Urban Stages

Directed by Vincent Scott, CHARMED LIFE takes you on a musical journey from Mirabal's hometown of Nashville, to opera stages across the world. She toasts entertainment luminaries, including Oprah, Cab Calloway, and Pavarotti, that had a hand in her rise and salutes the black opera singers that paved the way. With comedy, storytelling, and show-stopping musical numbers, Mirabal brings you inside the world of opera and her efforts to spread the art form to the next generation. Charmed Life is a feel-good play about being open to opportunities and grabbing hold of the luck that comes your way.

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.

TO BUY TICKETS CLICK ON THE CORRECT DATE ON THE LEFT. REFER TO SCHEDULE BELOW. ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCES (all performances: $30 unless otherwise noted)Tuesday, Dec. 3 | 7PM A Centennial Celebration of Mary Martin. A 100th Birthday tribute to one of the great performers of the American Musical Theatre and the shows she starred in (The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Peter Pan, etc.). Hosted by noted author Stephen Cole with featured artists Liam Forde, Janice Hall, Marissa Mulder, Barbara Porteus, Julie Reyburn, Corinna Sowers-Adler, Susan Winter, Bill Zeffiro with rare video and perhaps a surprise or two. RECEPTION AFTERWARDS (SPECIAL EVENT: $50)Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 7PM Noteworthy – Excerpts from new musicals by up and coming songwriters including Andy Monroe (The Kid) and Greg Edwards & Ben Green (Neurosis).Thursday, Dec. 5 | 7PM A Salute to Singers and Songwriters of the 1970s. Hosted by Broadwayworld.com columnist Stephen Hanks with Natalie Douglas, Lauren Fox, Laurie Krauz, Barbara Porteus, Meg Flather,Ted Stafford and Lorinda LisitzaThursday, Dec. 5 | 10PM LATE NIGHT: Isaiah Singer + OPEN MIC Isaiah Singer, frontman for the Brooklyn rock duo The 7th Word, premieres a collection of experimental wurlitzer piano instrumentals and songs. Afterwords, an ecclectic open mic, open to songwriters, musical theater composers, and comedians. Baby grand piano available. (LATE NIGHT: FREE | First Come First Seated) Friday, Dec. 6 | 7PM Sarah Rice and Sean Hagerty. A double bill spanning more than a century of music: Act I: experimental violinist and multi-instrumentalist Sean Hagerty, Act II: Broadway’s Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd) sings songs from the period of Downton Abbey. Friday, Dec. 6 | 10PM LATE NIGHT: Lora Faye Lora Faye’s songs live in an art rock soundscape with a backbeat, lyrically quick and boldly performed. Her writing is both blues-inflected and brashly progressive, like an archive from some historical American future. “Sultry vocals… undeniably suave” - American Songwriter (LATE NIGHT SHOW: $15)Saturday, Dec. 7 | 7PM Sinatra at the Movies. Celebrated singers pay tribute to the Chairman of the Board’s illustrious film career. With Carole J. Bufford, Alexis Cole, Lianne Marie Dobbs, Kat Gang, Eric Yves Garcia, Hilary Gardner, Sigali Hamberger, Jeff Harnar, Allan Harris, Cary Hoffman, Nicolas King, Marissa Mulder, Karen Oberlin, Molly Pope, Naya Rodririguez-Castinado and Victoria Rae Sook. Musical directed by Bill Zeffiro. Hosted and Produced by Will Friedwald and Bill Zeffiro.Saturday, Dec. 7 | 10PM LATE NIGHT: Ryan Scott Oliver presents : THE REHEARSAL ROOM Check out incredible young writers presenting fresh new work from new musicals and more! (LATE NIGHT SHOW: $15)Sunday, Dec. 8 | 2PM TEEN CABARET Singer-actors (21 and under) demonstrate their enthusiastic love and knowledge of the Great American Songbook standards of earlier generations. Produced and directed by Rob Lester With Claire Benedetto, Hawkins Gardow, Dominique Solano, Joseph Tolve, Matt Zanfagna. Special Guests: Susan Winter and Karen Wyman (SPECIAL EVENT: $15)Sunday, Dec. 8 | 7PM Julie Reyburn and Marquee Five. Award-winning cabaret artist Reyburn brings back her very first show, Fate Is Kind, on a double-bill with the celebrated vocal harmony group performing a “best of” set including holiday standards.MONDAY, DEC. 9 – NO SHOWTuesday, Dec. 10 | 7PM That Way: Excerpts from a new musical | A man recalls the challenges and changes of his life as a gay man during the last fifty years. With Janice Hall, Rob Langeder, Kenita Miller and Adam Shapiro. By Barry Levitt and Peter Napolitano.Wednesday, Dec. 11 | 7PM The Barry Levitt Quartet with special guests Hilary Kole and Gregory Generet, Kat Gang. 2013 MAC and Bistro Award winner Levitt in an evening of jolting jazz!Thursday, Dec. 12 | 7PM Don Rebic and Friends with Leslie Uggams, Karen Akers, Suzanne Carrico, Eric Michael Gillett, Nina Hennessey, Lee Roy Reams, Christine Reisner-Rebic, T. Oliver Reid, and Marti Stevens — with a special appearance by “King of Nostalgia” Joe Franklin Reception afterwards. (SPECIAL EVENT: $50)Friday, Dec. 13 | 7PM Janice Hall and Karen Oberlin. A "double feature" of two shows by award-winning cabaret artists, each taking a unique look at the Golden Age of Hollywood.Friday, Dec. 13 | 10PM LATE NIGHT: Kind of Appropriate : The Songs of Julia Meinwald Featuring: Ally Bonino, Charles Franklin, Lauren Marcus, Rachel Flynn, Rich Silverstein, and Sam Heldt (LATE NIGHT SHOW: $15)Saturday, Dec. 14 | 7PM Gretchen Reinhagen and Adam Shapiro. A double bill of two award-winning cabaret artists.Saturday, Dec. 14 | 10PM LATE NIGHT: Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble Presents : Glamour Macabre The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble Presents: Glamour Macabre, a go-go dancing, rock n'roll, Broadway belting, sequin tossin' evening of entertainment! | Co-Hosted by Eric Schmalenberger and Miriam! Featuring: The Rachel Klein Theater Ensemble, Erik Ransom as Damian from his rock musical "Coming", Broadway's Ashley Kate Adams (Le Cage Au Folle), Scooter Pie (Shaken and Stirred), Danielle Marie Fusco (Martha Graham), The Love Show (the Nutcracker Rated R) and many more! (LATE NIGHT SHOW: $15)Sunday, Dec. 15 | 7PM From All of Us To All of You: Seasonal Songs and Disney, Too!Closing night holiday concert with reception afterwards. Featuring Deb Berman, Tina Chen, Lynn Cohen, Ron Cohen, Terese Genecco, Darryl Glenn, Helena Grenot, Valerie Lemon, Fran Leonardis, Marissa Mulder, Shaynee Rainbolt, Adam Shapiro, Brandon Sharp, Bret Shuford, Joanne Tatham, Tom Toce, Bill Zeffiro and a special surprise guest!(SPECIAL EVENT: $50)

