Ariane Mnouchkine & Théâtre du Soleil, LES ÉPHÉMÈRES (Lincoln Center Festival)

Taylor Mac, THE LILY’S REVENGE (HERE Arts Center)

The Ohio Theatre

Hoi Polloi and Rachel Chavkin, THREE PIANOS
(Hoi Polloi: Alec Duffy, Dave Malloy, and Rick Burkhardt) (Ontological)

Philippe Quesne and Gaëtan Vourc’h, L’EFFET DE SERGE (Vivarium Studio / Under the Radar)

Chris Wells, SECRET CITY

The Ross Wetzsteon Award (w/check for $1000)
Foundry Theatre

Obie Grants

Harlem School of the Arts

Ontological Incubator

Vampire Cowboys

2009 Drama Desk Awards

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners at last night's Drama Desk Awards, especially the Off-Broadway winners:

Outstanding Play: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Outstanding Music in a Play: Dominic Kanza (Ruined)
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Pablo Schreiber (reasons to be pretty Off Broadway)
Outstanding Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim (Road Show)
Outstanding Set Design of a Play: David Korins (Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them)
Outstanding Solo Performance: Lorenzo Pisoni (Humor Abuse)
Unique Theatrical Experience: Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words
And Special Awards to:
Outstanding Ensemble Performances: The cast of The cast of The Cripple of Inishmaan
Forbidden Broadway
Atlantic Theater Company and artistic director Neil Pepe
TADA! Youth Theater

Looking Forward to 2009

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