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FringeNYC Encore Series
Announces Lineup of 20 Shows
September 9 - 26

Ann Bogart's SITI Company
WAR OF THE WORLDS & RADIO MACBETH 
October 5 - 16 (see text below for specific dates and times)
Dance Theater Workshop
 
Acclaimed director Anne Bogart and her seven-time Obie winning SITI Company are pleased to present Radio Macbeth to be performed October 5-16 for a two-week run after only three performances at the Miller Theater in July 2009.  The weekend performances (October 8, 9, 15 and 16) feature a special double bill which includes SITI’s first radio play, War of the Worlds, followed by Radio Macbeth allowing New York audiences the opportunity to see both shows performed back to back for the first time ever.  SITI Company’s season will take place at Dance Theater Workshop.
 
Co-directed by artistic director Anne Bogart and sound designer Darron L West, Radio Macbeth brings a fresh take to Shakespeare’s briefest and most magnetic tragedy. Conceived as a play-within-a-radio-play-within-a-play, Radio Macbeth takes places late at night in the guts of an abandoned theater, where actors gather to rehearse.  Darkness plays tricks on their minds making the imagination churn, and the ghosts that have haunted the story since the play’s inception flicker and glow. The actors cling to the sanity of the words as the chaos of history becomes undeniably present in the room. Radio Macbethis SITI’s second adventure with Shakespeare (following the 2004 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream).  It received work-in-progress performances at Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater and premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2007.  
 
Offered as part of a special double bill on October 8, 9, 15 and 16, War of the Worlds (which inspired Radio Macbeth) is SITI’s restaging of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater’s legendary broadcast.  On October 30, 1938, mass hysteria seized thousands of people as Welles and “The Mercury Theater On the Air” aired Howard Koch’s adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novel, The War of the Worlds (Invasion from Mars). Even with several station and program identification breaks, this hour-long radio program convinced anxious listeners that the Earth was the target of a full -scale invasion by aliens.  Also co-directed by Bogart and West, War of the Worlds premiered in New York City’s West Bank Café in 1999.  It was also seen in the city at The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub in January 2000. 
 
PERFORMANCE INFO:
 
RADIO MACBETH
Directed by Anne Bogart & Darron L West
Created and performed by SITI Company
Adapted from the play by William Shakespeare
 
October 5th at 8PM; October 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th at 7PM
Talkbacks with Anne Bogart and Company members: October 6th, 7th, 11th, and 12th

WAR OF THE WORLDS – The Radio Play
A staged dramatization of the original Orson Welles & Mercury Theater on The Air
Written by Howard Koch
Directed by Anne Bogart and Darron L West
Created and performed by SITI Company
 
4 performances only!
October 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th at 7PM
Approximate running time: 2 hours 45 minutes including one intermission

Tickets: $35/$25 (students)
Tickets on sale August 3rd

See both shows on the same night and save on this special package!
Tickets for both shows: $50/$35 (students)
Tickets on sale August 3rd
 
For more information, visit www.siti.org    
 
Dance Theater Workshop | 219 West 19th Street, NYC

The Anna Copa Cabanna Show is "Jailbait"!
Saturday 4th September, 11 pm-1am
Joe's Pub, Public Theater

Australian showgirl Anna Copa Cabanna’s Rock and Roll Variety Show draws inspiration from Solid Gold, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, and The Carol Burnett Show!.THE ANNA COPA CABANNA SHOW’s primary goal is transporting the audience to a world of glamor, humor, overly earnest but beautiful dancing, and classic rock and roll!

Along with her lounge/punk band The MG5, Anna reflects on New York City's politics, small dogs, F trains, and malnourished boys with her little xylophone and voracious voice.The audience will be entertained with The Wheel of Wonderment! Tumbling! Australian Trivia! Prizes! Puppets in Prison! And Breakout Dance Tributes to Padded Rooms, Punk Rock, Lady Liberty, and New Jersey!
Guests include Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa- Anne, Esther Crow (Electric Mess, Death is a Scream), and Zohra Atash (Religious to Damn).

Tickets $12. For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/annacopacabanna
Tickets and Table reservations 212 967 7555 or www.joespub.com

Joe's Pub, Public Theater | 425 Lafayette at Astor Place

Johnny Klein's
Auto Graphic Novel
Sunday, August 29 at 7:00 PM (Cino Theater)
Monday, August 30 at 7:00 PM
Tuesday, August 31 at 7:00 PM
Wednesday, Sept 1 at 9:00 PM
Saturday, Sept 4 at 2:00 PM
Theater for the New City (Community Theater)

This is an autobiographical collage of the major events in Johnny Klein's life that led him to become a writer, or it's a William S. Burroughs Pop-Up Book for Kids. It combines the interior world of narrative prose with a visceral theater of images that mimics the dream-like experience of personal memoir. Performed by Johnny Klein.

This play is part of the "Dream Up Festival"; a theater festival that takes place at the Theater for the New City (TNC) from August 8 to September 5, 2010.

