Discount Tix: COLLAPSE (Women's Project)

Hanna has it all.  Sort of: a caring husband in control of his panic attacks, a free-spirited sister with a penchant for accidental crime, an exciting career fraught with moral dilemmas, and a drunken house plant.  COLLAPSE is a hilarious and transcendent   odyssey that explores the real and imagined circumstances that push people to the edge.

Women's Project Theater presents
COLLAPSE
By Allison Moore
Directed by Jackson Gay

With Nadia Bowers, Hannah Cabell,
Maurice McRae, and Elliot Villar

Sets by Lee Savage
Costumes by Oana Botez
Lights by Paul Whitaker
Sound by Jill B.C. DuBoff

April 7 - May 19, 2013

City Center Stage II
131 West 55th Street, NYC

Discount for $45 tickets (reg. $60)
Use code: 10489 online and WP1 for Box Office and Phone

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Film: The Stages of Edward Albee

The Paley Center For Media will present the New York premiere of THE STAGES OF EDWARD ALBEE a new documentary exploring the life and work of the muti-award-winning playwright.

Appearing In Person:

Edward Albee
Kathleen Turner
Filmmakers: James Dowell  and John Kolomvakis
Moderator: Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic, The New York Times

Ben Brantley, chief drama critic of the New York Times, has stated that Edward Albee is “without peer among American playwrights,” asking the most basic existential questions. This intimate documentary uncovers the life and artistry of the man who continues to inspire and challenge the Broadway community. Albee is casually captured in his loft amid his extensive art collection, as well as relaxing in his summer home in Montauk. Actors Kathleen Turner, Marian Seldes, Bill Irwin, and Bill Pullman reflect on the challenges of performing Albee’s work, in addition to reading from his plays. Albee’s place in theatrical history is considered by playwrights Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, and John Guare. The Stages of Edward Albee is engaging and revealing, illuminating the creative process and the impact of one illustrious writer on his colleagues and audience.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013
6:30 pm

Paley Center for Media
25 West 52 Street
New York, NY 10019

$35/$25 for Paley Center Members

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5 Things To See in April 2013

Vampire Cowboys and Incubator Arts Project present
GEEK
by Crystal Skillman
directed by Robert Ross Parker

Incubator Arts Project
131 E 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

thru April 13th!

With pissed-off Pikachus, steam punk armies, stood-up Sailor Moons and roller-blading monsters on the prowl, it's easy to get lost in the Inferno-esque anime convention where the fans, the otakus, and the geeks prowl. But to score a rare signature from their comic book idol, teenage outcasts Dayna and Honey will take on obsessive magic players, Jedis and elfs, cosplayers and convention guards - through all nine flights of Ohio's Dante's Fire-Con - to get a chance to shake hands with their pop-culture hero.

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*****

The Movement Theater Company presents
LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS
By Harrison David Rivers
Conceived and Directed by David Mendizabal

When a young gay man is found dead in his New York apartment, his best friends are left wondering why. Part meditation and part celebration, LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS is a touching, unexpectedly funny story of seven men who, in the wake of a tragic loss, choose to embrace life. In a world inundated by technology and constant communication, the play examines the interconnectedness of love, loss, faith, and healing.

Harlem School of the Arts Theater
645 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10030
April 4th - April 20th

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***** 

Red Bull Theater presents
DANCE OF DEATH
Directed by Joseph Hardy
American Premiere of a new adaptation by Mike Poulton
With Daniel Davis, Laila Robins, Derek Smith

On an isolated island, military captain, Edgar, and his ex-actress wife, Alice, approach the 25th anniversary of an intense marriage.  When a jolt from the past arrives in the shape of Alice's cousin Gustav, a deadly battle of wills begins.  And Edgar is prepared to fight to his very last breath…  Strindberg's masterful vivisection of a diabolic union blazed the trail for modern marriage portraits like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".  Red Bull Theater brings this modern masterpiece to life in a savagely comic and bracingly intimate production.

