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Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its 2013 Season, the Thirteenth Annual Performance Season from Thursday –Saturday, June 27-29, 2013 at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19^th Street, NYC.  The season will feature the World Premiere of It’s a Game.  Tickets are $30 ($20 for Live Arts members, students, and seniors) and are available at www.newyorklivearts.

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Horse Trade Theater Group and StrangeDog Theatre will present the New York Premiere of BOOTSTRAPS by Ben Clawson, June 13-22 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place). The production will be directed by Artem Yatsuov with Assistant Director Amanda Mae Cohen and will feature Scott Cagney, Rob Hille, Paul Romano, and Sebastian Smeureanu. The creative team will include Lighting Design by Rebecca Bickley, Costume Design by Jason Caballero, Set Design by Peter Martino, and Sound Design by Artem Yatsunov. The production will be Stage Managed by Keila Fontánez-La Salle.

It's midnight in the forlorn warehouses of the Branch Hill Industrial Supply Company.

 Out of a raging Alaskan blizzard comes a distraught young woman dressed in satin slippers and a bridal gown.  She bursts into the only refuge she can find:  the remote cabin of a man who has retreated from society.  Trapped in this one room, these strangers warily circle each other, probing each other’s defenses, revealing truths about themselves and each other, breaking down and spinning out of control.  Cindy Lou Johnson’s BRILLIANT TRACES is a funny, compelling, heartfelt journey through the tapestry of life, relationships and memory.  BRILLIANT TRACES is an intimate theatrical experience that will bring the audience into the emotional landscape of two people running away from so-called civilization and smack into each other, forced to explore the

A Vermont railroad worker in 1848, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and a band of mercenaries stationed on the water planet of the Cortica Galaxy... All faced with the same question: Who am I? An adventure of self-discovery through the inner space of the mind to the outer reaches of the universe by Split Knuckle, which returns to Flint {e_description}amp; Tinder on the heels of its heralded 2010 presentation of Endurance.

The Curious Case of Phineas Gage is part of Flint {e_description}amp; Tinder, a new curated theater series. Save money and buy a ticket bundle: http://flintandtinder.brownpapertickets.com

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Flint {e_description}amp; Tinder is a curated series of exciting new independent theater presented by The Tank in the heart of Manhattan's theater district.

Gideon Productions (NYIT Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play Award for Advance Man) will present the World Premiere of playwright Mac Rogers’ (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Viral) modern horror story FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS, June 14-30 at The Secret Theatre (44 02 23rd Street, Long Island City).The production will be directed by Jordana Williams (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Viral) and will feature Autumn Dornfeld* (The Graduate on Broadway; Beebo Brinker Chronicles at NYTW), Rob Maitner* (Mr. McQueen in the original cast of Urinetown!), Diana Oh (Rob Askins’ P.S.

Guerra: a clown play is a satirical physical comedy created by Mexico City company La Piara in collaboration with writers/directors Seth Bockley and Devon de Mayo. The play combines slapstick, clown, dance, bouffant and farce to tell the story of a military outpost desperate for recruits, and the cannon fodder that a hapless General sends to war. This contemporary story of war's inhumanity is given a darkly humorous edge through the medium of clown.

Performed in three languages and featuring a climactic paper plane bombardment, this lean touring performance lasts 55 minutes. It was developed over 2011 and 2012 through Theater Communication Group's "On the Road" grant, and first presented at the In The Works showcase series in Chicago's Pritzker Pavilion, in Millennium Park, in March 2012.

Westside Experiment
Young Actor's Laboratory

For Grades 6-12
Session 1: July 8-21, 2013 (Mon-Fri)
Session 2: July 22-Aug.5, 2013 (Mon-Fri)
Time: 9am-3pm
Performances: Sun. July 21, 2013 and Sun. Aug. 4 2013

Tuition: $600 per person (payable in cash or check)
Tuition assistance available for qualified applicants.

Check should be sent to: IRT Theater 154
Christopher st. 3B NY, NY 10014
Credit Card price: $621.99

Contact IRT: 212-206-6875
we@irttheater.org

Since 2007, IRT Theater has made a mission of hosting radically affordable, full-immersion development residences for emerging and established artists. An offshoot of IRT's 3B Development Series, the Westside Experiment will offer students the skills to create original devised theater in collaboration with a working theater company in residency at IRT.

