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Francine Evans and Joel Zelnik are pleased to announce an extended run of  “DESTINATION: Las Vegas – The Musical Journey” through  February 2013. All performances at “Stage Left Studio”, 314 W. 30 St/7 Ave/6^th. floor, NYC.  Contact: 201-784-7430. Tickets: www.stageleftstudio.net.

 

“DESTINATION: Las Vegas”– The Musical Journey”is a New York cabaret revue starring husband-wife team, Francine Evans and Joel Zelnik.  It salutes the great musical entertainers of Las Vegas such as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, , Sammy Davis Jr., Barbra Streisand, Ann-Margaret, Cab Calloway, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and more.

 

A MERMAIDS' TALE COME ASHORE TO OFF-BROADWAY & THE TRIAD THEATRE

This is more than an entertaining and engaging family-friendly show with memorable music---children & parents alike will also find the story cleverly woven with strong values and many positive and educational messages about tolerance, the help of friends, overcoming adversity, courage, and bullying.

Adapted from the L. Frank Baum novel, "The Sea Fairies" penned the year following his success with "The Wizard of Oz"., it is set on a School Auditorium stage. The students of Mr. Cutler gather to give their book reports on their favorite character from the Baum novel.

We're cock rocking the NPR crowd with the best underground comedy, storytelling, burlesque and sideshow acts. This whole thing (and all of everything) is about getting together and getting EXCITED – just turn your phones off and shout it out loud.

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

 

Do you have what it takes to be a cabaret champion? Contestants compete for the chance to star in their own show or cabaret. Come out and join the fun! Whether you are a contestant or in the audience you are guaranteed to have a blast. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Crossing Verrazano, a drama, written & directed by Anthony Fusco is a play based on a true story that took place in Greenwich Village, October 2010. Bryan, Casey & Trevor, three young men from LA plan a visit to New York to celebrate Caseys 25th birthday. Their first stop was the legendary Stonewall Bar on Christopher St. They encounter some new friends Bruno & Mario on the dance floor, that turned their dream into a night to remember. The play received a best director nomination at the Strawberry One Act festival summer 2011, and was selected to perform in the encore series at the Strawberry One Act festival winter of 2012.

Featuring: Michael Greehan, Mary Sprague, Loring Griggs, Ron Tsur, Peter Evangelista, Sean Hefferon, Miles Folley, Phillip Burke, Vincenzo Fiorito, Adin Lenahan, Kevin Necciai

Lighting Design: Bethany Briggs

Only the very best of  the  Great American Songbook will be featured at NYC’s “Stage Left Studio” as Evans Zelnik Entertainment proudly announces that beginning this October , Closter,  NJ’s husband/wife team Francine Evans and Joel Zelnik will co-star in a new theatrical-cabaret revue: DESTINATION: Las Vegas – your musical journey.

 

Stage Left Studio is located at 214 W. 30 St./7 Ave., NYC. Group packages available. Tickets are $20 each:  www.stageleftstudio.net. Contact:  201-784-7430.

“Destination: Las Vegas – your  musical journey”celebrates the great musical headliners and unforgettable songs of  Las Vegas.

   "Eeek! A Mousical" is a 21st Century update of the Aesop Fable, 'A City Mouse & A Country Mouse' starring  ASHELY ARAN as Bara, the City Mom and KIMBERLY CUELLAR as Clarisa, the Country Mom. When the City Mom only wants a little peace and quiet at the dinner table away from the screeching traffic, cell phones and texting, she accepts an invitation for she and her family to visit her sister in the country. Her family is not too keen on sewing circles, crawdad fishing and Hard Red Spring Wheat Pageants and Hilarity ensues!!!

  But, to make it up to her sister, Bara welcomes her Country relatives to the city.

Yesterday it was a parade, today a slaughter. They've been waiting for revenge for 10,00 years...

Burlesque"

Forbidden Broadway, the fall-down funny musical roast of Broadway that has picked up 9 Drama Desk Awards, a Special Tony®, an Obie, a Lucille Lortel and Drama League Award, is back at last with a blast, and not a moment too soon.

