TenthPlanet: Planet Connections 10th Annual Theatre Festivity played to packed houses and great acclaim for each production. Another sold out house was achieved for the company’s annual “Playwrights for a Cause” event, this year, benefiting the Ali Forney Center. The banner season culminates with the Planet Awards. This year, the gala event will be Friday, September 21, at the Abrons Arts Center at 466 Grand St, New York City. Tickets and further info: planetconnections.org/

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), the brainchild of arts professional Glory Kadigan, turned 10 years old this past summer. In that decade, PCTF has successfully changed the landscape of the theatre festival and all of New York independent theatre. The multi-award-winning theatre festival premiered more than 50 timely and topical plays and musicals written by the next generation of playwrights this season. Each play contains a powerful message serving as a parable of various world themes.

Artists presented works from across America, including Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Providence and New York City; and from all over the planet, including Japan, Yugoslavia, Russia, Peru, France, Belarus, and Haiti.

A defining facet of PCTF is its truly tangible connection to the world. Each artist within each season uses their work to shed light on causes that matter and inspire audiences to get involved. PCTF’s artists raise awareness – and funds – for a charity of their own selection. Furthering its message, PCTF is the country’s first eco-friendly arts festivity, providing green marketing and promotional materials and supporting sustainable design production practices.

The Planet Activist Award will be presented to:

Magaly C. Colimon of The Hunting Season for her panels with The Lambi Fund of Haiti

Robert Gelberg and the cast of The Sundogs for raising a large amount of money for Human Needs Food Pantry

Aileen Kyoko of The Year of the Solar Eclipse for raising a large amount of money for Planned Parenthood

Diana Wyenn of Blood / Sugar for her informative talkbacks after every performance with a representative from the Juvenile Diabetes organization.

The Greener Planet Award will be presented to:

Irina Abraham and Tim Abraham of Man Frog and Other People for their completely eco-friendly design work and production values.

April Alsup and the WYSIWYG team for an entirely paperless rehearsal process and eco-friendly design.

Yoshiko Usami of SHINKA for raising a large sum for the World Wildlife Fund while creating a completely eco-friendly design for a movement production about the dangers of pollution.

The Congeniality Award will be presented to:

Adam Belvo (The Brutes)

Laura Sisskin-Fernández (You Hold A Pole Everyday)

Nicoletta Mandriotti (Girl Inside the Mirror)

Steven Tenney (ray gun say0nara)

These artists attended the most shows in the festival and have been supportive of all of the artists and staff within our community. Thanks so much to you all!

Lifetime Achievement in Activism in the Arts will be presented to:

The late Joe Pintauro, writer of Raft of the Medusa, who recently passed away during the rehearsal process for his Planet Connections production. To quote him from an interview with The Times: “When men of craft and artistry are mistreated and wiped out or laid off in record numbers by the capitalistic monster, leaving workers and their skills in the dust of profit over everything, the artist must make a statement.”

The nominees in the production categories are:

Outstanding Production of a Musical, Or Play with Music

Close Your Eyes and Sleep benefiting Trauma Survivors Foundation

The Inside of His Severed Head benefiting New York Blood Center

Rusalka benefiting Women for Women International

WYSIWYG The Musical benefiting Ackerman Institute for the Family

Outstanding Production of a Play

Dead Brains benefiting RAINN

The Hunting Season benefiting The Lambi Fund of Haiti

This Stretch of Montpelier benefiting Gulf Restoration Network

The Year of the Solar Eclipse benefiting Planned Parenthood of New York City

Outstanding Production of a Revival or Adaptation

The Head Hunter benefiting St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital

Man Frog and Other People benefiting Actors Theatre Workshop: Builders of the New World

Raft of the Medusa benefiting Planned Parenthood of Nassau County: Connected Health Solutions

Outstanding Production of an Experimental or Dance Piece

The 11th DIMENSION benefiting The Indie Theater Fund

SHINKA benefiting World Wildlife Fund

Umbilical benefiting LifeWay Network

When I Recall Her benefiting RAINN

Outstanding Production of A One-Act

4 $tages benefiting Our Revolution

Girl Inside the Mirror benefiting Women in Need

America The Beautiful (Broken Pieces) benefiting Planned Parenthood

The Wife of the Headless Horseman (Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro) benefiting Brooklyn Public Library

Outstanding Production of an Overall Evening of one-acts

4 $tages and Arabella benefiting Our Revolution and GRID Alternatives

Broken Pieces benefiting Planned Parenthood

Pregnant Pause and Girl Inside the Mirror benefiting Women in Need

Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro benefiting Brooklyn Public Library

Outstanding Production of a Solo Show

The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear benefiting The Actors Fund

Blood / Sugar benefiting Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Ruby benefiting Through the Heart

You Hold a Pole Everyday benefiting Girls Inc NYC

Outstanding Production of a Reading

The Irish Goodbye benefiting Planned Parenthood

ray gun say0nara benefiting World Wildlife Fund

She Started It benefiting Alliance for a Greater New York

Stars Out of Balance benefiting Kids in Need of Defense

Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Play with Music, Experimental or Dance Piece

Randy Chalmers for the role of Carl in WYSIWYG the Musical

Ryan McKenna for the role of Biff Loman in The Inside of His Severed Head

Ben Quinn for the roles of Paul in Rusalka and Mack in Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Joey Rotter for the role of Prince Alex in Man Frog and Other People

David Shakopi for the role of Man in Umbilical

Michael Thurber for the role of Willy Lowman in The Inside of His Severed Head

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical, Play with Music, Experimental or Dance Piece

John Cencio Burgos for the role of Rosalindo in The 11th DIMENSION

Denver Crawford for the role of Flutist in Umbilical

Michael Donaldson for the role of The Historian in Man Frog and Other People

Michael Fell for the role of Jackson in Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Derek Laurendeau for the role of Mopey in The Inside of His Severed Head

Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Play with Music, Experimental or Dance Piece

Christina Dewar for the role of Marie in Birthday Boy

Thomas Ilalaole for the role of April in WYSIWYG the Musical

Victoria Paradis for the role of Lin in The Inside of His Severed Head

Erika Phoebus for the role of Nessa in Rusalka

Rocio Mendez for the role of Katherine in Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Joyce Miller for the role of Woman in Umbilical

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical, Play with Music, Experimental or Dance Piece

Lia Barcellona Tamborra for the role of True in The 11th DIMENSION

Sarah Ettner for the role of Jules in Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Kyra Gee for the role of Eliza in Happy If – Happy When: A Family Musical