Lucile Lortel Theater
121 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014
April 10 - May 4, 2013

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*****

Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages present
THE CALL

Written by Tanya Barfield

Directed by  Leigh Silverman
With Kerry Butler and Eisa Davis

When Annie and Peter decide to adopt, they come to set their sights on a child from Africa. But when the reality of this choice sinks in, it opens a well of uncertainty that speaks to their very identity as White Americans. Politically-charged and tack-sharp, The Call is a startling portrait of cultural divide, casting global issues into the heart of an American home.

thru  May 19th

Peter Jay Sharp Theater
416 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues)
New York, NY 10036

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*****

The Public Theater presents
HERE LIES LOVE
Concept and Lyrics: David Byrne
Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim
Additional music: Tom Gandey, J Pardo
Choreographed by Annie-B Parson
Directed by Alex Timbers

Within a pulsating dance club atmosphere, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim deconstruct the astonishing journey of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos retracing her meteoric rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. HERE LIES LOVE is neither a period piece nor a biography, neither a play nor a traditional musical but an immersive theatrical event combining songs influenced by four decades of dance music, adrenaline-fueled choreography, and a remarkable 360-degree scenic and video environment to go beyond Imelda’s near-mythic obsession with shoes and explore the tragic consequences of the abuse of power.

The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
April 2 - May 19

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5 Things To See In March 2013

1. THE (*) INN

The shtetl turns uncanny in Hirschbein’s 1912 classic of Yiddish life, continuing Target Margin Theater's two-year exploration of Yiddish Theater. You might be expecting the farm life, the chicken-plucking and the arranged marriage, but not the S&M lust and the body-snatching wedding guests. The ( * ) Inn was an early touchstone for experimental theater in Yiddish, a sensation in Vilna, in London and in a 1917 New York production. This play is a perfect example of why Target Margin Theater believes Yiddish drama is as innovative and challenging as any in the world. It’s Tevye on drugs. Watch out. The incomparable) David Greenspan stars.

Target Margin Theater presents
The (*) Inn
by Peretz Hirschbein
Directed by David Herskovits

March 6-30, 2013

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002

Tickets: Click Here

2. POCAHONTAS, AND/OR AMERICA

With over 400 years of history, legend, and pop culture as its sources, Little Lord reconstructs the American myth of Pocahontas in their fifth full-length stage work, Pocahontas, and/or America. Taking up the mantle of the early 19th-century dramatists who invented the American theater, Pocahontas, and/or America recreates our country’s origins through the lens of the immortal Indian princess, belle sauvage, Pocahontas. Using contemporary historical accounts, 19th-century melodramas, YMCA Indian Guides, archaeological research, and more, Little Lord digs into disputed histories to find out if it’s still even possible to make a patriotic piece of theater. Part historical pageant, part roadside attraction, Little Lord corrupts over 400 years of fact and fiction to grant America the founding myth we all deserve.

The Bushwick Starr and Little Lord Present:
Pocahontas, and/or America
Written and adapted by Michael Levinton and Laura von Holt
Associate Producer / Dramaturg: Sarah Bishop-Stone
Directed by Michael Levinton

March 5-23

The Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Tickets: Click Here


3. ROGERANDTOM

One hour of mind-bending head-scratching, meta-meta-quasi-romanti-tragi-dramedy.
Question the characters.
Question the actors.
Question yourself.
Penny is Penny.
But Richard is William.
And you are just a member of the audience.
Or are you?
Just how impenetrable is the fourth wall?

Personal Space Theatrics and HERE Arts Center present
ROGERANDTOM
By: Julien Schwab
Directed by: Nicholas Cotz

March 1 - 23

HERE
145 Sixth Ave. (enter on Dominick Street)
New York, NY 10013
Tickets: Click Here


4. CLOWN BAR

When Happy’s junkie brother Timmy is found dead, Happy returns to his old clown life to ask a few questions. But can he go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence?

Pipeline Theater Company presents
Clown Bar
Written by Adam Szymkowicz
Music & Additional Lyrics by Adam Overett
Directed by Andrew Neisler


March 1 – March 23, 2013

Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston Street
New York, NY 10002

Tickets: Click Here

5. SHAHEED: THE DREAMS AND DEATH OF BENAZIR BHUTTO

Writer/performer Anna Khaja illuminates the lives and historical forces surrounding slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007 while attempting to reunite a nation bitterly divided over the ideals of Islam and democracy. Through the monologues of eight characters that take place in the minutes before Bhutto's death--including Condoleezza Rice and Bhutto herself--we see how Bhutto's life and death resonate far beyond the boundaries of Pakistan, reshaping the world's struggle to reconcile the precepts of Islam with those of democracy.