This New York sensation is returning with an all-new, fresh view of the highs and lows of recent seasons including Porgy and Bess, Anything Goes, Follies, Spiderman, Book of Mormon, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once, and Death of a Salesman, and features outrageous costumes, hilarious rewrites of the songs you know, and dead-on impressions by an stellar cast!

Whether you're a seasoned theatre-goer or new to Broadway, Forbidden Broadway is your one-stop ticket to non-stop laughs.

Gotham City Improv presents Off the Top of Our Heads, a short form, 10-year running improvisational show. Winners of the 6^th Annual Big Apple Improv Awards, the cast of seasoned Improvisers leave no stone unturned as they look for your funny bone. Every Friday night, the cast of veteran Improvisers performs the show literally off the top of their heads, as the entire script is developed live and with suggestions from the audience. Presented in short form, a style of improvised theater in which unrelated game-based scenes take place, Off the Top of Our Heads is fast-paced and audience members are guaranteed an evening of out-of-the-box and fun comedy.

About the Company: Gotham City Improv

 Inspired by true events and based on the acclaimed 1997 documentary of the same name that was created by S.R. Bindler and produced by Bindler and Kevin Morris, the musical features a book by Doug Wright More Information »

La Muse Venale Acting Troupe presents a musical tale of dreams, possibilities and heartbreak with Robert L. Hecker’s Honestly Abe, shining a bright light on the early, little-known life of President Abraham Lincoln. Set in Indiana in the 1800s and based on historical facts, Honestly Abe uncovers young Abe Lincoln as a lanky prankster who loved to read and who can spin a yarn with the best of them. Abe was close to his mother and sister but his relationship with his father was strained at best. Abe Lincoln dreams of the day he can quit the family farm, leave rail-splitting behind, and become a riverboat captain. But family tragedies, a yearning for revenge by Abe, and the advice of a close friend cause Abe to change his plans.

Being a New Yorker is not just about a city; it’s a badge of honor, so come earn yours! Take a laugh filled tour around the greatest city in the world with actors, comedians and licensed tour guides Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle as they play over 60 characters. Under the direction of OBIE Award winner Robert Ross Parker, this “Saturday Night Live” style comedy features a hilarious look at NYC's 400 year history. Immigrants, construction workers, muggers, Wall Street bankers, panhandlers, MTA workers, and Mayor Bloomberg all get a solid lampooning! It doesn't matter if you were born on the Upper West Side or just took your first terrifying cab ride, you will love learning How to Be a New Yorker.

 

You too can experience the privilege, respect and air of superiority enjoyed by millions who call themselves New Yorkers. But it requires training, even if you were born here. Let us show you how to develop the instincts for disdainful glances, peevish muttering and innate rudeness that distinguish true New Yorkers. Under the direction of OBIE Award winner Robert Ross Parker, the hilarious new comedyHOW TO BE A NEW YORKER shows audiences everything they ever needed to know about what it takes to be a real New Yorker, or at least not stand out as a tourist. Actors/Comedians and licensed NYC tour guides, Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, take you on a whirlwind comedic romp filled with stories from the world’s largest landfill in Staten Island to the home of the Bronx Bombers. All this, and lunch too, for only $45 at Sofia’s Downstairs.

The Brick Theater is excited to present its Spring 2013 Improv Tournement, Improv Madness, beginning March 15th 2013. Every other Friday come see two bouts; each bout consists of two teams performing for twenty (20) minutes in the style of their choice. The winner of each bout, elected by popular vote of that night's audience, moves on to the next round. Teams compete in the single-elimination tournament for the glory and the pot—50% of each night's ticket sales, winner takes all!

Four chairs, no bench warmers, no home court advantage.

A searing portrait of the insidious attractions of corporate life, "The John Wayne Principle" tells the story a cynical, anti-establishment trust-fund kid who is picked to succeed his father as CEO of a multinational corporation. Instead of turning down the post, as his ambitious, business-minded sister had expected, he decides to sign on for a year, sending the company's stock into a tailspin. His sister's attempts to undermine his tenure only serve to fuel his enthusiasm for the job, and, as their sibling rivalry takes on sexual-political overtones, one is left to wonder if this rebel riding rough-shod on the company wants to break or break in the system.