Elizabeth Kensek for the role of Aletta in Rusalka

Genia Starcev for the role of Serenity The Witch in Man Frog and Other People

Outstanding Actor in a Play

Ali Arkane for the role of Salvy in The Head Hunter

John Hardin for the role of John Wilkes Booth in The Brutes

Trevor Latez Hayes for the role of Boukman Delacroix in The Hunting Season

William Serri for the role of Jeunhomme in Éléphant

Richard Wingert for the role of Henry in Dead Brains

Christopher Whalen for the role of Larry in Raft of the Medusa

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play

Adam Belvo for the role of Edwin Booth in The Brutes

Lamar K. Cheston for the role of Boniface in This Stretch of Montpelier

Guyviaud Joseph for the role of Emanuel Delacroix in The Hunting Season

Matt Maretz for the role of Corey in Dead Brains

Scott McCord for the role of Casmir in The Head Hunter

Francisco Solorzano for the role of Jimmy Horando in Raft of the Medusa

Outstanding Featured Actor

Michael Coppola for the role of Jason in The Year of the Solar Eclipse

Charles Everett for the role of Doug Forester in Raft of the Medusa

James B. Kennedy for the role of Terry Lupo/P.O Michael Walker in The Hunting Season

Grant Harrison for the role of Tom in Two Sides

Eric Parness for the role of Allard/Grandhomme in Éléphant

Perri Yaniv for the role of Donald Miller in Raft of the Medusa

Outstanding Actress in a Play

Raiane Cantisano for the role of Clerese in Éléphant

Suzannah Herschkowitz, for the role of Marissa in Surfacing

Geany Masai for the role of Miss Janice in This Stretch of Montpelier

Nadege Matteis for the role of Marie Jose “Jojo” Delacroix in The Hunting Season

Elyssa Nicole Trust for the role Gabby Goldblum in BT: Master of Return

Viviana Valeria for the role of Mimi in Two Sides

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play

Paule Aboite for the role of Marie Allerte Delacroix in The Hunting Season

Montana Lampert Hoover, for the role of Chelsea in Surfacing

Ashleen Rowan for the role of Elle in The Year of the Solar Eclipse

Connie Saltzman for the role of Ivy in The Year of the Solar Eclipse

Alisha Spielmann for the role of Francis in This Stretch of Montpelier

Abby Goldfarb for the role of Shoshana Tauber in BT: Master of Return

Outstanding Featured Actress

Cassandra Borgella for the role of Mary in A Hand Across the Bridge

Ellie Kallay for the role of Sam in The Sundogs

Carole Monferdini for the role of Ruby in This Stretch of Montpelier

Samantha Quiles for Various in The Nuclear Plays

Delissa Reynolds for the role of Nairobi in Raft of the Medusa

Sarah Grace Sanders for the role of Detective Jones in Two Sides

Outstanding Actor in a One-Act

Patrick Clements for various in Broken Pieces

Mateo Moreno for various in Broken Pieces

Alex C. Ferill for Humpty Dumpty in Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Alex Kirshy for the role of Lloyd Hopkins in Arabella

Andrew Cawley for the role of Henry Wolf in Arabella

Outstanding Actress in a One-Act

Simoné Elizabeth Bart for various in Broken Pieces

Lori Kee for the role Wife to the Headless Horseman in Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Tatyana Kot for the role of Marie in Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Cemre Su Salur for the role of Girl in Girl Inside the Mirror

Michaela Alyse Tomcho for various in Broken Pieces

Outstanding Performance in a Solo Show

Amie Cazel, Pregnant Pause

Lauren Sisskin Fernandez, You Hold A Pole Every Day

Susan Gross, Ruby

Larry Phillips, The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear

Diana Wyenn, Blood / Sugar

Outstanding Actor in a reading

Konrad Custer, ray gun say0nara

David Wayne Fox, DEHAAN or What The Butler Didn’t See

Anthony Michael Irizarry, Last Will and Testament

Bobby Daniel Rodriguez, Last Will and Testament

Sam Underwood, The Island of No Time (A Timeless Tale)

Fidel Vicioso, Stars Out of Balance

Christopher Whalen, The Irish Goodbye

Outstanding Actress in a Reading

Jessica Angleskhan, She Started It

Claire Ganshert, Eulogy Turnstile

Barbara Kingsley, The Irish Goodbye

Kate Mueth, The Island of No Time (A Timeless Tale)

Vicki Oceguera, Before The Road

Paula Pizzi-Black, Last Will And Testament

Margaret Loesser Robinson, The Irish Goodbye

Outstanding Ensemble

The Brutes

Éléphant

The Hunting Season

Raft of the Medusa

Rusalka

Outstanding Ensemble of an Experimental/Dance Piece

The 11th DIMENSION

Girl Inside The Mirror

SHINKA

Umbilical

When I Recall Her

Outstanding Direction of a Play

Daniella Caggiano, Surfacing

Sara Fellini, The Brutes

Francisco Solorzano, Raft of the Medusa

Akia Squitieri & Anna Hogan, Éléphant

Cezar Williams, The Hunting Season

David Zayas Jr., The Head Hunter

Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Play with Music, Experimental or Dance Piece

Irina Abraham, Man Frog and Other People

Isaac Byrne, Rusalka

Adam Chisnall, Umbilical

Andrew Karl & Vanessa Bontea, Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Roi Escudero, The 11th DIMENSION

Outstanding Direction of a One-Act or Solo Performance

Astrid Cook, You Hold A Pole Everyday

Ben Liebert, The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear

Jake Lipman, Ruby

Nicoletta Mandriotti, Girl Inside The Mirror

Diana Wyenn, Blood / Sugar

Outstanding Direction of a Reading

Andrew Block, A Man’s Man

Lori Kee, The Listening Room

Terry Greiss, Stars Out of Balance

William Roudebush, The Irish Goodbye

Susan Tenney & Steven Mark Tenney, ray gun say0nara

Outstanding Choreography

Georgina Bates, Man Frog and Other People

Adam Belvo & Becca Musser, The Brutes

Stacy Grossfield, Girl Inside The Mirror

Alicia Rodis, Rusalka

Yoshiko Usami, SHINKA

Outstanding Playwright of a Play (New Script)

Magaly Colimon, The Hunting Season

Erik Champney, Dead Brains

Robert Gelberg, The Sundogs

Kelley Nicole Girod, This Stretch of Montpelier

Mike Poblete, Surfacing

Elyssa Nicole Trust, BT: Master of Return

Outstanding Book/Lyrics of a Musical, Script of Play with Music

Evan Duggan, WYSIWYG the Musical

Aaron Johnson, Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Erika Phoebus, Rusalka

