The Lady Liberty Theater Festival presents a trio of exciting immigration short plays (Aizzah Fatima’s Dirty Paki Lingerie; Lady Liberty’s Worst Day Ever and No Irish Need Apply by Monica Bauer) aimed at curing the disease of Islamophobia in America, tied together by the ideals represented in the Statue of Liberty. The festival will also include a day of free staged readings on September 11th.
About the Company: Australian Made Entertainment
Australian Made Entertainment is an independent arts organization dedicated to bringing Australian works to the United States. The aim of Australian Made Entertainment is to produce theatre and film with a distinctly Australian flavor, whether it explores aspects of Australian culture or simply showcases the rich talents of Australian artists. In addition to producing classic works from established playwrights, we hope to introduce American audiences to emerging Australian writers, as well as provide opportunities for Australian performers, directors and other entertainment professionals.

Cabaret"
Music.Cabaret
After a successful first season featuring Cosi and Speaking In Tongues, Australian Made Entertainment is proud to kick off their second season with the U.S. premiere of Once We Lived Here, written by the critically acclaimed musical team of Dean Bryant & Mathew Frank. Winner of the 2009 Green Room Award for Best New Musical, this authentically Australian musical was described by Geoffrey Rush as "a beautiful, poignant piece of home-grown music theatre. It may echo Chekhov and Sondheim but it's thrillingly pure Oz."
Music by Mathew Frank
Book & Lyrics by Dean Bryant
Directed by Matthew Foster
Musical Direction by Michael Hopewell
Featuring:
Kathleen Foster
Morgan Cowling*
Adam Rennie
Sean Cleary
Renee Claire Bergeron*
Scenic Design: Katherine DeNeve
Costume Design: Emily Rose Parman
Lighting Design: Anthony Freitas
Sound Design: David Green
Stage Manager: Anna Demenkoff
Assistant Stage Manager: April Uzarski
Dialect Coach: Leah Gabriel
Publicity: Kampfire Films PR
* Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Association - Equity Approved Showcase
Arts.Theatre
The characters bridge the gap between all Black Latinas from skin color and hair textures, to facial features, backgrounds and language*. Black Latina not only deals with the "traditional" black/white ideas of racism within the U.S., but also exposes complex internalized racism between African Americans, Hispanics, and Black Latinos.
*Black Latina's current run is a trilingual production (presented in English, Spanish and Portuguese).
A small Q and A host by a guest moderator will take place after each show with the Actors, Director, and Writer.
Starring:
Teniece Divya Johnson
Jenelle Simone
Nubia Santos
Anaridia Burgos
Cherie Nicole Dennis
Executive Producer/Writer- Crystal S. Roman
Director- Veronica Caicedo
Choreographer- Lauren De Veaux
Arts.Dance

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Theater.Play

ABOUT HONKYWhen a black sneaker company hires a white CEO, their commercials begin glorifying the “ghetto" and sales triple among white teens. But when violence erupts in a black community, the shoe designer blames the ads and promises revenge. Meanwhile, the writer of the ads is paralyzed by white guilt – which only gets worse when his therapist turns out not to be what he expected. Luckily, there’s a new racism pill on the market advertising, "If you don't think you need it, you're probably a racist!" HONKY takes a comedic look at the symbiotic relationship between racism and commercialism. Set Design by Roman Tatarowicz | Lighting design by Miriam Nilofa Crowe| Sound Design by Brandon Wolcott | Projection Design by Caite Hevner | Production Manager: Sean Hagerty | Stage Manager: Brian D. Gold | Assistant Production Manager: Meghan Santelli Urban Stages’ Founding Artistic Director Frances Hill | Program Director Rachel Sullivan | Development & Literary Director Antoinette Mullins | Company Manager Olga Devyatisilnaya |Producing Associate Peter Napolitano | Press Representative Joe Trentacosata, Springer Assoicates, PR *This play contains strong language.