 The fabulous talents of Ethan Paulini, Christopher Sidoli and Wendy Watson come together in this funny and poignant musical revue that explores the dynamic relationship between mothers, sons and families. Featuring an eclectic mix of 25 songs. From Broadway to Pop, Motown to Country, even disco. Don't miss this exciting new show that's got a little something for everyone.

Each week features a special Broadway Guest Star including Christina Sajous, Eric Riley, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Nicole Lewis and more!!

http://www.ethanpaulini.com/mama-and-her-boys.html  

Song interpreters, Portz + King, have returned with a new monthly show for the after-hours crowd, “Moon Pools,” at The Peoples Improv Theater. After witnessing their sold-out, critically-acclaimed shows (Backlash and In a Polynesian Mood), fans can attest that the tales they tell can be equal parts horrific and hilarious, their interactions with the audience are both intrusive and illuminating, and their song stylings “always loud...way too loud,” according to one critic.

Naked Girls Reading NYC is the perfect intimate live event: a monthly nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local burlesque luminaries, professional librarians, authors and other Naked Girls. Past themes have included Banned Books, Science Fiction and Tween Lit, as well as their annual holiday presentation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Guests to the salon are invited to sip a drink and listen with their eyes wide open as full-frontal literature meets fine art in this intimate theatrical setting. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater.

Looking for fun that is exciting, yet natural? Well here’s your chance! Bedlam Ensemble’s Naturally Delicious improv troupe is here to provide you with a barrel of laughs! Like the whole foods of comedy, this troupe will allow you to have a great time without any of the preservatives or controls of a normal comedy group. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy.

 Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City. In 2011 Horse Trade received the New York Innovative Theatre Ellen Stewart Stewardship Award for demonstrating a significant contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway

Recently featured as performers on MSNBC, Political Subversitiesreturns to the People’s Improv Theater to lampoon this election season on February 4th at 9:30PM.    

Political Subversities is a darkly funny cabaret presenting new material every week that mocks the humorous, the stupid and the downright absurd in today's social and political landscape in the form of side-splitting sketches, fast and funny monologues and Broadway-worthy songs.  Political Subversities seamlessly presents more than 40 sketches and songs in under an hour.

Leading the cast of RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA are Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince, along with Tony winner Victoria Clark as fairy godmother Marie, Tony winner Harriet Harris as Madame, Cinderella's stepmother; Ann Harada as stepsister Charlotte; Marla Mindelle as stepsister Gabrielle; Peter Bartlett as Sebastian, Prince Topher's mentor and Lord Chancellor, and Greg Hildreth as the rebel Jean-Michel.

Additional casting to be announced.

Mr. Beane's book for RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN's CINDERELLA offers a new romantic twist on the ultimate makeover story of a maid-turned-princess, mixing fresh comedy and wit with the beloved tale's classic elements -- the pumpkin, glass slipper, masked ball and more.

Sam Eaton's entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and humor blend with the audience to make for a unique performance every time. Join Sam on a interactive journey past the limits of possibility in a show that you will never forget.

Magician and Mentalist Sam Eaton has been dazzling New York audiences with his magic and mentalism show since 2006.  The show has proudly been awarded the world record as the longest-running one-man Off-Broadway magic show.

The show is sophisticated and family-friendly, but may not be visually entertaining for children under 7 years of age.

 

PRESS CLIPS:

"Amazing feats of memory, mental agility and apparent mental telepathy . . . Dazzling! Undeniably impressive!"
- New York Post

Six playwrights and directors get a week and a half to write and rehearse a short play based around three conditions, a theme, and a pre-selected cast, and then its go time. Different playwrights and directors featured every month.

