SUMMER THEATER 2009: LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL

Lincoln Center Festival 09 is presenting a fascinating series of plays this July by renowned theater companies from all around Europe: Hungary, Russia, Poland & more...

A Hungarian company is presenting Chekhov's Ivanov in a 20th Century Hungarian setting. Ivanov is Chekhov's deepest, darkest, and most disturbing and shocking play. The legendary Ariane Mnouchkine is making a rare New York appearance! This Festival is quite an important theatrical event!

The Lincoln Center

Festival 09

July 7 - 26

Global Theater!

Les Éphémères, Le Théâtre du Soleil, July 7–19

To begin the season, visionary director Ariane Mnouchkine and her acting collective share life experiences and find beauty in everyday moments.


lvanov, Katona József Theatre, July 7–11
Peasant Opera, Béla Pintér and Company, July 21–26

Two Hungarian companies present radically different works: Tamás Ascher's turn at Ivanov features Chekhov’s intense title character set in 1960s and 70s Hungary, and Béla Pintér and Company performs a hilarious musical soap opera, a farcical tale of taboos and tradition in the countryside.


Kalkwerk, Narodowy Stary Teatr, July 14–18

The masterpiece of renowned Polish director Krystian Lupa brings us face to face with madness, a work rooted in psychological complexity, humanity, and stylistic innovation.


Trilogia della villeggiatura, Piccolo Teatro di Milano/Teatri Uniti di Napoli,
July 22–26

Piccolo Teatro di Milano returns to the Festival to perform this uproarious commedia dell’arte satire, starring and directed by Toni Servillo (from the film Gomorrah).


Boris Godunov, Chekhov International Theatre Festival, July 22–26
Life and Fate, Maly Drama Theatre, July 21–26

Two acclaimed theater companies arrive from Russia with deeply moving works: the Chekhov International Theatre Festival presents an exposé of corrupt Tsarist Russia and the Maly Drama Theatre follows a deranged physicist under the direction of Lev Dodin.

SHAKESPEARE LAB PARTICIPANTS

Zaidan Jah & Lanna Joffrey
Two of the new members of the Shakespeare Lab
photos from imdb
The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab starts today and runs through July 24.

Lemon Andersen, Nathan Darrow, Paloma Guzmán, Zainab Jah, Lanna Joffrey, Modesto Lacén, Rebecca Lowman, William Mapother, Leslie Silva, Ryan Brooke Taylor, Molly Ward, and Victor Williams were selected from hundreds of applications to participate in this year’s program.

These are people to watch! They are among the best classical actors of their generation, and they are getting some of the best follow-up training here.

Under the direction of Barry Edelstein, The Shakespeare Lab immerses a carefully-selected company of professional, mid-career actors in a six-week intensive exploring the rigors, challenges, and joys of performing Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Lab is a unique opportunity for working American actors in mid-career to hone their craft and expand their classical skills. It aims to build a strong and diverse collective of classically trained actors which will expand The Public Theater’s community of artists.

The Lab’s workshops in Shakespearean performance are led by some of the most respected figures in American classical theater training, including Christopher Bayes, Lisa Benevides, Barry Edelstein, Robert Perillo, J. Steven White, Grace Zandarski, Janet Zarish and others. Guest artists, including eminent members of The Public Theater community and other leading Shakespeareans, will frequently visit the Shakespeare Lab.

The Shakespeare Lab was founded in 1995, and in the 14 years since, numerous members of the Shakespeare Lab Company have gone on to secure roles in the Park, at The Public Theater, on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters. The Lab is the cornerstone of a busy summer of Shakespeare-related activity at The Public Theater, including the production of Twelfth Night, directed by Daniel Sullivan (June 10 to July 12, 2009); Shakespeare Lab Jr., a program of free, one-week Shakespeare workshops for New York City schoolchildren; and Summer Shake-Up, a one-day celebration of Shakespeare at the Delacorte Theater for New York City schoolchildren and their families.

Here are brief descriptions of the participants.