Lenny Schwartz, The Inside of His Severed Head

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

Connie Saltzman, The Year of the Solar Eclipse

Kimerer LaMothe and Geoffrey Gee, Happy If – Happy When: A Family Musical

Duncan Pflaster, The Inside of His Severed Head

Lilli Hokama & Samantha Aneson, Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Outstanding Playwright of an Experimental or Dance Piece

Éamon Boylan & Company (Devised), When I Recall Her

Michael Landes, Umbilical

Anthony J. Piccione, 4 $tages

Ren Gyo Soh, SHINKA

Roi Escudero, The 11th DIMENSION

Outstanding Playwright of a One-Act or Solo Performance

Mateo Moreno, Broken Pieces

Don Nigro, Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Larry Phillips, The Art of Acting: A Master Class With Fozzie Bear

Jamie Semel, Arabella

Diana Wyenn, Blood / Sugar

Outstanding Playwright of a Reading

Lynda Crawford, Stars Out of Balance

Joyce Miller, The Handmaid’s Dianetics

Jerry Polner, She Started It

Barry Lee Sheppard, Eulogy Turnstile

Allan Staples, The Irish Goodbye

Mark Jason Williams, A Man’s Man

Outstanding Lighting Design

Ry Burke, Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Robin Dill, SHINKA

Benjamin Ehrenreich, The Hunting Season

Joshua Langman, Girl Inside The Mirror

Lizzie Mahoney, Two Sides

Outstanding Costume Design

Allison Crutchfield, Éléphant

Roi Escudero, The 11th DIMENSION

Sara Fellini, The Brutes

Janet Mervin, Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Ben Philipp, Rusalka

Outstanding Sound Design

Caroline Eng, The Hunting Season

Andrew Karl, Close Your Eyes and Sleep

Andy Evan Cohen, Tales With Teeth: Five Nightmares by Don Nigro

Bryan James Hamilton, The Listening Room

Vander Washington, Umbilical

Outstanding Scenic Design

Tim Abraham, Man Frog and Other People

Nicole Amaral, The Head Hunter

Scott Fetterman, This Stretch of Montpelier

Lily Guerin, The Year of the Solar Eclipse

Pancharee Sangkaeo, Umbilical

Outstanding Projection Design

Valentin Ewan, The 11th DIMENSION

Jason H. Thompson & Kaitlyn Pietras, Blood / Sugar

James Masciovecchio, The Hunting Season

Thursday September 20
– Saturday, September 22 @ 8 p.m.
Sunday, September 23 @ 3 p.m.

Special showings :
Monday, September 24 @ 8 p.m.
Wednesday, September 26 @ 8 p.m.
meet the Twins after the show!

Thursday, September 27
– Saturday, September 29 @ 8 p.m.
Sunday, September 30 @ 3 p.m.

At the legendary performance space:
The American Theatre of Actors
314 W 54th St, New York City
Contact
646-338-5472 / JMAE.events@gmail.com

Gabriela and Mihaela Modorcea – the famed Indiggo Twins – present a revival of their wildly popular live stage version of “Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil” a cinema novel by Mihaela Modorcea. This stage version: Wicked Clone The Cinema Musical is an immersive blend of musical theatre, film sequences depicting 15th century Transylvania to modern day NYC (and beyond), and excerpts from Mihaela’s magic realist novel of the same name which has been a bestseller at Barnes & Noble.

This event coincides with the BROADWAY RECORDS release of the original cast recording.

Each performance starts with a symphonic overture of original songs before film projections on a wide cinema screen depicted Transylvania’s most famous citizen, Vlad, the Impaler, and his army fighting the Ottomans, culminating with Vlad’s tragic death – and dark resurrection. The film and stage show take us into the imagination of the Indiggo Twins’ tale of Vlad’s blood ritual with Violeta, a poor mother from Transylvania. Thanks to this macabre sexual rite, Violeta gives birth to identical twin girls “as different as day and night” — one wicked and cruel as Vlad’s revengeful “spirit of the night” — the other as beautiful and chaste as Vlad’s dead wife.

Wicked Clone weaves a macabre story of the lives of these two girls featuring a fascinating musical score by the Ingiggo Twins, dramatic film sequences, immersive techniques and audience participation, and a few appearances by Vlad himself.

Gothic and alluringly reminiscence of Hammer Films at its heyday with a wild score, Wicked Clone takes you into another world.

“A rare piece of visual and audio creativity,” (City Guide NY) “

Watch WICKED CLONE: The Cinema TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pekb4V322oU

Read the bestselling novel written by Mihaela Modorcea: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wicked-clone-or-how-to-deal-with-the-evil-mihaela-modorcea/1123648466?ean=9780990446712

The musical has been advertised in 125 subway locations and 50 movie theaters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZPpVICF8o

Watch Indiggo’s LA LA LA composition featured & credited on 4 X Grammy award-winning album “Watch The Throne” of Jay-Z & Kanye West: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT5_EB4OMuU

Watch our new single TELL ME LESS & LOVE ME MORE — written, composed, arranged, produced and performed by the Indiggo Twins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-Fzw7-g-w

www.wickedclone.com

CALIGULA by ALBERT CAMUS

MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE SEPT. 13 – OCT. 14
PREVIEWS BEGIN SEPT. 6; OPENING NIGHT IS SEPT. 13. BOTH PREVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES ARE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AT 8PM, AND SUNDAY AT 4PM THROUGH OCT. 14 AT THE MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE AT 545 WEST 52^ND ST., 3^RD FLOOR, NYC, NY 10019.

Medicine Show Theatre presents Caligula, Albert Camus’s gorgeous, provocative classic in the first production in New York City in more than a decade. It is a tour de force of perverse humor with splashes of vulgarity, vaudevillian tendencies and, the central figure himself: Caligula; a despot gaining power of the greatest nation on earth and wreaking absolute havoc! Hmmmm, that’s sounds familiar.

Mark J. Dempsey, directs.

Every now and then society finds itself in an historical moment that is so bizarre, or extreme, that it can only be held up and examined within the context of art. Camus’ Caligula was conceived and written in response to the rise of The Third Reich and the subsequent war. “We all know how that went,” observed company board chairwoman Regan Vann Batuello. “We do not, however, know how our future will go, but we see it as the role of the artist to highlight our own society with all its warts and blemishes. As such, Caligula is once again a leader for our times,” she said.

“We see it as our duty as artists to comment on the proudly ignorant and cruel policies of the current administration by highlighting their similarities to another capricious tyrant more interested in the cult of personality than good government.”

Caligula stars Richard Keyser, with Demetrius Blocker, Chris Cunningham, David Elyha, Janine Georgette, Alex Miskin, Samuel Muniz, Mario Peguero, Diana Westphal and Perri Yaniv.

