Now Playing: One Night Only
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READINGS, WORKSHOPS & DISCUSSIONS
Mon, Jul 20 at 7:00PM: The Readers’ Ensemble Company opens its doors in downtown Manhattan with "REC Summer Festival '09," a month-long series of fully staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company’s goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. In much the same way Encores! breathes life into forgotten musicals, REC plans to spotlight plays on the edge of obscurity and make them again worthy of production and discussion. A Q & A follows each performance. Press Cuttings by George Bernard Shaw, Laura Livingston, dir. This early 20th Century comedy pits a greedy general and prime minister against women's rights activists, the fear of foreign invasion, the consequences of universal draft, the arms race, and a population that now takes democracy seriously! At The University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street. $8. http://www.readersensemblecompany.org.
Mon, Jul 20 at 7:00PM: Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw: Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw. With MICHAEL CRISTOFER, TYNE DALY, SEAN DUGAN, XANTHE ELBRICK, GEORGE S. IRVING, BRIAN MURRAY -- narrator HOWARD KISSEL. At Players, 16 Gramercy Park South. $20. 212.352.3101. http://www.Projectshaw.com.
Mon, Jul 27 at 7:00PM: The Readers’ Ensemble Company opens its doors in downtown Manhattan with "REC Summer Festival '09," a month-long series of fully staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company’s goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. In much the same way Encores! breathes life into forgotten musicals, REC plans to spotlight plays on the edge of obscurity and make them again worthy of production and discussion. A Q & A follows each performance. The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, J. Michaels, dir. Paris, 1945 or New York 2009 – hard to tell – as the city is overrun with bankers and financiers collapsing the economy for their own profit. The only ones left to save the world are the artists, tradesmen, and vagrants – led by an enigmatic “madwoman” whose plot might be crazy enough to work! At The University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street. $8. http://www.readersensemblecompany.org.
Tue, Jul 28 at 8:00PM: Cyndi Freeman, Fringe NYC award winning performer, and Brad Lawrence, Moth Slam winner, present their ongoing storytelling night in Long Island City. Stories At The Creek will feature the best talent New York City has to offer telling true stories, unscripted, for a live audience. This is an opportunity for the town’s most renowned raconteurs to workshop new and exciting material in an intimate atmosphere and you get to watch. At The Creek in Long Island City, 10-93 Jackson Ave.. $5.
Tue, Aug 4 at 7:00PM: The Readers’ Ensemble Company opens its doors in downtown Manhattan with "REC Summer Festival '09," a month-long series of fully staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company’s goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. In much the same way Encores! breathes life into forgotten musicals, REC plans to spotlight plays on the edge of obscurity and make them again worthy of production and discussion. A Q & A follows each performance. He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev, Erik Gratton, dir. Paris, 1920. The lure of fame and the bitter aftertaste of celebrity are seen in this Russian revolutionary drama about a great scientist wronged by a larcenous financier. Eventually the scientist becomes nothing more than a circus attraction in which humiliation is his gimmick. At The University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street. $8. http://www.readersensemblecompany.org.
Mon, Aug 10 at 7:00PM: The Readers’ Ensemble Company opens its doors in downtown Manhattan with "REC Summer Festival '09," a month-long series of fully staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company’s goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. In much the same way Encores! breathes life into forgotten musicals, REC plans to spotlight plays on the edge of obscurity and make them again worthy of production and discussion. A Q & A follows each performance. Intimate Apparel by Lynn Notage, Leslie Guyton, dir. NYC, 1905. Esther, a black seamstress, must choose between two suitors: a Caribbean man she knows only through letters and a Hasidic clothing merchant. Esther’s choice and what she does with her life because of it is the basis for this tale of rebirth – her own and that of the entire world. At The University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street. $8. http://www.readersensemblecompany.org.
Tue, Aug 25 at 8:00PM: Cyndi Freeman, Fringe NYC award winning performer, and Brad Lawrence, Moth Slam winner, present their ongoing storytelling night in Long Island City. Stories At The Creek will feature the best talent New York City has to offer telling true stories, unscripted, for a live audience. This is an opportunity for the town’s most renowned raconteurs to workshop new and exciting material in an intimate atmosphere and you get to watch. At The Creek in Long Island City, 10-93 Jackson Ave.. $5.
