Directed by Emmy Award winner Blake Bradford, The Master Builder is a taut psychological drama by Henrik Ibsen, author of A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler.
Claude's journal. Seattle. 1994. Ahem. 'Two households, both alike in dignity'.... no, that sucks. Let's see – 'As I remember Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed to me'...wait, what? What the hell does bequeath even mean? 'If music be the food of love, play on'. Perfect! I mean, whatever. It's okay, I guess. Actually, that band sold out ages ago. I'm going to tell you a better story.
The good: We won Battle of the Bands, life is sweet, and I'm madly in love with Piper but have no friggin idea how to tell her. The bad: Ben's constantly arguing with Betty (why won't they stop already?) I have no idea what to say to kinda convince her to marry me. The solution: a couple of big old white lies to convince Piper I'm the one and to prove to both Ben and Betty that the other's not so bad. It's a perfect plan (even with my chronically evil and depressed drummer lurking and the gossip hounds abounding – but why would those things get in the way?) Kinda funny that I mentioned them without provocation. Whatever. So, tour bus has just returned home. Cue the babes, the beer, and Piper (sigh). Wish me luck. PS – 'The Solution' is kind of catchy. Might be good nickname for myself. Signed, Claude.
Mid 90's Seattle – a society apart from the world and totally bored with everything America. There's no better place for an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Especially since everybody around seems to have a hand in a few different schemes and open mind to what they always thought was true. Enjoy the gossip, the music, and travel back a few years to when plaid and ripped jeans were the uniform for the lovers and fighters alike.
Join the celebration and see if you can keep up with the mismatched lovers as they dive through enough gossip to make the Enquirer team blush.
It is a journey through the heartland in the truest sense of the word. It is a story of innocence lost and regained. It is an American story. A story for everyone who has had to fight to be who they truly are.
Trailer Trash is the story of a family from the wrong side of the tracks trying to find their place in America. Danny is a young man who is looking for love. Rejected by his family, he seeks solace in the company of strangers. In spite of a natural charm, his manic energy often manifests itself in anger, as he struggles with the fact that his bisexuality leans strongly toward the gay side, a slight inconvenience to his current pregnant girlfriend Lisa. When his mother's old friend Andrew returns to their trailer park home in Oklahoma from New York, Danny finds a strange connection with him. Andrew initially becomes a father figure to Danny, and later finds he is becoming much more. The two men try to make sense of their love for one another, against opposition from Danny's mother and the impending birth of Danny's son.
This production includes adult content, drug use, and nudity.
No one under 18 will be admitted.
The tale of two star-crossed lovers who discover that true love doesn't always heed generations-long grudges. Will these two lovebirds work through an age old family rivalry and live happily ever after? Do they ever? Love, tears, epic fight scenes, and laughs: come and be reminded why Shakespeare's words are still relevant and touching today.
Conceived and Directed by: Eric Mercado
Performers: Aaron Farenback-Brateman, Tess Neidermeyer, Steven Northrup, Elizabeth Spano, and Sinai Tabak.
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The New Normal is a groundbreaking original full-length play developed by Coyote REP Theatre Company and written by Donnetta Lavinia Grays. Inspired by the life of 2009 Puget Sound Survivor of the Year Anna Warren Schumacher, it is a hard hitting play that tells the unique story of how a young woman finds humor and grace in the unexpected challenges of survival.
Starring Nell Mooney*, Michael Mason, Andrea Caban* and Emily Rossell*
*Actors Appear Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
Back at home, Bess is just another angst-ridden teenager trying to fit in. But this summer, things are going to be different. Campers and counselors alike are automatically drawn to the new skinny fat girl who's a definite shoo-in for the illustrious title of Camp Princess. Popularity, power, and self-worth get mixed-up as Bess struggles to find her identity. Will she return to school a new woman or will her new self fade like this summer?
Colored with sweat stains, stashed sweets, and the awkward innocence of first loves, Fat Kids on Fire is a candid telling of fitting in, living big, and feeling small.
