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WORKSHOP THEATER, MAINSTAGE SPACE
312 West 36th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) 4th Floor Seating Capacity: (Note: The theatre is wheelchair accessible) Bubby's Shadow (a ghostly dramedy; world premiere) By Andrew Rothkin Directed by Ramona Pula Presented by White Rabbit Theatre and Mo Pula Productions Featuring: Yury Lomakin, Natasha Malinsky*, Eric Percival, Caroline Samaan, Stewart Schneck, Randi Sobol, and introducing 12-year-old Noura Jost bubbysshadow.com Running Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes An unexpected knock and Jonny's home again -- to his sister, his niece, and the past he left behind. So begins one family's journey from their blur of distorted memories through the dark unknown to the inner truths within their souls. Bubby's Shadow is the story of a dysfunctional, estranged family reunited -- for better or worse -- by their grandmother, who just happens to be dead. Appropriate for ages 12 and up (language, scary moments) Schedule: Friday, July 18th at 8:30pm Saturday, July 19th at 10pm Monday, July 21st at 6:30pm Sunday, July 27th at 2:30pm Monday, July 28th at 8:30pm Sunday, August 3rd at 8:30pm ********** Childhood Montana (drama) Written and Directed by Mira Gibson Featuring: Amber Bogdewiecz, Jill Leithauser, Jamie Watson, and David Ballog facebook.com/people/Childhood_Montana/1306835517 myspace.com/childhoodmontana Running Time: 70 minutes In the stylistic vein of Sam Shepard comes the haunting and complex story of justifiable murder and the longing for lost love. Between what she can remember and all she chooses to forget, a legal secretary named Courtney must navigate through madness and murder, and stop at nothing to preserve her mergence into the memory of her dead boyfriend. Schedule: Wednesday, July 16th at 6:30pm Saturday, July 19th at 8pm Wednesday, July 23rd at 6:30pm Sunday, July 27th at 8:30pm Saturday, August 2nd at 7pm ********** The Higher Education of Khalid Amir (comedy/gay) Written by Monica Bauer Directed by Craig J. George Presented by Good Works Productions and Howling Moon Cab Company Featuring: Joan Barber*, Amir Darvish*, Amanda Duarte*, Alexander Elisa*, John Fico*, Tyler Hollinger*, and Norm Golden* monicabauer.com A gay, cross-dressing, Middle East studies professor is pursued by the dumbest FBI agent in history, with a cameo by President Bush! A fast-paced political satire/farce that will leave you breathless with laughter, and unite Obama and Clinton supporters at last! All sides can identify as gays, straights, Arabs, Jews, Hispanics, African-Americans, feminists, and a newly-converted Republican all struggle to regain lost love and lost political courage. When the Mad Burka Army burkas the statue of Liberty, suspicion falls on mild-mannered musical-theater-loving professor Khalid Amir. Schedule: Tuesday, July 15th at 8:30pm Friday, July 18th at 6pm Sunday, July 20th at 7:30pm Saturday, July 26th at 12:30pm Saturday, August 2nd at 2:30pm Sunday, August 3rd at 12noon ********** Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent (dramedy) Written and Directed by Yvette Heyliger Presented in association with Twinbiz Featuring: Heidi Dallin*, Jacqueline Kristel, Vanessa Shaw*, and Jeff Pierce* What would have happened if the former First Lady and the Infamous Intern had a chance meeting before the scandal broke? Find out in this all-American uproar, which takes a look at the evolution of the role of First Lady as well as the age-old problem of infidelity. Schedule: Thursday, July 24th at 8:30pm Friday, July 25th at 6:30pm Saturday, July 26th at 9:00pm Tuesday, July 29th at 6:30pm Saturday, August 2nd at 5pm Sunday, August 3rd at 2:30pm ********** Intimate Exchanges (comedy) Written by Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Ann Garner Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company next-stage.co.uk In association with Love Arm'd Productions lovearmd.com Featuring: Kay Francksen and Andrew Ellison Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Trapped in a sterile marriage, Celia seeks solace elsewhere, but her desire to escape from the humdrum is not as straightforward or rewarding as she hopes. The testosterone-charged, odd-job man Lionel seems a highly attractive proposition for the love-starved Celia, but her antics threaten to increase the stress levels of her suspicious husband Toby, whilst Lionel's long-suffering partner, Sylvie, is reaching the end of her tether. Next Stage presents three hilarious scenes from Intimate Exchanges: ‘A Gardener Calls,” “Events on a Hotel Terrace,” and “A Christening.” As the actors change costumes and personas at a sometimes breathtaking pace, the audience is transported from garden to hotel to churchyard before all four protagonists embrace their inevitable fates. Schedule: Monday, July 28th at 6:30pm Tuesday, July 29th at 8:30pm Wednesday, July 30th at 6:30pm Thursday, July 31st at 8:30am Friday, August 1st at 6:30pm Saturday, August 2nd at 9pm ********** Penang Written by James L. Larocca Directed by Donya K. Washington Co-produced by Dana Monagan Featuring: Brett Davidson*, Ben Hersey*, Ingrid Kullburg-Bendz, Gloria Lai, Leigh Walker Montanye*, Dave Powers, Peter Sabri The Mekong Delta, Viet Nam, Fall 1968: moments before boarding a chopper for home, Navy Lieutenant Timothy Riordan, a man with seemingly everything to live for, inexplicably slashes his wrists, leaving his Executive Officer to find him in a pool of blood. Months later, in a San Diego Naval Hospital, as a doctor tries to forge a fragile connection with the young officer, flashbacks reveal the sudden death back home in California of Riordan's best friend, the senseless death of his closest Navy buddy in a horrible