Comedy"
Theater.Comedy
When a black sneaker company hires a white CEO, their commercials begin glorifying the “ghetto" and sales triple among white teens. But when violence erupts in a black community, the shoe designer blames the ads and promises revenge. Meanwhile, the writer of the ads is paralyzed by white guilt – which only gets worse when his therapist turns out not to be what he expected. Luckily, there’s a new racism pill on the market advertising, "If you don't think you need it, you're probably a racist!" HONKY takes a comedic look at the symbiotic relationship between racism and commercialism.
About the Company: Stolen Chair Theatre Company
STOLEN CHAIR Named best “genre-bending theatre” by New York Press, Stolen Chair is a theatre laboratory dedicated to the creation of playfully intellectual, wickedly irreverent, and exuberantly athletic original works. Proudly plundering the pop culture of the past half millennium, Stolen Chair’s aesthetically promiscuous work recycles and reinvents old genres and stories to discover new ways to challenge and delight contemporary audiences. Pioneer of the Community Supported Theatre movement, Stolen Chair is supported, in part, by the Nancy Quinn Fund and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Stolen Chair’s production will fully immerse audiences in a 1920s silent movie house. With freshly popped popcorn in hand they’ll watch a humorous and heartrending story told in glorious grayscale through movement and projected title cards, with an original score performed live. Audience members are strongly encouraged to dress in 1920’s fashion, and $20 tickets will be available at the door for anyone arriving in costume. There will also be screenings of silent films, which inspired the play, following select performances. Details TBA.
The production will be directed by Jon Stancato (The Bachelors’ Tea Party) and will feature Raife Baker (Beyond Measure with The Slant Theater Company), Dave Droxler (trained with Dan Kamin who worked with Johnny Dep on Benny & Joon and Robert Downey Jr. on Chaplin), Jon Froehlich (Cho H Cho with Mabou Mines), Molly O’Neill (Cabaret at Trinity Rep), Noah Schultz (Theatre is Dead and So Are Youwith Stolen Chair), and Rebecca Whitehurst. The creative team will include Music by Eugene Ma (Saviana Stanescu’s Aurolac Blues), Makeup by Jaclyn Schaefer (NYC Fashion Week), Costume Design by Julie Schworm (Theatre is Dead and So Are You), and Lighting Design by Daniel Winters (Kinderspiel).
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, presented by The Stolen Chair Theatre Company at Urban Stages (259 West 30th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues) will play a four-week engagement January 31-February 24; Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm, with an additional performance on Monday, February 4 at 8:30pm. Tickets ($30; $25 students; $20 in 1920’s costume) may be purchased online at www.stolenchair.org or by calling 212-868-4444. The show runs approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
Stolen Chair’s production of The Man Who Laughs originally premiered with Horse Trade Theater Group at The Red Room in 2005. The play appears in The New York Theatre Experience 2006 anthology Playing With Canons: Explosive New Works From Great Literature By America’s Indie Playwrights.
“By any measure…a triumph. This bona fide tour de force of theatre has the real capacity to tug at something inside of us and make us feel in a raw, spontaneous, and very essential way. Bravo!” Martin Denton, nytheatre.com “Pick of the Week”
“Utterly tremendous!” Trav S.D., Author of Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacis from Nickelodeons to Youtube
About the Company: Stolen Chair Theatre Company
STOLEN CHAIR Named best “genre-bending theatre” by New York Press, Stolen Chair is a theatre laboratory dedicated to the creation of playfully intellectual, wickedly irreverent, and exuberantly athletic original works. Proudly plundering the pop culture of the past half millennium, Stolen Chair’s aesthetically promiscuous work recycles and reinvents old genres and stories to discover new ways to challenge and delight contemporary audiences. Pioneer of the Community Supported Theatre movement, Stolen Chair is supported, in part, by the Nancy Quinn Fund and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Dance Theater"
Theater.Dance Theater

Cabaret"
Music.Cabaret

Play"
Theater.Play

Comedy"
Theater.Comedy

In 1969, in the tension of a segregated city, two men from very different backgrounds: Luigi, an African American jazz drummer, and George, a white music store owner who specializes in the accordion, are thrown together by fate, finding common ground in their love of music. At the same time, Mary Margaret and Vivian, two young girls from opposite sides of the segregated city, each drink in the new jazz scene for reasons of their own. Music seems to unite and uplift everyone around … at first. Soon “occasions of sin” – where fear, mistrust and racism fester – are inescapable. Violence erupts, changing everyone’s lives forever.