SQUATTERS written, directed, and featuring Joshua Crone

Squatters enjoyed international success as a play in Germany and London and a film version was made of the latter. Now it comes to America for the very first time 

in this limited run at NY’s NuBox Theatre 754 Ninth Ave. (Fourth Floor) on Friday, September 28 @ 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, September 29 @ 3;00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.; 

and Sunday, September 30 @ 3:00 p.m.

Ground Zero, Late September 2001.

After a few drinks in a downtown New York bar, a young man takes his date home to his “squat” an

empty flat in a high-rise building overlooking Ground Zero. Is this a one-night stand … or have they met before?

This darkly comic play by international filmmaker and stage artist, Joshua Crone, looks at the events

surrounding 9/11 and the subsequent mass hysteria that swept across America and

the world in the wake of the attacks.

911 was 17 years ago. Where are we now… and why.

MESHELLE RETURNS! United Solo Festival,
Saturday night, September 22 @ 6PM
Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, NYC, http://www.telecharge.com

MESHELLE affectionately called “The Indie-Mom of Comedy” returns to New York in a big way after a whirlwind tour of her one-woman show, Diary Of A MILF” (Mom I’d Love to FOLLOW).

Meshelle’s brand of wild but family-style humor has brought her praise and accolades. From New York’s Midtown Festival to the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, Diary of a MILF has racked up laughs and lauds.

Meshelle has been a vivacious and visible personality on television for many years. Previous appearances include Nickelodeon’s Search for the Funniest Mom in America 3; THE FIRST AMENDMENT STAND UP (on STARz); BET’s ComicView; LaffMobb Presents:We Got Next; Soulaughable Comedy Series; and the NBC syndicated Documentary, Walk a Mile In My Shoes: 90 Year Look at The NAACP. As a stage actress, MESHELLE created the role of “Michelle” (portrayed by Kimberly Elise in the film adaptation) in the hit stage play, “Woman Thou Art Loosed” written by TD Jakes and Terry McFadden.

She is also author of “101 Things Every Girl/Young Woman of Color Should Know” (Duafe Press, 2010).

The Trustees and The Friends of Town Hall are thrilled to announce that this year’s FRIEND OF THE ARTS AWARD – it’s 97th annual – will honor Multimedia Performance Artist, LAURIE ANDERSON; TheaterWorksUSA Co-Founder, CHARLES HULL; and Nonesuch Records’ Long-Time President, ROBERT HURWITZ.

The gala event will be at the PRINCETON CLUB, 15 West 43rd Street, New York City, on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018 beginning at 4:00 PM.

The cocktail reception, dinner, and award presentation also feature performances by SOFIA REI, ANAT COHEN, and EDMAR CASTANEDA. The event is Business Attire.

Every year since 1981, Town Hall honors “Friends of the Arts,” individuals or organizations whose contributions to the arts enrich New York City’s cultural life.  Honorees of this prestigious award read like a who’s who of New York’s cultural skyline: Tony Bennett, Victor Borge, Barbara Cook, Theodore Bikel, Betty Comden, Fyvush Finkel, Roberta Flack, Adolph Green, Dizzy Gillespie, Sheldon Harnick, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Helen Hayes, Celeste Holm, Anne Jackson, Morris W. Offit, Joseph Papp, Daryl Roth, Vincent Sardi, Jr., Gerald Schoenfeld, Martin E. Segal, Sir George Shearing, Bobby Short, Beverly Sills, Elaine Stritch, Meryl H. Tisch, Eli Wallach, Wendy Wasserstein, Mortimer Zuckerman, and Lawrence C. Zucker.

Town Hall – located in the heart of the Broadway theater district – has played an integral part itself in electrifying the cultural fabric of New York City for nearly a century. The stunning theater and beautiful building were designed by renowned architects, McKim, Mead & White, and served as a hub for The League for Political Education to bring together people of all walks of life to discuss important issues of the day. The design of the building – eliminating box seats and obstructed views – gave birth to the term “Not a bad seat in the house.” During completion of the building, the 19th Amendment was passed (women’s right to vote), and on January 12, 1921 The Town Hall opened its doors fostering a new, more optimistic climate.

For further information, please contact Jay Michaels at 646-338-5472or at JMAE.events@gmail.com

THIS YEAR’S FRIENDS OF THE ARTS HONOREES:

ONE OF America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers, LAURIE ANDERSON is as diverse as she is prolific. Laurie has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. In the early ‘70s, Laurie burst onto the New York avant-garde/music/art/performance scene and quickly acquired a fervent following in the underground arts community. Her recording career took off in 1981, when her song “O Superman” rose to #2 on the British pop music charts, leading to a seven-album deal with Warner Brothers. A deluxe box set of her Warner Brothers output, Talk Normal, was released in the fall of 2000 on Rhino/Warner Archives. The following year, she released her first record forNonesuch Records, “Life on a String.” A year later, Live in New York, recorded at Town Hall, was released. Laurie has toured the United States and abroad numerous times withshows that range from simple spoken word performances to highly elaborate multimedia events like United States I-V (1983), Empty Places (1990), The Nerve Bible (1995), and Songs and Stories for Moby Dick (1999-2000). Her visual work has been presented in major museums in the United States and Europe. As a composer, Laurie contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme; dance pieces by Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Molissa Fenley; a score for Robert LePage’s theater production, Far Side of the Moon; and pieces for National Public Radio, the BBC, and Seville’s Expo ‘92. Laurie is recognized worldwide as a groundbreaking leader in the use of technology in the arts. In the late ’90s, as a collaborator with Interval Research Corporation—a laboratory founded by Paul Allen and David Liddle—she created the Talking Stick, a six-foot-long MIDI controller that she used in the MobyDick tour. In 2002, she was appointed the first-ever artist-in-residence at NASA, a stint that yielded her 2004 solo piece, The End of the Moon. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Her Habeas Corpus exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory in 2016 garnered Yoko Ono’s annual Courage Award for the Arts. Laurie’s film and visual projects include numerous videos, the high definition film, Hidden Inside Mountains, a series of audio-visual installations, Heart of a Dog and Chalkroom, a virtual reality collaboration with Hsin-Chien Huang which received Best VR Experience at the Venice Film Festival 2017. Laurie has performed at The Town Hall over four decades.