 RADIOHOLE'S INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN at Mass Live Arts

August 1-3, 8pm

Exploring James Whale’s classic films and the tragic life of novelist Mary Shelley, Inflatable Frankenstein is brimming with whims, technological absurdity, and massive amounts of bodily fluids. Radiohole’s critically acclaimed work has been hailed as, “a sticky, goopy, embarrassing, all-over-the-place and absolutely necessary mess” [Ben Brantley, The New York Times] 8pm. Daniel Arts Center. [Bard College at Simon's Rock] 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington.  Tickets: $25-$35.  Full Schedule and more information available at: masslivearts.org

This is an overview of the basic functions of show control with QLab 2. This includes sound file playback for two channels and multiple channels, MIDI communication and video.

QLab is an essential tool for sound designers and stage managers.

from the QLab website: “QLab allows you to control audio, video, and MIDI from a single workspace. The basic version of QLab is free and provides a powerful audio playback environment. For advanced users, licenses are available to enhance the audio features, as well as to add video and MIDI functionality.”

Director & Designer Ryan Holsopple of 31 Down was nominated for a 2011 Hewes Design Award for the sound design of 31 Down's Here At Home.

The enchanting and ancient India sets the background to a story of eternal love, exotic mystery and inevitable fate. Nikiya, La Bayadére [Temple Dancer], loves Solor, a noble Warrior. A vivid palette of human intrigues to separate the lovers is destroyed by virtue of the Gods and Goddess of mysterious India.

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Mieke’s Story, explores the journey of an American teenager struggling with the loss created by her father’s death in Iraq.  Visual and written images of the ancient Sumerian myth of the goddess Inanna and her journey into the netherworld are juxtaposed with modern day Mieke’s confrontation with her family and her high school team mates.  Her focus on Inanna is a bitter sweet journey, one started with her Dad when he was first deployed in Iraq.  Is it a betrayal or tribute to him to turn their research into a school project?  Could it help her to heal? This play is appropriate for high school.

About the Company: New Plays for Young Audiences

Based in the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New Plays for

A play about the power of faith, the lure of deceit.

 

Gambling, promises, denial, lies, and a trucker/preacher who thinks of his flock “not as sheep, but as deer in the headlights of life.”  As each character’s outlook is altered, the audience is left to decide what truly constitutes conversion – what truly constitutes change.

“The great Jazz musician Charles Mingus had a resounding conviction that all art is revolutionary,” said Director Lydia Fort. “Miss Nowhere Diner contributes to the revolution by giving our audience a mirror through which we see ourselves, and through which we can gain the courage to re-determine, to change, and to see hope where there was none.

NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS/HALF STRADDLE at Mass Live Arts-

July 25 - 27 8pm | masslivearts.org

Mass Live Arts is committed to fostering the creation of new American works through development residencies culminating in work-in-progress showings. Tina Satter and Half Straddle, in collaboration with Richard Maxwell’s Obie-Winning company, New York City Players, present Mona’s House of Dance, a new work that includes a post-performance panel with the artists. 8pm. Daniel Arts Center. [Bard College at Simon's Rock] 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington. Tickets: $25-$35.  Full Schedule and more information available at: masslivearts.org

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A presentation and demonstration of the audio application Verser with a performance, which uses the human voice to control sound interactively. It was developed specifically for use in theatrical sound design and plays that focus on speech and dialogue in particular.

50 minutes

 Seagull (Thinking of you) by Half Straddle

at Mass Live Arts | July 18-20, 8pm

Half Straddle, a rapidly rising Brooklyn company, brings their widely popular Seagull (Thinking of you) which re-imagines Anton Chekhov’s iconic play, The Seagull, through his personal letters, translations, and perverse sense of comedy to consider anew what makes the human heart really beat and why we ever try to say something out loud, let alone in front of an audience. With a Russian folk metal-influenced score.

Daniel Arts Center. [Bard College at Simon's Rock] 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington. Tickets: $25-$35.  Full Schedule more information is available at: masslivearts.org

When Malala Yousafzai was targeted in October for speaking out on girls’ education in Pakistan, it illuminated something about Shahrazad and One Thousand and One Nights. As the Royal Vizier’s daughter, she had unusual educational access. She tells King Shahryar stories drawn from an empire that spanned Asia and North Africa and into Western Europe. Education saved her. With lives at stake, Shahrazad would not have relied on improvisation night after night for three years. She would have researched and prepared by reading and, most importantly, listening to others share their stories. This play is appropriate for high school and college.

About the Company: New Plays for Young Audiences

Based in the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New Plays for

In the modern theater, unsung artists called Sound Designers are quietly engaged to flesh out theatrical productions with recordings of crickets, doorbells and phone rings. They fill your Tempests with winds, your Streetcar with street noise and your Vanyas with gunshots. They mix your incidental music with your offstage voices and invisibly support the director’s vision. If they’re doing their job correctly, you won’t even notice their contribution.

For four weeks this June, The Brick says this to the modern theater: no more crickets.