LEMON ANDERSEN is a critically acclaimed and award-winning renaissance artist. As a poet he has the greatest number of appearances on HBO’s “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry”—seven times in five seasons. He is also an original cast member of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. He won a Tony Award for his writing and performance, as well as a Drama Desk Award nomination. He has been a mainstay in the spoken-word and theater scene for the past decade, performing in and selling out venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Apollo Theater, Chicago Theater, Hollywood’s Kodak Theater, and Philadelphia’s Live 8 Theater. His film credits include The Soloist and Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna, Sucker Free City, She Hate Me, and Inside Man. His theater and writing credits include Slanguage (New York Theater Workshop) and the book Ready Made Real: Poems.

NATHAN DARROW’s professional work includes productions of The Little Dog Laughed, Taking Sides, Translations, To Kill A Mockingbird, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Romeo and Juliet, The Pillowman, King Henry V, The Retreat from Moscow, The Game of Love and Chance, and Much Ado About Nothing, among others.

PALOMA GUZMÁN received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon where her Shakespeare credits include the role of Celia in As You Like It under the direction of Di Trevis (RSC, NT). Her TV and film credits include “Law & Order,” “Gossip Girl,” and the recent film Confessions of a Shopaholic. She was most recently seen in Michael’s Greif’s production of Boys’ Life at Second Stage.

ZAINAB JAH. Recent credits include Tranced (Azmera) at Merrimack Rep, Intimate Apparel (Mayme) at W.H.A.T, Trojan Women (Helen) with Classical Theatre of Harlem, In Darfur at The Public Theater, and Veronica Jonkers in the national tour of Athol Fugard's Valley Song. Film and TV credits include principal roles in “100 Center Street,” directed by Sidney Lumet, Dinner Rush with Danny Aiello, and “Law & Order.” Jah is a two-time winner of the Fresh Fruit Award for Acting for Nick Mwaluko’s plays Waafrika (2007) and S/HE (2008).

LANNA JOFFREY. Recent credits include Jason Grote’s 1001 (Denver Center, Denver Post Ovation Award), Nine Parts of Desire (Lyric Stage, Carmel O'Reilly, IRNE Award for Best Solo Performance) and Joffrey’s documentary play, Valiant (Tamilla Woodard, NY Fringe Festival Performance Award, NY Innovative Theatre nomination). Other credits include Metamorphoses (Capital Repertory, Maggie Mancinelli-Carter), Five Kinds of Silence (Boundless Theatre, Tlaloc Rivas), The Snow Queen (Urban Stages, Daniella Topol), Mac Wellman’s Cellophane (The Flea, Jim Simpson), Like I Say (Len Jenkin), Saviana Stanescu’s Waxing West (Jonathan Silverstein), Homeward Bound (Shannon Fillion), Marko The Prince (Immigrants Theatre Project, Marcy Arlin), Dancing at Lughnasa (Wendy Dann) and Israel Horovitz's Security and A Mother's Love. She has collaborated with Karen Finley on Lanna’s solo piece, Rain (The Flea). Film credits include Breathtaking, Security, The New Americans, So She Fell Silent and Someday Soon.

MODESTO LACÉN has been working for the past 16 years as an actor, director and producer in Puerto Rico and the United States. A graduate from the University of Puerto Rico with a BA in Drama (Magna Cum Laude), his Puerto Rican Theater credits include Medea; Blue Surge; The Boys in the Band; Godspell; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Hamlet; Othello; El Bombón de Elena; Salsa Gorda (Best Actor 2004). Film credits include Las dos Caras de Jano; El Cimarrón; Desamores; Entremedio; 12 horas; Animal; Back in the Day; Dirty Dancing 2; Kidnapped in Paradise; and Second Honeymoon, among others. In 1998 Lacen established the company Nueva Escena with which he has produced: The Little Prince: the musical; Yepeto; Art (Director); Salsa Gorda ( Actor); and Los Coyotes (Actor). In 2004 he was recognized by the Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular as “Emblematic Actor” for artistic excellence and variety. Other theater credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle, To Shakespeare With Love, Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Crúz (ACE and HOLA nominations), and Requiem por Yarini (ACE nomination).

REBECCA LOWMAN received an MFA from Columbia University in 1997. Favorite roles include Rosalind in As You Like It, Christopher in Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle, Horatio in Hamlet, Meg in Crimes of the Heart, and the bellboy in first national tour of the musical Titanic. She has appeared on many television shows, including “Will & Grace,” “Without a Trace,” “Cold Case,” “Criminal Minds,” “Big Love,” “Private Practice,” and “The Shield”; she starred in an independent feature called Eve of Understanding and in the play iWitness at the Mark Taper Forum, directed by Barry Edelstein.