Theater for the New City | 155 First Avenue (at East 10th Street)
Manhattan, New York

JONATHAN KRAVETZS'
BETTER LUCKY THAN SMART
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY @ 8PM
AUGUST 18TH - SEPTEMBER 11
manhattan theatre source

When his scheme to pass off old violins as Stradivarii explodes into a kidnapping plot involving the president's mistress, FBI, Mafia and the CIA, Henry, a clueless dreamer, might end up dead or worse. Will Henry’s precocious, 12 year-old son Tyler or suspiciously savvy wife Jane care enough to save him? What will happen to the 5 million dollars ransom? What is that rooster doing over there? And are attractive women really flammable? The Manhattan Theatre Source is pleased to announce the first full-scale production of a play developed in its own Writers’ Forum, the world premiere of Jonathan Kravetz's Better Lucky Than Smart. Directed by Joe Beuerlein, Better Luck Than Smart is an inventive comedy of double-crossing gangsters, dim-witted bureaucrats and extremely tidy monkeys.

Better Lucky Than Smart is an Equity showcase. Tickets $18 with discounts available. Call 212-260-4698 or go to www.theatresource.org.

manhattan theatre source | 177 MacDougal Street
New York, NY between W. 8th and Waverly Place.

Monica Hunken's
Blondie of Arabia
September 22nd at 8pm
September 23rd at 8pm
September 24that 8pm
September 30th at 8pm
October 1st at 8pm
October 2nd at 8pm
October 7th at 8pm
October 8th at 8pm
October 9th @ 2pm & 8pm
The Living Theatre

Back after a sellout preview season is this hilarious and moving solo show by docu-dramatist Monica Hunken and directed by Laura Newman. Two weeks before Christmas, Monica flew into the heart of the Persian Gulf to cater at a royal wedding party and ended up biking across the Middle East.  This play chronicles the true story of her desert odyssey. Watch the broke, blonde American swerve her bicycle through close encounters with military capture, sex tourism, Gulf royalty and near death. As Hunken perseveres in her adventure as a parade of one, defeating trouble at every turn, indulging her super-hero fetishism, she plays over 20 characters in this 80 minute comedy that brought audiences to their feet every show.

Tickets $15 / $20 For more information and ticket purchase visit www.monicahunken.com

The Living Theatre | 21 Clinton St, New York, NY 10001

Susanna Centlivre's
"The Busybody"- Presented by The Bent Quill Players
Playing Aug. 20th, 21st, 27th, and 28th @ 6pm
Aug. 22nd and 29th @1pm
Fort Tryon Park, Dongan Lawn

The action of “The Busybody” opens in St. James Park, a veritable hotbed of social activity and juicy gossip. It is here that we meet Charles, in want of money, and Sir George Airy, in want of a woman. Next is Miranda, seeking respite from the wandering hands of her guardian; and the faithful and self proclaimed ingenious servant, Patch. Wandering onto the scene is the aforementioned guardian, Sir Francis Gripe, in possession of money, but never satisfied until he has more. The social centrality of the park is emphasized by the character appearances in this first act. The audience meets everyone except the closeted Isabinda, practically imprisoned in her room; and her father, Sir Jealous Traffick, who trusts no English person to have a good influence on his child. Thrown in amongst these lovers, guardians and servants is Marplot, the so-called “Busybody” of Centlivre’s play. He is described as “a sort of a silly Fellow, Cowardly, but very inquisitive to know every Body’s Business.” Marplot is just the sort of character you can’t help but love. Wanting to know everything about everybody, Marplot is tragically never able to put two and two together. Yet, he is not the only one who complicates life with his inquisitiveness. All the characters suffer from a mischievousness which causes them to be chased into or out of closets, to constantly be sent to help a friend in their latest scheme, or to be deprived of their goal because they were too involved in another person’s activities to notice the deception in front of them. In a society such as this (or such as our own for that matter) the question is “who isn’t the Busybody?”

Admission is Free. For more information visit http://bentquillplayers.weebly.com or contact us at bentquillplayers@gmail.com

Fort Tryon Park, Dongan Lawn | 1838 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10034

Bleecker Street Theatre | 45 Bleecker Street
Between Bowery and Lafayette Street

William Shakespeare
A Commedia of Errors
August 14, Astoria Park
August 15, Oriental Pavilion, Prospect Park
August 21 & 22, La Plaza Cultural, East Village
August 28 & 29, Central Park, Wild West Playground
All Performances are at 2pm - 4pm

One Shot Productions is giving a new meaning to being two faced in this rollicking outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors. When two sets of twins separated at birth cross paths in a Turkish city, chaos ensues! One brother’s treat is another brother’s tribulation as their friends and family wonder if something is rotten in the state of Antipholus’ head. OSP is taking this one back to its Commedia Dell’ Arte roots with clowning, zany masked characters, live original music, crazy intermezzi, and (best of all) a traveling company! Come join the chaos as we frolic around NYC parks this summer and ask ourselves the question, ‘Does 2 + 2 =…2? For more information visit http://oneshotproductions.wordpress.com

All performances are free!
Bring your own blanket or chair.

Astoria Park: Entrances at 21 Street, Hoyt Avenue, and Ditmars Boulevard.

Prospect Park, Oriental Pavilion: The Pavilion is best accessed through the
Parkside/Ocean Avenue entrance or the Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance.

