A boxed-set of six quirky stories nestled into one evening. Seven words map the course of a young couple’s life. A young woman is on a perpetual quest to move forward with the help of her butler. A mother discovers parenting is an obstacle course in the modern age. Three generations of women find a common voice. Chloe and Essie remember. Passengers await their final destination. Jennifer Jasper's Pressing Matters wastes no words as she weaves tales in her own humorous and heartfelt storytelling style.
About the Company: Fallen Angel Theatre Company
Fallen Angel Theatre is a non-profit company based in New York committed to presenting the most outstanding & dynamic new Irish & British plays written by and about women. This wealth of new female writing has largely been untapped in the US. Founded in 2003, Fallen Angel Theatre is the first American company with the goal of interpreting these plays in a fresh, exciting and commercially viable way for New York audiences.
Fallen Angel Theatre has a goal to create a new and diverse audience base that transcends cultural barriers thanks to the quality and universal themes in the writing we present.
Fallen Angel Theatre has strong ties to the community and has an outreach program working with area non profits, organisations & individuals, with the goal of expanding education and knowledge about their work in the community. Our work with these non-profits takes different forms. We facilitate a two-way collaboration with the organizations in the development stages of our project which benefits both the organization's members and our company members during the Production process. We also support organizations by contributing a percentage of our box office takings towards their causes.
After a successful sold-out showcase run last February, DELIRIUM’S DAUGHTERS, a kindhearted farce by Nicholas Korn, directed by Kathleen Butler will grace the Off-Broadway stage of The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, Manhattan).
With original cast members Brandon Beilis as Timidio, Nick Bombicino as Giovio, Kerry Frances as Celia, Deanna Gibson as Terresa, Stephanie Nicole Kelley as Marina, Jackson Thompson as Pomposa, Branislav Tomich as Di Lirio, and Evan Zimmerman as Serio.
About the Company: Triumvirate Artits
Founded by Kathleen Butler, Dan Butler and John Essay. The company is dedicated to producing new plays that will, wherever possible, utilize the talents of gifted theatre professionals over the age of 55: actors, directors, playwrights, stage managers, scenic and costume designers, tech staff et al. Triumvirate Artists will reach out to an aging population by bringing programs and performances to those who can no longer attend theatre.
Rachel Reiner Productions will present the World Premiere of Victor L. Cahn’s Villainous Company, directed by Eric Parness. The show will begin performances on January 9, and open on Monday, January 12 running through January 31, 2015 at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre (410 West 42 Street). Tickets are $19.25 (including a $1.25 theatre restoration charge) and can be purchased at www.Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.
Claire returns from an afternoon of shopping and discovers that one of her packages is missing. In an effort to retrieve it, she calls the store and a series of events unravels that draw the three women of Victor L. Cahn’s Villainous Company, into a scintillating and suspenseful game of cat and mouse with unexpected results.
Cast includes: Alice Bahlke (Resonance Ensemble's H4), Julia Campanelli (Sleep No More, “One Life to Live”) and Corey Tazmania (Resonance Ensemble's R.U.R., Housewives of Mannheim). Creative team: Jennifer Varbalow (Set Designer), Brooke Cohen (Costume Designer), Pamela Kupper (Lighting Designer), Nick Simone (Sound Designer). Casting Consultant is Stephanie Klapper and Sean McCain is the Stage Manager.
Artistic Director Ike Schambelan states, "'Merchant' is usually seen as a play dealing with anti-Semitism. We think it's about otherness in general since in addition to a Jew, it has a Muslim, a Hispanic, and a blind man — the blind scene is almost always cut." All four of the "others" will be played by one actor, Nicholas Viselli, showing the parallels of prejudice based on race, religion, and disability in a multicultural society that's an international trading center. Be it Venice in 1600 or NYC now, it's a place where cultures clash and conflicts ensue.
The ensemble of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE includes TBTB company members and newcomers, Mary Theresa Archbold, Melanie Boland, Stephen Drabicki, David Harrell, Gregg Mozgala, Pamela Sabaugh, and Nicholas Viselli.
About the Company: Theater Breaking Through Barriers
Theater Breaking Through Barriers, formerly Theater by the Blind, is a critically acclaimed company integrating able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities. Founded in 1979, by Artistic Director Ike Schambelan, the company's mission is to change the image of people with disabilities from one of dependence to independence, to fight stereotypes and misperceptions associated with disability, and to show how vibrant, fluid and exuberant the work of artists with disabilities can be.
PRESENTS
FIRST NEW WORK CITY REVIVAL
"BASH: THREE PLAYS"
BY NEIL LABUTE
DIRECTED BY BRIDGET LEAK
AT THEATRE ROW, THE STUDIO THEATRE
CAST
DANA LEIGH SNYDER AND DUSTIN CROUSE
OPENING NIGHT IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
New York, NY (December 21, 2011) – Theatre Row presents the first New York revival of the new play, Bash: Three Plays, conceived by Neil Labute Directed byBridget Leak, the cast will featureDana Leigh Snyder and Dustin Crouse.
Performances begin, January 12, 2012 for a limited run through Saturday, January 21, 2012 at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues). Opening night is Wednesday, January 18 at 8:00 p.m.
Three plays in 90 minutes.
A young, traveling businessman tells the interrelated stories of a corporate downsizing and the death of his daughter.
