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Bob and Tobly McSmith
Bayside! The UnMusical!
May 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19. 8pm-9:30PM
The Kraine Theatre

Bayside! The UnMusical!, the hilarious and unauthorized musical parody of TV’s Saved by the Bell, is returning to East Village’s Kraine Theatre on May 9th! Hailed as “New York’s best” by Michael Musto (Village Voice), this entertaining and edgy sendup of everyone’s favorite Saturday morning teen drama will have a limited two week run from May 9th – 19th. It’s just another day for the students of Bayside High until they find out their favorite (and only) hangout spot “The Max” is closing unless they can raise an unreasonable amount of money. Bayside! The UnMusical! playfully mocks conventional Broadway Musicals with toe-tapping melodies about homoerotic wrestling, rock ballads about cellphones, and love songs about teenage pregnancy.
Tickets $15. For more information or advance purchase visit www.baysidetheunmusical.com

The Kraine Theatre | 85 East 4th Street

Brooklyn Center's 2011/2012 Theater Series
October 29- May 20
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College announces its 57th season of diverse, family friendly theater and musical theater performances, including the premiere U.S. tour of the National Acrobats of the People's Republic of China; the Tony Award-nominated play Say Goodnight Gracie; the Off-Broadway hit My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy, and three theater performances for children as part of Brooklyn Center's Target FamilyFun series.

Tickets: $7 to $30
Online orders: www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org
Box Office: (718) 951-4500, Tuesday - Saturday, 1pm - 6pm

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts | Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College
2900 Campus Road
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-4600

Cinderella
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 2pm
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

American Family Theater’s award-winning production of the classic fairy tale Cinderella bursts with excitement, fantasy and song as it tells the story of a lowly servant girl whose one wish is to attend the royal ball. In this all-new children’s musical, Cinderella sings and dances her way from the kitchen of her stepmother's house into the arms of Prince Charming, helped by her good friend Mortimer Mouse and her magical Fairy Godmother.

Appropriate for children ages four and up, the production lasts for one hour and is performed without an intermission. All tickets are $7.
Online orders: BrooklynCenterOnline.org
Box Office: (718) 951-4500, Tuesday – Saturday, 1pm – 6pm

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College
2/5 trains to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Avenue

William Shakespeare's
The Comedy of Errors
May 4 - June 10, 2012
May 4 - 6, 10 -13, 24 – 27, 31, June 1, 2.
(note: no performances May 17-20)
Thursdays at 7pm
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
Cranberry Street Theater Space, 55 Cranberry Street between Henry and Hicks Street, Brooklyn Heights.
June 9 & 10, Saturday and Sunday at 7pm,
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier One.

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights’ professional theater company is pleased to announce a family friendly production of William Shakespeare’s “THE COMEDY OF ERRORS,” The show will be performed at The Cranberry Street Theater Space and Pier One in The Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the “Bard at Pier One” series. The Comedy of Errors is a lively situation comedy about mistaken identity, love and marriage. This unique version, a fast paced 90 minutes featuring ten actors and five puppets is particularly suitable for the whole family. Director David Fuller has assembled a multi-talented team of actors and designers who promise to help take the “Shakes” out of viewing Shakespeare! Creative team: Director/Set Designer David Fuller, (Theater Ten Ten, Cocteau Rep, Texas Shakespeare Company), Lighting Designer Giles Hogya, (Cocteau Rep, Theater Ten Ten), Costume Designer Roejendra Adams (Gallery Players), Production Stage Manager Heather Puchalski. Cast: Lauren Briggeman, David Fuller*, Kristin Rose Kelly, Annalisa Loeffler*, Katie Mack*, Evan Maltby, Anton Rayn*, Elise Reynard*, David Weinheimer, Wayne Willinger. (*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association)

Tickets: $18.00 (cash at the door)
Reservations at Theater2020.com or 718-624-3614

Cranberry Street Theater Space | 55 Cranberry Street
Between Henry and Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier One

Stephan Davis's
“A DANCE for RYLIE”
Friday, June 1st, 9pm
Sunday, June 3rd, 8pm
Friday, June 8th, 4pm
Sunday, June 10th, 10pm
Wednesday, June 13th, 5pm
Tuesday, June 19th, 6pm.
45 Bleecker Street Theatre