La Plaza Cultural: La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez is located at the southwest corner of 9th Street & Avenue C.

Central Park, Wild West Playground: Located at 93rd Street and Central Park West.

THE CRADLE WILL ROCK, "a play in music" by Marc Blitzstein
September 2/3 and 28/29 at 8 PM
Theatre 80 St. Mark's, 80 St. Mark's Place

Howl Festival and the Actor's Fund present a repeat of Downtown Music Productions' staged reading of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, the historic work whose allegory of corruption and corporate greed is as timely today as when it was premiered in 1937. Cast of 16 actor/singers in staging by Larry Marshall; choreography by Laura Stilwell; music direction/piano by Mimi Stern-Wolfe, director of Downtown Music Productions.

Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006

Theatre 80 St. Mark's | 80 St. Mark's Place
Between 1st & 2nd Avenues

Crossing the Line 2010: Hetero
Saturday-Tuesday, September 11-14, at 7:30pm
Site-specific location to be revealed upon reservation
Free
ps122.org | 212 352 3101
ps122.org | 212 352 3101 | crossingtheline.org | 212 355 6100

Crossing the Line 2010: The Sea Museum
Saturday-Sunday, September 18-19, at 3pm
Site-specific location to be revealed upon reservation
Free
ps122.org | 212 352 3101
ps122.org | 212 352 3101 | crossingtheline.org | 212 355 6100

In two new site-specific theatrical works this fall, audiences will contemplate compromise from a tunnel in Brooklyn, and ponder gender from a New York apartment, both exact locations to be revealed upon reservation. French director Arthur Nauzyciel returns to the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Crossing the Line festival with Hetero and the Wooster Group’s Daniel Pettrow directs The Sea Museum.

Hetero, written by Denis Lachaud, takes place in an apartment and builds its intensity from this proximity with the audience. It focuses on the means by which society builds gender and features an all-male cast. At turns funny and arresting, this staged reading is the work’s first presentation in English, and is translated by Bruce Benderson. Nauzyciel was featured in Crossing the Line 2008 with his production of Samuel Beckett’s The Image.

The Sea Museum, directed by Daniel Pettrow and written by Marie Darrieussecq, is the first English reading of Darrieussecq’s first play. Set in a state of “no peace,” in a time of crisis, it explores how to remain neutral in the world, posing questions such as whether or not we can eat the uneatable, or sleep with the enemy. It will take place in a tunnel in Brooklyn, and features members of the Bluemouth Inc. theater group and video and sound designers from the Wooster Group. The translation is by Ian Monk.

Leegrid Stevens
The Dudleys!
Sunday, August 22 at 7:00 PM
Thursday, August 26 at 7:00 PM
Friday, August 27 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 29 2:00 PM
Monday, August 30 at 7:00 PM
Theater for the New City

"The Dudleys!" takes the adolescent memories of a young man and translates them into a malfunctioning 8-bit video game, the kind he used to play. A life size video game onstage provides the setting in which actors must score and overcome obstacles as they navigate their way through and overcome the dangers of "The Dudleys!" The production features a live band of all original music composed on vintage video game equipment (think Atari, Gameboy and Commodore 64). This evocative new play pits the two dimensional world of happy endings up against the confusion and aimlessness of real life. "The Dudleys!" comes to the Dream Up Festival after a workshop in 2009 in a downtown Manhattan bank vault. The workshop was lauded for the use of original music created by playwright Stevens and video design created by Dan Monceaux, Angela Hill, David Bengali, Jordan Rein, Josh Lampman, David Mauro, Camillo Munar, and Jake Witlen. The play features performances by Erin Treadway, Dianna Ruppe, Craig Bridger among others, with choreography by Melinda Rebman and scenic design by Kara Zaigon.

This play is part of the "Dream Up Festival"; a theater festival that takes place at the Theater for the New City (TNC) from August 8 to September 5, 2010.

$15.
www.theaterforthenewcity.com
212-254-1109

Theater for the New City - Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue (at East 10th Street), Manhattan, New York

Crystal Field's
Gone Fission, or Alternative Power
Sat, July 31st - 2PM - Manhattan -
TNC, East 10th Street at 1st Avenue
Sun, August 1st - 2PM – Manhattan –
Jackie Robinson Park, W. 147th Street & Bradhurst Avenue
Sat, August 7th - 2PM - Bronx -
St. Mary's Park at 147th St. & St. Ann's Ave
Sun, August 8th - 2PM - Brooklyn -
Herbert Von King Park at Marcy & Tompkins
Fri, August 13th - 8PM - Brooklyn -
Coney Island Boardwalk at W. 10th St.
Sat, August 14th - 2PM – Manhattan -
Tompkins Square Park at E. 7th St and Ave. A
Sun, August 15th - 2PM – Manhattan –
Central Park Bandshell, 72nd Street Crosswalk
Sat, August 21st - 2PM - Brooklyn -
Prospect Park Concert Grove
Sun, August 22nd - 2PM - Queens –
Travers Park, 34th Ave between 77th & 78th Streets
Sat, August 28th - 2PM – Manhattan -
Wise Towers at W. 90th St bet. - Columbus & Amsterdam
Sun, August 29th - 2PM – Manhattan - Washington Square Park
Sat, September 11th - 2PM - Staten Island –
Sobel Court & Bowen Street
Sun, September 12th - 2PM - Manhattan -
St. Marks Church, E. 10th St at 2nd Ave

Theater for the New City's award-winning Street Theater Company opens its 34th annual tour July 31 with "Gone Fission, or Alternative Power," an Operatta for the Street.. The rip-roaring production will tour City streets, parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs through September 12. The production, free to all New Yorkers, will have book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by Joseph Vernon Banks.

