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The Foolish Mortals Theatre Company proudly presents William Shakespeare's Richard III. Shakespeare's most regarded work of historical fiction; Michael Hagins weaves a requiem for a king; a tale of absolute power and the obsessive man willing to destroy everyone and everything to get it. Starring Matt Fitzgerald as Richard, the story centers around the deformed Duke of Gloucester and his crafted plan to eliminate his family and take over the most powerful seat in the land, and those who would dare get in his way. Hagins brings true legends from the War of the Roses to the Tudor Dynasty into the show, along with a quicker pace that will make the audience want to bring a history book to see which legends are true.

The Foolish Mortals Theatre Company proudly presents William Shakespeare's Richard III. Shakespeare's most regarded work of historical fiction; Michael Hagins weaves a requiem for a king; a tale of absolute power and the obsessive man willing to destroy everyone and everything to get it. Starring Matt Fitzgerald as Richard, the story centers around the deformed Duke of Gloucester and his crafted plan to eliminate his family and take over the most powerful seat in the land, and those who would dare get in his way. Hagins brings true legends from the War of the Roses to the Tudor Dynasty into the show, along with a quicker pace that will make the audience want to bring a history book to see which legends are true.

THE BRICK THEATER, INC.  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PLASTIC FLAMINGO THEATRE CO. PRESENTS RIP JD: A CELEBRATION OF DEATH AS PART OF THE TOO SOON FESTIVAL JUNE 4-27 @ THE BRICK!

RIP JD: A Celebration of Death is a timely exploration of cult figure and author JD Salinger. This fast paced ensemble driven comedy probes the mystery associated with the man and his art. Through homage, meditation, and mockery, this provocative collage asks who really owns art - its creator or its audience?

Joey Nova Presents brings you SEXTACULAR! SEXTACULAR!, a re-imagining of the cabaret shows from turn-of-the-century France, but with a modern New York City rock n roll edge. Charmingly egocentric host Joey Nova (Cutie Patooties, Precious) is joined by co-host Erika Smith (Dracula, Screen Sirens) as his absinthe-conjured sidekick, “The Green Fairy”, as they try to petition the government for a new holiday celebrating SEX! When prudish-but-provocative government liaison Prudence Rottoncrotch (played by Miss Pin Up Coney Island 2008, Kristen Lee from Cherry Pop!) is sent in to hear their proposal, Joey and The Green Fairy argue their case by seducing her with twenty titillating acts by some of the hottest performers in theatre, burlesque, and cabaret.

New York’s longest running Bar Mitzvah, The Boychick Affair – The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick returns to NYC at the celebrated COMIX (353 West 14 Street) beginning Sunday, May 9, 2010.

At The Boychick Affair, audience members  mingle, eat, sing, and dance with the rest of the “guests,”  and enjoy a delicious Bar Mitzvah meal – including dessert – at the ‘reception’ for  Harry Boychick’s unique Bar Mitzvah ceremony to the raucous reception following. This hilarious interactive event follows a young  rap wannabe as he becomes a man in front of his wacky, but loving family. You’ll laugh. You’ll dance. You’ll eat. Spend a little time at the Bar Mitzvah that puts the ‘funk’ in ‘dysfunctional.

At the very top of his one-man-theatrical-circus-of-full-disclosure, author/star Andrew Goffman offers the evening’s warning bell in the form of an alarmingly candid disclosure: “Ya know, none of us starts out to be a pervert.” The evening picks up speed from there.

“THE ACCIDENTAL PERVERT” is the true accounting of one boy’s odyssey to manhoodvia a childhood dominated by pornography, an addiction accumulated after the boy happens upon his father’s collection of XXX-Rated video tapes in a bedroom closet, just to the right of his golf clubs, above the cowboy boots, behind the sweatshirts, all the way up in the top left hand corner.   Andrew Goffman takes his audience on a hilarious and self-deprecating journey into a world of video vixens, X-Rated fantasies, and really DIRTY movies with no redeeming value whatsoever.

THE AWESOME DANCE is a dark comedy that follows four souls through multiple lifetimes. In the first scene, three women seeking a Guru's grace are caught in a fanatic’s quest for glory. Later, a man's wife and sister accidentally force him into the path of a distracted driver on the day of his father's funeral.  Next, two women waiting for their adoptive child to be born discover a disturbing truth about the birth mother. And finally, a man pursuing the love of a woman he barely knows must first fulfill a terrifying demand. Can four souls bound by lifetimes of mutually inflicted pain find peace?

Dileep Rao (Avatar, Drag Me To Hell and the July release Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio) will make his New York Theater debut in the World Premiere of THE AWESOME DANCE.