SD Productions is pleased to present “A DANCE for RYLIE” as a part of the 4th annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Donations collected at each performance will benefit the Ali Forney Center, an organization that provides housing for homeless LGBT youth.
Inspired by a true case of discrimination against a gay couple at a hospital, “A DANCE for RYLIE” explores issues of intimacy, illness and equality. The work focuses on the relationship between the affable Rylie, who has just suffered a tumultuous breakup and Matthew, a hopeless romantic. Though Rylie initially fights it, they fall in love and ultimately commit their lives to one another. But as Rylie’s health declines, the hospital staff restricts Matthew to the lobby during what could be his partner’s last moments. “A DANCE for RYLIE” is told via a pop/jazz inspired score written by Mr. Davis. The creative team hopes to advance consciousness around HIV/AIDS and equality.

The cast features Philip Deyesso, Adam Ryan Tackett, Kimberly Michelle Thomas & Valerie Lemon.

Running time: 90 minutes.
Tickets $18. For tickets visit http://www.planetconnections.org

For more information, please visit ADANCEforRYLIE.com. 866-811-4111

45 Bleecker Street Theatre | Between Lafayette and Mott Streets, Upstairs

Steve Willis's
Diana Sands: a Certain Toughness of Spirit
Tuesday – Saturday @ 7PM
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday @ 3PM
May 15th - 20th
Opens May 15, 2012
Workshop Theater Company’s Jewel Box Theater

Two-time Tony nominee, Hope Clarke (Jelly’s Last Jam, Caroline or Change) shares her remembrances of actress Diana Sands, a two-time Tony and Emmy nominee with whom Ms. Clarke performed in Hallelujah Baby.

Cast list: Hope Clarke and Teniece Divya Johnson
Director: Sue Lawless

Running Time: 1hr 20mins, No intermission.
Ticket price: Reservations: $25.00/evenings; $20.00/matinees.
Tickets/info: www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=DIA11 or call 212-868-4444

Workshop Theater Company’s Jewel Box Theater | 312 W. 36th St., 4th floor

Jo Wharmby's
Dick & Gina
Friday 18 May, 10.15pm-late
The Producers Club

Who doesn't want better sex?

On a mission to create World Peace one ORGASM at a time, British therapist Jo Wharmby got men and women to be brutally honest about what they wish the other knew about sex. If you’ve ever wondered what your partner’s really thinking in the sack, this outrageous comedy lays it all out, from making out to making love. DICK & GINA is definitely not for the faint-hearted, but you’re bound to learn something while laughing uncontrollably.
Jo’s had great fun and enormous success taking shows from Cape Town to the Edinburgh Fringe and now she’s spreading the love – and all that goes with it – in the US!
“Ought to be required viewing” The Scotsman “A saucy sex-fuelled roller-coaster ride” Cape Times

Tickets $15 to buy go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/243599
For more information go to www.jotalksaboutsex.com

The Producers Club | 358 West 44th St

IN OUR NAME: APLAY OF THE TORTURE YEARS
Followed by Panel Discussion on Guantánamo
Wednesday, May 9th
1:30 pm Performance followed immediately by panel discussion (see below).
8:30 pm Performance
Monday, May 14th
1:30 pm Performance
8:30 pm Performance
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 there will also be a critical panel discussion on Guantánamo.

In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years, written by Northeastern University School of Law Professor Michael Meltsner, is a drama addressing how and why the nation found itself brutally treating the men it detained. It examines the rationalization of these injustices by the U.S. government, the use of military tribunals, and the willful blindness of the public. The running time of this play is approximately one hour.

Immediately following the opening performance on Wednesday, May 9th at 1:30 pm, the Department of Communication and Theater Arts will present a panel discussion on Guantánamo. This panel will feature Jennifer R. Cowan, Defense Attorney for Guantanamo detainees from Debevoise & Plimpton Law Firm, and Elizabeth Wilson, Professor at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University.

To reserve your tickets please call the Department of Communication and Theater Arts at (212) 237-8130.