When an out-of-work Account Executive takes a survival job as a Census Taker, he visits a fish restaurant. A hurricane transforms the place to a Louisiana Bayou, where Father Neptune is conducting a summit with the creatures of the sea. Our hero's job is to count, but he also listens. He learns that animals are people, too; they are just like the gay couple in 3E, the single mom in 5D, the gang member in 6A, the illlegal immigrant family in 4B and Lady Gaga in the Lobby. He sees that the human race is an important part of the Animal Kingdom and learns "dissenting" notions he would have considered fishy, like offshore drilling is disgraceful and that you shouldn't dig for coal by lopping off the top of a mountain. He even learns there are alternative lifestyles to world domination and empire building. The operetta features a La Vegas style Can-Can number called "Investors' Russian Roulette" and a Sea Creatures Anthem, "We Are The Animals."

Free to the public.
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Audience info (212) 254-1109.
Runs :60.

Various Locations

IN A DARK DARK HOUSE
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
September 17 to October 9, 2010
Charlie Pineapple Theatre

On Friday, September 17th, 2010, the Charlie Pineapple Theatre will open it's doors again with their production of Neil LaBute's In A Dark Dark House.
Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined for observation and has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man from many summers ago.
For more information visit: www.charliepineapple.com

Tickets $15. For more information or advance purchase visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/112631
or by phone at 800-838-3006

Charlie Pineapple Theatre |112 S. 1st St.
(between Bedford and Berry) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(L train to Bedford Ave - walk south)

Kyle Spidle’s
FALLEN
September 9th – 19th @ 7:00PM
Matinee Performances: 9/11, 9/12 & 9/13 @ 3:00PM
Cherry Lane Theatre

Fifty7 Productions presents FALLEN, a new and original work by playwright Kyle Spidle.

Money makes the world go ‘round, or does it? Meet Rob, a former international celebrity who exiles himself from lifestyles of the rich and famous as he questions what’s truly important in life. Conflicted by modern society and its often tawdry values, Rob takes us on a thought provoking, heartwarming journey through his life as a celebrity turned recluse. As he contemplates love lost and life’s purpose, Rob is forced to choose between succumbing to society norms or raging against them in a fight for what matters most.

Tickets $35 (Weeknights & Matinees) / $40 (Friday & Saturday evenings). Purchase tickets at www.telecharge.com or (212) 239-6200.

Cherry Lane Theatre | 38 Commerce Street | New York, NY 10014

1st Irish 2010, NY’S Annual Festival of Irish Theatre
September 7 to October 4
Various venues
 
The third annual edition of 1st Irish, New York’s only all-Irish theatre festival,
runs from September 7 to October 4, 2010.  Coordinated by the New York-based
Origin Theatre Company, the month-long festival features plays by 16 mostly
contemporary, living Irish playwrights spanning a range of theatrical genres
and sensibilities. A total of 13 New York City theatres and arts and culture-related
venues host the festival. Among the prominent local non-profits presenting in the
festival are 59E59 Theaters, The Irish Repertory Theatre, The Mint, The Flea,
The Irish Arts Center, and PS 122.

Of the 16 plays being presented, seven are U.S. premieres, and two are world premieres. The U.S. premieres include a forgotten Irish classic, “Wife to James Whelan,” currently at The Mint; “Absolution” by the Perrier Award-nominated Owen O’Neill, at 59E59 Theaters; “Exit/Entrance” by Aidan Mathews, also at 59E59 Theaters; “The Holy Ground” by Dermot Bolger, at Manhattan Theatre Source; “Trans-Euro Express” by Gary Duggan, at Irish Arts Center; the site-specific “This is What We Sang” from Belfast’s Kabosh Theatre Co., and “Hue and Cry” by Deirdre Kinahan at The Irish Repertory Theatre.
 
The festival’s world premieres include “The Prophet of Monto” by John Paul Murphy, at The Flea, produced by Solas Nua from Washington DC, and “Graham and Frost” by Belinda McKeon, from The Sullivan Project in New York.

More info and how to get tickets at http://www.1stirish.org/

Shakespeare
MacBeth
Wednesday through Sundays at 7.30 PM
AUGUST 12 TO 28, 2010
Riverbank State Park - Indoor Theatre Facility

As the culminating event of its twentieth season, Pulse Theatre Ensemble, under the direction of Alexa Kelly, will present a Free Shakespeare production of "Macbeth" in Governors Island August 7-8 and Riverbank State Park August 12-28. The innovative adaptation sets Macbeth as a power hungry Marine, King Duncan as a Warlord co-operating with the US troops and the witches as Afghani war widows. The tension mounts until Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are brought down by their own greed, guilt and fear.