WHO'S WHO
MONICA BAUER (Playwright) is currently a Writing Fellow at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut and a member of the Abingdon Theater Playwright’s Group. She was the 2005 Teaching Fellow in the Graduate Playwriting Program at Boston University, where she received an MA in playwriting. Her plays and musicals have been produced in Denver, Boston, Provincetown, Cambridge, Atlanta, Bloomington, Omaha, San Diego, Providence, and 0ff-0ff Broadway at NYMF, the HERE Arts Center, the Midtown International Theater Festival, the York Theatre, and the Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Awards include Outstanding Script, 2011 Theater Arts Guild Award; Outstanding Playwriting, the 2008 Midtown International Theater Festival; and the Audience Favorite Award at Short Attention Span PlayFest. Lighter (book, music, and lyrics) premiered in October 2009 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Answering, a ten-minute play, was a Finalist for the 2008 Heideman Award from the Actors’ Theater of Louisville, and First Prize for 10 Minute Play, 2010 Connecticut Stories competition. Her one act play, Two Men Walked Into a Bar, was a semifinalist in the 2008 Turnip/American Globe Theater 15 Minute Play Festival. A one-man show written for the actor John Fico, Made for Each Other, was featured in Emerging Artist Theater’s One Man Talking Festival, and went on to receive nominations for Best Solo Show and Best Actor in a Solo Show at the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity off-off Broadway. Published plays include The Most Important Thing, The Drug Problem, and The Best Thanksgiving Ever (Brooklyn Publishers), The Diet Monologues (JAC Publications) and Answering (Heuer). She is a proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.
FRANCES HILL (Founding Artistic Director/ Director) has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include: Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004), and 27 Rue De Fleurs (Urban Stages 2008). She began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Since 1984, as founding Artistic Director of Urban Stages, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and 80 productions of new works for the stage. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/Urban Stages have moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ African American Poets as Playwrights won eight Audelco Nominations and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award. Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher was one of three nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The 2010 production of Langston in Harlem won several Drama Desk nominations, a John Calloway award, and several Audelco nominations including a win for best music production of the year (2010), along with several other awards.
PETER NAPOLITANO (Producing Associate) has received the BMI Bistro Award (director) and two MAC Awards (lyricist, producer) for his recent work in leading NY cabaret venues, including Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, the Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel and the Metropolitan Room. He was lyricist of Tropicana, book and direction by the legendary George Abbott, produced by Musical Theatre Works; and lyricist/librettist of The Lady in Penthouse B, music by Matthew Ward, produced “Mufti Style” by the York Theatre, starring Nancy Dussault. With composer and celebrated musical director Barry Levitt, he’s currently developing the book and lyrics of Nicky’s Wedding (adapted from his prize-winning play) at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, while writing special material for some of NY’s outstanding cabaret artists. Other highlights of his varied career: working with the ground-breaking Off Broadway Ridiculous Theatrical Co. and The Glines; directing the early solo work of Charles Busch; contributing editor of The Blockbuster Guide to Movies on Video (Dell); and author of a Modern Love essay for The New York Times. For Urban Stages, he helped produce last year’s Winter Rhythms festival, Musical Legends Tribute series and directed Grand Illusions: The Music of Marlene Dietrich starring Bistro Award Winner Janice Hall.
