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Blue Coyote Theater Group presents Departures, a new play by Kristen Palmer. Departures is an intimate, involving drama about an American student in England and her Northern Irish boyfriend in the climactic moments of their cross-cultural love affair. Featuring an innovative design in Access Theater's versatile Gallery Space, "Departures" opens October 4th, runs Thursday-Sunday until October 28th.
STOPPARD GOES ELECTRIC by Tom Stoppard: Tom Stoppard developed his talent at the BBC in the 1960s. Each of these pieces demonstrates the wit and intelligence that have become his trademarks.
DANGEROUS CORNER by J.B. Priestley: A dinner party becomes a private inquest into a man's mysterious death.
THE HEART HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN by Larry Kirwan: Lt. Brian Murphy died when the Towers fell. Years later truth and memory blur as his family continues to struggle with his death.
La MaMa presents TOWNVILLE La MaMa E.T.C. Club Space October 6-21 (Fri & Sat @ 10, Sun @ 5.30) -a CollaborationTown project, developed at and supported by the Watermill Center: Welcome to Townville: a picture-perfect artist's community engineered for happiness - expect singing and dancing on the hour! But when people start mysteriously disappearing, it looks like Townville's secrets might be as extra special as Townville itself. Shhhh!
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HORSE TRADE ANNOUNCES 10TH ANNIVERSARY FALL SEASON "...AND WE ALL WORE LEATHER PANTS" by Robert Attenweiler September 6 - 29.... "Chosen" September 17 - October 2.... "HARM'S WAY" by Mac Wellman October 2nd - 27th.... "KINDERSPIEL" October 4th - 27th.... "THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW!" followed by FRIGID drawing and Pupkin Carving. 10/31/2007.... "SAY YOUR PRAYER, MUG!!" October 4th - 27th.... "GLASS HOUSES" November 1 - 17.... "THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES" by Jeff Goode November 29 - December 21
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id's "Sit-In!" Reading Series featuring plays developed at the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. All readings start at 6pm at Jimmy's 43 Downstairs - 43 East 7th Street. Free with a 1-drink minimum! Monday, September 17 - "Spuyten Duyvil" by Andy Bragen Monday, October 15 - "Valerie & the Bear" book by Elise Forier, Music and Lyrics by Tina Lear Monday, November 12 - "The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War" by Jeni Mahoney
CZECH PLAYS IN TRANSLATION VI. Staged readings of new plays from the Czech Republic. Dec. 3: Britney Goes to Heaven, by Petr Kolecko, dir. by Victor Maog; Dec. 10: The Elle Girls, by Radmila Adamova, dir. by Marcy Arlin. Sponsored by Theatre Institute/Prague, Czech Center NY, Dilia Literary Agency. 7:30 PM at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd Street; for information: 347.512.5572 or 212.288.0830. Free. Playwrights will be in NY to offer Workshops.
DIFFICULT DIALOGUES: PLAYS ABOUT RELIGION. Curated by ITP, presented by LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave. LIC, NY. Nov. 13: God, Sex & Blue Water, by Linda Faigao, dir. by Marcy Arlin. Filipino immigrants in New Jersey resurrent the Pasion celebration. Dec. 4: Cracking Mud is Pinching Me, by Haya Husseini, dir. by Handan Ozbilgin. 3 generations of Palestinian women visit the Dead Sea on vacation.
Info/directions: 347 512 5572 or 718 482 5153. www.laguardia.edu/lpac
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Impetuous Theater Group presents 12th NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, Brian MacInnis Smallwood's adaptation of Shakespeare's most beloved comedy, October 25 through November 11 at La Tea Theater (107 Suffolk St.). When a strange meteor smashes into a ship en route to Illyria, the bodies pile up as fast as the romantic complications. Will true love prevail? Can a zombie be made to understand the affairs of the heart, without eating it? Or will the fools of Illyria never live to see another dawn?
LIVE's developmental wing, The Nerve Tank, is proud to present The Attendants, an interactive performance installation. Concept by Chance D. Muehleck; direction by Melanie S. Armer; design by Solomon Weisbard. You are invited to look at our cube. Come and go as you please. Send a message to the people inside. See what happens. The Attendants will be presented October 3 to October 6, 12 pm to 6 pm each day, at chashama, 217 East 42nd St. Admission is free.
Manhattan Oracles will present six evenings of original play readings at the Arthur Seelen Theatre at the Drama Book Shop during the 2007-2008 season. Fall schedule dates: Oct 18 & Dec 6. Evenings begin at 6:30pm and are followed by wine and cheese receptions. For more info call the Drama Book Shop: 212-944-0595 or email oracles_events@yahoo.com Manhattan Oracles is a playwright-run workshop. Membership consists of New York-area playwrights whose work has been produced, published and honored.