The production updates the classic by transferring Shakespeare's tragedy from the "fog and filthy air" of Scotland to the murky realms of Afghanistan, where "nothing is but what is not." The title character, an overambitious Marine officer (suffering from PTSD), is brought down by guilt and paranoia. Lady Macbeth sings blues and inspires herself with R&B music. Banquo throws football with his son, Fleance. The witches are Afghani widows, possibly Taliban or Al Quaeda partisans, who seek revenge for their losses. Costuming will range from contemporary desert fatigues to Afghan tribal costumes. There is a multi-ethnic, Equity cast of 16.

FREE, info: www.pulseensembletheatre.org or 212-695-1596

Riverbank State Park | Indoor Theatre Facility

William Shakespeare and a new adaptation written by Will Le Vasseur
Macbeth and The Triumph of Love
Thursday through Saturday at 8pm
Matinees on Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 7pm
August 5th through August 29th,
Nicu's Spoon Theatre

Redd Tale Theatre Company dives into its seventh season with the classic MACBETH by William Shakespeare and a new adaptation of the French classic THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE by Will Le Vasseur. Both are directed by Artistic Director, Will Le Vasseur. Opening Nights are August 5th and 6th. This tightly edited version of MACBETH hones in on the ruthlessness of ambition. RTTC examines the play’s theme of grasping for power while adding RTTC’s tradition of making the audience shudder by bringing unexpected objects to life. THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE takes the original 18th century French farce and throws in a healthy dose of RTTC’s signature sci-fi twist. Princess Leonide had barely won the Prince’s heart when he and everyone they both held dear were killed. In desperation, she hires the help of a sorceress to bring her love back from the dead, but in order to do so she must prove to the powers above that she’s worthy of such a gift. Refer to our website for showtimes: www.reddtale.org

Tickets are $12-$15, available at 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com

Nicu’s Spoon Theatre | 38 West 38th Street
Between 5th and 6th Avenues
(accessible from B/D/F/M at Bryant Park or N/Q/R at Herald Square)

Midtown International Theatre Festival Awards Ceremony
Thursday, September 9 at 8pm
New World Stages

MITF’s AWARDS CEREMONY will feature entertainment by 2010 Season shows, including scenes from “Can I Really Date A Guy Who Wears A Yarmulke?”,”Screenplay”, and “Tallish Tale”s; and musical numbers from “Civil War Voices”, “Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Musical”, and “Ten Reasons I Won’t Go Home With You”, among others.  There will be a cash bar.  Audiences voted online for the Best of Fest and one of those lucky voters will win tickets to “The 39 Steps” in a drawing at the ceremony.
 
Tickets are $20 ($15 if booked before 8/30) and are available at www.midtowntfestival.org or 866-811-4111.
 
New World Stages | 340 W. 50th Street

Mundo Overloadus by Michael Lederer
Sept 7-11 at 8pm; Sept 11 & 12 at 2pm
PS 122

Michael Lederer is an éminence grise of his generation. After growing up in the ivory towers of New Haven and Palo Alto, the son of Stanford historian Ivo Lederer has lived a variety of lives. From squatting in a teepee in his twenties to rejuvenating the arts scene on the Adriatic coast, Lederer has a refreshingly unique perspective on the highs and lows of contemporary living, examined in his first dramatic work Mundo Overloadus. At a time when we see the world through screens of our monitors and mobiles and mp3 players, Lederer lifts our social shields and tackles the trials of our 24-hour world in the play's premiere.

Tickets $18/$12. For more information or advance purchase visit www.mundooverloadus.com

PS 122 | 150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009

Stephen W. Baldwin's
My Name is Ruth
Sunday August 15-29th, 2010
Connelly Theatre (FringeNYC event)

It's 1950's Minnesota, don'tcha know? A young widow moves to the big city and lands a job at Field's Department Store. But can the bashful businessman Boaz save her home and heart from the conniving K.R? Gosh-o-willickers we hope so!

Tickets $15-18
Call 866-468-7619 or visit www.34west.org/ruth-nyc-fringe/

The Connelly Theater | 220 East 4th Steet
(Avenue A & Avenue B)
F to 2nd Avenue/Houston

Steven Walter's
A MYSTERIOUS WAY
Thursday at 8pm
Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 2pm
August 25 – Sept 12, 2010
JMZ DOWNTOWN PLATFORM AT CHAMBERS STREET SUBWAY STATION


SWIPE YOUR METROCARD AND SEE A SHOW

FIREBONE THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce their revival of Steven Walters’ A MYSTERIOUS WAY, directed by Barrett Hileman. A MYSTERIOUS WAY will be performed August 25-September 12 on the downtown J/M train platform at Chambers Street, subject to change due to the inconsistent environment of the MTA, please check firebone theatre website to confirm. Performances begin Wednesday, August 25 and continue until Sunday, September 12. Opening night is Thursday, August 26 at 8pm. Chris Domig of the original production in 2009 was nominated for an NYIT Best Actor Award.

Two men: a youth minister and a drifter.

Two trains: both departing from the same place, for the same place, at the exact same time.

