Preview: ERS' Arguendo @ The Public

The fabulous Elevator Repair Service has taken a break from their American Lit plays to present a little gem of a show called Arguendo. 

The premise of Arguendo is a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court case, Barnes v. Glen Theatre, brought by a group of go-go dancers who claimed a First Amendment right to dance totally nude.  The case examines an Indiana law that banned public nudity. At oral argument, the Justices attempt to define dance, ponder nudity in opera houses vs. strip-clubs, and ask whether naked erotic dancing is artistic expression or immoral conduct. 

Arguendo is a staging of Barnes v. Glen Theatre’s entire oral argument, verbatim, interspersed with bits of real interviews with the justices, the lawyers and an exotic dancer who traveled all the way from the Déja Vu Club in Saginaw, Michigan to listen to the argument at The Supreme Court. It all culminates in an operatic dance frenzy, complete with some nudity. 

If this all sounds a little dry, rest assured that the usual ERS inventions are all present including hilarious sounds effects and dazzling video work highlighting legal case citing. What becomes most interesting are the supreme court justices own hangups and humanity while trying to sort through the facts of the case with questions like: Can dance express something? Would nudity be more acceptable in opera? Why is the establishment where the woman are dancing called a "bookstore"?  What is a public place?

This is a smart and entertaining 80 minutes.

The Public Theater presents
Elevator Repair Services'
Arguendo
 
Through October 6, 2013

For tickets and info: click here

There are several talk-backs scheduled which will probably be fascinating, as this is a show that definitely makes you want to talk afterwards:

Sunday Sept 15 @ 7pm – Bill Araiza
Sunday Sept 22 @ 7pm – David Lat
Wednesday Sept 11 – Mark Fleming
Sunday Sept 29 @ 7pm - Christopher Fairman
Wednesday Oct 2 - World Famous BOB

14 Things To See: Fall 2013

NATURE THEATER OF OKLAHOMA’S
LIFE AND TIMES: EPISODES 4.5 + 5

Catch the latest episode and a half of the life story of Kristin Worrall.  With Episodes 4.5 + 5, Nature Theater of Oklahoma embraces animation and visual art in a live performance devoid of actors. Episode 4.5, a 30-minute animated film, begins with the end of high school and the search for love. The saga continues in Episode 5 with high school air bands, secrets, and finally the first sexual experience, graphically remade in the form of a medieval illuminated manuscript with original organ music played live by composer Daniel Gower.

FIAF: Florence Gould Hall (part of Crossing The Lines Festival)
Friday, Sept 20 and Saturday, Sept 21 at 8pm

GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLORS

The US Premiere of Wallace Shawn's brilliant and insane play, first produced at London's Royal Court is described as a disturbing and anomalously beautiful play that explores the role of human beings in nature and the role of nature in human beings, sexuality being as Shawn says, “nature’s most obvious footprint in the human soul.” The play’s central character is a doctor who believes he has solved world hunger when he figures out how to rejigger the metabolisms of animals to tolerate eating their own kind. This has unexpected consequences. Grasses of a Thousand Colors tells a story about the doctor, his wife, and his lovers, that is also a story about human beings and animals and the planet we live on.

Public Theater (in co-production with Theater For A New Audience)
October 7 - November 10

ROOSEVELVIS

From the company that created the wonderful MISSION DRIFT comes a duet in which  actresses Kristen Sieh and Libby King tackle two American icons of masculinity: Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley. On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann, a painfully shy meat-processing plant worker, and what kind of man or woman she should become. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain.

Bushwick Starr
October 9 - November 3, 2013

MYENDLESSLOVE

Miguel Gutierrez' not-quite-a-solo-performance about sex, desire and objectification that incorporates movement, video and music. myendlesslove is a performance about love, sex and desire cumming and going, going, gone. The piece unravels as a search for the poetics of gay sex, exploiting time-honored clichés about sentimentality, longing, and how we look beyond ourselves for love.

Abrons Arts Center/Underground
October 9, 2013 - October 19, 2013

A (MICRO) HISTORY OF 
WORLD ECONOMICS, DANCED 

Conceived at the height of the European economic crisis, A (micro) history of world economics, danced explores our collective economic history over centuries of time. Created by Pascal Rambert with and circulating around the lives of anonymous, locally sourced performers – a ballet of raw bodies share their own histories in the larger history of economics – tall, short, young, old, of different ethnicities and ancestry on stage as one community to make meaning of a crisis.