A charming and excited college couple will share their versions of their trip to a church-sponsored bash at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
And a young woman will recount the relationship she had with her middle school teacher.
How do individuals arrive at making frightening decisions? That’s what Bash: Three Plays explores.
About the Company: Fallen Angel Theatre Company
Fallen Angel Theatre is a non-profit company based in New York committed to presenting the most outstanding & dynamic new Irish & British plays written by and about women. This wealth of new female writing has largely been untapped in the US. Founded in 2003, Fallen Angel Theatre is the first American company with the goal of interpreting these plays in a fresh, exciting and commercially viable way for New York audiences.
Fallen Angel Theatre has a goal to create a new and diverse audience base that transcends cultural barriers thanks to the quality and universal themes in the writing we present.
Fallen Angel Theatre has strong ties to the community and has an outreach program working with area non profits, organisations & individuals, with the goal of expanding education and knowledge about their work in the community. Our work with these non-profits takes different forms. We facilitate a two-way collaboration with the organizations in the development stages of our project which benefits both the organization's members and our company members during the Production process. We also support organizations by contributing a percentage of our box office takings towards their causes.
In February 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, Jr. (1919-1992) was beaten by police in Batesburg, South Carolina, following an innocuous incident on a Greyhound bus. Blinded during the assault, Woodard became the first national symbol in the fight against racial injustice, and garnered support from the likes of President Harry S. Truman, Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Orson Welles, and the NAACP. Although Woodard's story is nearly forgotten today, he inspired folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie to write the deeply moving ballad "The Blinding of Isaac Woodard," using some of Mr. Woodard's own words: " It's now you've heard my story, there's one thing I can't see. How you could treat a human like they have treated me?" This thrilling American story might have been lost, had it not been for a chance meeting between Roberts and the son of Isaac Woodard Jr.
The ensemble cast of REFLECTIONS OF A HEART includes Mary Ruth Baggot, Reginald L. Barnes, Gail Merzer Behrens, Chanel Carroll, Mark Ellmore, Kevin Green, Gillian Glasco, Jim Heaphy, Heather Massie, Jonathan Miles, Robert Spence, Michael Vincent, and David Wirth.
REFLECTIONS OF A HEART features set design by Jito Lee; costume design by Sarah Cubbage; lighting design by Kayla Globe; and sound design by David Lawson.
Cast includes: Brian D. Coats (FOR FLOW, “Sopranos,” “Law & Order: SVU”), Todd Alan Crain (“Important Things With Demetri Martin,” The Producers: The Movie Musical), Rafael Jordan (“Wraiths of Roanoke”), Patrick Melville (My Brother's War, Crazy for the Dog) and Ryan Tramont (Crazy for the Dog, My Brother's War). Creative team includes: Sarah B. Brown (Scenic Design), Sidney Shannon (Costume Design), Pamela Kupper (Lighting Design), Nick Moore (Original Music and Sound Design).
Cast includes: Pun Bandhu (Film: Burn After Reading, Ugo's Last Dance), Alberto Bonilla (Resonance’s The Cherry Orchard, Film: My Best Friend’s Girl), Chris Ceraso (On the Road to Ruin, “Hot for Teacher”), Michael Chmiel (EST Perfect & Constant , “The Bronx is Burning”), Rand Guerrero (Richard III), Christopher Hayes, Rafael Jordan (“Wraiths of Roanoke”), Jon Levenson (Gaslight, The Hairy Ape), Geraldine LiBrandi (“The Sopranos”), Joe MacDougall (Tom Cruise Get Off the Couch), Sophie Maerowitz (The Actor’s Practicum), Brad Makarowski (Our Country’s Good) , Jessica Myhr (“All My Children,” The Cherry Orchard), Wrenn Schmidt (Broadway’s Come Back Little Sheba), Sarah Stockton (Time of Your Life), Grant James Varjas (33 To Nothing, Film: The Laramie Project), Maxwell Zener (American Girls). Creative team includes: Sarah B. Brown (Scenic Design), Michelle Eden Humphrey (Costume Design), Pamela Kupper (Lighting Design), Robert C. Rees (Original Music), Nick Moore (Sound Design).
Walter Brandes, Chekhov's hilarious "The Bear," Shaw's seldom-seen "Village Wooing" and
David Ives' send-up of English murder mysteries: "The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage"
In "Play", written and directed by Paul Siemens, a brother and a sister lie awake at bedtime. The sister asks, ‘What do you want to do now?' The brother's answer: ‘Play.' Thus begins a game in which the only rules are the limits of the players' imaginations. Play depicts the originality of playtime, the creation of narrative, and the possibilities inherent in any game waiting to be played.
The sound play "See the World," written and directed by Jeremy McCarter, follows a young couple and their daughter as they travel to an exotic foreign land, where their search for the real world leads them into fantastical adventures.
"3 To a Session: A Monster's Tale," written by Desi Moreno-Penson and directed by Jose Zayas. Moreno-Penson unveils a riveting and provocative tale that takes place in a surrealistic realm between life and death. The introspective and child-like Vincent, the smart and steely-eyed Ally, and the sexy, yet uptight plant-lover Paula, engage in sexual play-acting scenarios, which lead them into memories of loss, love, longing, and domestic violence.