Genrefest 2007 (Oct. 3 - Nov. 17th), a new play festival with plays in the following genres: Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Comic Book, Sci-Fi, Political and more, Also, running concurrently will be MRT's Fall One Act Festival(Oct. 3 - Nov. 17th). The Eyes of Love, a therapy comedy by Ken Wolf will continue its ongoing run playing every Thursday night at 7 p.m. Conversations with Dog by Ken Wolf featuring Anthony J. Ribustelo from The Sopranos will be presented ongoing in October.
Mind The Gap Theatre's Reading Series of New British Plays continues the last Tuesday of the month (Sept 25, Oct 30 & Nov 27) at Atlantic Theater Studios at 330 W. 16th St. MTG will present exciting new works by the hottest young British playwrights. With the success of our annual Ascot-themed parties, this fall MTG will launch their Guy Fawkes Night Party in early November. Date and location TBA.
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MultiStages will present its 2007 New Works Finalist Reading Festival from its New Works Contest: Tues. Oct. 9 -The Storms of Dolfina by Mary Fengar Gail, directed by Artistic Director Lorca Peress; Wed. Oct. 10 - Freedom High by Adam Kraar; and Fri. Oct. 12 - Howard's Hands by Nick Zagone. Readings are FREE and begin at 7PM at the Dramatist Guild, 1501 Broadway in the Frederick Loewe Room. Additional info will be posted in September.
NAATCO presents the inaugural production of a new initiative: Plays NOT by, for, or about Asian Americans realized by all Asian American casts. BLIND MOUTH SINGING, by Jorge I. Cortinas, directed by Ruben Polendo. Baruch Performing Arts Center, September 14 - October 6, Mondays - Fridays at 7:00 and Saturdays at 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. Cast: Alexis Camins, Mia Katigbak, Sue Jean Kim, Orville Mendoza, and Jon Norman Schneider.
GOOD HEIF, a new play by Maggie Smith, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, runs Oct. 6-27 at the Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street; the cast includes April Matthis, Barbara Pitts, John McAdams. GOOD HEIF is a peculiar fable about a hapless lad who's astonished by the arrival of his, uh, manhood. Mysterious, weird, often funny and sometimes beautiful, GOOD HEIF takes place in a wholly imagined world of simplicity and roughness, characterized by a language, rhythm and physicality all its own.
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Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind Every FRIDAY and SATURDAY night at 10:30pm Kraine Theater 85 E. 4th St Tickets at the door or theatermania.com The 2006 NYIT Outstanding Performance Art Production, T.M.L.M.T.B.G.B. is the New York Neo-Futurists, race-against-the-clock, in ever-changing attempt to perform 30 original plays in 60 minutes! Having created over 1000 plays, The New York Neo-Futurists, perform their, energetic show (in random order) embracing chance, change, and chaos.
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Opening October 10 for a 3 week run, the US Premiere of Kosher Harry by Nick Grosso. This absurdist masterpiece explores how we present ourselves to others and has 8 artists playing 4 roles. It's associate produced by NY Deaf Theater. Showing Wed-Sun at 8PM at Spoon Theater (the hottest new theater in town!) at 38 west 38th St., 5th floor. Tickets will be on sale Sept 1 at Theatermania.
In October, Nosedive plans to stage The Blood Brothers Present: An Evening of Pulp Horror, a follow-up to last year's evening of Grand Guignol horror plays, Oct. 11 - 27 (Thursdays through Saturdays) at the 78th Street Theatre Lab. Then, in December, Nosedive restages A Very Nosedive Christmas Carol at the Horse Trade Red Room. (Specific dates to be determined.)
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Parallel Exit's TIME STEP as part of Freshly Tossed! - at the New York Musical Festival, October 1st at the Theatre at St. Clements.... Parallel Exit's benefit featuring our new show CUT TO THE CHASE as well as headliner Barry Lubin, best known as Grandma from the Big Apple Circus-Monday October 29 at the 45th Street Theatre.... CUT TO THE CHASE-a new family vaudeville revue as part of the holiday season at 59E59 Theaters, December 5-30.
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Partial Comfort Productions presents "The Welcome Mat" reading series. Beginning Monday, October 8, the free-to-the-public series is our annual presentation of new work, and is held six consecutive Mondays at 7:30 pm at Theatre Row Studios.