accident on the flight deck and Riordan's intense relationship with another young officer, Army Reserve Captain G. Richard "Luke" DeLuca after the two meet on R&R in Penang, Malaysia. Schedule: Monday, July 14th at 8:30pm Saturday, July 19th at 2pm Sunday, July 20th at 3:30pm Sunday, July 27th at 4:30pm Thursday, July 31st at 6:30pm Sunday, August 3rd at 6:30pm ********** Scandal in Manhattan (comedy/farce/gay) Written and directed by Bobby Holder Presented by The Actor's Project NYC Featuring: Joe Iozzi, Elizabeth Phillipp, Kelly Kemp, Tina Xenos, Michael Nastu, Brittany Bell Spencer, Evan Dahme, Ed Malone, Mimi Rodriguez, Rose Costanzo, Rebecca Kudryavsky, and Robert King TheActorsProjectNYC.com Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes All hell, lust, and love break loose when a handsome gentlemen and an impatient Southern belle, accused of killing her father with roach poison, cross paths with a flamboyant front-desk supervisor and his not-so-bright sexy assistant at a midtown Manhattan hotel in this laugh-out loud farce. Schedule: Sunday July 20th at 1:30pm Saturday July 26th at 3pm Wednesday July 30th at 8:30pm ********** The Wendy Complex (drama/love stories) Written and directed by Jeremy Bloom Presented by The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble/Sarah Ann Masse Original Music by Renee Dunaway/Jetsetter Featuring: Meredith Forlenza, Sarah Billington Stevens, Sarah Ann Masse, Mycah Hogan*, Atley Loughridge*, Dillon Porter thevagabondtheatreensemble.com Running Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes A skydiver prepares to break world records by free-falling from just within the ozone layer. Time: the hours prior to his harrowing leap. Gathered: the press, supporters, dignitaries and his wife, Wendy. With their eyes on the huge purple sky, they brace themselves like Wendy Darling did before jumping from the window in Peter Pan. A free fall jump is the closest people get to flying, losing any semblance of gravity. The play is loosely inspired by real life, record-setting skydiver Michel Fournier and his attempt of Le Grand Saut in 2008. Schedule: Monday, July 14th at 6:30pm Tuesday, July 15th at 6:30pm Thursday, July 17th at 8:30pm Saturday, July 19th at 4pm Saturday, July 26th at 7pm Sunday, July 27th at 12:30pm ********** They Walk Among Us (drama/dance/video/gay) Written by Nicholas O'Neill Directed and Choreographed by Merete Muenter Presented by Rene Bionat and My Own Delirium Featuring: Gabriel Bly, Jillian Coneys, Zachary Denison, Lisa Fiebert, Anthony Martinez, Kelsey Schelling, Anne Schroeder, Lori Spada, Valoneecia Tolbert, Jimmy Joe McGurl, Lincoln L. Hayes, Justin Sherwood and Courtni Wilson myowndelirium.com Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes This show follows three young adults who have died and become guardian spirits for the living, as they descend from Heaven to the streets of New York to help a young man who is struggling with his homosexuality. On February 20, 2003, a devastating fire -- among the worst nightclub fires in U.S. history -- took the lives of 100 hundred people. The youngest of these victims was Nicholas O'Neill, an 18-year old actor, musician and writer. Less than one year before the fire, O'Neill wrote his first and last play, inspired by an allegedly true story of angels appearing to a group of friends one night on Narragansett Beach in Rhode Island and also by the untimely death of a little girl named Grace. Remarkably, his angelic characters are young adults who have died tragically, and one of them is clearly meant to be Nicky himself. Schedule: Thursday, July 17th at 6:30pm Monday, July 21st at 8:30pm Friday, July 25th at 8:30pm Sunday, August 3rd at 4:30pm ********** Those Whistling Lads: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (comedy) Adapted for the stage by Maureen Van Trease Directed by Bricken Sparacino Presented by TimeSpace Theatre Company Featuring: Maureen Van Trease*, Ethan Angelica*, Hannah Wolfe, Justin Herfel*, Annalyse McCoy*, Glenn B. Stoops* and Natalie Wilder*. Running Time: 90 minutes Based on the writings of the Algonquin Round Table's wittiest member, Those Whistling Lads brings five light-hearted, romantic stories and five bitingly satirical poems by Mrs. Parker to life while drawing you into the dark side of her world and the loves and friendships that inspired her. Schedule: Sunday, July 20th at 5:30 pm Tuesday, July 22nd at 6:30 pm Thursday July 24th at 6:30 pm Saturday, July 26th at 5pm Sunday July 27th at 6:30 pm Friday August 1st at 8:30 pm ********** Yom Kippur (drama) Written by Meri Wallace Directed by Halina Ujda Presented by Howling Moon Cab Company Featuring: Leah Vanessa Bachar, Orion Delwaterman, Shane Jerome, Annalisa Loeffler, Aylam Orion, Daniella Rabbani, Arela Rivas, Gayle Robbins, Evan Sokal howlingmooncabcompany.com Running Time: 90 minutes Israel, October 6, 1973. Husband and wife Ephraim and Miriam and best friends Yitz and the very pregnant Yael (also married) are preparing to observe the Yom Kippur holiday. Americans all, the four have long since emigrated to Israel. But despite their seeming happiness, there is a lot of tension present. Ephraim has never gotten over his feelings for Yael, who Yitz stole from him long ago -- a fact of which Miriam is all too aware. Yitz is also angry with Ephraim for not enlisting in the Israeli army as he himself has done, calling him a coward. These issues come even more quickly into focus as an air raid siren announces the beginning of war with Egypt and Syria. Schedule: Wednesday July 16th at 8:30pm Saturday July 19th at 6pm Sunday July 20th at 11:30am Tuesday July 22nd at 8:30pm Wednesday, July 23rd at 8:30pm Saturday, August 2nd at 12:30pm
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