ORIGINALLY from Vienna, Austria, CHARLES HULL was stationed in England serving in the U.S. Air Force when he accompanied a fellow officer to an audition of Stalag 17. He wound up scoring his first role in a theatrical production. In 1960, Hull moved to New York and was featured in many TV commercials and off-Broadway productions prior to founding TheaterWorksUSA, with Jay Harnick, in 1961. Under his 39-year tenure, TheaterWorksUSA grew to become America’s largest and foremost Equity theatre for children and family audiences. Its mission is to create imaginative and sophisticated shows that are both entertaining and thought provoking, and to ensure that those shows are accessible to audiences across America. The company has reached over 100 million people in 49 states and Canada, and now performs for over two million young people annually, selecting shows from its ever-growing repertoire of 133 plays and musicals. TheaterWorksUSA has a distinguished history of not only providing young audiences with their first taste of the performing arts, but also giving young actors, writers, directors and designers an early opportunity to work in their field. Hull’s most notable achievements for TheaterWorksUSA include initiating a subscription series in a prestigious off-Broadway theater; and developing a field trip program, initially at Town Hall, and then spreading across the country, reaching millions of kids every year. Hull was also President of the Producers League of Theatre for Young Audiences, President of Producers Association of Children’s Theatre (PACT), and was awarded the Medal of Honor from the Actor’s Fund.

For 32 years, ROBERT HURWITZ was president of Nonesuch Records, arguably one of the most diverse and influential record labels in the world. In 1984, when Bob took over Nonesuch, it was primarily a classical music label and home of the Explorer series. He proceeded to vastly expand the company’s catalogue by adding jazz, rock, folk, bluegrass, musical theater, and modern world music. Among the many composers, musicians, songwriters, and performers he has signed, produced or worked with are: John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Caetano Veloso, Astor Piazzolla, Stephen Sondheim, Adam Guettel, Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, Brad Mehldau, Chris Thile, Pat Metheny, Josh Redman, Bill Frisell, Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode, Gidon Kremer, Randy Newman, The Magnetic Fields, k.d. lang, The Punch Brothers, Natalie Merchant, and Lake Street Dive. As well as this year’s co-honoree, Laurie Anderson. Now, as Chairman Emeritus of Nonesuch Records, Bob remains closely involved with many of the artists he brought to the company, serving as an Executive Producer for a dozen projects a year. Bob is the Aaron Copland Chair at the New School College of Performing Arts, where he has taught for the past 12 years and for the last two years as a Visiting Professor at UCLA.

PERFORMANCES THAT EVENING BY:

Award winning vocalist, songwriter and producer SOFIA REI is considered one of the most passionate, and inventive vocalists on the current music scene. Her music explores connections between the various traditions of South American folklore, jazz, flamenco and electronic sounds. Originally from Buenos Aires, Sofia ties together diverse influences in a program full of rhythmic complexity, and a melodic purity that haunts even as it uplifts. Her collaboration with Geoffrey Keezer, earned her a Grammy Nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album of 2009.

Clarinetist-saxophonist ANAT COHEN has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive artistry and delightful stage presence. The Jazz Journalists Association has voted Anat as Clarinetist of the Year nine years in a row, and she has topped both the Critics and Readers Polls in the clarinet category in DownBeat Magazine every year since 2011. She has been named Rising Star in the soprano and tenor saxophone categories in DownBeat, as well as Jazz Artist of the Year.

Since arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born harp virtuoso EDMAR CASTANEDA has forged his own distinctive path in music. His wide-ranging career has been remarkable for discovering a brilliant role for the harp in jazz, then continuing to innovate and spark creativity from a wealth of formidable collaborations. Acclaimed as a master of realizing beautiful complexities of time, his dynamic spirit and unbelievable feats of cross-rhythms, layered with chordal nuances has made him one of this generation’s most celebrated flamenco guitarist.

TOWN HALL BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Tom Wirtshafter, President
Marvin Leffler, President Emeritus
Susan Zohn, Executive Vice President
Alfred H. Horowitz, Vice President
Bruce Leffler, Vice President
Andrew T. Miltenberg, Treasurer
Phyllis Putter Barasch, Secretary
Robert E. Evanson, Anne Frank-Shapiro, Alfred H. Horowitz, Stephen C. Jacobs, Henry Johansson, Ted Lambert, Rita Robbins, Madhu Southworth, Nevin Steinberg

LIFE TRUSTEES: Leona Chanin, Eugene J.T. Flanagan, Claire G. Miller

ADVISORY COUNCIL: Kathleen Rosenberg, Chair
Nancy Berman, Shauna Denkensohn, Sandy Horowitz, Elizabeth Iannizzi, Claire Miller, Melanie Sawyer Richardson, Zita Rosenthal, Rhoda Rothkopf

ARTS IN EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL: Dr. Charlotte K. Frank, Chair
Dr. Sharon Dunn, Michael Fram, Gary Hecht, Ernest Logan, Dr. Lisa Mars, Dr. Pola Rosen, Manuel Urena, George Young

Theatrical Gems Presents SKYLAR

As Part of the 2018 New York International Fringe Festival

Performing at the new Fringe HUB Theatre, 685 Washington Street, NYC, on Tues Oct 16 @ 8:15pm; Sunday, Oct 21 @ 12:00pm; Thursday, Oct 25 @ 7:00pm; Saturday, Oct 27 @ 4:00pm; Sunday, Oct 28 @  4:30pm. Tickets are $22, with discounts for groups. More info can be found at http://www.fringenyc.org

SKYLAR, the latest entry in Jonathan G Galvez’s ambitious “Bridge” series of 16 plays, concerns a trans high school student clinging to life after being attacked at a school dance. Their girlfriend, father, and teacher meet in the waiting room and consider the events that led them there.

Led by queer director, Kristen Keim, the cast features Sam Lopresti as David, Skylar’s teacher; Kaitlyn Gill as Pamela, Skylar’s activist girlfriend; Eric Novak as Adam, Skylar’s religious father, Dana Scurlock as the Nurse, Mark Levy as Vice Principal Gonzalez, Ashton Garcia as Scott, a football player, and Eli Denson as the titular Skylar, a trans teen. It should be noted that not only is Skylar portrayed by trans-gender-queer actor, Denson, but also role of Scott, a traditionally cis-gendered (identifying with the sex they were born as) role, being portrayed by trans-masculine actor, Garcia.

Celebrated playwright, Jonathan G Galvez’s, works have received acclaim at the Fringe Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (mention award), and at William Paterson University, where he was winner of the 10th annual New Jersey Playwrights Contest. For additional information, visit www.TheBridgeSeries.org.

The New York International Fringe Festival has served as host for many of Galvez’s Bridge Series, including Thirty Minutes or Less, The Girl With Her Hands in the Sand, The Call of the Siren, and A Life TBD.