Jay College of Criminal Justice | 524 West 59th Street Black Box Theater

In Pursuit of Freedom - A New Play to Kick off the First Public History Project on the Antislavery and Abolitionist Movement in Brooklyn
April 26 – May 24, Tuesdays 7pm, Wednesday – Saturday, 8pm
Irondale Center

In Pursuit of Freedom will explore the tension between Brooklyn’s phenomenal growth during the nineteenth century based on its intricate ties to slavery, and the moral imperative towards anti-slavery activism by a small group of residents. Set in the tumultuous decade prior to the Civil War, In Pursuit of Freedom will blend real and fictional characters, who were all committed Brooklynites. The play will explore a time in this borough’s history when free African-Americans, charted a course of self-determination in order to address the everyday injustices of racism, threats of illegal kidnapping, voter discrimination, and a profound lack of legal and political equality. It was also a time when ordinary men and women, black and white, became abolitionists, in order to end slavery even as their city’s wealth depended on the Southern economy. The play will tell new stories about familiar abolitionists and recover activists who have been underrepresented by mainstream narratives. Ultimately, the play will be a venue for exploring American notions of freedom and engage with the ongoing debates of how we define freedom today.

Tickets: Full price $35.00, student rush $15, Tuesdays $10, Info: www.irondale.org /718 488 9233

Irondale Center | 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY

Elmer L. Kline, Lee Cardini and Tom Herman’s
Jack’s Back!
May 9 – June 24, 2012
Wednesday – Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
Gloria Maddox Theatre at T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre

John Gould Rubin directs this world premiere musical. This madcap musical romp showcases Jack the Ripper like never before. Has one of history’s most notorious men finally met his match? Jack’s Back! answers the question as Herbert Wingate, an audacious cockney sausage stuffer, struggles to make the gas-lit streets of Whitechapel safe from the ruthless murderer. Herbert’s wild and zany schemes offer a hilarious and heartfelt new take on the centuries old tale. Tom Herman contributes a rich new score that’s Broadway meets Operetta meets Vaudeville and that complements the book by Elmer L. Kline with Lee Cardini and Herman.

Tickets $20. For more information or advance purchase visit https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/868125 or 866-811-4111.

Gloria Maddox Theatre at T. Schreiber Studio and Theatre | 151 West 26th St.
Between 6th & 7th Ave. | Subway: 1 to 28th St.

2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC!
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 Noon
May16 - 20, 2012
Workshop Theater Company’s Jewel Box Theater

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, a 2010 AUDELCO award winner, presents the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Plays in NYC!, a lunchtime play reading series at 12Noon. Seven one-acts about the black experience include a concert of spirituals and stories about revenge, gastronomy of starch, granny’s wisdom, fighting to vote, actor’s blues and Shirley Chisholm. Concessions are available at all performances. Produced in partnership with the Stage Directors Foundation.

Tickets $5.00; $15.00/Festival Pass. For tickets, call 212-868-4444; www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=2NDA

Jewel Theater | 312 W. 36th St., 4th floor
Between 8th and 9th Avenues, New York, NY

Israel Horovitz's
LINE
The Longest Running Off-Off Broadway Play
Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30pm*
13th Street Repertory Theater

Israel Horovitz’s LINE, the longest running Off-Off Broadway show, now enters its 37th year at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. For the past three months, a new cast and crew have been hard at work, revitalizing this NY stage classic. LINE is a dark, existential comedy that explores humanity’s constant desire and struggle to be in first place. Stage and screen legends Chaz Palminteri, Richard Dreyfuss, and John Cazale have all stood in LINE during the show’s historic run. In 1974, after LINE’s run Off-Broadway, Edith O’Hara (Artistic Director of 13th Street Theater) worked closely with the playwright to further develop the play and create a production specifically for 13th Street Rep. Now, almost 40 years later, working with Mrs O’Hara, director Frank Bologna envisions something fresh and daring. “I wanted to make sure to honor Israel and Edith’s original version of LINE that made it a success back in the ‘70’s, but with a focus on realism, and avoiding the idea of caricature. My actors have made that possible.”

*Please note, LINE plays continuously in rep with 2 casts, Friday and Saturday nights. The new, younger cast performs in a limited engagement every SATURDAY night.

