For those of you in the Boston area, Company One presents Grimm, a world premiere collection of one act plays by:
Melinda Lopez (Sonia Flew) Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus) Kirsten Greenidge (The Luck of the Irish) Marcus Gardley (Dance of the Holy Ghosts) John Kuntz (The Salt Girl) John ADEkoje (Six Rounds/Six Lessons) Gregory Maguire (Wicked)
Grimm is a brand-new collection of short plays by Boston's most celebrated playwrights, inspired by their favorite Grimm's fairy tales. Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to carry you away toward dreamland? Look somewhere else. These stories, originally by the Brothers Grimm, have been remixed, re-imagined and given a fresh Boston twist.
The plays will be directed by Shawn LaCount and Summer L. Williams and will star Yurie Collins, Tasia Jones, Molly Kimmerling, Becca Lewis, Victoria Marsh, Keith Mascoll, Lonnie McAdoo, Nicole Prefontaine, Raymond Ramirez, Mason Sand, Kris Sidberry and Mark VanDerzee.
Grimm will play at the Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.
July 16 - August 14, 2010
Wednesdays, Thursdays at 7:30 PM Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00 PM Sundays at 2:00 PM Final Saturday Matinee at 4:00 PM
The Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw, a monthly reading series dedicated to the collected works of George Bernard Shaw, will be presenting Man and Superman on July 19th at 7 PM at the Players Club at 16 Gramercy Park South.
The cast will include Simon Jones, Josh Grisetti, Michael Cerveris, Elena Shaddow, Jayne Houdyshell, Charlotte Moore, Emily Loesser, Arnie Burton, A.J. Shively, Daniel Jenkins, and Bill Nolte. Time Out New York theatre editor and critic David Cote will narrate. Actor and musician Alexander Sovronsky will provide music for the performance.
Project Shaw's next performance, after a brief hiatus in August, will be Candida on September 27th.
Buy tickets early, this monthly series always sells out quickly. Featuring excellent casts, strong direction, and, of course, the marvelous wit and wisdom of George Bernard Shaw, Project Shaw is the most consistently well-produced reading series in the city.
For more information or to purchase tickets, click here.
Casting has been announced for David Parr’s Slap&Tickle, directed by Obie winner David Drake. Opening at the Provincetown Theater July 6th, the cast includes J. Stephen Brantley, Todd Flaherty, Joe MacDougall, Christopher MacDow, Joseph Mahan and Aaron Tone.
The play is set in a contemporary bathhouse and in it, six actors portray 20 recurring characters whose lives intersect in surprising, humorous and revealing ways.
The Provincetown production of Slap&Tickle features original music by the DJ Susan Morabito. Lighting design is by Chris Page, with set design by David Drake. Slap&Tickle is proudly sponsored by Manhunt.
Slap&Tickle performs Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA from July 6th through August 14th, 2010. All tickets are $33.50; and can be obtained by calling (866) 811-4111; or online www.slapandtickleonline.com; or at the theater box office on performance days, starting at 6 p.m.. The play runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission.
*WARNING: Slap&Tickle contains strong language and nudity. It is recommended for mature audiences only.
Back: Joseph Mahan, Aaron Tone and J. Stephen Brantley Front: Todd Flaherty, Christopher MacDow and Joe MacDougall
Lots of shows opening this week, thanks to FRIGID New York. Also a number of "one night only" events. Take your pick. There's no reason to spend another night in front of the TV.
Monday, Feb. 22 Broadway Backwards 5 - Never underestimate the power of a pronoun! With women singing men’s songs and men singing women’s – and the original pronouns intact – a song can mean something entirely new. Featuring host Florence Henderson, Nick Adams (A Chorus Line), Martine Allard (The Tap Dance Kid, Tony Award nom.), Dan Butler (NBC’s "Frasier", The Only Thing Worse…), Gary Beach (The Producers, Tony Award), Tituss Burgess (Guys and Dolls), Mario Cantone ("Sex and the City", Laugh Whore), Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd, Tony Award), Robert Cuccioli (Jeckyll & Hyde, Tony Award nom.), Raul Esparza (Company, 4-time Tony Award nom.), Tony Goldwyn ("Ghost", Promises, Promises), Ann Harada (Avenue Q, 9 to 5), Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music), Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza), Michele Lee (Seesaw, How to Succeed…, 2-time Tony Award nom.), Julia Murney (The Wild Party, Wicked), Becki Newton (ABC’s "Ugly Betty", Girl Crazy at Encores!), Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly’s Last Jam, Tony Award), Lee Roy Reams (42nd Street, Tony Award nom.), Seth Rudetsky (The Ritz, Sirius Radio, Broadway Chatterbox), Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Tony Award), Douglas Sills (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tony Award nom.), Bruce Vilanch (Hairspray), and over 50 Broadway singers & dancers.
