Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy 220 East Fourth Street ~ New York, New
York 10009
Administration: (212) 995 8410 ~ Tickets: (800) 838 3006 |
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East
Side Stories
4 evenings of NEW plays about the life and lore of the Lower East Side |
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Pioneers 4 New One-Act Plays Directed by Stephen Pelletier Starring Don Arrington* Victoria Castle* Sam Heldt* Tony Rossi* Erin Leigh Schmoyer* Edward Stanley* |
The
Origin of Zoos by Michael Bettencourt -
In 1913, Madison Grant,
founder of the Bronx Zoo, and Margaret Sanger, a nurse
in the human zoo, spar over whether the teeming Lower
East Side is a genetic cesspool or democracy embodied
-- or both.
The
Invention of the Living Room by Andrew R. Heinze
- Before there were suburbs, a young
Jewish builder in a Lower East Side tenement imagines a
bigger, better kind of home, including -- dream of
dreams -- a room just for living! The only thing
standing in his way is his mother, and her parlor. Occupy Avenue A by Josh Gulotta - A journalist and his hook-up from the night before negotiate socio-sexual politics and the power of wealth, while protestors fill the streets below in November, 2011. Delicacy
by Toni Schlesinger - A young woman's
fantastical dream embraces multitudes
on the Lower East Side.
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Visionaries 3 new monologues, based on interviews with our neighbors, and told entirely in their own words. Directed by Yvonne Opffer Conybeare |
Studying to Be a Fool Emily Grosland* as Michael Schupbach Puppeteer Life Is What You Make It Sheila Head* as Dawn Hampton Musician, Singer, MAC Award Winning Cabaret Star, Swing Dancer Waking Up from the Dream Stephen Conrad Moore* as Shirley Campbell Black Panther and ATA Tennis Player |
Game Changers 4 New One-Act Plays Directed by Wendy Merritt Starring Elizabeth Bove* Geri Brown* Michael Durkin* Mick Hilgers* Hakim Rashad McMillan* Natalie Newman* Richard Price* Blaine Smith* |
They Come and Come by John J. Kelly - On the 1920s Lower East Side, Irish and German immigrants find the community born of hardship when an engineer, trapped working in the coal plants of Con Edison, tries to find his just-arrived wife in the bustling city. Chess With Edison by David Vazdauskas - An ironic comedy of change and history: it is 1898, and the Stuyvesant Chess Club awaits a very prestigious visitor, but Susan B. Anthony's suffragettes rattle the very gates of an old boys' invention. Alive and Well by Mercedes Segesvary - A biracial couple find their downtown apartment robbed, with only a note from the thief and a "helpful" neighbor left behind. Where does compassion stop and judgment start? Every Pair of Blue Jeans Was Like a Bullet by J. Paul Porter - Spiritual East Village residents Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Josef Stalin find themselves newly incarnated as stockbrokers in downtown New York; a comedy about capitalism and communism (just the funny parts) and the irony of history. |
Healers 3 new monologues, based on interviews with our neighbors, and told entirely in their own words. Directed by Yvonne Opffer Conybeare |
Listen...
Teresa Kelsey*
as
Patti Kelly Owner/artist at Kelly Glass Studio and Gallery Call Me By My True Names Emily Taplin Boyd* as Kierra Foster-Ba Vice Principal at A. Philip Randolph HS and 5Rhythms Instructor The Good Anarchist Ben Gougeon* as Joanie Fritz Zosike Performance Artist and Activist |
* Members of Actors
Equity These programs are part of East Village Chronicles, vol 9, and Alphabet City IX, both Equity Showcases. |