BENEFITS & ONE-NIGHT ONLY CONCERTS/PERFORMANCES
Mon, Jul 6 at 7:00PM: The D-Lounge and One Muse present TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE, a new musical, with book and lyrics and performed by Susan Bernfield. TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE is a one-woman musical about one woman's lifelong love affair. with worry. What starts off as a catalog of fears (of planes, fire, heights, scuba gear, toasters) soon extends to the less obvious, the more subtle moments in which we find ourselves immobile, hesitant, unable to speak. Downstairs in the D-lounge. At Daryl Roth Theatre. $10.
Tue, Jul 7 at 7:00PM: The D-Lounge and One Muse present TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE, a new musical, with book and lyrics and performed by Susan Bernfield. TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE is a one-woman musical about one woman's lifelong love affair. with worry. What starts off as a catalog of fears (of planes, fire, heights, scuba gear, toasters) soon extends to the less obvious, the more subtle moments in which we find ourselves immobile, hesitant, unable to speak. Downstairs in the D-lounge. At Daryl Roth Theatre. $10.
Wed, Jul 8 at 7:30PM: BENEFIT: The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, will return to New York for a one-night-only performance, to benefit York Theatre. The Musical of Musicals(The Musical!) is a musical about ... musicals! In a comic satire of musical theatre genres, one story becomes five musicals, each in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. At York Theatre. $40+. 212-935-5820. http://www.yorktheatre.org.
Thu, Jul 9 at 7:00PM: Quicksilver Radio Theater presents: Lincoln's Last Day: Good Friday, 1865. In this audio docudrama the character of a country, and its President, are revealed -- as a traumatic war winds down, and eerie events presage Abraham Lincoln's own end... At Galapagos Art Space. $12, $15. http://www.smarttix.com.
Thu, Jul 9 at 8:00PM: The Shotgun Theater Festival -- two nights of music, dance, comedy and off-the-hook theater forged in spontaneous cooperation between actors, directors and playwrights working with improved ideas and little sleep over 48 break-neck hours. At 45th Street Theatre. $15. 212-340-1962.
Thu, Jul 9 at 11:30PM: BENEFIT: DON’T QUIT YOUR NIGHT JOB is where Broadway goes to let its hair down. Filtered through the unique humor of its creators, DQYNJ is a late night happening of improv, music, sketches, and off beat performances. Returns after a six month hiatus. Benefit for Open Doors, TDF's mentoring program. At Julia Miles (WPP) Theatre. $20. 212-239-6200.. http://www.telecharge.com.
Fri, Jul 10 at 8:00PM: The Shotgun Theater Festival -- two nights of music, dance, comedy and off-the-hook theater forged in spontaneous cooperation between actors, directors and playwrights working with improved ideas and little sleep over 48 break-neck hours. At 45th Street Theatre. $15. 212-340-1962.
Sat, Jul 11 at 7:00PM: Jason Sofge in Fat Man Tapping: The BIGGEST Show Under One Roof is the story of a fat man and his magic tap shoes; a bawdy, vaudevillian romp, incorporating some of the most iconic and recognizable show tunes of all time! Come take a journey with Jason Sofge as he explores the dilemmas one faces when attempting to write the perfect one man show. At Laurie Beechman Theater. 212-695-6909.
Sat, Jul 11 at 8:00PM: Parallelogramophonograph's one night appearance in NYC on their east coast tour will feature the group's own original form 'French Farce'. We know you'll be hooked on this highly stylized show, rich in physical humor and word play, with a concept we are all too familiar with; the l At Peoples Improv Theatre. $10.
Sun, Jul 12 at 9:30PM: Shells - Fresh out of a less-than-fulfilling relationship, Michelle "Shells” Hoffman is ready to shed her 9-to-5 facade and convince her ex that she is more than just a successful JP Morgan Senior Analyst. Hopping from hilarious original songs to tales of the "rough" life, Shells feverishly attempts to convince her audience and her ex that she is finally “over it.” At Joe's Pub. At Public Theater. $15. http://www.joespub.com.