Introducing a theater festival where Sound Designers are primary artists.

Employing The Brick’s new surround sound system, New York’s most talented sound designers are invited to create theatrical experiences that foreground their

At a Las Vegas motel, in 1952, a family prepares to watch the detonation of an atom-bomb. The bomb goes off and they are transported through time to 2013. When they meet their modern-day counterparts, hilarity ensues!
 

Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 8pm 

Heckscher Theatre 
at El Museo del Barrio

1230 5th Avenue (at 104th Street), NYC 10029

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $25 for seniors and students

Purchase tickets at http://www.hudsonvalleysingers.org/tickets.htm#orderform or call 914-674-2865

The Hudson Valley Singers present HYMN OF LOVE, featuring the music of Weber, Schumann, and Nielsen conducted by Eugene Sirotkine and joined by the Masters School Young Singers, Jennifer Carnevale, Director, and The New York Metamorphoses Orchestra.

Performed before a backdrop of Willy Pogeny’s 1921 murals “Scenes from Children’s Literature,” HYMN OF LOVE celebrates the love of children and youth in a time when violence against them is all too common.

What happens when young newlyweds in the era of "free love" realize that "happily ever after" is the last thing they're likely to get? "The Old In and Out," a new two-act play by Madeline Artenberg and Karen Hildebrand, directed by Kat Georges, tells the stories of four free-spirited women who, while looking for love, discover their true independent selves. Not since "The Vagina Monologues" has live theater captured the voices of contemporary women with such honesty and compassion. Adult themes and language.

An aspiring writer who works as the Office Manager at The Shallot, a satirical news organization, hoping to become a writer. While fielding phone calls and dealing with the revolving door of actors and actresses coming into the office for auditions, the Office Manager and intern observe a changing company whose structure, like its product, is funny.

Based on a true story about working at The Onion.

Where losing your job meets losing your mind.

The Steven Vega Show is a night of Improv Comedy where the audience is part of the show.  The actors create extremely comical scenes based on suggestions from the audience thereby taking you on a hysterical journey of fun and laughter. 

 

Running time is 1 hour and 15 minutes, no intermission.

FREE Cocktail Reception on Opening Day 1 hour before showtime.  

Student Rush tickets $15 one hour before show time for any available seats at that time.

 

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jay Michaels/WrightGroupNY
646-338-5472
wrightgroupny@gmail.com

 

 "What if Mama dies...?" 
"What if I'm stuck with him...?" 
"What if his voices come back...?
“What if he refuses to bathe...again?" 
"What if he kills me...?" 

This Is Why I Whisper

Two Special Showings:

Symphony Space’s Pete Jay Sharp Theatre

2537 Broadway at 95th St., New York City

Saturday, June 29, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

 

 

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.” 

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

MISTAKEN IDENTITY ... GENDER-BENDING ... A LOVE-SICK DUKE ... BRILLIANT FOOLS ... DEBAUCHEROUS ROUGES AND LOVELY LADIES-IN-WAITING PRANKING PRUDISH STEWARDS … ALL STARTING WITH A SHIPWRECK. THAT’S JUST SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE!

 

Spend a summer night at

Twelfth Night

Presented by Ripple Effect Artists

 

Thursday – Sunday: June 20 – 23

Wednesday – Sunday: June 26 – 30

All Performances: 8:00 p.m.

FREE MATINEES: Saturdays: June 22 & 29 at 3:00 p.m.

A tantalizing musical review comprised of personal out-of-type selections from members of the company.  Broadway-quality community theatre tickets at ONLY $18.00 each. Theatre you never expect, theatre you never forget.

 

Featuring the talents of:

Nic Anthony Calabro

Alexis Carrillo

Sydia Cedeño

Kevin Clancy

Jeanine Marie Conrad

George Domenick

Luisa A. Fuentes

Carson Jones

Jennifer King

Alaina Lauren

Lucille P. Loiselle

Lauren McPherson

Josh Miller

John L. Rodriguez

Heather Steinberg

Arthur Stubbs

Traci Timmons

Danielle Nichole Tyler

MariaJesus Valdez

Caitlin Wickner

What We Lost along the Way is a family drama that begins in 1939 London during the evacuation of over three million British children. The drama centers on 15-year-old Serena Moffitt and her younger brother Joseph, who are sent from their working class suburb to the Devon countryside where they end up billeted with the Hargreaves, an upper class family with two sons who are close in age to the Moffitts. As mysteries are solved and fears are exposed, the young characters navigate their way through the intricate terrain of adolesence where they discover truths about friendship, family and love and find that even after great loss, the possibility of hope remains

About the Company: New Plays for Young Audiences

Based in the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human