URBAN STAGES (Producer) is an award-winning, not-for-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1984 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Over the past 27 years, Urban Stages has produced over 80 productions (mostly world premieres) including the world premiere of the award winning musical Langston in Harlem by Kent Gash, Walter Marks with Langston Hughes poetry, this production received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress, a John Callaway Award for Best Choreography and four Audelco Awards including Best Musical. The New York Premiere of ReEntry by KJ Sanchez and Emily Ackerman produced in 2010 is currently touring military bases and regional theatres across the country. The world premiere of the Joe Iconis musical ReWrite.Urban Stages’ 2011 Musical Legends garnered several nominations and awards from the prestigious MAC committee. They also presented the American Premiere of Oxford Roof Climbers’Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte which transferred to Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre. Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher (2007), two Drama Desk nominations, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, an Obie nomination, and eight Audelco nominations. Our productions of Men On The Verge Of A Hispanic Breakdown, by Guillermo Reyes, and Minor Demons, by Bruce Graham subsequently moved to commercial theatres. Chili Queen, a play by newscaster Jim Lehrer, transferred to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (1989). The majority of works developed at Urban Stages have had further productions commercially, regionally, and abroad. Numerous projects developed at Urban Stages have been adapted into film and television projects, including Scar, by Murray Mednick, Conversations with the Goddesses, by AgapiStassinopoulos, and Cotton Mary, by Alexandra Viets. Urban Stages has a consistent history of discovering new writers to the theatre community and introducing their plays into theatrical repertory.
Drama"

In 1969, in the tension of a segregated city, two men from very different backgrounds: Luigi, an African American jazz drummer, and George, a white music store owner who specializes in the accordion, are thrown together by fate, finding common ground in their love of music. At the same time, Mary Margaret and Vivian, two young girls from opposite sides of the segregated city, each drink in the new jazz scene for reasons of their own. Music seems to unite and uplift everyone around … at first. Soon “occasions of sin†– where fear, mistrust and racism fester – are inescapable. Violence erupts, changing everyone’s lives forever.
SPECIAL TALKBACKS
March 24th, 8pm Talkback with Professor Piper Kendrix Williams Assistant Professor of English and African-American Studies at The College of New Jersey, and co-editor of the book "Re-presenting Segregation: Toward an Esthetics of Living Jim Crow" (SUNY Press, 2010) will participate in a talkback with the playwright after the performance.March 31st, 3pm Talkback with Prof. Mary Clark Moschella Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling from Yale Divinity School will be participate in a talkback and respond to the play as a Catholic Theologian and as a feminist. Books written by Prof. Moschella include ethnography as a Pastoral Practice: An Introduction and Living Devotions: Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Religious Imagination.April 1st, 8pm Talkback with Kurt Andersen Host of popular NPR show, “Studio 360,’ Kurt Andersen, will join playwright Monica Bauer and share his insight on the play. Like Bauer, Mr. Andersen is also a native of Omaha, Nebraska where the play is set and was in high school during the 1969 race riot. Mr. Andersen’s written work include his New York Times bestselling novel Heyday, his earlier best selling novel Turn of the Century and numerous works for television programs and pilots. April 10th, 8pm Talkback with Barry Levitt Musical Director Barry Levitt has been an active, forceful, award-winning presence within the New York musical community for over three decades. He was the music director and arranger for Catskills On Broadway and Swinging On A Star on Broadway as well as Langston in Harlem, Little Shop Of Horrors and Taking My Turn Off-Broadway. He will join playwright Monica Bauer to discuss the musical aspects of the play.