A seemingly benign conversation between two strangers develops increasingly dubious as the true intentions of the wayward vagabond are revealed.
This dark poignant drama takes a hard look at faith, evil, and the classic conflict of Man versus God.

Ticket price is FREE! The cost of your metro card will get you into the show. Donations are accepted. Additionally, due to the ever changing nature of the MTA visit the website to confirm the exact location of the show on the date you intend to attend.

Running time: 40 minutes

www.firebonetheatre.com

JMZ DOWNTOWN PLATFORM AT CHAMBERS STREET SUBWAY STATION

Leila Arias's
Omarys Concepcion Lopez Perez Goes to Israel
(to Speak to God at the Wailing Wall)
Sundays at 3 p.m., and 7:30 p.m.
Friday August 20th at 10:30 p.m.
August 13-29.
The Player's Loft Theatre

The New York International Fringe festival presents Los Angeles based actress Leila Arias's multi character comedic solo show; Omarys Concepcion Lopez Perez Goes to Israel (to Speak to God at the Wailing Wall). A comedy about a Persian/Puerto Rican Catholic girl from the Bronx traveling to Israel (to speak to God). Upon arrival, she encounters International characters who help/hinder, as she makes her way to have the conversation of her life with the Divine! For more information, please visit; www.leilaarias.com.

Tickets $15-$18. For more information or advance purchase visit www.leilaarias.com.

The Player's Loft Theatre | 115 MacDougal Street, 3rd Floor
(near West 3rd St.) NYC 10012

Joe Salvatore's
open heart
Thursday, August 19. 4:00PM - 5:35PM
Sunday August 22. 8:15PM - 9:50PM
Thursday August 26. 8:00PM - 9:35PM
Saturday August 28. 7:00PM - 8:25PM
Sunday August 29. 12:00PM - 1:35PM
First Floor Theatre, La Mama Experimental Theatre

joes & co. is proud to present open heart as part of the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC. Playwright and director Joe Salvatore explores what life is like in a gay relationship that allows for outside sexual partners. He does this through the actual words of men who shared their personal stories and thoughts on monogamy, fidelity, sex, and open relationships. open heart wrestles with questions and assumptions about how our society uses words like “monogamy” and “fidelity” to attach value to the myriad relationship structures in existence. Actual individuals weigh in on these topics, and their spoken words capture something unique and idiosyncratic, ultimately speaking for more than just the gay men represented in this play.

Tickets $15. For more information or tickets visit http://www.fringenyc.org/index.php/shows/buying-tickets or call 866.468.7619. For more information about III visit http://www.openhearttheplay.com/

La Mama Experimental Theatre | 74A East 4th Street

Aeschylus's
“Oresteia”
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 until Sunday, September 19, 2010.
Theatre Row - Kirk Theatre

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus that concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. Overall, this trilogy marks the shift from a system of vendetta in Argos to a system of litigation in Athens. Directed by Leonidas Loizidis

Agamemnon is the first play of Oresteia that details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and partly because in the ten years of Agamemnon's absence Clytemnestra has entered into an adulterous relationship with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin and the sole survivor of a dispossessed branch of the family, who is determined to regain the throne he believes should rightfully belong to him

The Libation Bearers (Greek: Choephoroi) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Clytemnestra is killed by her son Orestes because he is avenging the death of Agamemnon, Orestes' father.

The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and a jury consisting of the Athenians at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes' murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him worthy of the torment they have inflicted upon him.

General Admission: $ 35, Seniors/Students/Groups: $ 20
www.telecharge.com or at the box office (212) 714-2442

Theatre Row - Kirk Theatre | 410 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036-6809

Anna Fishbeyn's
Sex in Mommyville
Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Thursdays at 7 p.m.
Fridays at 7 p.m.
Saturdays at 7 p.m.
Sundays at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, August 18 - Sunday, August 29
The Flea Theater

AF Productions is pleased to announce the world premiere production of Anna Fishbeyn’s Sex In Mommyville, directed by Sande Shurin. Sex In Mommyville will play a limited engagement at The Flea (41 White Street, TriBeCa). Performances begin Wednesday, August 18 and continue thru Sunday, August 29. Opening Night is Friday, August 20 (7 p.m.).

Sex in Mommyville is a musical feminist comedy about the hilarious misadventures of a neurotic, guilt-ridden, health-conscious, sex-starved Manhattan mom trying to please her high-maintenance children, her lawyer-husband Zeus, and her Russian parents who live upstairs. As she discovers ingenious ways to escape her children (i.e. the TV and then some more TV) and seduce her husband (i.e. sing Russian gypsy ballads in her grandmother’s shawl and don old tan pregnancy underwear), she also discovers the inherent struggle and contradictions in what it means to be a mother and ultimately a woman in today’s hyper-anxious, self-perfecting, wrinkle-eradicating society.

Tickets are $25 and are now available online at www.theflea.org, www.ovationtix.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Flea ½ hour prior to performance.