Featuring: Andrea Ciannavei*, John Early, Megan Linde, Sydney Matthews, Andi Potamkin, Blair Ross*, Nicole Spiezio, Mike Steinmetz & Shane Zeigler.
Production Team: Fernando Contreras, Ian Crawford, T. Rick Hayashi, Jenny Donheiser, Arielle Siegel, Liam Nelligan, Meagan Kensil, Brian Maxsween, Daniel Johnsen & Colby Day.
Produced by Pipeline Theatre Company, for more information: http://www.pipelinetheatre.org
*Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity Assocation
Bill Svanoe's play has been labeled the "Death of a Salesman for the Computer Age." His plays have appeared all over the US and internationally and are published by Samuel French and Dramatists. This marks the first NYC revival of The Downside Risk.
It didn't end well.
One went to rehab and the other went to Ben and Jerry's. A lot. So when they both unexpectedly showed up with friends on their prepaid honeymoon where us three reformed country crooners reside with Miss Lindy Loo... well... our lives became much more complicated. Young love blossoms on our beaches, old love becomes violent on the dance floor. There's blogs, and strip tap dancing, and even Christian Yoga going on here. How odd!
We'd tell you more, but we're too busy cleaning up the mess these people left.
xoxo,
The Cowgirlettes
WINGS THEATRE PRESENTS THE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THE UNFORTUNATE HONEYMOON OF TONY AND STEVE
Aug 5-29, 2010 at Wings Theatre (154 Christopher St)
Blake Bradford's Unfortunate Honeymoon first premiered in Toronto in 2008. Wings Theatre is proud to present the NY Premiere of this zangy country western comedy about the redemptive power of love. Following a bad breakup, Tony and Steve are reunited when they both show up on their prepaid honeymoon to Lindy Loo's Hideaway in the Bahamas. They come to an agreement to immediately part company, but things go awry when the friends they brought along (Rachel, a blog editor, and Bobby, a suburbanite college kid) fall head over heels for each other. Lindy Loo and her Cowgirlettes try everything they can to reconnect the boys during their time at the Hideaway, but it isn't until Steve's Born-Again mother (a Christian Yoga enthusiast) and grandmother (who has a few secrets up her sleeve) arrive that things get heated and rekindled. Can the boys learn to forgive and start all over again?
Nora Powers, the secretary of the Birth Control League, sweeps that change straight into the Midwestern home of Seymore Standish, the man she loves. Here she faces off with her biggest obstacle: his wife. But when things don't turn out as planned, who will continue the fight for change and who will fight to stop it?
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
The show has been extended for five performances 8/21-28 at Wings Theatre!
Zephyer Rep is proud to return with their cabaret series ANGEL DRAKE PRESENTS: SEX & DRUGS & ROCK 'N' ROLL
Angel Drake hosts an evening of songs from the rock genre. Everyone has a little bad boy in them. Show us yours.
Come check out some of NYC's finest as they sing their hearts out! Join them for a short interview after the song as they discuss why they chose that particular song and what significance it has to their life. It's like Jay Leno, except with a personality.
At the end of the evening there's an audience favorite vote where winner takes home $50!
So join us on July 3rd, 'cause we'll be naming names and squeezing all the juice!

This is the World Premiere of a new play by Ken Jennings, award winning playwright and actor (Writer's Digest Award for LULLABIES FOR MARY ROSE, Drama Desk Award and Theatre World Award for SWEENEY TODD)
After years of smight well be the last night of her life. A deadly and erotic game of cat and mouse blurs the line between predator and prey. Simmer tragedy- add cups of time- serve on a bed of lies for a sweet and dark comedy full of surprises.
Starring Marla Yost* and Ken Jennings* (appear courtesy AEA)
The evening will be for and about those of us dealing with that ever-so-lovely infidelities! Come check out some of NYC's finest as they sing their hearts out! Join them for a short interview after the song as they discuss why they chose that particular song and what significance it has to their life. It's like Jay Leno, except with a personality.
At the end of the evening there's an audience favorite vote where winner takes home $50!
So join us on April 10th, 'cause we'll be naming names and squeezing all the juice!