WHO'S WHOMONICA BAUER (Playwright) is currently a Writing Fellow at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut and a member of the Abingdon Theater Playwright’s Group. She was the 2005 Teaching Fellow in the Graduate Playwriting Program at Boston University, where she received an MA in playwriting. Her plays and musicals have been produced in Denver, Boston, Provincetown, Cambridge, Atlanta, Bloomington, Omaha, San Diego, Providence, and 0ff-0ff Broadway at NYMF, the HERE Arts Center, the Midtown International Theater Festival, the York Theatre, and the Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Awards include Outstanding Script, 2011 Theater Arts Guild Award; Outstanding Playwriting, the 2008 Midtown International Theater Festival; and the Audience Favorite Award at Short Attention Span PlayFest. Lighter (book, music, and lyrics) premiered in October 2009 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Answering, a ten-minute play, was a Finalist for the 2008 Heideman Award from the Actors’ Theater of Louisville, and First Prize for 10 Minute Play, 2010 Connecticut Stories competition. Her one act play, Two Men Walked Into a Bar, was a semifinalist in the 2008 Turnip/American Globe Theater 15 Minute Play Festival. A one-man show written for the actor John Fico, Made for Each Other, was featured in Emerging Artist Theater’s One Man Talking Festival, and went on to receive nominations for Best Solo Show and Best Actor in a Solo Show at the 2010 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity off-off Broadway. Published plays include The Most Important Thing, The Drug Problem, and The Best Thanksgiving Ever (Brooklyn Publishers), The Diet Monologues (JAC Publications) and Answering (Heuer). She is a proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild. FRANCES HILL (Founding Artistic Director/ Director) has directed over 30 workshops and productions. Her favorite directing credits include: Gino DiIorio’s Apostasy, Roma Greth’s Our Summer Days, Jim Lehrer’s Chili Queen, (at Urban Stages and Kennedy Center), John Picardi’s Seven Rabbits on a Pole and The Sweepers (at Urban Stages and Capital Rep); Comfort Women by Chugmi Kim (Urban Stages 2004), and 27 Rue De Fleurs (Urban Stages 2008). She began her theatrical career in California as an actress. Two of her plays have been produced, Our Bench and Life Lines. Since 1984, as founding Artistic Director of Urban Stages, Ms. Hill has overseen more than 600 staged readings/workshops and 80 productions of new works for the stage. Under the guidance of Ms. Hill, Playwrights’ Preview Productions/Urban Stages have moved two plays into commercial Off-Broadway successes. Minor Demons opened the new Century Center Theater and Men on the Verge of His-Panic Breakdown won an Outer Critic’s Circle Award while playing to capacity audiences at the 47th Street Theater. Urban Stages’ African American Poets as Playwrights won eight Audelco Nominations and Coyote On a Fence received two Drama Desk nominations and a Pilgrim’s Project Award. Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher was one of three nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The 2010 production of Langston in Harlem won several Drama Desk nominations, a John Calloway award, and several Audelco nominations including a win for best music production of the year (2010), along with several other awards.PETER NAPOLITANO (Producing Associate) has received the BMI Bistro Award (director) and two MAC Awards (lyricist, producer) for his recent work in leading NY cabaret venues, including Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, the Oak Room at The Algonquin Hotel and the Metropolitan Room. He was lyricist of Tropicana, book and direction by the legendary George Abbott, produced by Musical Theatre Works; and lyricist/librettist of The Lady in Penthouse B, music by Matthew Ward, produced “Mufti Style†by the York Theatre, starring Nancy Dussault. With composer and celebrated musical director Barry Levitt, he’s currently developing the book and lyrics of Nicky’s Wedding (adapted from his prize-winning play) at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, while writing special material for some of NY’s outstanding cabaret artists. Other highlights of his varied career: working with the ground-breaking Off Broadway Ridiculous Theatrical Co. and The Glines; directing the early solo work of Charles Busch; contributing editor of The Blockbuster Guide to Movies on Video (Dell); and author of a Modern Love essay for The New York Times. For Urban Stages, he helped produce last year’s Winter Rhythms festival, Musical Legends Tribute series and directed Grand Illusions: The Music of Marlene Dietrich starring Bistro Award Winner Janice Hall.URBAN STAGES (Producer) is an