TIX: $20 ($15 STUDENTS/SENIORS)

THEATERMANIA.COM, 212.352.3101,
OR AT THE BOX OFFICE

13th Street Repertory Theater | 50 West 13th Street

Tom Dudzick 's
MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET
Tuesday @ 7pm
Wednesday @ 2pm & 8pm
Sunday matinees @ 2pm.
Previews Begin April 25th
Opening Night May 13th
St Luke's Theatre

From the producer of the acclaimed Off-Broadway musical The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith and the award-winning director of Tryst, Cobb and Fall to Earth comes a new comedy about family, faith and adjusting to life's surprises.

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director, and Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director) and Morton Wolkowitz (Stomp, The Unexpected Man) will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Miracle On South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato. Performances begin April 25th at St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Opening Night is set for Sunday May 13th.

Miracle On South Division Street will feature Peggy Cosgrave (Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Helen Hayes), Andrea Maulella (Tryst at Irish Rep, One Shot, One Kill at Primary Stages), Rusty Ross (original Broadway cast of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Robert Wilson’s Alice at BAM), and Liz Zazzi (Tony N' Tina's Wedding, Bad Attitudes), and have set and lighting design by Josh Iacovelli, costume design by Gail Cooper-Hecht, and sound design by Chris Rummel.

Tickets from $36.50 are available at Telecharge.com or by calling 212/239-6200.

St. Luke's Theatre | 308 West 46th Street
Between 8th and 9th Avenues.

NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
April 20 - May 27
The Flea

The Flea will present the World Premiere of three new plays with its NEW PLAY FESTIVAL: The Electric Lighthouse by Ed Hime, The Wundelsteipen (And Other Difficult Roles for Young People) by Nick Jones and A Letter from Omdurman by Jeffrey M. Jones. The Festival’s cast will be comprised of The Bats, the resident acting company of The Flea. Previews begin April 20th at The Flea Theater.

NEW PLAY FESTIVAL will feature the three fully-produced World Premiere productions presented in rotating repertory:
• Set in Soho, London, The Electric Lighthouse is a jet-black comedy about post-punk bands, indie cinema and trying to hang onto yourself in a city that wants to re-write you. Written by Ed Hime and directed by Kristen Seemel.
• The Wundelsteipen (And Other Difficult Roles for Young People) is an evening of dark comedic pieces. A slave is responsible for waking Caligula in the morning. Two adolescent brothers are visited by a sex fairy from the internet. And the story of Salome is retold as a Disneyesque fairy tale, with a talking vulture and scorpion. Written by Nick Jones, directed by Thomas Costello.
• A Letter from Omdurman is an assemblage of stories—some true, some invented—which interweave three historical periods: life in the contemporary United States; events leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Anglo-Sudanese War which ended in the defeat of the Mahdi Army at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. Written by Jeff Jones, directed by Page Burkholder.

NEW PLAY FESTIVAL will run in repertory April 20 – May 27; times vary, with a complete performance schedule at www.theflea.org.

Tickets are $20, available at 212-352-3101 or www.theflea.org. A New Play Festival Double Hitter pass for two shows at $30 or a New Play Festival Triple Hitter pass for all three shows $45, is also available. Mimosa Matinees, Saturday and Sunday noon performances, are $10 for a ticket and a cocktail.

The Flea | 41 White Street
Between Church and Broadway
Three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines.

William Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
May 19 – June 10, 2012
Thursday – Sunday at 8pm (no performance May 20th)
chashama

Empirical Rogue (Tim Eliot, Artistic Director), a company comprised of MFA alums of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard, will produce a four-actor Romeo and Juliet in a never-before-performed-in abandoned space. Love is revolution. Politics, passion, money, revenge, rebellion, deceit, and ten tons of love provide the powder keg in this inventive take on Romeo and Juliet. The site-specific, immersive production unfolds from the moment audience members step inside the abandoned garage, formerly Moe’s Taxi, in Long Island City. A Romeo and Juliet so clear and relevant, you'll think it's your family teetering on the brink, your friends in mortal danger, your greatest love affair.