Cabaret"

Music.Cabaret

Upon its debut release in 2009 Black Latina was originally performed as a one woman show by the author, Crystal S. Roman (CEO/Founder of Black Latina Movement). Now redesigned by director Veronica Caicedo (CEO/Founder of Caicedo Productions) an all female ensemble, are each personified by one of the four strongest emotions one confronts in the face of adversity: Anger, Sadness, Love, and Empowerment. Each character delivers a testimony that further justifies their assigned emotion and offers varying views, ideas, and experiences while simultaneously sharing the common bond of being a Black Latina. Through spoken word, song, and dance the cast resolves the story's issues (from Anger to Empowered) by showing all sides of a multifaceted spectrum. From denouncing oneself and "fitting in" to embracing the beauty and pride of "being Black", Black Latina lets the world know exactly who we are.

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

Written by Greg Kalleres. Directed by Luke Harlan. Award-winning theatre, URBAN STAGES, presents HONKY - a darkly comedic look at five people, white and black, as they navigate the muddy waters of race, advertising and basketball shoes. Starring Scott Barrow, Philip Callen, Dave Droxler, Danielle Faitelson, Anthony Gaskins, Chris Myers, Reynaldo Piniella and Arie Bianca Thompson

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

Freely inspired by Victor Hugo's novel, equal parts horror, comedy, and romance, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is a "live silent film," performed in grayscale with live music, about a man whose face has been carved into a permanent smile and his desperate quest for the world to take him seriously. Hugo’s character of Gwynplaine, “the laughing man”, inspired the creation of Batman’s infamous nemesis, The Joker. 

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. 

ADDED PERFORMANCE ON WEDNESDAY, 2/20 @8pmSix live actors transport the audience to a movie house in 1923, when glamorous stars told larger-than-life stories without a single spoken word. Grab a bag of freshly popped popcorn, take a seat, and watch the hilarious and heartrending story of Gwynplaine, a clown whose face has been surgically disfigured into a permanent smile. Performing with his adoptive sister and father, Gwynplaine gains fame and a very modest fortune for his comic acts—and his comical face. Secretly he yearns to be more than a freak and a joke—but when his yearning leads him into the arms of a debauched duchess fascinated by his grin, the results are disastrous for Gwynplaine and for his family.Based on Victor Hugo’s novel The Man Who Laughs, the play is performed in the style of a silent film, complete with live piano accompaniment, projected title cards, and vibrant black-and-white sets, costumes, and makeup. First performed to critical acclaim in 2005, The Man Who Laughs transforms silent film into live action, taking us back to a time when performers didn’t need to speak to pull on our heart strings and tickle our funny bones.Written by Kiran Rikhye | Directed by Jon Stancato | Dramaturgy by Emily Otto | Music by Eugene Ma | Costume Design by Julie Schworm | Lighting Design by Daniel Winters | Set Design by Michael Minahan | Stage Management by Colin Miller | Props & Graphic Design by Aviva Meyer | Makeup by Jaclyn Schaefer with Stephanie Cox-Williams | Featuring Raife Baker, Dave Droxler, Jon Froehlich, Molly O'Neill, Noah Schultz and Rebecca WhitehurstWhere: URBAN STAGES, 259 West 30th Street btw 7th and 8th Avenues | When: JAN 31 - FEB 24 Thurs - Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm & Mon, Feb 4 at 8:30pm | Tickets: $30 Adults, $25 Students/Seniors, $20 in 1920s Costume | Show runs approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission. | Free Popcorn!http://facebook.com/StolenChairTheManWhoLaughshttp://stolenchair.tumblr.comhttp://twitter.com/StolenChairTC