Mon, Jul 13 at 8:00PM: BROADWAY WINNERS: THE AWARD-WINNING MUSIC OF BROADWAY! features the music created on the Great White Way that won Tonys, Grammys and Oscars. The night will be filled with music provided by renowned popular composers sung by some of the most talented musical theater stars with entertaining commentary supplied by Scott Siegel. At Town Hall. $25. http://www.ticketmaster.com.
Tue, Jul 14 at 8:00PM: La Boca: Brian McGuinness, Dewey Banks, JL Cauvin, Ismael Maldonado and MORE! 2 drink minimum. At Gotham Comedy Club, 208 w. 23rd St,. $10.
Tue, Jul 14 at 8:30PM: The Luvely Rae's One Night Stand. An evening of burlesque where naughty novices and experienced ecdysiast entice you to surrender to the possibilities. At fFat Baby, 112 Rivington Street. $5.
Wed, Jul 15 at 6:30PM: BENEFIT: Theatre for a New Audience and Irondale Ensemble Project will unite for a mid-summer evening's bash to benefit both theatre companies' homes in the BAM Cultural District. Prospero's Island, as the event is titled, will feature some of Brooklyn’s best local food, an open bar, raffle prizes, live musical performances by The Forthrights and DJ Smoke La Roq and a gallery of Brooklyn artists. At Irondale Center. $50, $75. 212-229-2819, ext 25. http://www.tfana.org/brooklynsdreamers.
Wed, Jul 15 at 9:30PM: Emerging from the cabaret circuit Down Under, Kim Smith charts a dark and whimsical path through the arrivals and departures of a neo-Weimar, musical misfit in his latest jaunt through life's shadowy alleyways. Ji Young Lee accompanies on piano. At Joe's Pub. 2 food/drink minimum. At Public Theater. $12. 212-967-7555. http://www.joespub.com.
Thu, Jul 16 at 7:30PM: The Daughters is one part concert, one part play, a spoonful of sex and comedy, and a big, extra helping of soul, written by up-and-coming songwriter, Shaina Taub. This experimental musical explores three daughters of Zeus: Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite, as sisters tackling war, love, mortals, constellations and sibling rivalry. At Joe's Pub. At Public Theater. $12. 212-967-7555. http://www.joespub.com.
Thu, Jul 16 at 9:30PM: STRIPPED STORIES hosted by Giulia Rozzi & Margot Leitman. At Upright Citizens Brigade. $5. 212 966 9176.
Fri, Jul 17 at 8:00PM: AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP), will present the second installment of its Opera Grows in Brooklyn series, an evening of all new opera scenes and songs from contemporary composers, including new music from David T. Little and the NYC premiere of Stefan Weisman's opera Fade. At Galapagos Art Space. $20. http://www.galapagosartspace.com.
Sat, Jul 18 at 4:30PM: Sunshine Face Productions Presents: Let Me Out On That Stage! A One Woman Show Starring: Rachel Menconi. Rachel Menconi always knew she wanted to be a performer ever since she was born. It's no wonder that this fast paced/colorful show full of eclectic song genres has such a fitting title! Watch as Rachel takes your emotions full circle! 2 drink minimum. At Duplex. $15, $20. RSVP to Rachel@RachelMenconi.com.
Sat, Jul 18 at 8:30PM: BENEFIT: Benefit performance for THE FABULISTS. Cabaret Acts, Trapeze, Fire Performers, and DJ. At The Bushwick Starr.
Mon, Jul 20 at 7:00PM: BENEFIT: SMALL POND ENTERTAINMENT and STEPHANIE ROSENBERG present: BROADWAY MEOWS: a benefit concert for the HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK featuring the songs of SETH BISEN-HERSH. The Humane Society saved Bisen-Hersh's cat, Smee's, life this winter, and this benefit is his way of saying thanks. 2 drink minimum. At Don't Tell Mama. $20.