The evening will be for and about jealousy, desire, and of course, STALKING! Come check out some of NYC's finest as they sing their hearts out. Join them for a short interview after the song as they discuss why they chose that particular song and what significance it has to their life. It's like Jay Leno, except with a personality.
At the end of the evening there's an audience favorite vote where winner takes home $50!
THIS JUST IN: Miss Drake is being called away to New Orleans to perform. She sent a cryptic note saying she's sending her Cougar Cousins... !
The evening will be for and about our gay brothers and sisters! Come check out some of NYC's finest as they sing their hearts out! Join them for a short interview after the song as they discuss why they chose that particular song and what significance it has to their life. It's like Jay Leno, except with a personality.
At the end of the evening there's an audience favorite vote where winner takes home $50!
THIS JUST IN: Miss Drake is being called away to New Orleans to perform. She sent a cryptic note saying she's sending her Cougar Cousins... !
Jim Thompson, an American businessman noted for revitalizing the Thai
silk industry, who disappeared on Easter Sunday, 1967 in the highlands
of Malaysia. He was never found.
The multi-narrative musical explores Jim Thompson at three stages in
his life. He is portrayed by three different actors: age 25, a
graduate student in architecture yearning to leave the confines of his
suburban Delaware upbringing; 35, a spy in Southeast Asia during World
War II and an architect struggling to find his place in post-War
America; 55, a silk-magnate in Thailand seemingly at the top of the
world.
I Am Jim Thompson is an American story about a man trying to connect
with himself, understand the people he loves and ultimately struggle
to find his place.
In the vein of Al Pacino's Looking for Richard and Ian McKellen's Acting Shakespeare, Joan will share her lifelong passion for Shakespeare and how it can be thrilling, engaging, and most important FUN. Melt into the worlds Shakespeare creates as she performs some of her favorite selections from Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Julius Caesar. This show has a jolly, interactive nature and is perfect for anyone ranging from middle schoolers first learning the work to aged Shakespeare veterans.
Joan Darling
Joan is no stranger to Shakespeare. She starred at the Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two seasons, and was awarded "Best Actress" both years. She went on to perform at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford as Viola in Twelfth Night, to much acclaim. Joan then joined the award winning improvisational theater company, The Premise, with Gene Hackman, Tom Aldredge, and Ron Liebman as well as starring on Broadway in Leda had a Little Swan and A Minor Adjustment. She won an Emmy for her performance in Dorothy Parker, Woven in Crazy Plaid.
She was the first woman nominated for an Emmy for directing. She has been nominated four times and won an Emmy for directing Mom's on Strike. Her episode of "The Nurses" for M.A.S.H. was nominated for an Emmy and is included in the Best of M.A.S.H. episode.
She is considered the first woman director of the modern age and blazed the way for the women who followed in her footsteps. Her first directing assignment was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which was featured on the cover of every major magazine from Newsweek to Rolling Stone within six weeks of its debut. She followed that by directing the world famous episode "Chuckles the Clown" of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, named by the New York Times as the funniest half hour ever on television, and selected by TV Guide as the number one television episode of all time.
Her first feature, First Love, was named one of the Ten Best of 1978 by CBS. She was the first woman to direct Magnum P.I. and among her many other television credits are Rich Man, Poor Man, Doc, Rhoda, Doogie Howser, M.D., and Civil Wars.
She is renowned as a teacher (her classes in LA have had up to a five year waiting list) and is a lifelong Shakespeare enthusiast. She created the "Directing the Actor" workshop for the Sundance Institute and has served as a creative adviser at the Director's Lab at Sundance for the last seventeen years. She also has served as a creative adviser at the European Moonstone Labs. Joan Darling has been honored by the Museum of Broadcasting as a "Woman Who Made It."
Joni vs The Bard: The Shakespeare Smackdown
Written by and Starring Joan Darling
Directed by Blake Bradford
Assistant Director: Karen Brelsford
Stage Manager: Gabriel Garcia
Music Director: Mark Evans
Costumes: Peggy Queener
Featuring: Jon Hoche*, Mike Mihm, Andrea Marie Smith, Paco Tolson* and Temar Underwood
*denotes Member, AEA.