The Flea Theater | 41 White Street | TriBeCa

Alex Mills'
Shakespeare the Dead
Directed by Tom Costello
Saturday August 28th at 8pm
Monday August 30th at 9pm
Thursday September 2nd at 9pm
Friday September 3rd at 9pm
Saturday September 4th at 7pm
Theater for the New City's Johnson Theater

The world premiere of Shakespeare the Dead by Alex Mills, presented by Pipeline Theater Company as part of the Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival. The first day on set of Hollywood's newest film version of Macbeth seems promising... But when a mysterious stranger assumes control and changes the project entirely, things get frighteningly out of hand. Alex Mills' horror-movie-within-a-play is dark, creepy and wickedly funny.

Tickets $12. Available by calling 866-811-4111 or through Ovationtix.com
For more information or advance purchase visit www.pipelinetheatre.org

Theater for the New City | 155 1st Avenue

the tim & micah project
SELECTION
Friday 8/20 at 8:30pm
Monday 8/23 at 7pm
Wednesday 8/25 at 3:15pm
Friday 8/27 at 6pm
Sunday 8/29 at 12pm
Robert Moss Theater

the tim&micah project, a critically acclaimed Chicago based avant garde sketch comedy duo, has announced their participation in the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), where they will present the tim&micah project: SELECTION. Far beyond a typical sketch comedy show, the tim&micah project takes audiences on a roller coaster of emotions and immerses you in a mind bending non stop theatrical experience. Writer/performer duo Tim Soszko and Micah Philbrook once again demonstrate "unbridled comic genius" (Centerstage Chicago) as they present an intelligent, original and meticulously planned revue full of silliness, physical feats of wonder, and surprisingly real moments. Doing away with the structural conventions of sketch comedy, their scenes morph into each other through dance and performance art transitions, weaving "a web of scenes straight out of a David Lynch fantasy" (Time Out Chicago). You never quite know what's real, or what to expect as the tim&micah project continues to defy convention and push the boundaries of sketch comedy.
Tickets $15 and are available by phone 866.468.7619 or through FringeNYC website: www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=t#thetim

For more information, please visit timandmicahproject.com.

Robert Moss Theater
440 Lafayette St, 3rd Floor
(Between Astor Place & East 4th Street)

Jack Heifner's
Vanities
August 31st, 2010 - September 2nd, 2010 7:30 pm
Marilyn Monroe Theatre

The story centers on the lives and friendship of three "perfect and popular" cheerleaders starting in high school. Five years later, in their college sorority house, Joanne, Kathy and Mary confront their future wondering if they have to do something... be someone. In 1974, they reunite in New York trying to pick up from where their lives started to diverge years ago... Starring: Juliana Klein, Soledad del Rio & Isadora Vasconcellos. Directed by: Estrela Straus.

Free admission, with a suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 for general audiences at the door.

For ticket reservations, please call (646) 593 - 0148, (917) 805 - 9526, or email vanities2010@gmail.com.

Marilyn Monroe Theatre | 115 E 15th Street
Between Union Square East and Irving Place

Ralph Lee's Mettawee River Theatre Company in
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
September 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 PM
Garden of St. John the Divine, Amsterdam & 111th Street
(look for the free-roaming peacocks on the Church grounds)

Master puppet and mask maker Ralph Lee's presents his Mettawee River Theatre Company in a reprise of his 1997 "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky," drawn from an Iroquois creation tale in which the Sky Woman falls from the spirit world and lands on the back of a turtle, heralding the beginning of life on land. Following the work's 1998 New York premiere, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote: "With simple beauty, gentle humor, beguiling music and considerable ingenuity, imagination, wisdom and charm, the eternal mystery of creation is being explored by the gifted puppet master, designer and director Ralph Lee." (The New York Times, September 15, 1998)

Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for seniors and children
No reservations - information at 212-929-4777

Garden of St. John the Divine |111th Street & Amsterdam Avenue

“VERITAS” Harvard's "Secret Court": a gay witch-hunt
Friday August 20th 7pm
Siunday August 22nd @ 8pm
Tuesday August 24th @ 4:15pm
Friday August 27th @ 5:15pm
Saturday August 28th @ 8pm
14th New York International Fringe Festival–FringeNYC
HERE Arts Center – Mainstage Theatre

Perkins 28 Productions presents “Veritas” by Stan Richardson at HERE Arts Center Mainstage Theater, 145 6th Avenue (enter on Dominick, 1 blk south of Spring) Inspired by true events, “Veritas” is the story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fell prey to Harvard's "Secret Court": a gay witch-hunt conducted by school administration to purge Harvard of all homosexuality. The talented cast includes Justin Blanchard, Paul Downs Colaizzo, Mitch Dean, Morgan Karr, Doug Kreeger, Eric Nelsen, Matt Steiner, Jesse Swenson, Sam Underwood, and Joseph Yeargain. It is directed by Ryan J Davis, with costumes by Matthew Pachtman, lighting by Brian Tovar. Nathan Vernon is the associate producer, with casting by Daryl Eisenberg; assistant director is Alex Jensen and Adam J. Thompson is the dramaturg. The stage manager is Corey Philips and Maria de Cesare is the website designer. www.VeritasThePlay.com