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Following the announcement that SILENCE! would be ending its long run at the end of 2012, ticket sales unexpectedly soared, shattering all previous box office records held by the show. As a result, the producers determined that the production would reopen on January 19^th. After opening at Theatre 80 on July 9, 2011 to unanimous rave reviews, SILENCE! was extended numerous times by popular demand and transferred theatres twice, ultimately landing at the new Elektra Theatre which was constructed especially for the show.

 

Winner of the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, SILENCE! The Musical is the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction &

 

Winner of the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, SILENCE! The Musical is 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 Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli. After opening on July 9, 2011 to unanimous rave reviews, the show immediately became a sold-out phenomenon and was selected by Time Magazine as one of the year’s Top 5 Musicals.

 

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.

Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This monthly show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform! 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Slash Wednesday is a wonderfully riveting and irresistibly weird lunch time talk show for artists hosted by award-winning PBS writer/storyteller Slash Coleman. Infusing NYC’s hip east village stage with a distinct blend of southern charm, the show features live music, multi-media, comedy, inspirational interviews with cutting-edge artists and profound stories of success by cultural change makers.

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy.

This is a test show created for console developers
** If Advance Sales have closed and the performance it is not "Sold Out" you may still be able to buy tickets at the theater 1/2 hour before show time.

Lectures/Debates"

Now in its 2nd YEAR!  Radiotheatre's THE H.P.LOVECRAFT FESTIVAL continues on....

"A CULT HIT IN THE EAST VILLAGE!" NY TIMES

REANIMATOR and THE CALL OF CTHULHU!   Now until JUNE 24.   

Opening JULY 1-28...  THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN, COOL AIR, FROM BEYOND, THE BEAST IN MOONLIGHT  

Now in its 9^th Season, RadioTheatre (Nominated for The Drama Desk Award, 13 NY Innovative Theater Awards; Winner of 2 NYIT Awards; Nom. 5 times Best Performance Group) will present in repertory these cult horror classics…live, onstage, complete with award-winning sound design and original orchestral scores, in their latest version of THE H.P.

TOLD is a monthly storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind. Each month New York's best performers take the stage to tell true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Letterman Emmy-winner Ted Greenberg performs his hit Off-Broadway comedy show and then whisks a lucky audience group home in a New York City taxi driven by Greenberg himself. Now in its 4th smash season at the Soho Playhouse located in the heart of Manhattan nightlife!

“Greenberg’s mostly one man show is drawing crowds” – New York Times

“Outrageously funny” – Back Stage

“Will deliver laughs” – New York Post

“Kept a full house roaring” – NYTheatre.com

A showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

The Accidental Pervert is a critically acclaimed story about an innocent boy who accidentally discovers his father's secret collection of XXX-Rated video tapes. Goodbye innocence. Hello hilarious Off-Broadway show.

On his odyssey to manhood, Andrew Goffman takes his audience on a very funny and self-deprecating journey into a world of video vixens, X-Rated fantasies, and REALLY dirty movies with no redeeming value whatsoever. He found the tapes at 11 years-of-age. The addiction controlled him until he was 26. The year he met his wife.

Moth storytelling favorite, Adam Wade, has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos. 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

Stolen Chair Theatre Company will present The Bachelors’ Tea Party, a surreal society comedy performed by two actors and four dolls alongside an exquisite 5-course classic tea service, every Sunday afternoon at 5pm at Lady Mendl’s Tea Salon (56 Irving Place between 17th and 18th Street). This unique theatrical experience was written by Stolen Chair’s resident playwright Kiran Rikhye (Kinderspiel; Kill Me Like You Mean It; Theatre is Dead and So Are You) and will be directed by Stolen Chair’s Artistic Director, Jon Stancato (named “one of the most daring and imaginative directors of his generation” by Martin Denton of nytheatre.com).