award-winning, not-for-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1984 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Over the past 27 years, Urban Stages has produced over 80 productions (mostly world premieres) including the world premiere of the award winning musical Langston in Harlem by Kent Gash, Walter Marks with Langston Hughes poetry, this production received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress, a John Callaway Award for Best Choreography and four Audelco Awards including Best Musical. The New York Premiere of ReEntry by KJ Sanchez and Emily Ackerman produced in 2010 is currently touring military bases and regional theatres across the country. The world premiere of the Joe Iconis musical ReWrite.Urban Stages’ 2011 Musical Legends garnered several nominations and awards from the prestigious MAC committee. They also presented the American Premiere of Oxford Roof Climbers’Rebellion by Stephen Massicotte which transferred to Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre. Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Eisa Davis’ Bulrusher (2007), two Drama Desk nominations, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, an Obie nomination, and eight Audelco nominations. Our productions of Men On The Verge Of A Hispanic Breakdown, by Guillermo Reyes, and Minor Demons, by Bruce Graham subsequently moved to commercial theatres. Chili Queen, a play by newscaster Jim Lehrer, transferred to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (1989). The majority of works developed at Urban Stages have had further productions commercially, regionally, and abroad. Numerous projects developed at Urban Stages have been adapted into film and television projects, including Scar, by Murray Mednick, Conversations with the Goddesses, by AgapiStassinopoulos, and Cotton Mary, by Alexandra Viets. Urban Stages has a consistent history of discovering new writers to the theatre community and introducing their plays into theatrical repertory.March 24th, 8pm Talkback with Professor Piper Kendrix WilliamsAssistant Professor of English and African-American Studies at The College of New Jersey, and co-editor of the book "Re-presenting Segregation: Toward an Esthetics of Living Jim Crow" (SUNY Press, 2010) will participate in a talkback with the playwright after the performance.March 31st, 3pmTalkback with Prof. Mary Clark MoschellaProfessor of Pastoral Care and Counseling from Yale Divinity School will be participate in a talkback and respond to the play as a Catholic Theologian and as a feminist. Books written by Prof. Moschella include ethnography as a Pastoral Practice: An Introduction and Living Devotions: Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Religious Imagination.April 1st, 8pm Talkback with Kurt AndersEnHost of popular NPR show, “Studio 360,’ Kurt Andersen, will join playwright Monica Bauer and share his insight on the play. Like Bauer, Mr. Andersen is also a native of Omaha, Nebraska where the play is set and was in high school during the 1969 race riot. Mr. Andersen’s written work include his New York Times bestselling novel Heyday, his earlier best selling novel Turn of the Century and numerous works for television programs and pilots. April 10th, 8pmTalkback with Barry LevittMusical Director Barry Levitt has been an active, forceful, award-winning presence within the New York musical community for over three decades. He was the music director and arranger for Catskills On Broadway and Swinging On A Star on Broadway as well as Langston in Harlem, Little Shop Of Horrors and Taking My Turn Off-Broadway. He will join playwright Monica Bauer to discuss the musical aspects of the play. All Talkbacks will take place after the performance.We also have group specials for all performances. Email anmullins@urbanstages.org for more information.
Drama"
Theater.Drama
Oklahomo is a new rock musical comedy satire that chronicles the journey of Dave and Gary, two Midwestern mall food court employees who are also partners in love (and eventually justice). Dave’s life-long dreams of becoming a superhero finally come true after a freak accident involving Superman, an overdose of hallucinogenic drugs, a port-a-potty and a Journey concert. From there, Dave and Gary embark on an epic adventure of revenge and love, of discrimination and acceptance, and ultimately the most magnificent superpower ever created. With Book, Music and Lyrics by Jesse Gage and direction by Mark Robinson. Choreography by Marcos Santana ("In the Heights").
The cast of Oklahomo: The Adventures of Dave and Gary includes Philip Jackson Smith as Dave, Matt Welsh as Gary, Jared Weiss as Brady, Josh Ramos as Ru, Nathan Lehmann as Jack and Everyone Else, Lisa Mindelle as Lil and Everyone Else, Corey Johnson as Thug and Everyone Else and Ryan Goodale as Thug and Everyone Else.
