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Get your yellow moustache ready! Shakespeare’s most famous love story is getting a fun and furry makeover this January, courtesy of American Globe Theatre and the Puppet Shakespeare Players. See the star-crossed lovers like you’ve never seen them before as the Puppet Shakespeare Players flip this tale of woe upside-down! Puppet Romeo & Juliet is a ridiculous romp that’s sure to keep kids and adults laughing from the first word to the final death. Join us for kung fu, kazoos, and plenty of hot puppet love! www.puppetshakespeare.org
About the Company: The Puppet Shakespeare Players
The Puppet Shakespeare Players is a troupe dedicated to bringing Shakespeare’s work to the masses. Our mission is to reinvent and reimagine the Bard’s work through comedy, puppetry and a variety of other mediums while staying true to the original intent and spirit of Shakespeare’s plays. It is our belief that these works promote conversation across backgrounds, cultures and ages through language, poetry and pure entertainment.
Date: Saturday, January 5th

Time: 7:00pm

Location: American Globe Theatre

145 West 46th Street 

located in St. Mary’s, Times Square

New York, NY 10036

between 6th and 7th avenues
123.ACE.NQR.7 to Times Square
BDFM to Rockefeller Center
Tickets: $10- $20 (available at door)
Website: accidentalshakespeare.tumblr.com/hitandrun
About the Company: Accidental Shakespeare Company
The Accidental Shakespeare Company is an ensemble dedicated to bringing you playful productions of classic works.
Accidents are part of the joy of live theatre. The honesty of an unplanned moment can be exciting, hilarious, and even moving. At ASC, we aim to bring the unexpected into each and every one of our performances.
Theatre is an ever-changing art form, and we feel that the best work happens when great performers are given the opportunity to play.
Play on!
About the Company: Accidental Shakespeare Company
The Accidental Shakespeare Company is an ensemble dedicated to bringing you playful productions of classic works.
Accidents are part of the joy of live theatre. The honesty of an unplanned moment can be exciting, hilarious, and even moving. At ASC, we aim to bring the unexpected into each and every one of our performances.
Theatre is an ever-changing art form, and we feel that the best work happens when great performers are given the opportunity to play.
Play on!
Starring Tony Award nominee Stephen Mo Hanan* as King Lear. In addition to Mr. Hanan, Dev Bondarin will direct a cast of 12, including David L. Carson*, Bryan L. Cohen, Natalie Doyle Holmes, John Graham, Ross Hewitt, Kelly Laurel Zekas, Conrad Schott, Montgomery Sutton*, Cheri Wicks, Dathan B. Williams*, and Tom Wolfson. AEA Approved Showcase. *Member, Actors’ Equity Association
What are we blind to and what do we see? King Lear gives us a profound look at the relationship between madness and sanity, impiety and devotion, and, most simply: parents and children. The tragedy lies in its vivid dramatization of what happens when choices fueled by fear and greed spiral out of control. With the story of the aging Lear and his three daughters--two wicked and one true--Shakespeare ultimately shows us that honesty and love can challenge the chaos and cruelty that attempts to obliterate it.
About the Company: American Bard Theater Company
Arts.Theatre
2012 marks the 18th anniversary of the Annual New York City 15 Minute Play Festival presented by Turnip Theatre Company in association with American Globe Theatre and featuring 35 original short plays chosen from more than 250 submissions from throughout the United States. Audience members vote each night for their favorite play with the winners moving on to the finals and a chance to compete for cash prizes for Best Play, Best Direction, Best Performance and overall Audience Favorites. The Festival closing night on Saturday May 5 features an awards p
Five semi-finalist plays are presented each of the festival's first seven evenings, April 23 through April 29 and the audience is balloted to select the best play each night. In addition, the festival producers choose three plays as "producers’ choices" to include in the finals. Selected plays move on to the finals and two additional performances on May 4 & 5 where a panel of judges chooses winners in three categories: Best Play, Best Direction and Best Performance and the audience votes for overall Audience Favorites. Finalists are also eligible for the Alan Minieri Playwriting Award presented in memory of Turnip Theatre Company's late Artistic Director.
This year's playwrights include: James Armstrong, Lisa Bernier, Sarah Bernstein, Barbara Blatner, Jonathan R. Citron, Joël Doty, Nora Ferrari, William Fowkes, Patrick Gabridge, Agnes Garrett, Jolene Goldenthal, Andrew R. Heinze, Eric Lane, Mark Harvey Levine, Barry M. Libin, David Loughlin, Janice Maffei, Cheri Magid, Richard Manley, Ruth Miller, Edward Musto, Richard W. Petrocelli, Roy Pierson, Kristyn Leigh Robinson, Jo Ann Rosen, Jack Rushton, Brett Ryback, Deborah Savadge, L. F. Schwabacher, Judd Lear Silverman, Leo Simone, Susan Soon He Stanton, Frank Tangredi, James Webb and Michelle Jane Wilson
Seldom produced, Pericles was co-authored by William Shakespeare who completed the work of his contemporary, the unscrupulous George Wilkins. In this 2012 adaptation, the American Bard Artistic Ensemble and guest artists play multiple roles while creating a vivid aesthetic with fabrics, acoustic sounds, original music, and creative puppetry, reflecting the relevant and vital work of an emerging classic theater company in New York City.
From co-director and co-adaptor Natalie Doyle Holmes: "I'm interested in using as many different theatrical constructs as needed to tell a story. When I read Pericles, Prince of Tyre I believed there to be the potential to play with a world of theatrical goodies (puppets, music, fabrics, etc.). I saw the script as a gateway into a colorful world of playful textures, sights and sounds. That's how it grabbed me. Jack Herholdt and I "adapted" the script to plant a piece of ourselves in the story, make it our own, and feel an even closer connection to the work. It's still very much Wilkins' and Shakespeare's script, and we like to think of it as Wilkins', Shakespeare's and the American Bard Theater Company's script as well."
About the Company: American Bard Theater Company
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: John Basil
WHEN: February 25-March 21
Thurs.-Sat. @ 7:30 pm
Sunday @ 3:00 pm
WHERE: American Globe Theatre
145 West 46 Street, located in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin
TICKETS: $18
RSVP: 212-869-9809 or www.theatermania.com
Directed by: John Basil
Asst Dir: Josh Hillman, Sara Tice, Lilly Wild
Stage Manager: Audrey Marshall
Asst Stage Mgr: Olivia Gemelli
Set Design: Vincent Masterpaul
Composer: Scott O'Brien
Costume Design: Jim Parks
Lighting Designer: Mark Hankla
Properties: Katie Chai
Starring: Spencer Bazzano, Gabe Bettio, A.J. Cote, Mike DePaolo, Rick Fay*, Jon Hoche*, Liz Keefe*, Erica Knight, Nick LaMedica, James Parenti, Rainard Rachele*, Adrien Saunders, Lamont Stephens*, Nick Vorderman, Diana Zambrotta
* actors appears courtesy of Actor’s Equity Assiciation