Featuring Performances by F. Murray Abraham, Chuck Cooper and other stars from Finian's Rainbow, Tammy Grimes (accompanied by David Lewis), Phoebe Legere, Romulus Linney, Marian Seldes, Elaine Stritch, Betsy von Furstenberg, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, and Tango Dancers Anna Amadei and Daniel Fetecua-Soto.
Broadway by the Year kicks off its 10th anniversary season with Broadway Musicals of 1927 starring Marc Kudisch, Kate Baldwin, Christine Noll, Christopher Fitzgerald, Chad Kimball, Noah Racey, Jeffry Denman, and Alexander Gemignani.
If you find yourself in Glendale, CA, drop by the Alex Theatre to see a one-night-only production of High Spirits, Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray's rarely produced musical version of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit.
YANK! A World War II Love Story, opens at the York Theatre. Music by Joseph Zellnik, Book and Lyrics by David Zellnik. Featuring Nancy Anderson (Wonderful Town), Jeffry Denman (White Christmas), Ivan Hernandez (Romantic Poetry), Bobby Steggert (Ragtime), and Andrew Durand (Spring Awakening), Zak Edwards (No No Nanette at Encores!), Todd Faulkner (PBS' "Wordscape"), Denis Lambert (A Chorus Line), Joseph Medeiros (Guys and Dolls), David Perlman (Calvin Berger), Christopher Ruth (Happy Days: The Musical), and Tally Sessions (South Pacific).
Thursday, Feb. 25 SIGNS OF LIFE: A Tale of Terezin, book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff, and music by Joel Derfner (Amas Musical Theatre in association with Snap-Two Productions)
Drag theatre company Shim Mamsir Productions presents it's inaugural outing - She'll Be Dying at the Bowery Poetry Club. This is the first in a series of wholly unauthorized staged readings of plays, films,TV movies, sitcoms and after school specials -- all presented with a drag twist. The reading stars high-voltage drag talents Sweetie, Mimi Imfurst, Bianca DelRio, Bianca Leigh, Lavinia Co-op and Dallas Dubois.
Cooper Union commemorates the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's "Right Makes Might" speech in the same room and from the same lectern he used in 1860. Noted Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer (author of Lincoln at Cooper Union) will narrate the evening. Selections of the speech will be read by Governor Mario Cuomo, and actors Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit,) Tony, Obie, and Drama-Desk honoree André DeShields (The Wiz, The Full Monty,) Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss and Broadway and film actor Stephen Lang. The event is the concluding program in the Great Evenings in The Great Hall series that began in April 2009 as a celebration of The Cooper Union's 150th anniversary.
Friday, Feb. 26 2-Man No-Show by Ken Hall, Isaac Kessler and Mark Andrada (ZeekTech Productions and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)
Uncorseted by Patrick di Battista with Anne Laffoon (LaGoDi Productions and the Shark Tank Players and FRIGID New York 2010 - Kraine Theater)
Saturday, Feb. 27 pornStar by Chris Craddock (Fancy Molasses and FRIGID New York 2010 - The Red Room)
THE SAME SEX-TACULAR! featuring John Flynn, Michael Hartney, Marcus Bishop-Wright, Tim Dunn, Shayna Ferm, Jeff Hiller, Corey Johnson, Kate McKinnon, Megan Neuringer at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre
Sunday, Feb. 28 As part of their Matt Crowley reading series, The Transport Group presents The Men from the Boys (Crowley's follow up to The Boys in the Band). One night only.
The Off Broadway Alliance will hold the first in a series of planned seminars focusing on the culture, business and history of Off Broadway theater. The seminar, titled "The Bad Boys of Off Broadway", will feature playwrights Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Essential Self-Defense) and Christopher Shinn (Dying City, Now Or Later, What Didn't Happen) and participants to be named. David Cote, theatre editor and chief drama critic for Time Out New York, will serve as moderator.
For those of you in the Boston area, Company One presents Grimm, a world premiere collection of one act plays by:
