Free and almost free theater of the highest quality is rampant in NY right now... at EST (aka The Ensemble Studio Theater), RED BULL & LAByrinth Theater (among others). Here's a report from the LAByrinth Theater:
It's the last day of the Barn Series (readings of new American plays), and the start of Live Nude Plays. (Not physically nude, I think, rather philosophically undressed... These are informal readings without stage dressing.)
BARN:
FRIDAY:
CYNTHIA AND THE DREADFUL KITE
Book and Lyrics by Webb Wilcoxen
Music by Jonathan Comisar
Directed by Jill DeArmon
FeaturingCarlo Alban*J. Eric CookDanelle EliavCharles Goforth*Jinn S. KimJamie Klassel*Kelley Rae O'Donnell*Aaron Roman Weiner*
Someone has struck down Cynthia Schmidt's most cherished possession ... her kite. Now she is making something not-so-nice.
Friday, October 30th - 8PM
"Everything exists in Webb. His heart is big and colorful and compassionate without being afraid of real things - and his plays are like that. He can show you how two of the biggest human motivators - fear and envy - make their home in the human heart in slow, smoothe and winding ways - the way water moves on land, the fish inside it and the fog above it."-- Andrea Ciannavei, LAByrinth Company Member
LIVE NUDE PLAYS 2009
BEAUTIFUL - October 31 - 9:30 PM
Written by David Anzuelo
Directed by Louis Moreno
An art-dealing Lucifer is on an industrial rock-fueled killing spree and only a phone-sex addicted descendant of Job can stop him: it's New York City 1994 - where everyone came to get f*cked!
HANDBALL - November 1 - 6:30 PM
Written by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Directed by Terry Kinney
A handball court on a hot summer day sets a handful of characters off into explosive drama. Old time neighborhood beefs, young love and real estate are the combustible elements at hand as nine characters find their way through the changing labyrinthine landscape of a neighborhood in NYC.
girl in window - November 1 - 9:30 PM
Written by Florencia Lozano
Directed by Pedro Pascal
love doesn't just stink, it sucks a**, and the people who help you get out from under the wreckage when your heart is busted open.
THE HALAL BROTHERS - November 2 - 6:30 PM
Written by Alladin Ullah
Director Liesl Tommy
When Two Bengali brothers- one unable to tell his sibling about his black girlfriend at city college and the other desperate to succeed in order to provide for family back home, try to keep afloat during the turbulent day of Malcolm X's assasination.
THE TALK - November 2 - 9:30 PM
Written by Frank Pugliese
Directed by Fisher Stevens
Four brothers come home for their mother's funeral, to find a past they never knew of, and the words to comprehend it.
NEUROTICA - November 3 - 6:30 PM
Written by David Deblinger
Directed by Padraic Lillis
Neurotica is about how someone we find so f*cking sexy and hot can also bring up sh*t about loneliness and rage and fear that can tempt fate with death ... or just the opposite. A dark comedy on love, with song and rap.
FREQUENTLY UNASKED QUESTIONS - November 3 - 9:30 PM
Written by Daphne Rubin-Vega
Directed by John Gould Rubin
Its a play! And a concert! The life and music of DRV are completely intertwined. In
FUQ's, she explores the life of her mother who immigrated from Panama and the
resulting consequences of her choices.
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