Regeneration Theatre returns with a classic by a classic writer:

SMALL CRAFT WARNING by Tennessee Williams

Thursday – Saturday: November 1-3 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Special showing, Monday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday – Saturday: November 8-10 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 10 & Sunday, November 11 at 2:00 p.m.

Thirteenth Street Playhouse
50 West 13th street, NYC

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3609319

Regeneration – acclaimed for finding forgotten stage gems and giving them a new life – having taken on As Is, Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, and Kennedy’s Children – now brings Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams back to the stage. An expansion of an earlier one-act play, Confessional, (not unlike Streetcar starting as Moony’s Kid), this play centers on a motley group of people gathered in a seedy coastal bar in Southern California. The guests read like a list of Williams’ favorite types: lusty Leona Dawson, an embittered middle-aged woman; her ne’er-do-well live-in lover Bill McCorkle; Doc, an alcoholic who lost his license to practice medicine (but still does); Violet, who has eyes for Bill regardless of Leona; Steve, a depressed middle-aged short order cook; two gay men – Quentin, a washed-up screenwriter, and Bobby, a young man Quentin picked up on the road… and Monk, the obligatory bartender running a place of refuge for the vulnerable and the lost.

Williams himself said of this play: “It is the responsibility of the writer to put his experience as a being into work that refines it and elevates it, to make an audience feel the truth of that work.” One feels a bit of Williams in each character.

The cast features Nicole Greevey, Jenne Vath, and Jason Pintar.

Barnaby Edwards founded REGENERATION THEATRE  as an avenue to bring new work and lesser known shows to the stage so that audiences can discover the thrill of discovery and re-discovery and over the last 18 months has brought Kennedy’s Children, Come Back to the Give and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and As Is back to the New York stage. In 2015 he also produced the America Premiere of Boys in the Club by Paul Emelion. Prior to Regeneration Theatre Barnaby produced the 2013-14 season for Beautiful Soup Theatre which featured the US premiere of the musical Lift, a rare Revival of Molnar’s Liliom, and the world premiere Little Wars. In London during the 1990s, Barnaby produced Paul Emelion’s first musical, Crimes of Passion, and designed some of his early plays – Behind Closed Doors and When Harry Met Barry.

Ego Actus

Presents Samuel Gallu’s rousing one-man show about the little president that could!

Give’em Hell, Harry!

Featuring J. Dolan Byrnes

Production directed by Joan Kane

In these trying times, we need a president who will take command of the nation and lead us to victory and renew the spirit of patriotism … even if its just on stage!

The prolific Ego Actus Theatre Company presents a revival of Samuel Gallu’s one man exploration of the president that got us out of a war and not in one – Harry S. Truman.

Stage and film actor, J. Dolan Byrnes takes command of the role from October 18 – 28 (Thursday – Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p,m.) at the Episcopal Actors Guild, 1 East 29th Street, NYC. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased atwww.artful.ly/Store/Events/16240.

In a younger life J. Dolan Byrnes worked as a Congressional Aide for a Member of Congress who stood up to the Reagan administration on a very important moral issue of the time and at great cost to her own career, a very Trumanesque thing to do. Coming from a working-class family with a keen interest in politics and an active involvement in local affairs, Byrnes says “It is the role of a lifetime to be able to portray this giant of a man.  Truman fought for my parents and perhaps yours as well, average Americans working in the factories of post-World War II.  He never forgot his farm roots, never lost his integrity, and always put “the folks” first; not the banks, not big business, not big unions, just “the folks”

Joan Kane (director) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus and directed I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four star reviews for each. Joan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival was named to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. She has also directed plays and readings for the Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the NY Fringe Festival, Theater for the New City, Urban Stages, Workshop Theater, Nylon Fusion, Abingdon Theatre, Oberon Theatre, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Midtown International Festival and the Actors Studio. Joan has an MFA in Directing from The New School, an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. She is a member of The New York Madness Company, the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. Joan currently serves as a Vice President for Programming on the Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

J. Dolan Byrnes is a New York based actor and singer.  He has appeared in dramas, comedies, and musicals throughout the country and across the pond. He is two-time recipient of the Outstanding Actor Award from The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity for his roles in what do you mean by Bruce A! Kraemer, and When The Party’s Over by Glory Kadigan.  He is a member of Articulate Theatre Company and recently appeared in their productions of White House Fairy Tale (directed by Joan Kane) in which he portrayed an out of control President who loves to golf (hmmmm) and The Long Way Home, a haunting tale of Christmases past.  Other recent New York productions include The Unsalable Thing, (Best Actor nomination in The Strawberry One-Act Festival), Houseless in Paradise (NY Fringe Festival) Titanic Voices, Bitten, Hamlet Bound and Unbound, Lady Liberty’s Worst Day Ever, Brattleboro, Avalon (Spotlight On Award, Best Ensemble), Spinmeister, Heidi, the Musical, Ice Floes (Audience Award, Best actor), Any Which Way Thou Wouldst Have It, Debauchery – Thy Name is Stevie Chase, and The Sons of Molly Maguire. He has toured nationally in 1776 and Footloose. During 10 years of treading the boards in California he appeared in a number of regional theater musical productions including My Fair Lady, and Phantom at Music Theatre of Southern California, and West Side Story, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and the West Coast premier of Eleanor at Musical Theatre West. While in California, he was member of the award-winning The Road Theatre Company.  The Road’s seven-hour production of Tankred Dorst’s epic, Merlin, received the Los Angeles Artistic Director Achievement Award for Best Ensemble.  In that production, Byrnes played the roles of Mark Twain, a blind pope, and a frightened chambermaid. He also appeared at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Knick Knacks, in which he portrayed a sexual predator.

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Two-time Tony Award nominee, Joey McKneely, teams with award-winning playwright, Randall David Cook, to bring you a new dance musical with music and lyrics by Edison Woods, Maxim Moston and Karen Bishko.

Shadows

Opening November 29 at the Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street, NYC

Performing November 29 & 30 at 8:00 p.m. 

December 1 at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

December 4 – 7 at 8:00 p.m.

December 8 at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

December 11 – 14 at 8:00 p.m.

December 15 at 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.

Buy tickets for Shadows A Dance Musical

Watch the trailer: https://www.dropbox.com/home/Shadows%20Press%20and%20Marketing?preview=SHADOWS+NEW+TRAILER.mp4

Learn More at www.ShadowsDanceMusical.com

Twyla Tharp meets Next to Normal peppered with Stephen King!

In Shadows, a mesmerizing new dance musical directed and choreographed by Broadway notable, Joey McKneely, haunting melodies by pop band, Edison Woods; composer, Maxim Moston; and British singer/songwriter, Karen Bishko,
enfold around a eerie and erotic story  by Randall David Cook, who scored kudos, Off-Broadway, with the premiere of Sake with the Haiku Geisha and Fate’s Imagination.

