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Producing Company: VOICETheatre – www.voicetheatre.org

Production: Birds on a Wire, written & directed by Shauna Kanter

Location: Sanctuary Arts Initiative at the Metro Baptist Church- 410 W. 40^th St. at 9^th Ave.

Closest Subway: All trains to Times Square

Dates: June 13^th-30^th; Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm, Sundays- 5pm

Running Time:  2 hours with intermission

Tickets/Reservations: Box Office 212-201-9337; $18 tickets

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.

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.

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 Chamber Opera presents Daniel Catán’s 1988 opera, La hija de Rappaccini (Rappaccini’s Daughter), on Mondays, June 17 and 24, 2013 at 7pm at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (rain date June 25). Seating is by general admission on the lawn. Blankets and outside food will be permitted.  Boxed picnic dinners will also be available for purchase.  Tickets are $35 and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200. For more information visit www.gothamchamberopera.org.

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.

 This story is about a struggling writer who is stuck in a job writing for a small "rag" "gossip" magazine about D list celebrities and what they are up to, and his good friend that is making a name for herself in the world of television and cable tv and advertising, she gives him a chance to write for a tv show...however, its for a reality tv show. Taking it head on he tries to take this reality cast of 7, all of which have their own Major issues, a Texting Twitter Facebook Queen who wants to make a text term dictionary, a runner up on Americas next top model who wants her own show already, a tech guy who cant do anything unless an APP tells how too,  A typical Ladies man, or so who thinks, his girlfriend who puts up with his nonsense or so he thinks, another girl who is

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.

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.

 

“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.