May 13, 1920: Cyril Wilcox, Class of 1922, on temporary withdrawal from Harvard due to nervous illness, is found dead from asphyxiation by gas in his childhood bedroom in Fall River, Massachusetts. His family discovers letters from friends, including Ernest Weeks Roberts, also Class of ‘22 and the son of a prominent former MA congressman, implicating Cyril in an underground homosexual community at Harvard. A week later Cyril’s older brother, George Lester Wilcox (’14), tracks down Harry Dreyfus, the owner Café Dreyfus and a recent lover of Cyril’s, and violently extracts from him the names of known homosexuals at Harvard. He then visits Acting Dean of the College with these letters and names, demanding that Harvard take some action. The following day, Dean Greenough and President A. Lawrence Lowell, along with three other deans, covertly form “The Court.” May 26–June 2: The proctor of Perkins Hall delivers to The Court a list of frequent attendees at “bitch parties” held in room 28 of Ernest Weeks Roberts. The first round of trials begins, including Roberts, Kenneth Day, a track star and Cyril’s former roommate, Eugene Cummings, a dentistry student and family friend of the Wilcoxes, and Joseph Lumbard, speaking in defense of his effeminate roommate Edward Say who had been much named in the letters and interrogations. June 3–10: An informal conversation between the Asst. Dean and med student Nathaniel Wollf (’23) triggers a second wave of trials. Among those interrogated are Wollf, his sometime-lover Keith Smerage (’21), a newly-minted member of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Stanley Gilkey (23), who admitted an interest in homosexuality, but solely through the lens of criminology. The next day Cummings commits suicide by poison at the Infirmary just before The Court hands down its verdicts. The “guilty”—including Roberts, Day, Say, Cummings, Wollf and Smerage et al—are forced to leave Cambridge immediately. March-June, 2002: A box marked “Secret Court” is found in the University Archives. After much bureaucratic wrangling, the University releases to the Harvard Crimson a redacted version of the records.

Tickets are $15 (bought at least 24 hrs in advance) and $18 cash only at the show. Beginning July 23 (convenience charge applies), for tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 9am to 7pm every day Call 866.468.7619 (Credit Card Only). Tickets are available at the box office at FringeCENTRAL on July 30th (with no extra charges).

HERE Arts Center Mainstage Theater | 145 6th Avenue
Enter on Dominick, 1 blk south of Spring)

Viva la Evolución!
From Aug 19 to 29, 2010
Aug 19 @ 9:30 pm
Aug 21 @ 7:45 pm,
Aug 24 @ 3:45 pm
Aug 27 @ 1:45 pm
Aug 29 @ 2:15 pm.
SoHo Playhouse

In "Viva la Evolución!" (www.vivalaevoluciontheshow.com), the comic actress Diana Yanez, a first-generation Cuban-American, takes us on her journey from Castro to Disco in a one-woman comedy of growing up Cuban and queer in Miami. Directed by Marjorie Duffield, the play will be presented August 13 to 29 at the Vandam Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, as part of the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC.

Tickets: $15 (advance) - $18 (at the door). Box office 866.468.7619; online ticketing available at: www.FringeNYC.org

SoHo Playhouse | 15 Vandam Street
Manhattan

Coming Soon

La CriAtura Theater Premieres Post-Recession Love Story
THE ORPHANS
Thursday - Saturday @ 10:00 pm
Sunday @ 5:30 pm.
December 2 - 12 T
La MaMa

La MaMa ETC in association with La CriAtura Theater presents the World
Premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano. With this erotic love
story, La CriAtura follows up its 2010 IT Award nominated production
of Rootless: La No Nostalgia at PS 122 and 8vo Festival Internacional
de Cabaret in Mexico City. Performed and directed by Karina Casiano
and Daniel Irizarry using physical theater and music, performances
begin December 2nd at La MaMa.

THE ORPHANS is set in the turbulent near future of New York in 2020.
The economic crisis at the turn of the century has led to the
privatization of the most basic resources and the citizens have turned
to violence. Fed up with the repressive economy, a laid-off
pharmaceutical salesman joins a subversive militia. His only contact
with the militia is through a stern female agent for the group. Just
as the salesman and agent find refuge in each other, an unstoppable
popular uprising erupts. The unlikely pair are forced to choose
between hiding in their newfound, but isolated happiness and joining
in the struggle to reclaim a free, more humane society. Would you
leave everything behind to change the world?

Tickets are $15, available at 212-475-7710 or www.lamama.org. For more
info, visit www.lacriatura.org.

La MaMa E.T.C. | 74A East 4th Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Aves -- accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave).

A.R. Gurney’s
OFFICE HOURS
Tuesday – Saturday at 7pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3pm
Sunday, September 19 at 7pm
September 18 - October 24
The Flea Theatre

The Flea Theater presents the premiere of OFFICE HOURS, by A.R.
Gurney, directed by Jim Simpson and featuring The Bats, The Flea’s
resident company of actors. Previews begin September 18 with opening
night slated for Thursday, September 30.

Out with the old and in with the new. Across college campuses in the
‘70s, teachers and students engaged in a battle of their own – making
education relevant. Written specifically for The Bats, this World
Premiere tackles the Great Books curriculum and puts dead white men to
the test.

Tickets are $25 and are available by calling
212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.

The Flea | 41 White Street
Between Church and Broadway

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