Tickets $18. For more information or advance purchase visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233663 or 800-838-3006.

chashama | 26-15 Jackson Ave., Long Island City
between 44th Dr. and 43rd Ave. | Subway: E, M, 7 and G to Court Square

The Runner Stumbles
Thursdays at 8pm
Fridays at 8pm
Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
The Arclight Theatre

Retro Productions and The Bleecker Company, in association with The
Arclight Theatre, present Milan Stitt's drama THE RUNNER STUMBLES,
with an Off-Broadway run set to open Thursday, May 3 at The Arclight
Theatre (152 West 71st Street). Peter Zinn, who helmed Retro
Productions' revivals Michael Frayn's BENEFACTORS and Sally Nemeth's
HOLY DAYS, directs. Part courtroom drama, part whodunit, THE RUNNER
STUMBLES is based on the true story of a nun's mysterious murder in a
remote parish in northern Michigan in 1911 and the charge that her
superior, Father Rivard, is her murderer. The action alternates among
interrogations, testimony and scenes from the past to reveal that
Father Rivard (Christopher Patrick Mullen), who had been banished to
the small, up-country parish, fell in love with Sister Rita (Casandera
M.J. Lollar); and when circumstances forced her to move into the
rectory with him, his anguish became unbearable. Their relationship,
inevitably, spelled tragedy, but not until the explosive and
surprising climax of the play is the full extent of their sacrifice
made clear. The Off-Broadway ensemble includes Becky Byers, Nat
Cassidy, Heather E. Cunningham, Casandera M.J. Lollar, Joe Mathers,
Christopher Patrick Mullen, Alisha Spielmann, and Ric Sechrest.

Off-Broadway performances of THE RUNNER STUMBLES begin May 3 and run
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm at the Arclight
Theatre (152 West 71st Street, between Broadway and Columbus Avenue).
Tickets are $37 ($30 Seniors). $20 Student Rush tickets at the box
office, based on availability. For reservations, call 212-352-3101 or
visit www.theatermania.com.

The Arclight Theatrev | 152 West 71st Street

Silence! The Musical
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 8 PM
Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM
Sunday at 5 PM
Beginning January 12, 2012
Performance Space 122

SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Christopher Gattelli, is set to begin a new winter playing schedule beginning January 12th at The 9th Space Theatre at Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue (at 9th St.) SILENCE! The Musical opened July 9, 2011 to unanimous rave reviews, led by David Cote of Time Out and New York 1 News who said, “Pungent, punchy and raunchy, with a sheepish chorus to boot, the consummately silly SILENCE! will leave you stuffed and wanting mutton more.” The show immediately became a sold-out smash hit and was just selected by Time Magazine as one of the year’s Top 10 Plays and Musicals along with such lofty company as The Book of Mormon and War Horse.

Originally announced as an eight-week limited engagement, the show’s producers extended the run four times to accommodate the overwhelming demand for tickets. SILENCE! The Musical recently celebrated its 100th New York performance.

The original cast recording of SILENCE! The Musical has been released by Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records online at iTunes, Amazon.com for digital download, and is available at www.sh-k-boom.com. Finally, musical comedy fans outside of New York are now able to enjoy the critically acclaimed score, including such song selections as “If I Could Smell Her C---” and “Put the F--king Lotion in the Basket.”

In the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice must face her own demons and race the clock to unlock Lecter’s clues before another innocent girl is killed and skinned by Bill. It’s a hair-raising thriller that’s kept countless millions on the edge of their seats and permeated the pop lexicon with delightfully creepy quotes like “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti” and of course “It places the lotion in the basket.” And now, at last, this delicate symphony of suspense has been turned on its ear and retold in the only way it can be – as a musical. A singing chorus of floppy eared lambs narrates the action; Buffalo Bill gleefully dances a hoedown while kidnapping hapless Catherine Martin; and even Dr. Lecter, scary as ever, sings about the life he’d like to lead someday outside the prison walls.

The running time is 89 minutes with no intermission. Tickets are $25 - $79 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or through www.SilenceTheMusical.com.

Performance Space 122 | 150 First Avenue (at 9th St.)

SPACE//SPACE
Thursday - Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 7pm
June 8 - July 1
The Collapsable Hole
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BANANA BAG & BODICE presents the World Premiere of SPACE//SPACE. Text by Jason Craig. Directed by Mallory Catlett. Previews begin June 8 at The Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg. Opening is set for June 14.

