Set in an NYC rehearsal room, DEAR JANE journeys into the life of a passionate artist, Julie, who explores the many divergent paths of her past. From her fractured relationship with her identical twin Jane, to love affairs, questionable parenting skills, and her time as a political activist -- she strives for something beyond our boundaries, reaching for art as the ultimate expression of meaning.
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.
Embracing her Scottish culture and wit, Sharman Macdonald’s When I Was A Girl I Used To Scream and Shout is a bitingly funny, delicately crafted memory play, exploring the parallel growing pains of a mother and daughter. Set in 1983, the play takes a stripped and honest look at the relationship between childless, unmarried Fiona and her crisp, divorced mother Morag, with whom she is sharing a Scottish beach holiday. As the play unfolds we discover it was in the very same resort where at least a decade previously, the young Fiona struggling with an imposed view of religion and sexuality, deliberately got pregnant to prevent Morag's remarriage and her mother's one chance of happiness.
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.
4 suitors, 3 daughters, what’s a father to do? A kind old gentleman believes his deceased wife has forbid their three daughters to marry, until one of the suitors plays a series of tricks that helps him deal with his loss and recover his sanity. A new and refreshing take on Commedia Dell’Arte with a touch of magical realism.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.
Shopping just got a whole lot more dangerous!
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.
NYU Steinhardt Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York Foundation for the Arts, Yamaha Pianos, RS Berkeley Horns, presents the 42nd Street Jazz Festival, from December 16-23, 2013 at Theatre Row, 410 W. 42nd Street, NYC. Performances: Monday- Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm. Tickets are $21.25 and are available at telecharge.com.
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.
THEATRE ROWPRESENTS
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.
Eva the Chaste, written by Barbara Hammond and produced by Fallen Angel Theatre Company, immerses the audience in the pivotal passions and pressing responsibilities of a woman whose twenty-year sprint away from her past comes crashing to a close as dawn breaks over Dublin Bay. Hammond set out to reveal, through the use of spoken thought, a genuine and intimate portrait of a woman at the crossroads, both literally and figuratively, of her life. The script, set in Dublin and Paris, explores the profound and unpredictable bond between a mother and a daughter; the grasp for life at the approach of death; and the road to hell — shining, smooth and paved with good intentions.
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.
Between the Scottsboro Boys and Rosa Parks, there was Isaac Woodard, Jr. Filled with humor and heartbreak, REFLECTIONS OF A HEART is based on true events in America's history that were almost lost in time. Set between 1946 and 1951, the play takes place in the Bronx and South Carolina. Shifting between times, African-American WWII veteran Isaac Woodard, Jr. finds himself under siege by hard-hearted detectives, social injustices, racial prejudices, and his own missing memories. America welcomes back its native son, as a highly decorated war hero, with plans of starting a family. Things go horribly awry when he begins traversing his past and present. The fight for his country is over, as the fight for his life begins.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.
In 44 B.C., the fate of the Roman Republic hangs in the balance. The most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, lies dead in the Theatre of Pompey, as politicians and military men ambitiously move to fill the void of power. Marcus Antonius summons the physician Antistius to uncover the truth about the assassination through a Greek technique called "autopsy”. But as Antistius discovers more about the crime, the real truth becomes harder to find. Inspired by history's only mention of Antistius in Seutonius's The Twelve Caesars, 23 Knives utilizes contemporary language to weave a darkly comic mystery about politics, patriotism, and the nature of truth.
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).
Four years before Julius Caesar sailed to Rome to meet his untimely end, the great leader sought to conquer the outer reaches of the land, always questing for a kindred spirit to rival his own. What he finds, sitting on top of an ancient Egyptian Sphinx, is a young Queen Cleopatra, who beguiles him not only with her beauty, but because she may be the very match he's been seeking. Shaw's witty, satirical masterpiece personalizes the political relationship between an occupying force and a foreign power, and demonstrates that modern civilization has done little to advance the basic nature of the human soul.
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.