The Carlyle Hotel (Erich Steinbock, Managing Director)  has announced the 2010 fall season of performers at the legendary Café Carlyle - the “favorite of all New York nightspots,” says Liz Smith - another New York legend. 

Tony Award-winning actor and singer Paulo Szot (South Pacific) will make his New York cabaret debut when he opens the fall season in a two-week engagement from September 14 – September 25.  Following Mr. Szot will be husband and wife singing duo John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey in an extended engagement from October 5 – November 6.  Making his sixth consecutive holiday appearance in the Café Carlyle will be vocalist Steve Tyrell who will be in residence from November 9 – December 31.

Mike Williams has it all... a wife and two kids, friends that he can depend on, and a great job as a salesman for American National Products.  When his company is bought out by the mysterious IGM, things start to unravel.  New procedures appear overnight and quotas must be met.  Or else.  Now Mike is on a racing against the ticking clock to pull in the big ticket before he loses it all.

Bill Svanoe's play has been labeled the "Death of a Salesman for the Computer Age."  His plays have appeared all over the US and internationally and are published by Samuel French and Dramatists.  This marks the first NYC revival of The Downside Risk. 

DOG RUN REP is presenting the world premiere of The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller, a new play by Jeff Cohen based on the short story by Christopher Stokes, directed by Alfred Preisser (ARCHIBISHOP SUPREME TARTUFFE, Caligula Maximus) . In 1961, More Information »

The unforgettable story of the one and only Josephine Baker springs to life in this tightly woven play featuring several of Baker’s signature songs.  The story follows Josephine on her journey from conservative St. Louis, Missouri to the risqué cabarets of the Rue Pigalle, France, from little girl to showgirl. 

Howard gives voice to this uncensored and emotional tale through an array of fascinating female characters: Josephine’s domineering mother, Carrie McDonald; fellow chorus girl Lydia Jones;  Ada “Bricktop” Smith , owner of the infamous nightclub “Bricktop’s in Montmarte…” And finally a raw, fearless portrayal of Ms.

The worlds of an aspiring actress and a career-thief who forcibly enters her apartment, collide in José Luis Ramos-Escobar’s internationally acclaimed play about human connectedness, and the multiple effects of urban crime upon daily life.

Fabiola, a 25 year old theater student, arrives home following rehearsals for a college production of “Othello”. Her sleep is interrupted by Georgie, who turns an ordinary night into an unforgettable battle of the wills that will challenge your notion of justice, and what it takes to survive in a fast-paced, highly impersonal world.

Armed only with her wit, Fabiola draws her attacker into a complex game of role-playing that blurs the boundaries between imagination and reality.

The C.A.G.E. Theatre, in conjunction with The Looking Glass Space Grant Program presents The Tempest. The final of work and possible retirement of William Shakespeare is co-directed by Monica Alia and Michael Hagins. The Tempest, set to the concept of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, is the story of Prospero (Michael Hagins), the true Duke of Milan, who was exiled with his daughter Miranda (Rebecca Overholt) to a remote island, and has lived there for 12 years with the spirit Ariel (Molly Gilman) and the half sea monster Caliban (Daniel Largo). Attempting to put the past wrongs to rest and help Miranda to a future, Prospero raises a storm to shipwreck the King of Naples (Thomas Cox) and his party which includes Prospero's evil brother and the usurping Duke of Milan Antonio (Danny Sauls).

THREE IRISH WIDOWS versus THE REST OF THE WORLD will never play in Cork City, County Cork, Ireland.  NEVER.  That’s where Mrs. Malone, author/performer Ed Malone’s mother lives.  This is a play about Mrs. Malone, her sister and her sister-in-law, three Irish widows, the men that got them that way and what the widows did with their newfound freedom.  Of the thirty-four (34) characters Mr. Malone plays at hyper-space-break-neck speed, the three widows are the triangle of hypnotic focus throughout the evening.  Not that his Michael Jackson isn’t stunning.  He is.  Or the tree he portrays isn’t convincing.  It is.  
 
But it is the three widows declaration of independence that shakes the world and kidnaps an audience.

 

What makes men do the things they do? Why do women so often end up as collateral damage in their struggle to prove their manhood? The Wreckless Stage Company presents the world premiere of Viewer Discretion Advised, a contemporary psychological thriller which tackles these questions.In this startling contemporary drama,a seemingly casual encounter between strangers Norm and Bud slowly reveals a menacingly dangerous play for power and ruthless competition for Norm’s girlfriend Anne. Playwright Ed Stevens explores what happens when "men behaving badly" spirals out of control, forcing the characters to confront how far they will go to prove themselves to one another.

 

The multimedia event will feature progressive rock band Sineparade and video artist Alex Itin.  The show is a New York story told through live music, narration and video/animation in a small theater with three massive projections and state of the art sound system.