In SPACE//SPACE two brothers volunteer for a scientific experiment and then are placed in a small vessel and launched into space in the hopes that their future discovery will inform sentient beings of the human race. This ridiculous experiment -- putting living beings inside a device designed for longevity beyond human durability -- provides the ultimate setting for comedic futility and existential tragedy. One brother follows his natural course of degeneration while the other mysteriously transmogrifies into a female, allowing the two brothers to ponder an uncomfortable future generation to occupy the capsule. SPACE//SPACE explores the value of earthly dogma and social morality when earth is a distant blip and society is reduced to two.

Tickets are $15 - 25 at 917 426 2499 or www.bananabagandbodice.org

The Collapsable Hole | Williamsburg, Brooklyn | 146 Metropolitan Avenue
At Berry Street -- accessible from the G train to Metropolitan Ave. or the L train to Bedford).

Frank Blocker's
Stabilized Not Controlled
Sundays @ 5
Through June 24
Stage Left Studio

Meet evil landlord “Killer” Joe and his archnemesis, Lorna Breedlove, a rent-stabilized septuagenarian sex addict (in recovery). The battle rages over a five-floor walk-up occupied by a Log Cabin-accountant, an aging stoner, Fake English actress, and homeless squatter Jackie O’Nasa. Joe will stop at nothing, but if the tenants can come together, they won’t have to face the alternative: Leave Manhattan? Not on your life! This dark comedy is delivered by acclaimed solo artist and Drama Desk Award-nominee Frank Blocker. The play was developed using actual New York City conversations and scenes, exploring movement and voice with coaches Kathy Kelly Christos and Amy Jones, with developmental direction by Jeffrey Edward Peters and Helena Judd, and dramaturgy by Cheryl King.

Tickets $20. For more information or advance purchase visit www.stageleftstudio.net.

Stage Left Studio | 214 W. 30th St, 6th Floor, (b/w 7th & 8th)

Frank J. Avella's
Vatican Falls
Tuesday, May 15th @ 6:45PM
National Comedy Theatre

You are cordially invited to:VATICAN FALLS
The play the Vatican did not want anyone to see
A Staged Reading to Benefit: SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)

Based on factual material, “VATICAN FALLS” follows the life of one survivor who struggles with understanding how those closest to him could damage him the deepest. The multi-genre, non-linear play probes the conflicting feelings involved in most sexual abuse situations and dares to confront the truth about the ever-growing scandal and the Church’s complicity in it.

“VATICAN FALLS” was set to have its World Premiere in Rome, Italy, last May but was cancelled the night before opening amidst controversy and claims of death threats. This will mark the first U.S. presentation of the play to an audience since the last workshop in 2010.

Recent headline news reports about the Catholic Church putting legal pressure on SNAP to hand over more than two decades of confidential information has put the group at the forefront of a major battle with Vatican attorneys wishing to silence them once and for all. SNAP is holding steadfast in their efforts to protect the privacy of victims, witnesses--even journalists who have come to them for help in the past. All proceeds from this Benefit will go directly to these brave men and women. We hope to raise awareness about the real facts concerning the scandal and about this very important group that has provided a safe haven for survivors since 1988. SNAP recently filed a lawsuit with the Hague against the Vatican for crimes against humanity.

Starring:
Rob Ventre, Carlotta Brentan, Joshua Dixon, Liza Harris, Drew Bruck, Devon Talbott, Matthew Crooks, Francesco Andolfi, Carlos Dengler, Kalen J. Hall & Lucia Grillo.

Musical Director/Arranger: Brad Gardner Stage Directions: Cali Gilman

Music: Claudio Procopio Lyrics: Frank J. Avella

Directed by Laura Caparrotti

To guarantee your seat please reserve now via: VaticanFalls.com

PREFERRED SEATING: Donate $50 or more for 1st choice of seats upon arrival.

General audience donation: $25. Students/Seniors: $20.

Wine and cheese will be served at Intermission

Questions? Call 973-715-2356 or email IMPETUSENSEMBLE@aol.com

National Comedy Theatre | 347 W.36th St.
Between 8th & 9th Aves | NYC

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