WILLIAM MAPOTHER. Television and film credits include “Prison Break,” “Lost,” “Criminal Minds,” “Viva Laughlin,” “K-Ville,” “Robot Chicken,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Threshold,” “The Inside,” “Line of Fire,” “Touched by an Angel,” “CSI: Miami,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Warrior, Hurt, Skip Tracer, The Burrowers, Moving McAllister, Moola, The Lather Effect, World Trade Center, The Zodiac, Lords of Dogtown, Chloe, Suspect Zero, The Grudge, The Kiss, The Pennsylvania Miners’ Story, Self Storage, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky, In the Bedroom, Mission: Impossible II, Magnolia, Trickle, Without Limits, and Born on the Fourth of July.

LESLIE SILVA performed in Chicago and Sleep Deprivation Chamber at the Signature Theatre in Washington, DC. Her other theater credits include Edmond at the Linda Gross Theater. Her television and film credits include “Numb3rs,” “CSI: Miami,” “Enterprise,” “Cold Case,” “The Agency,” “Odyssey 5,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Gideon’s Crossing,” “Girlfriends,” “ER,” “Providence,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Cosby,” “New York Undercover,” Reversion, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The 70’s, and Fools Rush In.

RYAN BROOKE TAYLOR began his early performing career as a classical dancer, performing with such companies as the Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Taylor is a former student of Michael Miller's The Actor's Center where he studied with many great teachers, including Loyd Richards and Per Brah. More recently Taylor has performed as Actor and Creative Team member for Julie Taymor's Broadway company of The Lion King.

MOLLY WARD. Credits include The Seagull, Romeo and Juliet, and Three Sisters at American Repertory Theater. Three Sisters also went to The Edinburgh International Festival and she was nominated for an Elliot Norton Award. Other credits include the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Our House at The Denver Center; Camille at Bard Summerscape; Before Breakfast at Provincetown Theater; Othello at Hartford Stage; Nobody with Rising Phoenix Rep.; Shaving the Pickle and The Shape of Metal with Origin Theater Company; Umbrella Plays in the NYFringe Festival 2008; and The Lacy Project in Ice Factory Festival 2007; As You Like It (NYFringe Festival 2000 in a parking lot, and moved to The Public Theater's New Works Now! series in 2001); The Stronger, with Chashama; and Richard Forman's Paradise Hotel (toured in Berlin, Salsburg, Copenhagen and Paris).

VICTOR WILLIAMS. He was most recently seen in the Public LAB workshop production of Philip Roth in Khartoum by David Bar Katz (dir. John Gould Rubin). He appeared as a guest artist in The Graduate Acting Program's production of Our Lady of 121st Street (dir. Michael Sexton). Other theater credits include Satisfy Me by Johnny Garcia at the Lillian Theater in Los Angeles (dir. Andrew Borba); Ohio Tip-Off by James Yoshimura at the Dallas Theater Center (dir. Kenneth Leon); and Troilus and Cressida at the New York Shakespeare Festival (dir. Mark Wing-Davey). His TV and film credits include “Fringe,” “ER,” “Girlfriends,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “The Practice,” “Animatrix,” “The King of Queens,” Copland, The Preacher's Wife, and Traci Townsend.

Coming: DANCE OF THE SEVEN HEADED MOUSE

DANCE OF THE SEVEN HEADED MOUSE
by Carole Gaunt
directed by Christopher McElroen

The Beckett @ Theater Row
410 West 42 Street
NY NY 10036


The fault lines are exposed when a seemingly picture-perfect Fifth Avenue family faces the harshest of realities - the death of their daughter. A father turns to work to drown his sorrow, while his wife drifts into a haze of pills and booze. When their surviving child Avril inexplicably drops out of her prestigious New England boarding school, her roommate Juliana arrives for a visit, determined to lure her back. Acting as a catalyst and witness, Juliana exposes the gaping cracks in the family's Upper East Side façade, forcing its three surviving members to engage with one another and the tragedy they share. Dance of the Seven-Headed Mouse is a tale of love, loss, and acceptance from Carole Gaunt, award-winning author of the memoir, Hungry Hill.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY 7pm; WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY 8pm
SATURDAY 2pm & 8pm; SUNDAY 2pm

Additional Performances:
Sun 6/21 at 7pm, Mon 6/22 at 7pm, Sun 7/5 at 7pm
Talkbacks on Tuesdays after the Show - 6/30, 7/7, 7/14 & 7/21

To Purchase Tickets:

Online: Visit http://www.ticketcentral.com/
By Phone: Call 212-279-4200
In person: Theatre Row Box Office at 410 West 42nd Street (btwn 9th Ave & 10 Ave).
Open 12pm - 8pm daily.