The Business of America

Three Comedies by Chuck Orsland

 

Climbing the corporate ladder while conforming to current standards of office behavior poses a challenge in these three plays

 

Evacuation Drill, directed by Lawrence Frank with Christina Calph, Faith Aeryn, James Kivlen and Ted Oyama

Blue Chip, directed by Gary Filsinger with Collin Biddle, Whitney Harris, Alex Viola*, and Paul Wilcox

Turning the Page, directed by Lawrence Frank with Christopher Chan, Michael Durell, Alexandra Hellquist, Jeanette Lutz, Justin Osterthaler and Patricia Perales

* Appears curtesy of Actors Equity Association 

 

The Producers’ Club

Are you the best actor or actress in New York City?  Prove it!  That is the calling card for my show The Manhattan Monologue Slam.  My name is Philip Galinsky and along with my Robert and super theatre producer Terry Schnuck, we created the "Best Actor Showcase Event" voted by Backstage readers choice awards.  The show focuses on a totally live interactive event where actors showcase their skills in front of a packed theatre crowd and industry professionals.  We are the only theatre show on the planet where the audience votes for the best performer online using their smart phone. 

What inspired us to create this event? Well, we noticed that to be a struggling actor in New York means you have to pay your dues by going on countless auditions.

A 2-time Tony Award winning play written by 4-time Tony Award winning playwright Tom Stoppard.  The Real Thing provides a multi-layered look into the veracity of love.  Is true love a commitment, exclusive rights or a bargain struck between two people?

The Skinny is a political comedy talk show with a twist: The host, Peter DeGiglio, is just an average schnook struggling to wrap his head around the events that shape our world. Joining him is a discussion panel of real life experts and a plethora of wacky variety acts.

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

The only live-feed musical variety show with a retro twist showcasing NYC's finest performers, musicians and comedians. Tune in monthly to hear incredible songs from one of NY's best big bands fronted by the incredible Jason Trachtenberg! 

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG: The Music of Harold Arlen, a musical revue featuring Stormy Weather, Come Rain or Come Shine, Paper Moon, Accentuate-The-Positive, Lets Fall in Love, and all the much-loved tunes from THE WIZARD OF OZ, begins previews at St. Luke’s Theatre, 308 West 46^th Street, NYC on Thursday, December 13 and opens officially on Thursday, January 10 at 8 PM.

The Wonderful Wizard of Song moves from The Cotton Club, thru Harold Arlen’s Hollywood Years to Broadway, sharing inside stories of how some of the world’s most beloved songs were created as well as sharing rarebehind the scenes footage from The Wizard of Oz taken by Harold Arlen himself.

Wasabassco Burlesque presents their most adult show ever! Step through the gates of this exclusive club for a monthly erotic salon, curated to cater to your most sophisticated and lustful desires.

About the Company: Horse Trade Theater Group

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

The New York premiere of Tina Packer’s WOMEN OF WILL – a groundbreaking exploration of Shakespeare’s canon – written by Ms. Packer and directed by Eric Tucker (“Saint Joan”) will begin preview performances on January 29 prior to an official press opening of February 3 and running through June 2 Off-Broadway at The Gym at Judson (55 Washington Square South, NY, NY), it has been announced by the show’s producer Sarah Hancock and its creator/star Tina Packer.

Kevin Corrigan(The Departed, “Grounded for Life”) and Bob Glaudini (The Poison Tree, Jack Goes Boating) will star as prodigal son and grieving father in this powerful new play set on Ninth Street in South Philadelphia in 1986.  As Labyrinth Co-Artistic Director Yul Vázquez said today, “Brett C. Leonard picks up where dark ends. We love that.”  While additional casting is still forthcoming, this announcement marks a return to acting for Glaudini, after many years working as an established playwright and screenwriter in New York, and a Labyrinth deubt for Corrigan, who will be taking the Bank Street Theater stage after many years as a close friend of the Company.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of legendary American novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wants nothing more than to be recognized as an artist in her own right. Two things stand in her way: a growing mental instability and the overbearing shadow of her husband.

On this magical night in the 1930’s, Zelda discovers The Club Oasis, a New York City bar where she has escaped to drink alone…until a unique and unexpected friendship is forged with an aspiring musician who plays piano and tends bar at the Oasis.
 
Vivid and haunting memories are triggered as Zelda transforms the Bar