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Retro Productions (18-time New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominee) presents Peter Nichols' play.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg follows Bri and Sheila, a British couple dealing with the severe challenges of parenthood; their only daughter Josephine is wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy and cannot communicate. With their marriage on the line due to the stress of raising Joe, Bri and Sheila must also contend with their friends Pam and Freddy’s pleas to put Joe in a proper facility and live their lives. The piece’s dark humor is rooted in life’s difficulties as well as the fantasy world that Bri experiences to cope with his family’s hardship.

After a successful run on London’s West End, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg premiered on Broadway in 1968.

DUE TO GREAT REVIEWS THE PLAY IS EXTENDED THROUGH MAY! http://www.JELENAP.com

“Jelena is quite extraordinary. She showed Frida and made you suffer along with her. She was very impressive and totally had her attention. She was really quite amazing. The sets were simple but artistic. The acting work was excellent. She ‘held you’”

FRIDA KAHLO, one of world’s most daring women painters. It is impossible to separate the life and work of Frida Kahlo as her paintings are her biography.

As the wife of one of world’s most celebrated muralists, Diego Rivera, Frida became a painter in her own right. The play explores her struggles with her husband’s infidelity, her confrontation of her physical injuries, and facing her own mortality. 

Gym Shorts: The Show is made up of 5 hilarious short vignettes, that examine the triumphs and tragedies of life set against the world's most explosive backdrop: The Gym!

At its core, Gym Shorts: The Show is about relationships. The kind of relationships we’ve all experienced in our own lives, and can all identify with. The agony of betrayal. The ecstasy of true companionship. The struggle to be accepted for who you are. All the great dramas and comedies of the ages have hinged on these profound human experiences. So, what is it that makes this rendition new and unique? And, of course, hilarious? The one place that can hold this amount of human triumph and tragedy, the blood, sweat and tears that make up the human experience (particularly the sweat): THE GYM!!! Come see the strength and resilience of these flawed

Wendy Beckett’snew play, LOVE THERAPY will open at the DR2 Theatre (101 East 15^th Street) on Monday, April 29^th. Directed by Evan Bergman, LOVE THERAPY is the fourth in a series of ten of Ms. Beckett’s plays that will be broughtacross the pacific from Australia by Pascal Productions.  Previews begin on Saturday, April 20^th at 8PM.  For tickets, please visit Telecharge.com or call (212) 239-6200.

LOVE THERAPY is a play about a young therapist who finds herself out of her depth when intimacy, attraction and passion collide with the healing process.

Featured in the cast are: David Bishins, Christopher Burns, Alison Fraser, Margot White and Janet Zarish. 

Passajj Productions will present Madame Bovary - a musical, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, at Roy Arias Stage IV, beginning May 17, 2013. Marlene Thorn Taber will direct this musical adaptation by renowned composer and lyricist Paul Dick. Hayley Hoffmeister will portray Emma Bovary and Roger Rathburn is cast in the role of Charles Bovary. Madame Bovary - a musical brings to life Flaubert's characters as they transition from youthful romanticism to mature reality except for Emma Bovary. This is the story of her passion.

 

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Producers Club Theatres : 358 W 44th Street

Serbian playwright Jelena Kajgo (Director, Bitef Festival and Theatre) presents a super-charged, hyper-real world where five people – a psychiatrist locked in a love triangle with two of his patients, and another super successful couple -- struggle with modernity, money and power in a newly fashioned capitalist culture.  Whether it’s romance or a job, everything is up for grabs and usually goes to the highest bidder. Realists skewers American-style capitalism and its encroachment on Serbian daily life amidst the global financial crisis. The characters in Realists feel the sting of a changing worldwide economy, and the uncertainty of a society losing its traditional footing.

This May & June, Spontaneous Shakespeare Players (“SSP”) are back to bring the Bard's The Comedy of Errors & Hamlet to New York City—the way Shakespeare’s own players performed it.

The Comedy of Errors & Hamlet marks the fifth annual FREE Shakespeare productions that SSP has shared with New York audiences at Central Park's Summit Rock and the first year of being produced by Mercia Entertainment.  Dedicated to bringing the Shakespeare of olden times to modern audiences, SSP uses original Elizabethan performance techniques—involving audience interaction, cue scripts-in-hand and LOTS of spontaneity—to bring Shakespeare's words to life in a thrilling and hilarious way.

F.I.T.R. Productions presents The Pillowman, an award-winning drama by Martin McDonagh.  Laura Moss directs a cast of four including Jon Dalin as Tupolski; Matt Kelley as Ariel; Priyank Rastogi as Katurian;

 What I’m Failing to Learn is a personal journey of a child colored by both positives and negatives of growing up unsheltered from certain truths of our human world.  As 14-year-old singer songwriter Schuyler Iona Press learns, truth holds both comedy and tragedy, but most importantly, truth holds hope.