Pinchbottom's fall season takes on law enforcement in the disco era, kicks sports (just in time for the World Series), celebrates democracy (the audience chooses our Nov show), followed by our annual holiday special. -Sept 21 & 22 @ 10pm - P.I.N.C.H. SQUAD, 70s cop show Burlesque -Oct 19 @ 10pm - BALLS! sporty burlesque -Nov 16 & 17 @ 10pm - Audience Choice Repeat http://www.pinchbottom.com/vote/ -Dec 7 & 8 @ 10pm - HOW THE PINCH STOLE XMAS Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church St, TriBeCa
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THE ROCKAE Pent-up King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his frenzied female fans when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes. Get ready for moshing Maenads and thrashing catharsis in this rock musical adaptation of Euripides'classic, The Bacchae. Drama Desk-nominated writer Peter Mills fuses the intensity of hard rock with the violence of ancient Greek tragedy. Music/lyrics Mills,adapted by Mills & Cara Reichel, directed by Reichel. Sept 15 - Oct 14,Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 West 26th St
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From September 28 to October 21, Resonance Ensemble will present the world premiere of The Coffee Trees by Arthur Giron (Edith Stein, Moving Bodies), which explores the political and social upheaval following the Guatemalan civil war in the 199os, in repertory with the play that inspired it, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, reimagined with an ethnically diverse cast and set in the American South in the 1940's, at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd St). Schedule varies.
Our company's fall season is still a tad up in the air, but we know for sure that we're going to be working on 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, October 1-7 at Jimmy's No. 43 (43 East 7th Street btw 2nd and 3rd Avenues) with an additional performance at the Public Theater on October 14th. The 1st thru the 6th from 4-7pm will be open rehearsals for anyone who wants to stop by, and the 7th will be a performance from 3-6pm of what we come up with.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival in association with ETdC Projects' Lab, presents: ANTONIN...by Roi "Bubi" Escudero A Site-Specific Installation of Musical Dynamic Tableaux Roi "Bubi" Escudero's distinctive dreamlike dynamic tableaux fuse the gory characters of the Grand Guignol, the shocking awareness of the Theatre of Cruelty, with the unpredictability of the Absurd, Café Concert, Dance, Opera and Tango. October 6, 2007 @ 8:00 PM at The Philip Coltoff Greenwich Village Center, 219 Sullivan Street, NYC.
MAINSTAGE November 16 - December 16, 2007
Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment With Jane Austen & Friends Written and Directed by Lynn Marie Macy
SPECIAL EVENTS Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7PM The Frog that Hopped Away, and other hammy songs by and starring Seth Bisen-Hersh as Ms. Piggy* *not to be confused with Miss Piggy, who is trademarked by Jim Henson Company Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 1pm Annual Holiday Concert with the vocal group "RPM" 212-288-3246 x3
The Private Lives of Eskimos, By Ken Urban, Directed by Dylan McCullough. The impossible occurs. Then Marvin loses his cell phone. But when he calls his number, a mysterious woman answers, turning his world inside out. The Linhart Theater, Fri thr Mon, Sept 8 to Oct 1, with an additional performance on Thu Sept 27. All shows at 8pm. Tickets: $18 Phone: 212-352-3101 Online: www.theatremania.com Special Benefit Performance with reception Saturday Sept 15 Tickets: $30
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The Gallery Players, Brooklyn's premier off-off-Broadway theater, announces its 41st season of diverse plays and musicals in 2007-2008: Six Degrees of Separation, Yank! A New Musical, The Santaland Diaries, The Wild Party, Lysistrata, Man of La Mancha, and the 11th Annual Black Box New Play Festival. 2007-2008 also will see the 4th year of The Peanut Gallery, a musical theater adventure camp for kids.
This fall, Stolen Chair will present KINDERSPIEL, the final production of its 5th anniversary season. Set in the seedy and seditious demimonde of Weimar Berlin, KINDERSPIEL offers a peek at a unique cabaret specializing in the ultimate taboo: watching adults play as children do. KINDESPIEL asks if Wilde had it right when he said, "All art is quite useless." Presented by Horse Trade Oct 4-28, UNDER St. Marks Oct 20 professional workshop in "Object Transformation" led by Jon Stancato
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The New Play Development Series presents "America at War" an evening of new play readings by American playwrights: COMPRESSION OF A CASUALTY by Kevin Doyle directed by Cyndy A. Marion & THE WITCHES' AVENUE (A EULOGY) by Greg Lemoine directed by Vanessa R. Bombardieri.... Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 at The Epiphany Theater Co. 154 Christopher Street, Suite 2B 8 p.m. - Free Admission for reservations please email cymarion@whitehorsetheater.com or call 212-592-3706
Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical. Sanford Meisner Theater. September 10 - October 6.
A Christmas Carol (the new musical). Directed by Kristjan Thor with new music by Joel Bravo. Sanford Meisner Theater. December, 2007.
The Persians...a comedy about war with five songs October 31, November 5 and November 12 at 8pm Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St -- Created by Waterwell Directed by Kevin Townley Featuring Hanna Cheek, Rodney Gardiner, Arian Moayed and Tom Ridgely
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