Mon, Jul 20 at 8:00PM: BROADWAY’S RISING STARS is once again directed by Tony nominee Emily Skinner and Scott Coulter. Designed to launch the careers of the next generation of Broadway stars, the show features the most outstanding young talents from performing arts schools in New York and across the country. At Town Hall. $25. http://www.ticketmaster.com.
Wed, Jul 22 at 7:00PM: "Twisted Relationships Gone Hilariously Wrong."A cavalcade of funny scenes centered around New York City dating and relationships. Over 15 actors play out the many hilarious downward spirals in this one hour performance written by NYC comedian Jonesy. Also at 9pm. At Producers Club. 212-868-4444. http://www.smarttix.com.
Wed, Jul 22 at 8:00PM: Carousel Theatre Company is proud to present WORDS, a choral poem arranged and directed by Kelly Feustel. WORDS provides a unique look into the process and creativity of the modern poet. Featured are the works of poet M. Dalts, which he will perform along with Derj Sanxiun, Jackie Brunner, Eric Gordon, Liv Mammone and Nolan Meditz. At Gene Frankel Theatre. $5. http://www.carouseltheatreco.com.
Thu, Jul 23 at 7:00PM: "Twisted Relationships Gone Hilariously Wrong."A cavalcade of funny scenes centered around New York City dating and relationships. Over 15 actors play out the many hilarious downward spirals in this one hour performance written by NYC comedian Jonesy. Also at 9pm. At Producers Club. $10. 212-868-4444. http://www.smarttix.com.
Sat, Jul 25 at 8:00PM: Cirque Jacqueline, the revealing one-woman play about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Cirque Jacqueline is written and performed by Andrea Reese and directed by Charles Messina. At Players Loft. $20. 866-811-4111. http://www.JackieOShow.com.
Sun, Jul 26 at 3:00PM: Cirque Jacqueline, the revealing one-woman play about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Cirque Jacqueline is written and performed by Andrea Reese and directed by Charles Messina. At Players Loft. $20. 866-811-4111. http://www.JackieOShow.com.
Mon, Jul 27 at 8:00PM: ALL SINGIN’ ALL DANCIN’, is an exciting evening of song and dance, choreographed by Josh Prince. The show features Broadway show tunes sporting brand new choreography inspired by the legendary dancing of the Astaires, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins performed by today’s Broadway song and dance stars. Scott Siegel and Josh Prince will co-direct this year’s show. At Town Hall. $25. http://www.ticketmaster.com.
Mon, Jul 27 at 10:00PM: Sweet & Nasty Burlesque presents LIES: THE ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY TRUE HISTORY OF SWEET & NASTY BURLESQUE. At Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. $10.
Fri, Aug 14 at 8:00PM: Theaterlab will present SPEK, the second installment of Linda Olthof’s trilogy, Lady Land Project about the absurdity of human situations shaped in immediate image and language. Familiair situations turned around. Inspired by the artist Francis Bacon, James Purdy and the Coen Brothers, she makes surprising use of legends and archetypes. At Theaterlab. $10. (212) 929-2545.
Sat, Aug 15 at 8:00PM: Theaterlab will present SPEK, the second installment of Linda Olthof’s trilogy, Lady Land Project about the absurdity of human situations shaped in immediate image and language. Familiair situations turned around. Inspired by the artist Francis Bacon, James Purdy and the Coen Brothers, she makes surprising use of legends and archetypes. At Theaterlab. $10. (212) 929-2545.
Thu, Aug 20 at 7:00PM: All of Me --The comedic one woman show is inspired by the Tanesha’s life as an African American Woman struggling to fit in to preset notions of what an African American Woman should be. Choices…Which one would you make? Written/performed by Tanesha M. Ford. 2 drink minimum. At Duplex. $10. http://theduplex.com/webcalendar/month.php?year=20.
Sat, Oct 24 at 8:00PM: The Moment of Romance Tour - Laugh, cry, and fall in love as Paul Sande narrates a collection of his short love stories. At The Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre, 300 W. 43rd St., Suite 502. $10. http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?showcode=MOM4.
