ALL SHOWS
are Thursday. Friday and Saturday at 8.00PM, with select
Sunday and matinee performances on a to-be-announced
basis.
OUR BOX
OFFICE opens 30 minutes before curtain.
Our seating is open, so reservations, while they’ll
be honored, will not guarantee your choice of seat unless
you are a member.
OUR
BOX OFFICE LINE will ask for your name,
telephone number, number of seats, price range (concessions
for students or seniors or general admission), and the
performance you wish to attend. Generally, your call
will not be returned unless you instruct us otherwise
AND/OR if we cannot seat you.
September 21 - October 14
METAMORPHOSIS
Adapted by Steven Berkoff
from the story by Franz Kafka
Directed by Robert Waterhouse
With
Lenny Zielkowski as Gregor Samsa
Original music by Paul Kozlowski and Patrick
Cain
Franz Kafka's haunting tale of alienation
- in which a salesman wakes to find himself transformed
into a giant cockroach - is in itself transformed into
an evening of total theatre.
November 9 - December 2
ME
II
By Grant Golden
Directed by David Granville
The world premiere of a new musical
that finds comic mischief in the implications of human
cloning.
March 1 - March 7
ERIC
BENTLEY NEW PLAY
COMPETITION
EMBODY by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Matthew LaChiusa
Each year, we select a new playscript
that explores the boundaries of theatricality, identity
or gender. Previous winners have included The Remarkable
Piety of the Infamous by Peter Dunne, On The
Hill by Michelle Costa, Medium Rare by Franklin
LaVoie, and Organic Movement of the Chair and Pitcher
by Tim McPeek.
…… This year we are proud to introduce EMBODY,
by Lauren Gunderson – a startling and daring play
that explores an incident in the life of the young Leonardo
Da Vinci. The play, which draws on Renaissance legal texts
and Leonardo’s notebooks, finds the young genius
imprisoned on sodomy charges at age 24 and suggests that
an unlikely affair may have saved the legacy of his genius.
April 12 - May 5th
GILGAMESH
The world’s oldest written epic
is the epic of GILGAMESH (c.2000BC), shepherd-king of
Uruk, who bonds with the wild man Enkidu and seeks the
secret of everlasting life. This extraordinary story,
which incidentally offers corroboration of Noah’s
Flood, speaks directly to an age consumed by the War
on Terror and the dangers of global warming. The creative
team behind our hit production of METAMORPHOSIS –
director Robert Waterhouse, puppeteer/ designer Franklin
LaVoie (winner of an Individual Artist Award from the
New York State Council on the Arts) and composer/musicians
Paul Kozlowski and Patrick Cain – co-create
a new, company developed version written with Gina Lachacz.
Free second Thursday seats to all students with ID on
April 19th; group rates available to student groups
of 12 or more.
May 3 - May 26
THE
WOMAN BEFORE
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Translated by David Tushingham
Starring Richard Lambert and Betsy Bittar
In
this erotically-charged, dark comedy-drama,
nothing remains stable when an ex-girlfriend
shows up at the door of a middle-aged couple
and demands that promises made during an adolescent
fling be honored still - now. Last seen at London’s
Royal Court Theatre – the launching-dock
for brave and influential new writing for half
a century – THE WOMAN BEFORE stirs storms
of memory and desire.
Coming in September for CURTAIN
UP! 2007
THRILL
ME
Music, Book and Lyrics
by Stephen Dolginoff
Starring Stephen Dolginoff
and Joseph Demerly
Nominated for two Drama Desk Awards
for Outstand-ing Musical and for Out-standing Music
(score), for the Outer Circle Award for Outstanding
Off-Broadway Musical, and winner of the ASCAP Music
Award, THRILL ME tells the famous story of two young,
privileged men who heighten their relationship with
murder.
"Stephen Dolginoff's pocket musical about the
Leopold and Loeb murder case lands like a well-placed
punch, arresting and a bit breathtaking...[a] brazenly
satisfying... reminder that evil often looks and sounds
beautiful." -The New York Times
