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Metropolitan
Playhouse
The American Legacy 220
East Fourth Street ~ New York,
New York 10009
Office: 212 995 8410 ~ Tickets: 212 995 5302 "One
of my favorite downtown theaters"
~ Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
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| Fall 2008 | |
| Alphabet City V August 13 - 24 |
Begun in 2004, the Alphabet City Project creates new solo-performances based on first person interviews with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and neighbors of the Lower East Side. 9 actors portray 9 residents in three different shows... |
| Nowadays by: George Middleton September 27 - October 26 |
Written
by a leading voice in the women’s suffrage movement, Nowadays pits a
head-of-the-household kind of father with a daughter who wants to
support herself. But when his wife reveals she has a secret career of
her own, the complacent world of the whole family is turned upside
down. From the hide-bound patriarch to his iconoclastic daughter, from
the rabble-rousing newspaperman to the quiet girl next door, everyone
gets a comeuppance in this smart and funny look at the conventions that
bind us all. Far more than a mere political appeal, Nowadays is a
meaningful look at our self-imposed limitations and our best
possibilities. |
| Adventure
Theater! November 29 & 30 December 6 & 7 For Families and Children |
ADVENTURE
THEATER is an interactive, theatrical experience designed for family
audiences, and especially for children age 5 – 13. The audience is an
intrinsic part of the show. Led by the improvisers, they invent the
plot, provide the sound effects, become the scenery, and play important
characters – including the Hero! |
| Anna Christie By: Eugene O'Neill November 14 - December 14 |
O'Neill's tenderest tale of fallen angels looking for land. Anna has left a life in the streets to find her estranged father working a coal barge, and to fall in love with a bold and brazen man who cannot accept her past. Three hard headed lovers of the sea are tossed in a storm of their own desires in an ironic and hopeful story of human frailty. |
| Its a Wonderful Life December 20 |
Our annual Act Along Christmas special |
| January 2009 - Literary Moralist | |
| Melvillapalooza January 12- 25 |
In
January, Metropolitan celebrates our literary heritage with
Melvillapalooza--A festival of new works by many companies, all
inspired
by the life and writing of Herman Melville. |
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Spring 2009
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| January
31 - Feburary 15 By: Michael and Rachael Kosch The Festival of the Vegetables |
New and FDA
approved: The Metropolitan's popular family fare has been expanded and
revised
for 2008-2009. Set in a huge
supermarket where a toddler nods off to sleep
and dreams dreams of bravery, and bounciness in Brussels (sprouts), the Festival is
a music-dance-theater piece
featuring a series of witty poems set to music and dances that reveal
the secret life of
vegetables.
Our props are crops! |
| John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath By: Frank Galati February 27 - March 29 |
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| The Philadelphia Story By: Philip Barry April 17 - May 17 |
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| May 2,3,9,10 |
Family Fare Show Three: TBA |
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| East Village
Chronicles Vol. 6 |
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Schedule subject to change. Metropolitan reserves the right to
substitute alternate productions for any scheduled programs. |
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