Dance Theater"

Theater.Dance Theater

The House of Narcissus is gearing up for the fashion show of the season, but life on the runway can be treacherous. An activist plots to destroy the show, the supermodels can’t find their shoes, Echo is in love with Narcissus, and Narcissus is consumed by the one thing he can never obtain: himself. In this world of unrequited love, insatiable desire, and fabulous clothes, what is the cost of falling in love with illusion?

Play"

Theater.Play

The cast and crew of the next big budget sci-fi blockbuster are having trouble coming up with the climactic scene to their film. How bloody can the death be? How revealing the costumes? And who should play which role? As characters clash over egos, creative vision, and really inappropriate sexual affairs, The Table Scene weaves a comic, surreal world where storytelling is a potentially lethal occupation.

Inspired by true events that led to one of the worst race riots in Omaha, Nebraska and in our country’s history.
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. All Talkbacks will take place after the performance.
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 is an exciting new musical about one of America's most honored poets, Langston Hughes. Set in the African-American cultural capital of Harlem from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights movement, Langston in Harlem tells the story of Langston Hughes' journey into manhood and his emergence as one of the most beloved and forward thinking artists of our time. This groundbreaking new musical is filled with Jazz, Gospel, Rhythm and Blues, Swing, dance and spoken-word that sings, jumps, stomps and shouts. Langston Hughes' glorious words and poetry of love, loss, joy and the blues and the people of Harlem who inspired him, come gloriously to life, in Langston in Harlem and are once again universal and unforgettable!

Length: 2 hrs 00 mins
Intermission: Yes

ReWrite deals with time, with deadlines, with Donuts. it's about trying to live up to the expectations you created for yourself and trying to do it before you time runs out. It's about normal people, no people who get musicals written about them.

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

Robot Uprising is a festival of 4 one-act plays, concerning the lives and loves of robots. It started with a contest in February, 2008. The rules were simple: submit a one act play 10-30 minutes long. The theme: "robot". What resulted were 4 diverse winning scripts that tackled the subject matter with sobriety, intellect, humor and grace.

Imaginary features over 30 amazing actors performing monologues, songs, and short scenes.
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.

EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND THROUGH JULY 21st!! Wednesday-Saturday evenings! At last, one of America's most heralded, truly outrageous comedies returns to the New York stage where it all began! This Drama Desk and Obie Award winner (Best Play) receives a new, side-splitting, laugh-a-minute production that is sure to delight all audiences with its non-stop action and tour-de-force performances. From the foggy moors of Mandacrest Mansion, where vampires and werewolves lurk in every shadow, to the hidden tombs of Egypt, where mummies spring to life and cast their seductive spells, this rollicking spoof of the great horror classics will dazzle the eyes and ears of all who are brave enough to venture into its sinister web of mystery and intrigue! This mind-blowing mix of horror and hilarity is the perfect recipe for a most unforgettable evening!

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)

OF MICE AND MEN is one of the most celebrated works of American literature, a compelling human drama about friendship and loyalty during one of our nation's most challenging 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.

Worth investigates a person's value of love for themselves in relation to the various ways that they can choose to pay for what they need and want. This play juxtaposes the choices made by a Korean American immigrant father and second generation daughter, when they find themselves financially short of their dreams. The father loses his job in a corporate scandal akin to Enron and chooses to enter into a relationship with a wealthy widow with whom he is not in love. His decision is motivated by his own dreams of grandeur and his lack of means to pay the tuition to the Ivy League school to which his daughter has been accepted. His daughter rejects his choice and chooses employment as an exotic dancer to finance her education.

SAFETY is the dark and compelling story of Michael, a war photographer renowned for his iconic global images in the late 20th century. When a stranger saves Michael's young daughter from drowning, he is forced to reevaluate his roles as journalist, husband and father. Sometimes proximity to inhumanity requires a surrendering of one's own humanity in the long term. It is this process that SAFETY sets out to investigate.

Revival of the 1923 fantasy drama which brings together a collection of people who embark on a fateful sea voyage, as the passengers try to solve a mystery that effects them all.

Pryetown is a contemporary love story about a young man in a wheelchair and a middle-aged single mom who struggle to protect their dignity and maintain their humanity in the modern medical age.