This gothic ghost love story whispers how far one must go to keep the one you love … even to another world.

Cast announcement to follow shortly.

Stage and film professional, Joey McKneely, is a two-time Tony Nominated Broadway Choreographer (Smokey Joe’s Cafe and in 1997 for The Life) and the international Director and Choreographer of West Side Story. Other Broadway credentials include Twelfth Night, The Wild Party, The Boy From OZ and the West Side Story revival. He directed/choreographed the U.S. National Tours of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, Crazy For You and Smokey Joe’s Café. Internationally, he directed/choreographed the world premieres of Love U Theresa, Ah, Kuling! And Jiu Gan Tang Mai Wu In China; The Beautiful Game, Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story in Japan; Evita and Dusty in London. On film, McKneely is known for his work on Zoolander, The In Crowd, and Far East.

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions presents the world premiere comedy

RELENTLESSLY PLEASANT, written and directed by (Ms.) Jake Lipman

Performing at Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor

October 10-27, 2018 on Wednesday-Saturday nights at 7:30 PM and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM

You are cordially invited to the launched of HER(E) SHE, a new all-female co-working space. Co-founders, Alison (Deanna Henson) and Gina (Maria Maloney) and the staff are hard at work, everything is looking great… Until a series of unforeseen calamities threaten to derail the space – from their keynote speaker canceling, to a #MeToo incident. Can these women lean in to the conflicts while maintaining their composure?

This modern workplace comedy was written by Ms. Jake Lipman, founder and artistic director of Tongue in Cheek Theater: “I wanted to create a feminist piece about women and work, and I wanted it to be funny. I started with two sources of inspiration. Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In” talks about women lacking the confidence to sit at the head of a table in meetings, and A.R. Gurney’s play The Dining Room offers a series of comedic interactions set entirely around a dining room table. By setting my piece around a conference room table in a new female-only co-working space, the table becomes both an impediment and a soap box for the characters’ ambitions.”

The cast of nine features a nearly-all female ensemble, including Alicia Campbell, Lori Funk, Jessica DiSalvo, Deanna Henson, Maria Maloney, Shauna Pinkett, Amanda Rodhe, Jaya Tripathi,. and Patrick Daniel Smith.

The production team is led by Tongue in Cheek Theater Production’s Producing Artistic Director, playwright and director, Jake Lipman; associate producer/dramaturge, Jessica Ammirati; assistant director, Olivia Ragan; sound designer, Philip Rothman; scenic designer, Ryan Goff; lighting designer, Michael Lounsbery, and technical assistant, Matthew Salerno.

$20 tickets: http://www.tictheater.com ($25 on Sat. Oct. 13 performance with reception following)

14 Performances:

Wed. Oct. 10 @ 7:30 PM; Thur. Oct. 11 @ 7:30 PM; Fri. Oct. 12 @ 7:30 PM

Sat. Oct. 13 @ 7:30 PM – with reception following in Shetler’s Penthouse 1 space

Sun. Oct. 14 @ 2:30 PM – matinee

Wed. Oct. 17 @ 7:30 PM; Thur. Oct. 18 @ 7:30 PM; Fri. Oct. 19 @ 7:30 PM; Sat. Oct. 20 @ 7:30 PM

Sun. Oct. 21 @ 2:30 PM – matinee

Wed. Oct. 24 @ 7:30 PM; Thur. Oct. 25 @ 7:30 PM; Fri. Oct. 26 @ 7:30 PM; Sat. Oct. 27 @ 7:30 PM

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions has been awarded two Puffin Foundation, Ltd., grants: in April 2018 for the development of Relentlessly Pleasant; and in March 2014, for the development of a play that became Buffalo Heights. The Puffin Foundation’s mission is to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and arts organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to race, gender, or social philosophy.

Founded in 2006 by Jake Lipman, the mission of Tongue in Cheek Theater (TIC) is to produce and create thought-provoking comedic works, including the 2015 adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman, which Huffington Post called “a passionate adaptation” and the 2014 premiere and 2017 revival of Buffalo Heights (nominated for 4 awards, including best revival, in the 2017 Planet Connections Theatre Fest).

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Children of all ages … please join F.A.C.T. (Friends Always Creating Theatre) in celebrating their 10th anniversary season with a special showing of their 2013 highly acclaimed production of

“Hansel & Gretel Christmas” By Jack Dyville

Join This Famous Brother & Sister @ During the Holiday Season in 21st Century New York City!

EVERY SUNDAY in NOVEMBER (4th, 11th, 18th, 25th) @ 1:00pm

SUNDAYS in December (2nd, 9th, 16th) @ 1:00pm

MANHATTAN REPERTORY THEATRE, NYC

17 West 45th Street, Elevators to 3rd Floor

This special production is dedicated to Co-Founder/Producer

DAVID GILLAM FULLER

What’ll they think of Macys??!!

Celebrated author and producer, Jack Dyville, revives his widely popular children’s story with a modern twist as a special dedication to F.A.C.T.’s co-founder/producer, David Gilliam Fuller. Together, they created one of the most visible and respected children’s theatres in New York featuring new and engaging works to both entertain and enlighten.

“Hansel & Gretel Christmas” leads the list as the two wandering waifs end up in NYC at Christmas. Aside from uproarious humor and clever dialogue, the piece talks of love and family; understanding and encouragement; and is a perfect vehicle to share with the whole family.

Dyville and his cast and crew organize immersive fun, keeping the kids in the audience on their toes what with some special prizes and making them part of the play.“The most gratifying thing a children’s theatre production can do is make a show that an adult will appreciate! It’s clever and fun!” (William Kozy, TheatreMania)

“A Clever modern twist to a classic tale…Wonderful Holiday fun for the whole family!” (Tym Moss, Artists Exposed Radio)

“A Great story line and Wonderfully Colorful Characters. . . The story moves beautifully, with lots of humor… Highly Original and I predict audiences will love it. Thanks so much, Jack Dyville, for this Marvelous Christmas play!” (Shirley King, prominent playwright)

About DAVID GILLAM FULLER, Co-Founder/Producer FACT Theatre Company:

Fuller, a multi-award-winning theater artist and producer, along with Dyville, had the dream of bringing quality entertainment to all ages at affordable prices. F.A.C.T. grew from their wish. Today, David Fuller, is referred to as a miracle man. Not just because he made his dream come true but, currently, he is fighting unbeatable odds to help continue that dream., Mr. Fuller is suffering from a crippling disease effecting him physically and mentally and making his time with F.A.C.T. rare.

