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59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is proud to announce the roster of shows for the Fall 2010 Season. For more information, please visit www.59E59.org.

The 1st IRISH FESTIVAL kicks off the Fall 2010 season at 59E59 Theaters, with the US premiere of Guna Nua’s critically acclaimed production of ABSOLUTION and Origin Theatre Company’s premiere of EXIT/ENTRANCE.

American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath would have turned 78 on October 27, so it is a fitting month to honor Plath at 59E59 Theaters. The New York premiere of her only play, THREE WOMEN, arrives Stateside after a 2008 sold-out run at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London.

BlueRare Productions has announced the cast and creative team for its Off-Broadway premiere of the probing and politically-charged mash-up comedy, Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party, by Aaron Loeb.  The seven-member cast will feature Arnie Burton (The Temperamentals, 39 Steps), Stephanie Pope Caffey (Chicago, Smokey Joe's Cafe) and Robert Hogan (A Few Good Men, HBO's "The Wire") and include Lisa Birnbaum, Ted Koch, Pippa Pearthree and Ben Roberts.  

Tired of the Bar Scene? Looking for something Fun to do this weekend? A Hip pre-cursor to your evening? You're invited to The Best Party Ever, a satirical Two Act Play about a Keg Party followed by an Office Party consisting of vignettes, sketches, and monologues. This show ignites onstage with a Congo Line in the first act and a Bunny Hop in the second act with a brief intermission where audience members drink up. You're sure to walk away smiling and maybe even dancing if you'd like. And...the night doesn't stop when the actors take their bows. Stick around for the after-party as the house lights dim, the disco ball spins, and audience members mingle, continue to drink, and dance the night away. Performance Dates: Saturdays @ 5:00 pm (No Shows In April. We resume May 3rd.

ComedySportz New York City is an interactive competition between two teams of professional comedians who perform a series of scenes and songs based on suggestions from the audience. After running for more than ten years in LA and Chicago, the hit show returns to New York City for an open run. Performances are every Saturday at 6pm at The Broadway Comedy Club, 318 W. 53rd Street at 8th Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $10 (with a two drink minimum) at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444.

A ComedySportz New York City match features two teams of comedy performers competing for laughs and points, with a referee to keep things moving along. Every show is different, with different players and games, and with audiences supplying new suggestions. Unlike many other forms of performance comedy, ComedySportz is appropriate for all ages.

Comically channeling the demise of every great world empire, Colin Quinn takes the audience through an uproarious history of the world in 75 minutes.  From his personification of Caesar as the original Italian mobster to his depiction of the pizza-ordering styles of imperialists and colonialists, Quinn is at his satirical best, taking on the attitudes, appetites and habits that toppled the world’s most powerful nations.  Colin Quinn Long Story Short proves that throughout human history, the joke has always been on us.

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.

FREUD’S LAST SESSION, a new play by Mark St. Germain, will have its Off-Broadway premiere at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.  Performances will begin July 9th, following a second return engagement at Barrington Stage Company (MA), where the play had its world premiere in June 2009.  FREUD’S LAST SESSION stars Mark H. Dold as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Sigmund Freud, under the direction of Tyler Marchant.  The official opening night is set for Thursday, July 22nd.

"Over 5,000 patrons have attended Freud's Last Session, making it the most popular play in BSC history," said Barrington Stage Artistic Director Julianne Boyd.

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.