Now playing - A BATTLE OF WILLS

Cause Célèbre/Part Time Productions
In Association with The New Group
Launches a Unique And Exciting Production
Connecting Great Theatre, Top Talent & Compelling Causes

"A BATTLE OF WILLS: Internal and External"
Three Extraordinary One-Act Plays

Written by
Susan Charlotte, Tom Fontana, Dorothy Parker and Harold Pinter

Directed by
Christopher Hart, Antony Marsellis and John Shea.

Featuring An Award-Winning Rotating Cast including:
Delphi Harrington, Tasha Lawrence, Carolyn McCormick, Larry Pine, Lizbeth Mackay, Marian Seldes, John Shea, Kevin Stapleton and Frances Sternhagen

Meet the Broadway and TV stars (including "Law and Order" and "Gossip Girl") after each show.

5 Performances Only: May 31 - June 21 Performances will run on consecutive Sundays from May 31 - June 21 at The Acorn @ Theatre Row.

The Acorn @ Theatre Row(410 West 42nd Street)

TICKETS:

http://www.ticketcentral.com/

Phone at Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200

In Person at the Theatre Row Box Office

Call-646-366-9340--

Half-Priced Tickets & Father's Day Special HALF-PRICED TICKETS--$32.50-
Purchase by June 8th

Closing show, June 21st/Father's Day Special-Limited number of tickets
BUY ONE TICKET, GET ONE FOR FREE

A Portion of Proceeds Benefit Columbia Psychiatry's Lieber Recovery & Rehabilitation Clinic

Cause Célèbre, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to causes and charity, proudly announces the launch of Part Time Productions and its inaugural presentation, A Battle of Wills: Internal and External.

This debut production consists of three one-act plays featuring award-winning actors, writers and directors.

Performances will run on consecutive Sundays from May 31 - June 21 at The Acorn @ Theatre Row.

The show leads with This is On Me, the work of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Dorothy Parker adapted by Emmy-Award® winning writer Tom Fontana and directed by Antony Marsellis. An endless battle with men and alcohol fueled the writing of Dorothy Parker. Tom Fontana, having explored the dark side of human nature through his acclaimed television hits "Oz," "Homicide" and "St. Elsewhere," is the perfect writer to probe the pathos and poignancy of Parker's work.

The show continues with Ashes to Ashes, written by Nobel-prize winning playwright Harold Pinter and directed by Christopher Hart. In this extraordinary play, a wife's torment has a profound impact upon her husband, as reality and the inner-workings of her mind become indistinguishable. Regardless of their origin, the wife's troubled thoughts and images are very real - to her.

Love Divided By, written by award-winning writer Susan Charlotte and directed by Emmy-Award® winner John Shea, concludes the show. During this compelling drama, the audience watches as a sister gives in to her brother's desperate pleas to meet, only to discover why she has pushed him away.

The film version, with original music by Philip Glass, was selected to reopen MoMA's Titus II Theatre.

For more information: http://www.causecelebre.info/

Coming: THREE SISTERS, HEDDA GABLER - HB STUDIO ENSEMBLE

HB Studio Ensemble production

JUNE 12-29, 2009

THREE SISTERS

By Anton Chekhov

Translated by Paul Schmidt

with Candace Bryant Snezhana Chernova Selma Cifka Chris Gilmer Hanna Hayes

Ross Kramberg Philip Kushner* Alicia Lobo Don Marlette* Arnie Mazer David Shih*

Robert Spence Toshiji Takeshima Marius Zilberstein

June 12, 16, 19, 20, 23, 26 at 8PM

June 14, 28 at 3PM only

Presented by special arrangement with Helen Merrill LLC

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HEDDA GABLER

By Henrik Ibsen

Adapted by Jon Robin Baitz

from a literal translation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey

with Chris Chinn* Jen Danby* Mindy Luce Andy McCutcheon* Dara O'Brien

Catherine Siracusa David Smilow

June 13, 15, 18, 22, 25, 27, 29 at 8PM

June 21 at 3PM only

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

*member Actor's Equity Association

an Equity Approved Showcase

Directed by Amy Wright

Lighting Design: Corrie Beth Shotwell

Costume Design: Catherine Siracusa

Managing Director: Marlene Mancini

Technical Director: Giovanni Villari

Stage Manager: AJ Dobbs

Office Manager: Tara Webb

RESERVATIONS: please call: 212-989-7856

Mon - Fri 12:30-5:30PM

LIMIT (2) two tickets per request

ADMISSION: Free!

HB Playwrights Theatre

124 Bank Street (between Greenwich and Washington Streets)

New York, NY 10014

SUMMER THEATER 2009: SUMMER PLAY FESTIVAL (AT THE PUBLIC)

$10 Tickets now on sale for the Summer Play Festival (SPF)

For the second year, SPF will be held at The Public Theater on Lafayette Street in New York City. The festival runs from Tuesday, July 7th – Sunday, August 2nd 2009.

The 2009 Festival will feature seven new plays and one new musical. The productions include:

• The Chimes by Kevin Christopher Snipes, directed by Adam Immerwahr
• Departure Lounge by Dougal Irivine, directed by Christopher Gattelli
• The Happy Sad by Ken Urban, directed by Trip Cullman
• Reborning by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Kip Fagan
• The Sacrifices by Alena Smith, directed by Sam Gold
• Tender by Nicki Bloom, directed by Daniella Topol
• We Declare You A Terrorist by Tim J. Lord, directed by Niegel Smith
• Whore by Rick Viede, directed by Stephen Brackett
  

Tickets are available at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan, on Sunday and Monday from 1PM-6PM and Tuesday through Saturday from 1PM-7:30PM (212-967-7555). Tickets also are available for purchase online at the Summer Play Festival website: http://www.spfnyc.com/ .

Founded by Arielle Tepper Madover (producer of such shows as Broadway’s Mary Stuart, Frost Nixon, Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, The Pillowman, A Raisin in the Sun, and Freak), the non-profit organization The Living Room for Artists, Inc provides emerging writers, directors, designers and producers an opportunity to work on their craft in a protected environment, guided by established professionals at no cost to them.


About the Plays:

The Chimes by Kevin Christopher Snipes; Nick returns to his New England boarding school still haunted by choices he made 40 years ago. The past overwhelms the present as this thrilling drama flashes back to four young pranksters drawn together by their knack for Shakespeare and ripped apart by the onset of World War II.

Departure Lounge by Dougal Irvine; It’s the end of vacation as four guys wait for their flight home in this testosterone-driven new musical. With time to kill they recount the hilarious antics of the week, and as secrets tumble out we learn more about the lads than they know about themselves.

The Happy Sad by Ken Urban; Finding love is easy. Defining love is not. New York City provides the backdrop to a contemporary comedy of sex, love and dating in a city where there are too many options and not enough time.

Reborning by Zayd Dohrn; Art and life become disturbingly interchangeable when a sculptor of baby dolls meets a woman desperate to recreate the past. This dark comedy takes an unsettling look at work, latex, and the power of creation.

The Sacrifices by Alena Smith; At first glance the family has everything. But once they leave on a Caribbean cruise, the winds change, privilege becomes a prison, and their vacation will be anything but smooth sailing in this touching comedy drama.

Tender by Nicki Bloom; A random act of violence leaves a family shattered and searching for a way to be whole again. Amid the ramifications, mystery, memory and potential murder set the stage for this haunting and suspenseful drama.

We Declare You A Terrorist by Tim J. Lord; Eight hundred civilians are taken hostage during the performance of a hit Moscow musical. In the aftermath, the playwright is plagued by the story of his captor—a young woman willing to die for her cause—in an intense drama where one person’s patriotism is another’s act of terrorism.

Whore by Rick Viede; Sara just wants to be interesting, and an unexpected one-night stand propels her into a high stakes relationship with worldly Tim. As they are drawn into the fringes this thriller exposes a world of greed, lies and fear which threatens to break the rules that hold them together.

For more information visit http://www.spfnyc.com/