This season – their 10th anniversary – is dedicated to him and will be called THE DAVID GILLAM FULLER SEASON.

Learn how you can make a difference and be a friend always creating theatre: FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT F.A.C.T. (Friends Always Creating Theatre)

Playwright/screenwriter Dorian Palumbo brings us to a mysterious crustal shop somewhere along the Jersey Shore for a clandestine meeting of six women at a crossroads in their lives

Divination
Written by Dorian Palumbo
Directed by Ken Coughlin
Wed., October 31st – Sat., November 4th @ 8 PM, Sunday November 5th @ 3 PM
Wed., November 7th– Sat., November 10th @ 8 PM, Sunday November 11th @ 3 PM
Another world premiere at the legendary American theatre of actors, 314 W. 54th Street, NYC

Six women of vastly different upbringings and backgrounds sign-up for a class in “Mediumship and Divination.” Each at a crossroads in their lives, each in search of something that’s missing. Will they find it among the spirits? Divination examines that inevitable point in a woman’s life – whatever age it may come – that past isn’t always prologue and the fortune shouldn’t always be foretold.

Dorian Palumbo – a student of Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tad Mosel – is a celebrated writer of stage and film. Her comedy, Carnegie Hill, was optioned for Broadway by Tony-winning producer, John O’Boyle after being produced at Clockwise Theatre in Chicago. She was also a semi-finalist in the Final Draft “Big Break” Screenwriting Competition with her screenplay Just Three Things, a script which was also a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival and a Semi-Finalist in Scriptapalooza 2015. Other screenplays written by Dorian which have reached quarter finals in top competitions; Gone, Daddy, Gone (comic drama 2005, Scriptapalooza and AFF), In the Pines (sci-fi thriller, 2006 AFF), and Choosy Mothers, a female ensemble comedy about the Austin Texas Rock Music scene (2011, Scriptapalooza).

Dorian directed a short film, The Mentor, starring Terasa Livingstone; served as associate producer on the independent feature, Anne B. Real. Dorian is represented in New York by attorney Jason Baruch, Partner, Sendroff and Baruch, and in the U.K. by attorney Alan Moss, Partner, Harbottle & Lewis. Dorian has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1986

Carrie Edel Isaacman and her company, Shakespeare Sports, will bring a fascinating new production of Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT to New York for the upcoming holiday season starting November 30 at downtown’s historic Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets, in NYC.

As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. Ms. Issacman is setting her version in the Midwest in 1968, where we meet a recently homeless Orlando and Rosalind. Living in the woods out of necessity, they meet a merry band of “hippies” heralding the change that is in the air for all of them … and our country.

“This production shows us America’s most pivotal time through the eyes of a group of homeless. When you have nothing, it’s amazing what you see” says Isaacman, a stage director and indie filmmaker.

Using theatre techniques as old as the material, this As You Like It, will be a history lesson, power-packed parable, and enjoyable evening.

The cast includes Giordano Cruz, Melanie Gretchen, Michael Hagins, James Jagiello Sterling A. Johnson, Jr, Kasper Kuzmicki, Charles Lear, Basil Rodericks, Sabrina Seidner, Stephanay Slade, and Roger Stude as Jaques, uttering Shakespeare’s national anthem “All the Worlds a Stage.”

Ms. Isaacman appears in the production as well as directs it.

Historically, the play remains an audience favorite and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre. The piece has also been a favorite among classical artists of stage and screen, notably Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, and Patti LuPone in the role of Rosalind and Alan Rickman, Stephen Spinella, Kevin Kline, and Ellen Burstynin the role of Jaques.

For more information, visit www.shakespearesportstheatrecompany.com

Sunday November 4th, 2018
Tickets $125 to $225 including cocktails and brunch.
Tickets go on sale after Labor Day!

Cocktail Hour: 12PM
3-course Luncheon: 1PM
Awards & Entertainment: 1:45PM

Caroline’s on Broadway: 1626 Broadway (between 49th & 50th Streets)
Handicap-accessible entrance: 750 Seventh Avenue (between 49th & 50th Streets)

Veronica Moya, an international performer with stage, film, and TV credits heard the call. She tapped into her innate spirituality and combined it with her endless energy and ambition to help those who are lost. Focusing on your people, she is somewhat like a spiritual life coach – helping people tap into their own inner stregeth to move forward. 

ANDREW ROTHKIN, the producing artistic director of White Rabbit Productions has entered into a partnership with producer/publicist JAY MICHAELS.

Currently the partnership is developing two stage works into short films. The first, penned by Rothkin:

Love Bites: With elements of Hitchcock and Takashi Miike’s The Audition, LOVE BITES tells the tale of a young woman who sharing the travails of her bad relationships is simply not enough.

Earthmen: The celebrated period-piece written by Joanne de Simone, about a meeting between a runaway slave and an enigmatic Native American on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation.

LANE BRADBURY

LANE BRADBURY AND DOUG DEVITA DISCUSS ETHEL MERMAN

Richard Skipper Celebrates Lane Bradbury

LANE AT THE LAMB’S CLUB

The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers by Patrick Hickey
Featuring interviews with the creators of 36 popular video games—including Deus Ex, Night Trap, Mortal Kombat, Wasteland and NBA Jam—this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of some of the most influential and iconic (and sometimes forgotten) games of all time. Recounting endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega publishers and the uncertainties of public reception, the interviewees reveal the creative processes that produced some of gaming’s classic titles.

“From arcade rats to indie developers, Hickey gives an intimate look at the personalities behind gaming with the passion of a fanboy and the attention of a scholar.” —Cesar R. Bustamante, Jr., New York Daily News

Gary Morgenstein wrote the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock musical The Anthem, as well as Mad Mel Saves the World, and his dramatic works range from A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx to Right on Target, Ponzi Manand Saving Stan. Morgenstein’s literary works include the upcoming science fiction-baseball novel A Mound Over Hell, set in 2098 following America’s defeat in World War Three. The first book in The Dark Depths trilogy, A Mound Over Hell will be published by BHC Press in March 2018. His other novels include Jesse’s Girl; Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman; Take Me Out to the Ballgame and The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees.

NOVEL

A Mound over Hell (March 2018, BHC Press) – Baseball, a sport now identified with terrorism and treason, begins its final season in 2098 following America’s loss to a radical enemy in World War Three. Revitalized by the miraculous appearance of great players from the past fueling one last hurrah, baseball becomes a pawn between those who want peace and those who want another war.

This first novel in THE DARK DEPTHS trilogy. http://www.bhcpress.com/Books_Morgenstein_A_Mound_Over_Hell.html