La MaMa (co-production with PS122; part of Crossing The Lines Festival)
Oct 11 – 13, 2013

SARAH FLOOD IN SALEM MASS

The Riot Group’s Adriano Shaplin will join The Bats, the resident acting company at The Flea, in a radical re-telling of the events leading up to the Salem Witch Trials. The play is described as "five girls in the woods, two families at war, and a village on the brink. Blood feuds, praying Indians, and time travel collide in this magical portrait of an uprising in Salem."  Rebecca Wright directs.


The Flea Theater
September 24 – October 27

MARIE ANTOINETTE

The eyes of the court are on her, and nothing good can come of it in David Adjmi. They used to love Marie just the way she was. But now change is in the air and things are about to be different for France’s isolated young queen. Things are about to be different for everybody. Aren’t they?  The fierce cast includes David Greenspan, Jennifer Ikeda, Steven Rattazzi and Marin Ireland in the title role (he first time back at Soho Rep since the incredible Blasted). Rebecca Taichman directs.

Soho Rep
October 9 - November 3

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Julie Taymor's first directing gig since the notorious Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark brings her home to Theater For A New Audience for the inaugural production in their new Brooklyn home.  The press material says, "Taymor’s vision will be a fantasia of light and shadow. The stage will breathe with the miraculous charms and powerful illusions of love."  There will be original music by Elliot Goldenthal and will feature Tina Benko as Titania, Max Casella as Bottom.  Here's hoping no one gets injured!
 
Theater for a New Audience
October 19, 2013 - January 12, 2014

SALESMEN

Theater Reconstruction Ensemble will present a new devised work, directed by John Kurzynowski, which is described as "Experimentation in the form of realism."  Based on their previous works, The Three Seagulls and Set In The Living Room of a Small Town American Play we have great hopes for this new effort.

Here Arts Center
October 24th - November 9th, 2013

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ THE MUTILATED

One of Tennessee Williams' trippy one-acts set in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Christmas Eve in the mid-20th century.  A chorus of misfits and freaks sing a carol about life on the fringes of society and tell the tale of two mysterious women whose strong bond of friendship overcomes their constant and vicious quarreling. Mink Stole and
Penny Arcade star in this production that will come to NYC after premiering at the
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
 

New Ohio Theater
November 1 - November 24, 2013

THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) 
WATSON INTELLIGENCE

Leigh Silverman directs Madeleine George's brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people – and machines – upon which we all depend.  Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell’s first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love.

Playwrights Horizons
November 17, 2013 – December 29, 2013

LA DIVINA CARICATURA 

Subtitled "A Bunraku Puppet Pop-Opera" La Divina tells the love story of Rose and John, a dog and her master, through two re-incarnations set in Lee’s metaphoric Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. La Divina Caricatura is based on autobiography, puppetry bio-mechanics, and a piercing examination of cultural evolution, as evidenced through novels, music, art, film, and dance. The script, which equally alludes to Dante’s Divine Comedy and to 17th century playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is a multimedia, multi-day epic that unveils Lee Breuer 's unique voice as a writer searching for spiritual revelation through the written word.

La MaMa (co-production with St. Ann's Warehouse)
December 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013

A MIND-BENDING 
EVENING OF BECKETT

Featuring three of Beckett's short plays Act Without Words, Play  and Breath this evening will incorporate puppetry by director Bob Flanagan. We would never pass up an opportunity to see a first class production of Play.


Irish Rep
October 16th- December 1st, 2013

THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH:
AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE

In what may be one of the weirdest mash-ups in recent theatrical memory, Mandy Patinkin, Taylor Mac and Susan Stroman conspire to bring us the end of the world as we know it. A flood of biblical proportions leaves us with only two people on Earth, who discover their common language is song and dance. Together they chronicle the rise and fall and hopeful rise again of humankind, through music that runs the gamut from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim, R.E.M. and Queen.


Classic Stage Company at Abrons Arts Center
begins December 14, 2013

5 Shows To See in July 2013

THE 
DESIGNATED 
MOURNER
Written by Wallace Shawn
Directed by André Gregory
Featuring Deborah Eisenberg, Larry Pine and Wallace Shawn

THE DESIGNATED MOURNER is a monologue-triptych in which three artist-intellectuals recount their experiences as their once-liberal country sinks into political crisis. A famous poet-intellectual, his daughter, and her husband—people made of very different moral fiber despite their shared highbrow interests—witness the subtle and flagrant transformations of everyday life, public affairs and personal relationships until they finally are dragged into the middle of things themselves. This searing and disturbing drama, prescient of much that occurred during the Bush/Obama years, has been called Shawn’s masterpiece. This is first New York revival is a co-production between The Public Theater and Theater for a New Audience.

Now - August 25
 
Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

There will be $20 day-of rush ticket lottery for every performance.