Culture Project's Women Center Stage presents
Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto
Written and Performed by Anna Khaja
Directed by Heather de Michele

Culture Project
45 Bleecker Street
New York NY 10012

March 8 — April 1

Tickets: Click Here

A Conversation with Nicky Silver

The Drama Book Shop will present A Conversation with Nicky Silver, who will discuss and read from his work, including his newest black comedy, The Lyons, which premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre before moving to Broadway – to great acclaim – last spring. Joining Mr. Silver will be Sarah Stern, Co-Artistic Director of the Vineyard, who will moderate a discussion to be followed by a Q+A and book signing.

Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Time: 5-7 PM
Place: THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP
          250 West 40th Street
          New York, NY 10018
Price: FREE!

Another One Bites The Dust: RIP Red Room

The tiny, third-floor red box space aptly named Red Room (part of the Horse Trade Theater Group that also includes The Kraine and UNDER St. Marks) will be closing in March. We always find if rough when a theater space closes, but we're taking this closing especially hard for several reasons, but most of all because we assumed it would always be there after surviving so many other theater closings in the past. We think NYC in general and theater in particular will be a less interesting place after March 2013...

Here's the (probably less than comprehensive) list of theater closing in the past dozen years or so, to which we will have to add Red Room:

29th Street Rep: 212 West 29th Street
The Belt: 336 West 37th Street
Bouwerie Lane Theatre: 330 Bowery
Bowery Poetry Club: 308 Bowery
Center Stage: 48 West 21st Street, 4th Floor
Century Theater: 111 East 15th Street
Collective Unconscious (on Church Street): 279 Church Street
Collective Unconscious (on Ludlow Street): 145 Ludlow Street
Currican Theatre: 154 West 29th Street
Expanded Arts: 113 Ludlow Street
Flatiron Playhouse: 119 W. 23rd Street, 3rd Floor
GAle GAtes et al: 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
Greenwich Street Theater: 547 Greenwich Street
Grove Street Playhouse: 39 Grove Street
House of Candles: 99 Stanton Street
Jane Street Theatre: 113 Jane Street
John Houseman Theater: 450 W 42nd St
Manhattan Ensemble Theater: 55 Mercer Street
Nada 45: 445 West 45th Street
Oasis Theatre: 230 East 9th Street
Ohio Theater (on Wooster Street): 66 Wooster Street
One Dream: 232 West Broadway
Pantheon Theater: 303 West 42nd Street, 2nd Floor
Pelican Studios Theatre: 750 8th Avenue, 6th Floor
Perry Street Theater: 31 Perry Street
Piano Store: 158 Ludlow Street
Playhouse 91: 316 East 91st Street
Present Company Theatorium: 198 Stanton Street
Prometheus Theatre: 239 East 5th Street
Provincetown Playhouse: 133 MacDougal Street
Surf Reality: 172 Allen Street,2nd Floor
Theater 3: 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor
Theater Four/Julia Miles Theater: 424 West 55th Street
Todo con Nada: 167 Ludlow Street
Tribecca Playhouse:111 Reade Street
Variety Arts Theater: 110 3rd Avenue
Westside Repertory Theatre: 252 West 81th Street
Worth Street Theater: 33 Worth St
Zipper Theater: 336 West 37th Street


PS: we are hearing constant rumors about Union Square Theater becoming something other than a theater. 

UPDATE: Just a short time after we posted this entry, The New York Times uploaded their review of the new Living Theater piece, ironically titled: Here We Are, and noted that this will be there last production in their current space on Clinton Street.  A new home has not been yet been secured.  You may read the entire review  HERE

Discount Tickets: Belleville @ NYTW

 

We've already chosen Amy Herzog's Belleville at New York Theater Workshop as on of our 6 Things To See in February.  Now here's a discount code to further entice you:

Code: 

BV22

Prices:  

$45 tickets (reg. price $70) for performances between 2/12 and 2/24

$55 tickets (reg. price $70) for performances between 2/26 and 3/31

Call:

212-279-4200

Online:

www.ticketcentral.com