Langston in Harlem
Book by Langston Hughes, Walter Marks and Kent Gash,
With music by Walter Marks, lyrics by Langston Hughes and directed by Kent Gash
Begins performances Friday, April 9; opening Thursday, April 15 through May 2, 2010
Performance Schedule: Tuesday – Friday at 8PM; Saturday at 2PM & 8PM– Sunday at 5PM
(Wednesday, April 14 performance at 7PM; No Saturday Matinee April 10)
Tickets are $40 ($25 during previews through Tuesday, April 13, 2010)
Tickets available at www.SmartTix.com or call212.868.4444
Student Rush with valid ID 10 minutes before curtain (based on availability)
Running time: 2 hours with an intermission
For more information about Urban Stages please visit www.urbanstages.org

Length: 2 hrs 00 mins
Intermission: Yes
The creation of ReEntry began at home: Ackerman has two brothers who have served multiple deployments in Iraq (both Marines) and Sanchez had five brothers in the military during the Vietnam War. Over the course of a year, Ackerman and Sanchez interviewed many Veterans, enlisting several as advisors to the play. These men and women became integral to the development of the play, reading each draft, providing feedback, insight and introducing the authors to other veterans that then in tern also became part of the process. It was vital to ReEntry’s authors that the voices in this play be authentic. It was also essential that the actors who portray these men and women have a deep and profound understanding of what it means to be a Marine, and so former USMC drill instructor Joe Harrell was employed to take the actors through a rigorous training program, akin to basic training. Sanchez went on to cast Harrell in the production, who’s performance as the commanding officer in ReEntry garnered much acclaim
Begins performances Saturday, February 6 opens Thursday, February 11 through March 7
Performance Schedule: Wednesday – Saturday at 8PM; Saturday – Sunday at 2PM
(Added shows: Monday, February 8 at 7PM) / 90 Minutes, no intermission
Tickets are $40 ($25 during preview through March 8, 2010)
Tickets available at www.SmartTix.com or call 212.868.4444
Presented by URBAN STAGES presents the Two River Theatre Company’s production of ReEntry.
Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30 Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues).
PERFORMERS: Nick Blaemire, Badia Farha, Lorinda Lisitza, Lauren Marcus, AJ Shively, and Jason "SweetTooth" Williams
DIRECTOR: John Simpkins
MUSICAL DIRECTION: Matt Hinkley
CHOREOGRAPHY: Jennifer Werner
SET DESIGN: Michael Schweikardt
LIGHTING DESIGN: Chris Dallos
SOUND DESIGN: Craig Kaufman
COSTUME DESIGN: Michelle Eden Humphrey
PROJECTIONS: Alex Koch
Produced by Urban Stages in association with Sara Katz
(all female! all the time! no apologies!)
NYC'S ACCLAIMED ALL-FEMALE BAREFOOT ENSEMBLE TO DELIGHT WITH A FUN AND
SEXY PRODUCTION OF SHAKESPEARE'S CLASSIC COMEDY
Welcome to Illyria, a land of blind and hungry lovers dancing an age-old
dance of love & cruelty. The Queen's Company brings you an exciting and
innovative production of Shakespeare's delightful comedy of mistaken
identity and obsessive love. Featuring their celebrated all-female cast,
Twelfth Night interweaves lip-synched musical numbers with Shakespeare's
witty words of danger & desire. A comedic masterpiece that is bound to
delight, happy ending guaranteed!
"The Queen's Company, it seems, just wants to have fun, and fun they
have. In this version of Taming of the Shrew there is no question that
women rule…Taming is anything but tame." ~ Phoebe Hoban, The NY Times
"Bearded or barefoot, these ladies act up a storm." ~ Terry Teachout,
The Washington Post
"The entire company is refreshing and enormous fun and a great
contribution to New York Theatre." ~ John Heilpern, The NY Observer
This all-comedy industry showcase features talented actors playing funny characters.
The production contains all original work once again moved quickly
and effortlessly by a charming narrator and his guitar.
This theatrical showcase is approached as a full-length play with polished performances and diverse talent.
The production contains all original work that is moved quickly and effortlessly by a charming narrator and a clever cast.
Peterka's drama explores how people inevitably reexamine their place in the world in the face of tragedy and begin to see those around them on a more human level. When a young man jumps to his death from a seventh floor balcony, the witnesses and their loved ones struggle to deal with what has occurred. Some want to forget, while others long to understand, but no one can deny that, in some way, they have each been changed.
Don't miss this rare chance to finally solve "The Mystery of Irma Vep"!!
Starring Paul Pecorino and Chris Dell'Armo
TWO WEEKS ONLY!!!
"Far and away the two funniest hours anywhere!"
(New York Times)
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, John Steinbeck's masterpiece tells the story of two migrant workers who find employment on a California ranch and finally seem to be within reach of having a home to call their own. But "the best laid schemes o' mice and men" begin to unravel, forcing ordinary people to make profound choices.