Scenic Design: Kaitlyn Mulligan
Lighting Design: Daniel Winters
Costume Design: Sarah Riffle
Sound Design: Kimberly Fuhr
Stage Manager: Saundra Yaklin
Take the 1 train to Christopher Street
Justin's an up and coming artist thriving in NYC whose world grinds to a halt when the worse thing possible happens to him - he gets the call to come home due to his grandmother's failing health. Slinking back to small town North Carolina with his latest one night stand forced upon him, he finds himself back neck deep in the family issues that he had been avoiding for more than a decade and facing the girl he left behind. In the midst of the culture clash between small town quirkiness and big city society behavior, Justin may actually discover what he had been running from for all of those years. Emmy-winner Blake Bradford's newest play takes a hard look at the humor and heartache of going home.
RETURN ENGAGEMENT AT WINGS THEATRE
Gay Slave Handbook is making it's full length NYC premiere after a successful and highly praised run in the Edinburgh Fringe where ScotsGay Magazine labeled the production as one of the 10 Best Productions of the Year.
Assistant Director: Brooklyn Scalzo
Stage Manager: Bridget Halloran
Assistant Stage Managers: Mary Brown, Taylor Fee
Lighting Design: Michael Megliola
Costume Design: Carrie Colden
Sound Design: Kymm Zuckert
Fight Choreography: Matt Klan
For photos, blogs and additional information about this production, go to www.myspace.com/danceatbataan
1) "Not So Calm, But Still Totally Dead" - Directed by Christopher Simon
Funny the things we learn about ourselves sometimes....awful, horrible things.
Starring: Adeel Ahmed, Scott Morales, Erin Roberts and Aref Syed
2) "Wombsgiving" - Directed by Blake Bradford
Happy Thanksgiving. Never has a turkey baster seemed so intimate.
Starring: Mary Brown, Emily Ehlinger, Deborah Johnston, Oliver Thrun, Roland Uruci and Nora Vetter
3) "Apocalypse Earlier" - Directed by Tanya Fazal
It's the end of the world or something like it. It's the perfect time to get to know your neighbors.
Starring: Adeel Ahmed, Megan Delay, Mary Jane Gocher, Christine Grenier, Faith O'Gorman and Jere Williams
4) "Ladies and Gentlemen, the 2,746th President of the United States" - Directed by Glenn English
The presidents are dropping like flies and the fate of the country rests on one man in a hamster bubble.
Starring: Tanya Fazal, Chelsea Holland, Adam Kuruvilla Lelyveld, Scott Morales and Nick Santasier
5) "Big Bang Teary" - Directed by Christopher Burris
Fame! Glamour! Glitz!.....Physics?
Starring: Shura Alexandra, Graeme Humphrey, David Law and Aref Syed
6) "Daddy Issues" - Directed by Christopher Simon
Like Romeo and Juliet, but with more Wenkraks.
Starring: Erin E. Sullivan, Al Miro and Erin Roberts
1) "The Super Big Blow-Out Bash at Dionysus' Pad"
Written and directed by Kymm Zuckert
Three gods at a party have a contest to try to get a new believer.
Starring: Nick Masson, Rachel McPhee, Zack Rothman-Hicks, Aref Syed, Michael Weems and Shuo Zhang.
2) "Sorted" by Roland Uruci
Directed by Patricia Drozda
A bickering couple gets more than they expected after a mysteriously enigmantic man hops in their backseat.
Starring: Abraham Adams, Gina Labozetta and Tim Kondrat.
3) "Drunk Reckonings" by Zack Rothman-Hicks
Directed by Susanne Gottesman-Traub
Four drunk college students get a new perspective on life when they hear a news report that aliens are taking over the planet.
Starring: Janice Amano, Mara Dratfield, Chelsea Holland and Miguel Rosales.
4) "Fifi, Effie and the Donut Lady" by Peggy Queener
Directed by Glenn English
In crisis, world-famous Fifi La Grange returns to New York after four months away to entreat help from her two best friends.