For tickets and info: Click Here

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AFTER 
THE CHAIRS
by David Koteles
directed by Jason Jacobs

Inspired by the Eugene Ionesco absurdist tale, David Koteles’ After the Chairs tells the story of two men, Marc and Richard, alone in a quiet hospital room waiting for what happens next. A visit from friends? The telling of stories? Results from a doctor? A big performance? End of life as they know it? It is a play about family, marriage in sickness and in health, death, drag, drugs and (like the Ionesco play) many, many, many chairs. 

Part of The Fresh Fruit Festival

$18

Wednesday, July 10 @ 7pm; Saturday, July 13 @ 7pm; Sunday, July 14 @ 4:30pm

The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009

For tickets and info: Click Here 

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THE LOUDEST 
SHOW ON EARTH
With Lea Delaria & Maggie Cassella

The Loudest Show On Earth is an exploration of the queer urban existence as seen through the eyes of two of the queerest urbanites to exist since Eileen Warnos and Kitty Carlisle. Lea DeLaria and Maggie Cassella met at Hartford Pride in 1988 and because they’re rageful, opinionated, Italian, dyke comics, they’ve been yelling at each other ever since. And so goes The Loudest Show on Earth. Rageful. Angry. Musical. Funny. And did we mention loud? Many F-bombs will be dropped. Bring the kids!

Part of the Hot Festival. 

$20 in advance

Fridays and Saturdays at 10PM 
July 12, 13 19, 20, 26 + 27

Dixon Place
161 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002

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SASQUATCHED! 
THE MUSICAL!
Book, Music and Lyrics by Phil Darg

Arthur the Sasquatch is an intelligent, gentle, loquacious, and dignified creature. When he becomes lost in Columbia National Park, he is befriended by young Sam. Together, they encounter quirky locals and elude a ruthless TV crew investigating “Bigfoot” – as the stage erupts into hilarious social commentary on human-Sasquatch relations and a fun, rockin’ musical romp through the woods. 

Part of The New Musical Theater Festival [NYMF]

$25.00

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 8pm
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 1pm
Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 4:30pm
Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 8pm
Sunday, July 14, 2013 at 11am

PTC Performance Space
555 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036

For tickets and info: click here

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CollaborationTown presents
HELP ME 
TO MAKE IT
Written and created by Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell, and Jordan Seavey
Directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Co-created with Lee Sunday Evans and TJ Witham

HELP ME TO MAKE IT weaves together stories about several generations struggling from inside the architecture of contemporary families. As questions arise about fidelity, sexuality, gender, and the myths created to help us comprehend it all, the characters try to make sense of themselves and of familial love. These stories hinge on how personal moments of everyday existence add up to lifetimes of monumental compassion, devastating betrayal, and inevitable transformation. 

Part of Ice Factory Festival

JULY 17 - 20

New Ohio Theater
154 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014

For ticket and info: click here

The 2013 Off-Broadway Drama Desk Winners

The 2013 Drama Desk Awards were announced on Sunday and although the nominations were pretty evenly distributed between Broadway and Off-Broadway, it was mostly Broadway shows that walked away with trophies.

Although the Drama Desk likes to tout that it's the only awards that lets Broadway and Off-Broadway duke it out in every category, maybe it's time to rethink that approach since the winners are so lopsided in Broadway's favor?

So a special congratulations to all of the Off-Broadway winners this year:

Outstanding Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]

Outstanding Lighting Design:  Justin Townsend, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]

Outstanding Projection Design: Peter Nigrini, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]

Outstanding Solo Performance: Michael Urie, Buyer + Cellar [Rattlestick]

Outstanding Revue: Old Hats [Signature Theater]
  

 
Unique Theatrical Experience: Cirque Du Soleil: Totem [We're really not sure if Cirque du Soleil counts as Off-Broadway]

 

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 

Outer Critics Circle Award Winners

The Outer Critics Circle Awards designate certain awards for Broadway and for Off Broadway, but the acting awards can be for either.  This year, not a single performance award was given to a non-Broadway performance.

Here are the Off Broadway winners:

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Bad Jews
Cock
My Name is Asher Lev*
Really Really
The Whale

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
February House
Dogfight
Giant
Here Lies Love*
Murder Ballad

John Gassner Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Ayad Akhtar Disgraced
Paul Downs Colaizzo Really Really
Joshua Harmon Bad Jews
Samuel D. Hunter The Whale
Aaron Posner My Name is Asher Lev*

Special Achievement Award
Irish Repertory Theatre Charlotte Moore, artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly, producing director in recognition of 25 years of producing outstanding theatre.

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)

For Tickets + Info: Click Here

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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

For Tickets and Info: Click Here

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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

For Tickets and Info: Click Here