Starring: Beth Adler, Sally Connors, Peggy Queener, Zach Rothman-Hicks and Aref Syed.
5) "Taking Toll" by Kendall Rileigh
Directed by Cara Scarmack
A young runaway and her mother find salvation in an unlikely guardian.
Starring: Deborah Johnstone, Natalie Neckyfarow and George Remes.
6) "Burden Me" by Michael Weems
Directed by Aimee Todoroff
A despondent young man seeking answers at church encounters a well-meaning, but troubled groom and his bride-to-be, a painfully familiar face from his past.
Starring: Bill Bria, Nicholas Santasier and Nora Vetter.
All is well when Suzanne Gold and her close New York family discover that she is pregnant, until a prenatal genetics test reveals that the baby will most likely be homosexual. The news forces the entire Gold family to confront issues of bigotry, evolution and the limits of love.
"Dinner for Four"
Written and directed by Roland Uruci
Two married couples get more than they expect when they plan a sexual wife swap.
"And Toto, Too"
by Richard Martin Hirsch
Directed by Karen M. Dabney
Some creative role playing in the bedroom leads to a serious examination of one couple's relationship.
"12 Step Conga Line"
by Bob Hayden
Directed by Christopher Simon
A flasher and a tease meet up at a 12-step program for people with fetish addictions, finding they may just be soul mates.
"Buck ‘N Kandy"
by Joe Musso
Directed by Christine Vinh
Kandy puts her desires in Buck's face. Will he or won't he snatch it up?
"The Rules"
by Laura Black
Directed by David Pleva
A lonely housewife embarks on a phone sex game with a mysterious woman. When the relationship is threatened, the game escalates and both women learn that some rules shouldn't be broken.
The production features scenic design by J. Wiese, costume design by Debra Otte, with assistant design by Stephanie Cathro, who will also be doing the puppets. The lighting will be designed by Joe Doviak and sound designed by David Lawson. Marla Meisner will be composing music for the production.
Ramon Navarro, a good looking Mexican actor became a Hollywood mega star, playing the lead in such films as "The Arab", "The Mid-Shipman", and "Ben –Hur." Herbert Howe was then one of the most popular Hollywood news writers of his day, tough, quick-witted and cynical, who intertwined his life with Ramon Navarro. Also in the play are director Rex Ingram, MGM head Louis B. Mayer, film producer Irving Thalberg and film columnist Adela St. John.
As they are drawn deeper into the mystery they become inextricably caught up in the events, and their only recourse is to solve the puzzle that begins and ends in a dark and ill-fated edifice, *The Rose Hotel *.
After the initial auditions are complete, the audience votes for their favorite performer. The six top-ranking actors return for Act II t claim their prize – the highly coveted callback. The night then culminates in cold readings and performances of specially crated scenes.
For the actor, THE AUDITION is a chance to hone their skills and perhaps be discovered. For the audience, THE AUDITION provides and entertaining and insightful glimpse inside the cutthroat world of casting. Come find out: Who will make the cut?
Something strange is happening in the country town of Hollow. When a syndrome which seems to strike only at the young begins to kill off the town's children, authorities quarantine the rural community.
Three final year school students – Tania, Phil and Sally – are getting ready to move on – but to what and to where? Success in economics and account exams may be the only passport out of a place which goes out of its way to promise them little.
As the mysterious outbreak reaches epidemic proportions, friendship and alliances are stretched to the breaking point, while choices between life and death become simultaneously fantastical and apocalyptic.
D'Artagnan, a brash, impetuous youth from the provinces, sets out for Paris to seek his fortune. His fiery temper and ready sword soon find him three inseparable companions, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. It is their adventures and trials, the struggles with the brilliant Cardinal Richelieu and the deadly Milady de Winter, the glory, disappointment, heartbreak, love and death that make a headstrong young man into a true Musketeer.
Full info, photos & reviews: http://clintjefferies.com/Musket.html
Directed by Jeffery Corrick
Musical direction Paul L. Johnson
The scenes are short and all around 3 min. each.
Great actors and funny scenes with a follow up of food and beverages, what more could you want?